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Highlights:

• Renewed hype around NFT Worlds leads to dramatic improvement in trading activity and performance

• As the US and EU talk up regulation & CBDCs, Vitalik proposes hiding the identity of all ERC-20 token recipients

• Pet food brand Pedigree launches dog adoption service in Decentraland

• Metaverse for Humanity WEOM opens pre-sale land mint

• Updates for Decentraland, Civitas & Worldwide Webb, as…

• The Sandbox releases GameMaker 0.8 and launches two new VoxEdit contests

💹 Market Data

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OneLand 7-day data indicates total land cap for the 10 metaverse projects listed on OneLand increased 0.63% for the week to 937,635 ETH, or $US 1.55 billion.

Context:

• Decentraland’s sale of an Estate for 75.28 ETH led to a positive week, as trade activity doubled and land cap was up 5.5% week-on-week to bypass 250k ETH.

• Somnium Space recorded its highest daily trade volume (10.0 ETH) in over 4 months.

• ETH price held its yearly gains — +1.1% (7D).

Highlight: NFT Worlds

Renewed hype around NFT Worlds is impacting its economy, in the past 7 days alone recording its top sale (3.8 ETH), highest daily trading volume (130 ETH), highest daily sales count (68) and most daily unique traders (173) in 6 months!

Weekly volume soared 754% to 321 ETH, to rank 2nd on OneLand’s Meta Rankings ahead of Decentraland (+95%) and The Sandbox. Plus, NFT Worlds’ in-game currency $WRLD2.0 rocketed 113% (up 260% since Jan 1).

Besides, holder numbers fell by 30 as diamond hands continue consolidating. Twitter Space listener numbers are on the up, from several hundred over recent months to hit 1.7k in the most recent Weekly WRLD (see Twitter Spaces, Projects Streams & Interviews below to listen).

🗞️ Market News

VITALIK BUTERIN (ETHEREUM) — Jan 24: As US and EU authorities crack down on crypto anonymizers, who they say assist money laundering, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed a method of hiding the identity of recipients of all ERC-20 tokens.

ECB — CBDC — Jan 24: A member of the European Central Bank stated they will not issue a digital euro that is programmed to limit how it is used, and is “working on solutions that preserve privacy by default and design”.

HOUSE OF BLUEBERRY — Jan 24: Leading digital fashion in the metaverse House of Blueberry (with 20m+ digital assets already sold) raised $6 million.

PEDIGREE — Jan 25: Pet food brand Pedigree launched Fosterverse in Decentraland, enabling LANDowners to take care of real rescue dogs on their virtual land and adopt them in real life.

DECRYPT — Jan 25: Decrypt launched a free course Getting Started with the Metaverse. Learn about AR and VR, create an avatar, get to know Decentraland & The Sandbox, dive into the vast marketing potential of the Metaverse and earn an on-chain certificate of completion.

AMAZON — Jan 27: Multiple sources indicate that Amazon will launch an NFT initiative in Q2 and is considering Layer 1 blockchains, digital asset exchanges and Web3 gaming startups.

🌄 Sales & Mints

WEOM — Jan 24: Metaverse for Humanity WEOM opened a pre-sale mint for early settlers & partner communities. To understand what a Metaverse for Humanity is — and what WEOM is building, and why, check our article:

THE SANDBOX — Jan 26: A cosmic NFT collection from Spinnin’ Records and Warner Music inspired by electronic music was listed in The Sandbox as part of the World’s Biggest Demo Drop (see Events & Contests, below).

**Metropolis World — Jan 27:**Metropolis World launched its Dark Egg Mint and airdrop.

In Metropolis World, which comprises 6 great cities built from the ruins of 6 asteroids hitting Earth, every building is a mintable, hand-drawn, 1/1 NFT.

VOXELS — Jan 27: Voxels launched Dutch auctions for 4 (editable) parcels — including the new Skybox feature — on #Chronos_Island. The auction lasted 72 hours.

🎪🏅🎁 Events, Contests & Giveaways

Events

THE SANDBOX — Jan 26 — Feb 8: The Sandbox kicked off the World’s Biggest Demo Drop with Warner Music & Spinnin’ Records, with 100K $SAND in prizes (incl. an exclusive pool for WMG Pass holders) and exclusive memorabilia. Register here.

DECENTRALAND — Jan 26: Decentraland DAO held their latest Town Hall in Discord.

SOMNIUM SPACE — Jan 27: Somnium Space-based virtual event company VRvenues held its first live band performance with German pop punk act Trip to Paradise at Con-X Web World.

VOXELS — Jan 28: Voxels held a SKY Party on Chronos Island, with music provided by DJ/producer PurpLeTariat.

Contests & Giveaways

THE SANDBOX — Jan 23 — Feb 5: The Sandbox kicked off the Folklore VoxEdit Contest. Create a GIF of mythical creatures from the tales of your home country for the chance to share from 15,000 SAND in prizes.

Jan 25 — Feb 5: The Sandbox and NFT Biennial launched a ‘Cyber-Myth: Post-Human Age Goddesses’ VoxEdit Contest. The top 3 ranked character designs will be presented during World’s first NFT Biennial, in the physical gallery and The Sandbox universe.

🛠️ Project Updates

THE SANDBOX — Jan 24: The Sandbox’ GameMaker new version 0.8 went live — featuring new multiplayer gameplay, lighting features, visual effects, video streaming & more.

DECENTRALAND — Jan 24: DCL Worlds (personal virtual spaces you can build on without having to own LAND) has now removed the 4-parcel limitation. All you need to start building your DCL World today can be found here:

WORLDWIDE WEBB — Jan 24: Worldwide Webb launched a new community build integration page by @nfdaddy. The page shows and filters all currently integrated collections.

EMBER SWORD — Jan 25: Social sandbox MMORPG Ember Sword founder Mark Laursen published an article detailing the game’s vision for the future of gaming technology, in which he forecast April for an Alpha release.

CIVITAS — Jan 28: Civitas launched its new Development Roadmap in its Discord.

NFT WORLDS — Jan 28: Founder ArkDev released a demo of opening lootboxes, which is on the verge of release, in NFTWorlds’ Discord. Stay tuned.

👬 Partnerships

WORLDWIDE WEBB <> REKT GUY / ROBOTOS / NYAN BALLOONS — Jan 24: Worldwide Webb integrated #RektGuy, Robotos and Nyan Balloons NFTs.

Check https://webb.nfdaddys.tech/ for all current integrations.

THE SANDBOX <> ALPACADABRAZ / SCAREDY CUBITS — Jan 25: ALPACADABRAZ and Scaredy Cubits NFTs have been integrated into The Sandbox.

PLAYDEX <> KINGDOMVERSE — Jan 26: Social gaming platform Playdex partnered with mobile games ecosystem Kingdomverse. Kingdomverse’s new game ‘Defend the Kingdom’ can be played in Playdex’s game hub.

NFT OASIS <> VATOM — Jan 26: NFT Oasis selected Vatom as strategic partner in building its metaverse-as-a-service (MAAS) ecosystem. NFT Oasis will provide frictionless, web-based access to the Metaverse requiring no plug-ins or downloads.