Highlights:

• Metaverse land caps stable for the week, as Decentraland and Arcade Land record top sales

• Decentraland announces its second Metaverse Music Festival, to happen Nov 10–13

• MVMF22’s lineup released — includes Ozzy Osbourne among over 100 other artists

• Aptos launches its new blockchain, as NFT sales boost push Cardano into top 3 of NFT chains

• BYOPills launches a BYOHub for its community

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• The Sandbox publishes its Alpha Season 3 Leaderboard Update

1. Market Data & Analysis

OneLand 7-day data shows aggregate land market cap for the 10 metaverse projects up 3.52% to approximately $1.283 billion, while trading volume fell 1.63%. There were no big weekly movements in land caps of metaverse projects in a week in which the price of ETH held relatively steady, up 4.4%.

The Sandbox’s land cap was steady for the week, up 1% to push past 190,000 ETH. Weekly average prices continue to look cheap at 1.42 ETH, having dipped below 2.0 ETH at the end of August and not rising above that since. Trading volumes (-28.5%) have also been retreating again since The Sandbox launched its landholder-only staking program a month ago. (In our upcoming October report, we will assess the performance of land sales over the duration of Alpha Season 3 (Aug 24-Nov 4) compared to AlphaS1 and S2 (which both ran 4 weeks)).

Meanwhile, Decentraland’s average price jumped 45% to more than double that at 3.18 ETH in a week which saw an Estate sell for 31.01 ETH. Decentraland’s second annual Metaverse Music Festival (MVMF22) was announced this week to happen Nov 10–13 and will be hoped to renew interest in the metaverse’s virtual real estate. Sales numbers (though down for the week 29%) and volumes (+3.2%) have been creeping upwards over the past couple months. Unique landholders are on the rise, as holding concentration loosens at Decentraland, while the opposite seems to be happening at The Sandbox.

Voxels’ holder numbers were down for the week, but they are also up for both the month and the year.

In its highest sale in nearly three months, a parcel in Arcade Land sold for 11.79 ETH. The sale composed 40% of its weekly trading volume (+27%) and helped Arcade Land to a second consecutive week of higher land cap, volume, sales and average price. However, there were no premium sales of BYOLands this week, nor indeed any week over the past month. But trading activity had a definite pickup from last week’s lull, sales numbers recovering even if average price fell. BYOLands’ land cap ended the week down 6.4%.

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2. Market News

Aptos Blockchain

• Oct 19

The new Aptos blockchain launched but not without a few hiccups.

Cardano

• Oct 19

Cardano jumped into the top 3 of NFT blockchains when its number of trades jumped 40% and sales volume soared 132% in 24 hours.

Muhammad Ali

• Oct 18

The late and extremely great boxer Muhammad Ali’s estate filed a trademark for Web3 products that include NFTs and downloadable clothing. Meanwhile, an upcoming Muhammad Ali biopic being developed by Studio Pictures and the launch of NFTs tied to the film.

WEOM

• Oct 18

Humanity-centred metaverse WEOM published a brief article in Medium to introduce itself.

Stability AI

• Oct 19

Community driven AI firm Stability AI secured a $101 million seed round investment from Coatue Mgmt and Lightspeed Venture Partners, earning unicorn status with its now $1 billion valuation.

Ripple

• Oct 20

Ripple announced the latest recipients of its $250 million NFT Creator Fund. They include virtual event ticket seller 9LEVEL9, Japanese NFT marketplace Anifie, NFT sports platform Capital Block, XRP NFT marketplace NFT Master and NFT membership project ThinkingCrypto.

• Oct 21

Ripple, founder of 6th largest cryptocurrency XRP, obtained sought after documents of a former SEC official who in 2018 declared Ethereum not to be a security. The evidence could be key for Ripple in its legal battle with the SEC who claims XRP was sold as an unregistered security.

Slotty

• Oct 20

Metaverse casino Slotty was hit with simultaneous cease-and-desist orders from 4 state enforcement bodies across the U.S. which have deemed the company’s NFTs as unregistered securities.

Arcade

• Oct 21

Web 3 company Arcade raised $3.2 million in a seed funding round led by crypto.com, with support from KuCoin and Solana Ventures. Arcade will provide GameFi services that do not require players to own expensive characters or land NFTs.

Warner Bros. Movieverse

• Oct 22

Media goliath Warner Bros announced the imminent arrival of its NFT-powered Movieverse, and plans to bring cinema classic ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ to Web3.

​​3. Sales & Mints

Lords of The Lands

• Oct 21

Lords of The Lands commenced its new round of Land sales, offering standard (0.2), platinum (0.4 ETH) and prime (0.8 ETH) land NFTs. LOL landlords can earn monthly rentals in Ethereum.

