Metaverse Weekly Wrap-Up: Sep 18 -24

Market Data | Market News | Sales & Mints | Events Contests & Giveaways | Twitter Spaces Project Streams & Interviews | Project Updates | Partnerships |


💹 Market Data

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OneLand 7D data shows agg. land market cap of the 10 projects down 4.02% to 660,635 ETH (or -6.52% to $1.04bn). Total NFT cap fell 6.92% to 2.69m ETH, while $ETH ended the week down 2.61% at $1,580.75.

Meta Rankings - Land Market Cap [7D]
Meta Rankings - Land Market Cap [7D]

Looking at Decentraland, and another 7D LANDs slide (-15.47%) saw its LANDs cap crash to 140k ETH, with trading activity slow of late and only 7 sales over the past week for a meager volume of 3.5 ETH (-60.1%).

Otherdeed 7D land sales (+71.4% to 156) & volume (+51.9% to 131.31 ETH) re-emerged above 100 & 100 ETH respectively for Otherside (which they both sank beneath in the week previous).

Meta Rankings - Trading Volume [7D]
Meta Rankings - Trading Volume [7D]

It occurred just as Yuga Labs cemented partnerships in a move to “propel development” (see Partnerships, below), and AIP-304 approved ApeCoin DAO invest in 11m $APE worth of Yuga assets (See Project Updates, below). $APE continues to fall, last week by another 0.78% to 1.10530 ETH, about half what it was 3mths ago.

For the past 30D, Otherside’s sales count is down by 20% and its trading volume by 47.7%, while cap of Otherdeeds has fallen 4.29% to 326,358 ETH.

Meanwhile, Voxels witnessed its most active week of trading since the same time last month (7D volume +530%), with 4 sales on Monday resulting in its highest daily volume in over a month. 30D volume is still down 39.6%.

Voxels - Trade Plots [30D]
Voxels - Trade Plots [30D]

With a date now locked in for the BYORacer launch in early October (see Project Updates), there is a certain level of excitement in the air. BYOLands sales spike over the weekend extended into Mon & Tue, clocking 400+ for the fortnight.

BYOLands in BYOPills’ BYOVerse - Sales & Transfers [7D]
BYOLands in BYOPills’ BYOVerse - Sales & Transfers [7D]

Somnium Space also enjoyed a weekly uptick in trade with 13 parcels (+333%) moving wallets, & 7D volume up 230.5%.

Meanwhile, purchases of Apartments eased at Worldwide Webb as the excitement of 3 weeks of Rugbusterz Rumbles subsided, 7D sales & volume sliding backwards 82.6% & 94.4% respectively, and its total land cap hanging within the 10-11k ETH zone.

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🗞️ Market News

🌄 Sales & Mints

THE SANDBOX — 9.19–25: The Allow List opened for @SHIBUYA109NFT fashion collection. 2,060 unique designs, incl. 71 of 1 special fashion avatars.

9.20: Immerse yourself in the world of artist duo Hackatao’s Queens & Kings 6,900 avatars, with every trait hand-drawn. To learn more about this unique project, in which collectors become co-creators, scroll down to Twitter Spaces to listen to their AMA with TSB.


🎪 Events, Contests & Giveaways 🏅

WEOM — Ongoing: Play, Practice & Explore a spiritual 3D world. WEOM’s ALPHA 2.0 is still open for testing: https://tinyurl.com/weomalpha2 - provide your feedback to win a $100 Amazon gift voucher.

AXIE INFINITY — 9.15–10.29: Registrations kicked off for the first Axie Game Jam. Create a game aligned to a special theme with the Axie Generator Tool Kit in a 2-week period — till Oct 29. $20.5k in prizes up for grabs.

Meanwhile, Axie opened up Axie Grants to all Mavis Hub games.

DECENTRALAND — 9.21–24: Metaverse Architecture Biennale ran over the weekend.

9.21: Decentraland opened applications for DCL Music Festival ’23, themed Rebirth & Regeneration. Artists receive $500 and promotion in the main event program, while 3D installation creators get $1,000, plus digital exhibition space in the main event plaza.

OTHERSIDE — 9.25: Legends of the Mara (LOTM) goes live.

HYTOPIA 9.29: HYTOPIA’s next Model Mastery event kicks off Sep 29.

THE SANDBOX — Till 9.26: TSB and AgoriaMusic are giving away 10 Agorian Avatars. Register before Sep 26.


🔈 Catch up on this week’s Twitter Spaces, Project Streams & Interviews

ALETHEA AI x WEOM: Navigating Web3 with Awareness & Intention *

HYTOPIA: Open floor X Space

TECHCRUNCH: 8 Web3 gaming experts discuss hurdles & opportunities in the road to adoption

THE SANDBOX: Hackatao AMA — Queens & Kings Enter The Sandbox!

SOMNIUM SPACE LIVE: Building WebWorlds from scratch / Soul Sunday Guided Meditation

* OneLand favourite


🛠️ Project Updates

AAVEGOTCHI — 9.19: The new Game Center is a new hub to discover live & upcoming games on the Aavegotchi protocol. For developers, it’s a platform to showcase your game.

APECOIN — 9.15: ApeCoin DAO approved AIP-304, which will see the DAO purchase 11m $APE worth of Yuga Labs assets.

BYOPILLS — 10.6: The Countdown begins for the exclusive early access of BYORacer: Sons Of Valkyrie ‘The Absorption Experiment’ on Oct 6, available only for BYOCraft holders. Got a BYOCraft?

CLAY NATION — 9.19: Next month, the Clay Nation virtual world will expand the boundaries of its discovery zone Sonic Hub.

HYTOPIA — 9.20: At the time of this tweet, HYTOPIA pre-registrations had already exceeded 0.25 million.

VOXELS - 9.21: Dev update incl. UX tweaks to the home page, NFT image & in-game map.

STAR ATLAS — 9.23: Star Atlas launched its latest gamified experience in the metaverse, SAGE Labs. Embark on mining & retrieval missions to collect resources, then craft them into genuine loot, incl. Land & spaceship NFTs.


👬 Partnerships

CLAY NATION x THE SANDBOX: The portal to upgrade Clay Nation NFTs for compatibility with The Sandbox will go live at the end of September. The Clay-box Festival will launch during The Sandbox Alpha Season 4:

DAREWISE x HORIZEN LABS — 9.17: Darewise will collaborate with Horizen Labs, the company behind ApeCoin’s token strategy, to launch the first metaverse token on Bitcoin for their gaming metaverse ‘Life Beyond’.

YUGA LABS — 9.20: Yuga Labs announced new technical and creative partnerships with HadeanAccelByteBad Rhino Studios & Faraway to propel Otherside’s development. It also joined the board of the Open Metaverse Alliance (OMA3).


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