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Dear Bankless Nation, 

Valentine’s Day is coming up on Monday 💕 

Is an NFT part of the goodies you’re getting that special someone in your life this year? Probably not just yet, not unless your significant other is already really into NFTs too, right. 

Either way’s perfectly fine. Though it’s safe to say that as the NFT ecosystem matures, NFTs will become more popular as gifts on special occasions and beyond. 

Peoples’ lives are going increasingly digital, after all, so our gift-giving customs will increasingly reflect that. In the meantime, have a great weekend and thanks as always for reading!

-WMP

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🛒 NFT News & Platforms

  • OpenSea published a dev upgrade guide for its new Wyvern 2.3 marketplace smart contract.

  • Lens Protocol, Web3 social media infra powered by NFTs and built by the minds behind Aave, has arrived. 

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  • Midwit, a generative Web3 UI for any smart contract, is coming to Mirror.

  • YouTube is reportedly exploring support for NFTs.

  • Zora opened up two new protocol modules, Collection Offers and Reserve Auctions, to community review.

🏆 Digital Collectibles

  • CryptoPunk #5577 sold for 2,501 ETH, marking the third most-expensive onchain Punk transaction yet. 

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Twitter Avatar For @CryptopunksbotCryptoPunks Bot @cryptopunksbot

Punk 5577 bought for 2,501 ETH ($7,704,080.16 USD) by 0xcfc505 from 0x9c9113. larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/de… #cryptopunks #ethereum

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February 9th 2022

616 Retweets

  • Sotheby’s will auction off +100 CryptoPunks in an upcoming Punk It! event.

  • Bud Light published its Super Bowl commercial featuring Noun glasses from Nouns DAO NFTs.

  • Cool Pets public sale sold out in less than two minutes.

  • Sup, the newly formed group set to steer the Blitmap universe, Supdrive, and beyond, raised $12M in a seed round led by paradigm. 

🎨 Cryptoart

  • XCOPY: the artist’s piece D I S O R D E R resold on SuperRare for 202 ETH.

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D I S O R D E R has sold on SuperRare for 202.0Ξ

Buyer: Tg12

superrare.com/artwork-v2/D-I…

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February 9th 2022

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  • AssangeDAO purchased Clock by Pak x Julian Assange for nearly 16.6k ETH.

<div class="tweet" data-attrs="{"url":"https://twitter.com/richerd/status/1491463104307208192","full_text":"With the 16,593 ETH ($53M) sale of CLOCK by @muratpak x Julian Assange to @AssangeDAO, did we just break the record for the largest on-chain NFT sale to date?\n\netherscan.io/tx/0xd8c0109f6… ","username":"richerd","name":"richerd.eth ᵍᵐ","date":"Wed Feb 09 17:24:48 +0000 2022","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/FLK8pXnVEAI90q2.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/10XPRZyMYz","alt_text":null}],"quoted_tweet":{},"retweet_count":138,"like_count":676,"expanded_url":{},"video_url":null}”>

Twitter Avatar For @Richerdricherd.eth ᵍᵐ @richerd

With the 16,593 ETH ($53M) sale of CLOCK by @muratpak x Julian Assange to @AssangeDAO, did we just break the record for the largest on-chain NFT sale to date?

etherscan.io/tx/0xd8c0109f6…

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February 9th 2022

138 Retweets

🎮 NFT Games

  • Axie Infinity Season 20 is now live. 

  • Strider, a project focused on helping game creators take control of their own content via NFTs, raised $3M. 

  • Zynga is aiming to release an NFT game this year. 

💽 Music

  • LATASHÁ sold out her CULTURE drop on Sound in minutes.

  • RAC, a Grammy-winning producer, launched a Web3 portal for $RAC holders called racOS v0.1.

🌐 Virtual Worlds

  • Cryptovoxels parcel ownership is trending up:

<div class="tweet" data-attrs="{"url":"https://twitter.com/Metacat007/status/1491726784236179458","full_text":"2022-02-10 \n@cryptovoxels \nParcel Owner Total = 2114\nParcel Contributors Total = 2278.\nWhat are your thoughts? 😀 ","username":"Metacat007","name":"Metacat","date":"Thu Feb 10 10:52:34 +0000 2022","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/FLOqLIPVgAsnNh8.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/XR0SZvZtYO","alt_text":null}],"quoted_tweet":{},"retweet_count":1,"like_count":7,"expanded_url":{},"video_url":null}”>

Twitter Avatar For @Metacat007Metacat @Metacat007

2022-02-10
@cryptovoxels
Parcel Owner Total = 2114
Parcel Contributors Total = 2278.
What are your thoughts? 😀

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February 10th 2022

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