Metaverse Weekly Wrap-Up: Nov 28-Dec 4

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

Highlights:

  • The Sandbox powers ahead with its 3-Part Land Sale, & drops some stats

  • Twitter confirms its mission to be the Internet Town Square as Musk promises “a revolution against online censorship”

  • Animoca to launch a $2 billion Metaverse industry fund; claims the long-term goal is digital property rights

  • Uniswap launches NFT trading; OpenSea adds BNB

  • The founders of Yuga Labs and BAYC start a podcast…&

  • Airdrops for NFT World holders, project upgrades for Voxels and WorldwideWebb, & Treeverse opens its Pre-Alpha!

💹 Market Data & Analysis

**Important Note**

OneLand is in the process of upgrading our data acquisition methods, so certain data may be missing. We will temporarily refrain from releasing our data until the upgrade is verified and fully tested.

🗞️ Market News

Twitter

  • Nov 30

Twitter confirmed its mission to be the Internet Town Square in its article “Our continued commitment to the public conversation”.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk promised “a revolution against online censorship” as Twitter stopped enforcing the “Covid-19 Misinformation Policy”, attacked Apple over its 30% AppStore fees and released details of Twitter’s censorship of the Hunter Biden story.

Blockchain Research Lab

Blockchain Research Lab reports that the price of LAND in The Sandbox has consolidated above where it was at the start of the rally in October 2021 in the report “An analysis of LAND in The Sandbox: Q4 2022”.'

Animoca Brands

  • Nov 30

Animoca Brands announced plans to launch a $2 billion Metaverse industry fund with its first investment expected next year. Executive chairman Yat Siu says the long-term goal is digital property rights.

Uniswap

  • Nov 30

Uniswap launched NFT trading, replacing NFT marketplace aggregator Genie; it also airdropped $5m+ USDC to previous Genie users. Gas rebates will also be given to the first 22k customers to trade NFTs on Uniswap.

Nugen Coin

  • Dec 3

Nugen Coin launched its official metaverse, NUGENVERSE. Built by renowned virtual world development agency Shamla Tech, NUGENVERSE was launched during the Dcentral Miami 2022.

Open Sea

  • Dec 2

OpenSea continued its upgrade into multi-chain interoperability by integrating the BNB blockchain into its service.

🌄 Sales & Mints

Upland

  • Nov 29

Keys to 15 MV Motors Models (8 x Serie 1 cars and 7 x Series T trucks) went up for grabs in Upland’s MV Motors Sale. Multiplayer car racing was introduced to Upland on Nov 3.

  • Dec 1

Upland ran another landmark reverse auction — for the Detroit Institute of the Arts (founded 1885) at a starting price of 9.2 million UPX.

The Sandbox

  • Nov 29

The Sandbox kicked off its California Dreamin’ auction as part of the 1st Wave of its 3-part LAND Sale. Raffle winners earned the chance to secure VRE in the neighborhood of Snoop Dog, Tony Hawk, FaZe Clan and Playboy.

The Sandbox followed up the sale with some stats, including 345 LANDs sold and 175 first-time buyers.

  • Dec 1

The Sandbox kicked off the 2nd Wave of its 3-part LAND sale — in The Galleria. Raffle winners earn the chance to secure VRE in The Sandbox in the neighborhoods of Paris Hilton and TIME.

LAND Sale Raffle Sign-Up: Dec 1–5.

LAND Sale: Dec 6–7

  • Nov 30

The Abracadabra NFT Collections were listed on the Sandbox Marketplace.

  • Dec 1

The Sandbox announced the Playboy Party People NFT collection public sale to kick off Dec 6.

🎪 Events🏅Contests & 🎁 Giveaways

Events

Decentraland

  • Nov 28

Zevi G held a 456 Collector’s Club NFT Showcase & Metaverse Party in Decentraland to celebrate the opening of Art Basel in Miami. Digital and live art were on display at Art Basel and 456LAND until NYE.

  • Nov 30

NFT Frost held a Jack Frost Metaverse Music Experience in Decentraland’s TRU Band Room. Jack is creator of the Area 51 Space Pass NFT Collection and the visionary of immersive nightclub metaverse experience Area 51.

Somnium Space

  • Nov 29

Legendary founder of SingularityNET Ben Goertzel and Desdemona the Robot played live both on Parcel #4937 (Museverse) in Somnium Space and at Enter the Metaverse Conference in London.

Decentral Games

  • Dec 1

Decentral Games held their 2nd anniversary party and tournament with lots of prizes up for grabs.

Worldwide Webb

  • Dec 2

Worldwide Webb held a party to celebrate its 1st anniversary.

🏅💰 Contests & Giveaways

Upland

  • Nov 29

Upland kicked off the Fall Turkey Chase, players needing to round up the big birds to earn rewards including UPX and entries for two Block Explorers.

Decentraland

  • Dec 1

Decentraland launched the Ugly Sweater Wearable Contest. Create, publish and submit your ‘Ugly Sweater’ Wearable here. The contest lasts Dec 1–19

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

The Sandbox: AMA with Jaguar Friends

Voxels: 7 employees left, so what’s next?

NFTWorlds: Weekly WRLD-GameFi Fireside Chat, feat Wolves DAO

Yuga Labs: The Fucking Metaverse Podcast from the founders of Yuga Labs & BAYC

🛠️ Project Updates

Illuvium

  • Nov 29

Illuvium were nominated in five separate categories at the Polkastarter Gaming GAM3 Awards. Gamers can vote here:

NFT Worlds

  • Nov 29

NFT Worlds launched the rules for the first round of Lootbox drops to Worlds and Worlds Avatar holders in Discord. For every 1 World and/or 1 World Avatar people hold, they will receive 1 Lootbox.

Voxels

  • Nov 30

Voxels unveiled new street-level texture enhancements set to debut on Chronos Island in its latest update. The move follows a range of core updates brought in by the team during its self-declared “crypto winter”.

Treeverse

  • Nov 30

Treeverse dropped the Pre-Alpha form and followed it up with a great Monthly Treeverse Update as they gear up for their Pre-Alpha then Public game release.

Worldwide Webb

  • Dec 4

Worldwide Webb launched Patch 2.20.59 to integrate a new Party Hat item, Login queue and new tutorial quest. They also removed the limit on Rugbusterz passive slots.

👬 Partnerships

BYOPills <> Jenkins the Valet

  • Nov 30

After announcing a partnership with Jenkins the Valet, BYOPills looms as a possible location for his upcoming Fiction Audio podcast in which Jenkins treks across the Metaverse in search of his beloved dog Goodboy, who recently went missing.

Utherverse <> Tokensoft

  • Dec 1

Utherverse, one of the largest metaverse platforms in the world, signed an agreement with leading tech platform for launching digital assets Tokensoft. The deal will facilitate the first and second presale rounds of Uther Coin (UTHX) as part of the token’s initial decentralized offering (IDO).

Meta Trekkers <> Web3 SUMMITS

  • Dec 1

Meta Trekkers teamed up with Web3 SUMMITS to host the Women Web3 Miami 2022 event inside the MetaTrekkers Clubhouse in Decentraland.

Worldwide Webb <> Uniswap

  • Dec 1

Uniswap integrated Worldwide Webb Land NFTs from all major marketplaces into its DEX.

ArcadeLand <> Legends of Mitra

  • Dec 2

ArcadeLand partnered with MITA Game’s Legends of Mitra, an NFT merge defense game where you fight alongside your heroes to defend your Kingdom.

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