Rarible Protocol updates - week of Apr 11
Protocol updates, project update, fresh NFT news, cool reads and some interesting tweets.
⚙️ Protocol Updates
Solana is almost ready to hit production! 🚀 The team is still diagnosing and fixing bugs, and will focus further on improving the stability of Solana. The Solana indexer has completed indexing events from main-net, and they’ll soon launch a few test collections.
As mentioned in the last Protocol newsletter, the team is also working on V1 of the Protocol. This consists of simplified and optimised API and SDK, more filters will be available in the API, and the SDK usage will be simplified. They’ve started working on implementing some of these improvements and will publish a document/change log that describes all these changes.
For any feedback or suggestions, please use our Discord server or Github (for issues or discussions). Feedback helps us improve, so we’re eager to hear yours.
🚢 Project Update
Digitalax just competed its integration with Rarible Protocol!
They are now fully integrated with the Rarible Polygon SDK across all of their primary and secondary marketplaces, and will soon be launching custom Realm primary interfaces.
Check out this article to learn more about their project and what this integration means for it.
🗞️ NFT News
The CryptoPunks V1 community will get their own custom marketplace - powered by Rarible Protocol.
A DAO is selling NFTs for the right to tweet - Tweet DAO is a collective of individuals forming around an NFT collection and a single Twitter account.
Ledger launches crypto hardware wallet with enhanced NFT support - The new Ledger wallet will feature clear signing for NFT transactions.
OpenSea begins activating support for Solana-based NFTs - Data from the marketplace indicates Solana-centric collections are being listed and denominated in SOL.
ESPN inks collaboration deal with Tom Brady’s NFT platform - NFT platform Autograph, co-founded by Tom Brady, is working with ESPN in a new deal to create the network’s first NFTs.
Starbucks announces NFT initiative - On his first day back as the CEO of Starbucks, Howard Schultz mentioned that "sometime before the end of the calendar year, we are going to be in the NFT business."
EToro is aping into blue-chip NFTs with $20M fund - The trading platform is launching eToro.art, its foray into the world of non-fungible tokens.
UK Treasury outlines plan to regulate stablecoins and issue an NFT - The Treasury said the UK’s Royal Mint would issue an NFT in the summer.
Stealth NFT drop triggers record ETH burn - More than 4,400 ETH destroyed in a single hour.
Pudgy Penguins Ethereum NFT collection sold to Netz Capital for $2.5 Million - The Pudgy Penguins collection of 8,888 Ethereum NFTs has been sold for 750 ETH, or roughly $2.5 million, to Netz Capital’s Luca Netz.
Kevin Smith to issue ‘comedy-horror’ film as NFTs on the Cosmos blockchain-based Secret Network - Kevin Smith announced Wednesday that he will be releasing his latest movie, “KillRoy Was Here,” as a collection of NFTs.
📚 Cool reads
Beware, Minecraft And Roblox: LEGO and Epic are making a Metaverse - by Forbes
Way forward for NFT based game economies - by @lyceumgg
🐦 Interesting Tweets
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