Rarible Protocol updates - week of May 3
Latest articles, fresh NFT news, recommended reads and interesting tweets.
📘 New Articles
“Are you new to the NFT world? Here is what you need to know, before buying your first one.”
This article is a non-technical one, and its main goal is to help users feel comfortable navigating the different marketplaces, finding relevant information on a specific NFT and buying NFTs.
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“How to use the Rarible Multichain Protocol to find the NFT you need?”
This article presents an overview of the Rarible Multichain API and shows how to get information on NFTs-related activities, straight from the source.
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🗞️ NFT News
Yuga Labs sees $561M in Otherside Ethereum NFT sales within 24 Hours - The craze caused Etherscan to crash and Ethereum gas fees to soar to thousands of dollars per transaction.
Ethereum Name Service NFTs overtake BAYC in daily trade volume - The ENS NFTs have seen a surge in volume as investors dive in to purchase three- and four-digit domains.
Moonbirds NFT sells for record $1 million within week of launch - Moonbird #2642, one of the rarest members of the Moonbirds NFT collection, sold for a record 350 ETH.
Solana's Okay Bears top all Ethereum NFT projects with $18M in sales in one day - Data suggests Solana had its best single day of NFT trading volume to date.
Dozens of BAYC NFTs stolen after Instagram hack - The hack resulted in the theft of four Bored Apes and six Mutant Apes, among other digital collectibles.
Smart contract mistake locks up $34 million of ETH for NFT project - AkuDreams was hit by an exploit through its refundable Dutch auction.
Mayweather involved in first boxing pay per view NFT - Floyd Mayweather is fighting in the Global Titans Fight Series, a new exclusive series of boxing and MMA fights.
OpenSea acquires NFT aggregator Gem - Gem will continue to operate as a standalone brand.
OurSong raises $7.5M in seed funding - Music NFT platform OurSong has raised $7.5 million in seed funding led by Infinity Ventures and Animoca Brands.
Meta is opening a metaverse-inspired brick-and-mortar store - The store, opening on May 9, will include devices like Ray-Ban stories sunglasses, Meta’s Portal device, and virtual reality headset Quest 2.
MoonPay's new minting-as-a-service tool bills itself as 'AWS for NFTs' - MoonPay is recruiting a number of founding engineers for its new HyperMint service.
📚 Cool reads
The Ownership Economy 2022 - by Variant
NFT subscriptions are better paywalls - by CoinDesk
🐦 Interesting Tweets
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