Metaverse Weekly Wrap-Up: Nov 21–27

Market Data | Market News | Sales & Mints | Events Contests & Giveaways | Project Updates | Partnerships |

Highlights:

  • The Sandbox kicks off a special 3-part LAND sale in new neighborhoods; LAND plots available alongside some big names

  • Ape Coin DAO launches marketplace for Yuga Labs NFTs, including Otherdeeds

  • Decentraland DAO’s creator series dives deep into VR in Decentraland

  • Project updates from Illuvium, NFT Worlds, Stageverse, Upland and Worldwide Webb

  • The Sandbox launches the K-verse!

  • It’s time to travel to Japan and Bali in the Metaverse!

💹 Market Data & Analysis

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🗞️ Market News

Ape Coin DAO

  • Nov 24

Ape Coin DAO and Snag Solutions launched a marketplace for Yuga Labs’ NFTs communities including Otherdeed. The marketplace applies 0.5% on ETH and 0.25% on ApeCoin sales, with 0.25% put in a multi-sig for DAO initiatives. @IgorPogany dropped it here first a month ago.

Mattel

  • Nov 23

Toy brand Mattel (creator of Hot Wheels and Barbie) launched its own NFT marketplace on the Flow blockchain that does not require buyers to use crypto.

Macy’s

  • Nov 22

Macy’s announced they will hold its 96th Thanksgiving Parade in the OnCyber metaverse, featuring virtual galleries from NFT projects VeeFriends, Cool Cats, SupDucks, Boss Beauties and gmoney.

Dubai

  • Nov 24

Dubai’s Crown Prince approved the next phase of the emirate’s Metaverse Strategy which aims to empower the use of the metaverse and emerging technologies such as VR, AR, mixed reality (MR) and extended reality (ER).

SK Telecom

  • Nov 24

SK Telecom announced the launch of social metaverse platform IFLAND, which it plans to roll out simultaneously across 49 countries and territories.

Vincent Van Dough

  • Nov 25

NFT art collector Vincent Van Dough launched his ‘Art of This Millennium’ NFT platform to help artists curate, market, sell and exhibit art. It will also support legacy planning, while guaranteeing a 10% creator royalty fee.

Sales & Mints 🌄

The Sandbox

  • Nov 24

The Sandbox kicked off a 3-part LAND sale of nearly 2,000 LAND plots in 3 new neighborhoods — Californian Dreamin’ (from Nov 24), The Galleria (Dec 1) and Voxel Madness (Jan 2023).

To ensure more democracy this time round, the LAND sale will be granted via raffles.

Grab a chance to secure prime Virtual Real Estate (VRE) beside the likes of Snoop Dogg, Playboy, Tony Hawk, Paris Hilton and web3 brands Voxies and Dogami. Check the details.

Voxels

  • Nov 25

Voxels held a Black Friday Sale with a number of NFTs listed on OpenSea, including 3 “hard-to-get” parcels for just 0.42 ETH.

Upland

  • Nov 22

Upland kicked off its Landmark Reverse-Auction for Porto Cathedral (which dates back to 1737). Reverse auctions start at the highest price then lower at scheduled times until someone mints the land.

  • Nov 26–28

Upland’s 25%-off Holiday Edition Merch Sale runs ends Nov 28. Hurry up!

Events, Contests & Giveaways 🎪🏅🎁

EVENTS

Decentraland

  • Nov 22

Decentral Games is holding a free play Game Night in Decentraland each Tuesday until the end of the year, with $DG up for grabs.

The Sandbox

  • Nov 23

The Sandbox published an article to explain LAND’s value by comparing it to physical real estate (PRE).

  • Nov 24

The Sandbox launched the K-verse with its K-Verse Mini Event & K-content festival, with 5 experiences brought to you by the K League, Anicube, Sandbox Network and Cube Entertainment, and 100k $SAND up for grabs.

Contests & Giveaways 🏅💰

The Sandbox

  • Nov 21

The Sandbox announced the winners of its Ragnarok Game Jam.

