Highlights:

• Trading activity is up for Decentraland, Somnium Space & Otherside
• $100m worth of altcoins get stolen through Harmony’s Horizon Bridge
• Voxels holds its first ever Metaverse Fashion Show
• NFT Worlds’ public WRLD name registration goes live
• The Sandbox begins deploying LAND to Polygon
• Coinbase gets integrated into both Decentraland and The Sandbox
• Karel Janecek partners with Somnium Space to run his 2023 Czech presidential campaign

1. Market Data & Analysis

This week, the aggregated market cap of all 7 metaverses listed on OneLand dipped another 1.92%, but trading volume rebounded led by Decentraland and Otherside (but also Somnium Space), recovering a healthy 12.33%. Holders were down 1.29% for the week.

Decentraland enjoyed a recovery following last week’s bad showing — trade volume +137% and sales +133%, with market cap stable. Several LANDs around the 4 ETH mark were sold, however it already feels a long time since we witnessed any big buys; the last of any note happened on June 13 for 78.86 ETH, while no parcel of LAND has been sold for above 7 ETH for more than two weeks. Average price was down for the week, and the month.

Otherside’s performance picked up somewhat in the past week, and it comes on the back of news that Noah Davis, formerly part of Christie’s NFT team, joined Yuga Labs to steward the CryptoPunks brand. Trade volume increased 24.7% this week, sales up almost 20%. According to the official announcement, The First Trip is coming July 16, and the market will be watching closely to see if Otherside can set any new records.

Though sales were down for The Sandbox, average price jumped 13% after LAND #77308 sold for 27 ETH in the biggest purchase since May 15, and over 8 times the current floor price. Market cap was down 7% for the week, mirroring all other projects apart from Decentraland.

Prices were not high, but at least Somnium Space had a return to activity with 5 land sales in one day, ranging from 0.7 to 1.0 ETH. The average price for the metaverse continues to dip in a bear market, but holders stay firm.

Top Sales by metaverse (7D):

• Otherside Otherdeed #95175: 130.09 ETH (6.28)
• The Sandbox LAND #77308: 27.08 ETH* *(7.2)
• NFT World #1292: 8.35 ETH (6.27)
• Decentraland LAND (3,-54): 5.49K MANA / 4.31 ETH (6.27)
• Voxels LAND (-55.35, 18.815): 2.98 ETH (6.28)
• WorldWide Webb Apartment #8768: 1.5 ETH (7.1)
• Somnium Space #1309–1.0 ETH (6.28)

For comprehensive market and metaverse project data, check oneland.world.

2. Market News

Horizon Bridge hack

• June 27

$100m worth of altcoins were stolen through the Horizon Bridge which connects Harmony, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Binance chains. Harmony offered $1m for any information that can help discover the hacker, adding that no charges would be pressed if the assets were returned.

Harmony’s founder and CEO said that private keys were compromised on the Ethereum side of the bridge and all assets swapped to ETH, with most still sitting in the hacker’s wallet.

My Neighbour Alice

• June 29

The charming blockchain-based social builder game MyNeighbour Alice launched its Alpha Season 1, the Season of the Timber Coast, which will run June 30 to July 31. To be part, you must own a plot in the Lummelunda archipelago and install a launcher on your PC. Learn how here.

Mona

• June 30

The creator-focused metaverse Mona secured a Series A round of $14.6m.

Mona says it is “building worlds, not walls”, and does not sell virtual land or tokens, instead focusing on building tools, systems and protocols for the open metaverse. Mona already has more than 3,000 users building virtual worlds in its metaverse; artists can develop their creations then sell them.

Somnium Space

• July 3

Karel Janecek has officially partnered with Somnium Space as a metaverse to officially run his 2023 Czech presidential campaign.

3. Events

Voxels

• June 29

Voxels team member @_Philosopher took part in Digital 20/20 to talk with the TSANFT team and community.

• June 29

Voxels held the Join The Citadel reveal for the art of the next 64–128 CITADELs, with special Voxels guest @bitpixi.

• July 1

Voxels helds its first Metaverse Fashion Show VoxTours with judges @hyperspek @Metacat007 and @themetaversedao, and wearables and cash prizes. The event was held on Vox Walk, a community wearables department store on Vibes Island in Voxels.

Decentraland

• June 29

Jason Derulo held a dance party in Decentraland. The experience included a virtual recreation of the real-life mansion where his new music video was filmed, the metaverse premiere of the video & the opportunity to dance and hang out with Jason Derulo while watching it.

***shorter for pic:***Jason Derulo held a dance party in Decentraland to premier his new music video in the metaverse, with attendees given the chance to dance and hang out with Jason while watching it.

• June 30

Decentraland announced the winners of the 2022 Decentraland Game Jam. Judges from Decentraland Foundation, MetaGameHub DAO and Core Game evaluated each game on the idea, game design, interactivity, innovation, and wow factor.

1st place of the Decentraland Foundation went to Rift Arena. 1st place of the MetaGameHub prizes went to Flower Power DCL

The Sandbox

• July 1

The Sandbox held an AMA with FlickPlay.

4. Contests & Giveaways

The Sandbox

• June 27

The New Game Jam kicked off, with 15,000 $SAND up for grabs in prizes. The Game Jam runs June 27 to July 17.

• June 29

The Sandbox issued a special badge to celebrate the start of Belonging Week. Players who complete all 3 Belonging Week contests receive the Pride Memorabilia.

Decentraland

• June 27

Parcel held a creatorverse buildathon in Decentraland.

The competition consists of two categories of builds: Meeting Space & Music Venue. Submissions run June 27 — Aug 1. Finalists receive a Moca Rooms’ WL membership, badge and POAP.

Voxels

• June 28

Voxels Chronos Season Challenge began.

There are four challenges, one for each season — compete in the solar-powered car race in Summer, find the solar panels in Autumn, save the scientist in Winter, and fix the clocks in Spring.

5. Project Updates

NFTWorlds

• June 28

NFT Worlds public WRLD name registration went live.

• June 28

NFT Worlds released their Q2 Community Marketing update.

The Sandbox

• June 28

The Sandbox began deploying LAND to Polygon, with each LAND bridged granted 10 mSAND cashback. Learn everything about The Sandbox Polygon Bridge and how to use it here.

Otherside

• June 27

Otherside conducted a 2-question survey in their Discord to help them with the headcount on the July 16th First Trip.

Somnium Space

• June 28

Somnium Space released several updates for the WebXR Client.

Decentraland

• June 29

Decentraland integrated Coinbase. Users can now login to Decentraland directly using their Coinbase account.

6. Partnerships

The Sandbox

• June 29

New game experience DustyLand entered the Sandbox. Dustyland will have 4 different halls — DUST, TEAR, SUN and HEART. Here is a sneak peak video.

• June 30

One month after the SAND token was listed on Coinbase, The Sandbox announced the integration of Coinbase Wallet. Users can use Coinbase Wallet to explore and own a piece of the metaverse.

• July 1

IT & digital content school Digital Hollywood partnered with The Sandbox to accelerate the creator economy in the metaverse. Digital Hollywood will train voxel artists and game makers in Japan to bring new content to The Sandbox.

Decentraland

• July 1

Decentraland partnered with Valerian NFT to hold a Metaverse Comic Convention to showcase the Valerian comic series.

7. One week in OneLand

• Updated overall UX
• NEW FEATURE: day & night mode
• Updated backend to index market data from OpenSea’s new SeaPort protocol and V2.0 API

Don’t forget — to access the most comprehensive, in-depth and up-to-date aggregated VRE market and project data, check out OneLand.

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