New Project Spotlight

NFT Collectibles

[COMING SOON] ‘76ers Heritage – Born and Raised’ is a project by the Philadelphia 76ers, the storied NBA team with three World Championships to their name. This drop lets collectors unlock ultimate fan packages, VIP experiences, and custom merchandise. The collection goes live on Crypto.com NFT on 20 March.

[COMING SOON] ‘STARDUST’ is a collection by Natacha Einat, a digital artist based in Paris. Dropping on 22 March on Crypto.com NFT, it features a dream-like world where distant objects from our reality combine to create endless possibilities.

Blockchain Games

[COMING SOON] D.G.Pals will be co-hosting a networking and panel discussion together with Cronos, Blockchain Game Alliance, and others called ‘A new frontier of blockchain games: Fun first, followed by ownership and autonomy’.

[LIVE] Legends of Bezogia Beta 0.11.1 is now live, and it includes improved features as well as bug fixes. For the month of March, Zogi Labs is dropping the creator fee on OpenSea from 5% to 0.5% for Bezogi V2 NFTs.

NFT Metrics

The following table shows select top collections (by weekly sales volume on each platform) and a sample of their art:

The following table shows select top games by weekly Unique Active Wallets (UAW):

Gaming Token Performance

The total market cap for gaming tokens now stands at US$9.99 billion, up +14%from last week.

News Highlights

• Yuga Labs announced that the Bored Ape Sewer Pass NFTs can be transformed into robots. The new NFT collection, ‘HV-MTL’, is minted through a ‘summoning’ process, in which owners of Sewer Pass NFTs can burn them in exchange for robots described as Mechs.

• Sotheby’s, one of the world's largest brokers of fine art, will be holding a meme-inspired NFT auction featuring artists such as Beeple. The auction, named ‘Natively Digital: Oddly Satisfying’, will run from March 17 to March 24 in Paris.

• Japanese gaming giant Square Enix launched a trailer for its NFT game, Symbiogenesis. The fantasy game will feature around 10,000 NFT artworks with in-game utility.

• Meta is winding down support for NFTs on Instagram and Facebook. It will be shifting its investments away from NFTs toward products like Meta Pay, as well as tipping features on Meta platforms.

• Research Roundup Newsletter [February 2023]: In this issue, we feature trending market insights and our analyses of the current state of the decentralised derivatives market.

• Alpha Navigator: Quest for Alpha [February 2023]: Asset classes took a breather in February and sold off, although crypto bucked the trend. BTC and ETH options implied volatilities remain at subdued levels.

• Overview of Decentralised Derivatives: Crypto derivatives dominate the industry, representing about 70% of the entire market. In this report, we shed light on derivatives in DeFi, their market overview, and some innovations in the space.

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