Somnium Space

• Oct 19

The Czech National Theater launched its first ever NFT, and held an auction inside the SomniumSpace SOPRG gallery. The proceeds will be used to build a rehabilitation and physiotherapy center for dancers.

The Sandbox

The following NFT collections went live in The Sandbox Marketplace:

Oct 17 — Much Doge Pack by Lords of Dogetown

Oct 21 — CryptoWeen by Paris Hilton:

Oct 21 — Light Trail Adventures

Oct 22 — The Funguys Kingdom Collection Vol.1

Voxels

• Oct 19

Voxels listed 10 more parcels from Chronos Island on OpenSea.

4. Events, Contests & Giveaways

Events

Decentraland

• Oct 17

The lineup has been released for Decentraland’s upcoming 2022 Metaverse Music Festival, from Nov 10–13. More than 100 artists from all genres, including Ozzy Osbourne, Dillon Francis and Soulja Boy, will be performing on 15 unique stages in Decentraland.

• Oct 17

Crystal City — a district hosting offices, shops, galleries, events and featuring Crystal Tower, the tallest multi-use building in Decentraland — was opened to the public, with a launch party.

Halloween parties:

Oct 21: First Annual FMF365 Halloween Bash

Oct 21:Save The Date Halloween Party.

Oct 22: Crypto Musica Television hosted a Spanish music party.

The Sandbox

• Oct 19

The Sandbox took part in the MEGAMIGS Festival in Montreal, Canada to showcast new features on the Game Maker.

Voxels

• Oct 22

Near & MasterMinds DAO held the AMAPIANO ROCK Fest in Voxels.

Contests & Giveaways

The Sandbox

• Oct 17

The Sandbox announced its new ‘Halloween Edition’ VoxEdit contest. The contest lasts Oct 17–31, and requires entrants to create “the scariest, spookiest, creepiest creature of the metaverse”.

• Oct 18

The Sandbox held a Twitter giveaway to celebrate star footballer Sergio Kun Aguero entering the Metaverse. Entrants can win a football jersey signed by Kun and 120 $SAND.

Galaxy Fight Club

• Oct 20

PvP fighting game Galaxy Fight Club released the second round of its Cross-IP Championship, with 250k in prizes. Several partner project communities have been invited to join the championship, including BYOPills.

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

Decentraland: Behind the Scenes of a Metaverse Music Festival feat. producers Gigi & Lara, creative director Sam

NFT Worlds: Weekly WRLD — GameFi Dev

The Sandbox: Musicians in the Metaverse feat. TSB founder Sebastien Borge

The Sandbox: Cultural Development in the Metaverse feat. Indexgame

Tropyverse: Community Building — Share Your Project feat. Waterdown Queen Everything Metaverses

5. Project Updates

BYOPills

• Oct 17

BYOPills announced in its Discord that they will be releasing a BYOHub, which will be a mobile-friendly one-stop shop for all things BYOPills.

The Sandbox

• Oct 17

The Sandbox published its Alpha Season 3 Leaderboard Update. In it, The Sandbox outlined updates to the leaderboard on selected experiences that were affected by patching glitches.

• Oct 19

The Bored Mummy Waking Up Avatars were released into The Sandbox, with players able to play as their Bored Mummy Avatars.

Looking Glass Labs

• Oct 21

Web3/NFT platform Looking Glass Labs announced the Alpha release date of its flagship studio House of Kibaa’s (HoK) Pocket Dimension Metaverse Assets. The launch introduces holders to the overall metaverse experience, while testing features of each Pocket Dimension, exploring the environments and stress-testing multiplayer capabilities.

Rarible

• Oct 22

Rarible will step back from its NFT marketplace model and transition into a fully fledged market aggregator called Rarible2.

6. Partnerships

Somnium Space<>GITEX GLOBAL

• Oct 18

Somnium Space ran a stand at the latest GITEX GLOBAL digital tech event in Dubai, held in partnership with Teslasuit. GITEX GLOBAL 2022 hosted more than 4,500 companies and 100,000+ attendees from 170 countries over 5 days at the World Trade Center in Dubai.

The Sandbox<> Paris Hilton

• Oct 21

The Sandbox teamed up with Paris Hilton’s 11:11 Media to extend its Halloween-themed virtual experience Cryptoween into its metaverse. The limited-time multiplayer experience is open to all from 21 Oct — 7 Nov.

Upland<>Jacky Tsai

• Oct 20

Upland announced a partnership with Sotheby’s Xperience Digital Artist of the Year, Jacky Tsai, famous for bringing his amazing MetaSKull collection to the metaverse. Jacky Tsai will add style to Upland with iconic skull art, though players can also own Block Explorers, Legits, and Structure Ornaments.

Worldwide Webb<>Chimpers

• Oct 21

Worldwide Webb teamed up with Chimpers NFT to hold a party in the metaverse.

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