  • Nov 23

The Sandbox is holding a giveaway of 10 hat NFTs from the Sports Fans Collection by Sports Land. Runs till Nov 30.

Decentraland

  • Nov 21

MetaParty is holding a daily Parkour & Mini Game Challenge in Decentraland until Dec 8. Complete the challenge to win a Parkour Crown and DigiFun x MetaParty mask, then redeem for a larger reward.

Catch up on this week’s Twitter Spaces, project streams and interviews:

Decentraland DAO: Introducing Technical AMA Sessions

NFT Worlds: Weekly WRLD — Open Floor, feat. founder ArkDev

Otherside: $APE Staking Details and Launch, feat. @IgorPogany

The Sandbox: Voices from the Metaverse, feat. TSB director @mpinvidio and @fpinvidio sharing their vision for The Sandbox Uruguay

The Sandbox: FaZe Clan x The Sandbox AMA

Worldwide Webb: Discord AMA

Project Updates 🛠️

Illuvium

  • Nov 23–26

Illuvium ran its Epoch 7 election for the next members on the Illuvium Council. With voting now concluded, the new Council members will be issued their Council NFTs and start their term on Dec 1.

Stageverse

  • Nov 22

Stageverse launched a Mobile Client, with users now able to experience new Stageverse spaces, emotes & more on both IOS and Android.

Upland

  • Nov 23

Upland officially opened up applications for its Outdoor Decor Showrooms Metaventures to allow players to trade their existing Outdoor Decor items.

Decentraland DAO

  • Nov 24

Decentraland DAO published the 2nd edition of its monthly creator spotlight series, Community Pulse. Featured are an interview with VR Client Team founding member Sean Org, restructuring of the Community Grants Program, and a deep dive into how VR is progressing in Decentraland.

NFTWorlds

  • Nov 24

NFT Worlds announced that WRLD 2.0 has been bridged to Polygon to enable smoother game development.

WorldwideWebb

  • Nov 26

Worldwide Webb published a thread to recap its recent AMA. Major items include: 1. Halloweeb traffic and in-game trade data, 2. No Webb exposure to FTX and on track with budget for next 2 years, 3. Updates to Rugbusterz, and 4. special merch in the pipeline.

Partnerships 👬

Kumamoto<> VEX Limited

  • Nov 21

Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan partnered with ADK Emotions to build Virtual Kumamon Land in the VEXMETA metaverse. Kumamon Land NFTs enable you to visit Kyushu tourism hotspots in Kumamon avatar form and interact with other avatars.

The immersive travel experience in VEXMETA will begin in January, 2023 but you can register now.

The Sandbox<> TourismX

  • Nov 23

The Sandbox, World Tourism Forum Institute and TourismX teamed up to develop Tourismverse in The Sandbox, allowing people to travel virtually around the world and interact via online games, museum tours, live concerts and more.

Tourismverse kicks off in Bali, Indonesia!

The Sandbox <> TripleS

  • Nov 24

The Sandbox and K-pop startup Modhaus will build a social hub for fan engagement with Web3-based all-girl K-pop group TripleS, including tripleS avatars and wearables.

Magic Eden<> Polygon

  • Nov 22

NFT marketplace Magic Eden integrated Polygon. The former Solana-based project has now integrated Ethereum and Polygon NFTs, its focus now fixed on GameFi. Polygon projects already added include Bora Ecosystem, Intella X, nWayPlay and Planet Mojo.

Bizi Labs<> Polygon

  • Nov 26

Swiss-based mobile platform Bizi Labs announced an integration with Polygon Network to be included in Bizi Labs’ flagship Web3 partner Smartphone brand ZMBIZI.

Starry Nift

Gamified creation platform Starry Nift keeps rolling out the partnerships. This week alone, they included marketing firm P2ELabs, payment solution pip, KYC project zkPass, security project Sandbags Protocol, task collaboration platform TaskOn, Web3 game Clash Of NFT, and MMORPGs Mir of BSC & Metastrike.

Plus — you’’ll find giveaways galore to celebrate by perusing the Starry Nift’s Twitter.

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