Key Takeaways

• The sales of major non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces increased by +35% last week. Rarible and OpenSea increased their sales last week by +58% and +36% respectively; their transaction counts also increased by +55% and +30% respectively.

• NFL is pairing tickets purchased at select games with ‘Virtual Commemorative Tickets’ sent as NFTs on Polygon to eligible Ticketmaster wallets. The league will begin distributing the NFTs batches to qualifying fans who attend the Thanksgiving Day game Chicago Bears vs Detroit Lions.

• Hic et Nunc, a TEZOS based NFT marketplace, is back online with a new domain in ‘.art’ instead of ‘.xyz’.  Since most of the data was stored on the TEZOS blockchain, the NFTs on the old platform are safely transferred to the new platform. 

• 3 NFTs from metaverse games Decentraland and The Sandbox were in last week's top sales table of DappRadar. A ‘Fashion Street Estate’ on Decentraland was sold for $2.42M. Other collectibles on the table include Bored Ape Yacht Club and Cryptopunks.

Crypto.com NFT in the spotlight

• The ‘Loaded Lion’ collections consisting of 10,000 algorithmically-generated NFTs were sold out before the listing ended. 10 lucky winners who use their ‘Loaded Lion’ collectibles as their profile pictures on Twitter will share $100K worth of CRO.

• The Death Row NFT records celebrating their 30th anniversary are on Crypto.com NFT. Owners will also get the chance to become members of the Death Row Crypto Club. Besides members’ perks including Death Row Merch stores discounts and special Death Row Coin NFTs, one lucky winner will also get an exclusive Death Row chain.

Highlights

• How Tezos biggest NFT marketplace came back to life

• NFL and Ticketmaster launch ticket stub NFTs on Polygon

• Animoca Brands raises $5M for NFT marketplace, Quidd

• NFT music platform Royal secures $55M in series A funding from a16z

• Zilliqa joins forces with Token||Traxx, brings NFTs to millions of music lovers

• IOTA debuts Genesis NFTs on newly-launched Shimmer network to reward early adopters

• FC Barcelona cancels partnership with NFT marketplace after just 2 weeks

• Miramax sues Quentin Tarantino over planned ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs

• Tom Brady’s autograph platform goes retro with 8-Bit Simone Biles NFTs

• Dvision Network announces official start of first land sale in cooperation with Binance NFT and NFTb

• Tupac NFTs offered on OpenSea: rare snaps from 2Pacalypse Now show

• Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam is auctioning his surrealist art as an ethereum NFT

• Post Malone features BAYC NFTs in new music video with The Weeknd

• The NFT market is now worth more than $7 billion, but legal issues facing the nascent sector could hinder its growth, JPMorgan says

* OpenSea, NBATopShot, and Rarible data were collected from DappRadar

* MakerPlace data were obtained from NonFungible.com

* Solanart data from Solanart.io

* Nifty Gateway data from data mining in Cryptoartpulse.com

* Rarible data represent data of the Rarible collections instead of the Rarible marketplace

* MakerPlace and Rarible drop data collected from NonFungible.com

* Collectibles data from CryptoSlam.io

* Collectibles of Wolf Game including sheep and wolves that are used to compete in the on chain Wolf game for $WOOL.

Top Artists

The following table shows top artists (by primary sales volume on each platform) and their art samples.

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