Market Data | Market News | Sales & Mints | Events Contests & Giveaways | Twitter Spaces Project Streams & Interviews | Project Updates | Partnerships |
Highlights:
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STEPN becomes 1st Web3 app to integrate Apple Pay
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Land sales in The Sandbox & Voxels
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$SPARK week in Upland, Pride Week in Decentraland, Play2Earn in The Sandbox
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Catch up with last week’s Web3 Metaverse Twitter Spaces & Project Streams
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Project Updates at BYOPills, Illuvium, TOPIA, plus Builder Updates at Arcade & The Sandbox…&
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Be part of history by joining Metaverse for Humanity WEOM’s inaugural Alpha Test!
💹 Market Data
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OneLand 7=day data shows aggregate land market caps for the 10 listed projects down 0.44% to 772,997 ETH, or $1.475 billion (+5.3%), the divergence in ETH and USD terms a consequence of $ETH ending the week up 5.8%. Meanwhile, metaverse tokens $SAND (+13.7%) and $CUBE (+13.9%) also enjoyed a rally.
Project land caps were for the most part stable, with the notable exceptions of The Sandbox (which enjoyed its second consecutive weekly boost, +4.86%) and Decentraland (which suffered its fourth consecutive weekly drop, -5.7%).
Land caps of The Sandbox and Decentraland are once again on par, with another flippening on the cards within days if the trend continues. The average price of a plot of land is also converging, supported by several high-priced sales in The Sandbox in recent weeks.
Meanwhile, BYOPills and Treeverse enjoyed dramatic booms in trading activity, with volumes soaring 642% and 416% respectively, while 7-day sales counts for all other projects (with the exception of Decentraland) ending the week down.
🗞️ Market News
STEPN — 5.22: Web3 Move-to-Earn App STEPN became the first Web3 app to integrate Apple Pay for in-game purchases. The catch — ApplePay users pay 40% more — to accommodate Apple’s 30% tax!
NANJING, CHINA — 5.22: Nanjing city in China inaugurated the China Metaverse Technology & Application Innovation Platform to advance metaverse research and development across the country.
BEIJING, CHINA — 5.28: Beijing unveiled a white paper for Web3 innovation & development, coinciding with new digital asset regulations in Hong Kong set to commence June 1.
BITCOIN — 5.23: Bitcoin climbed to 2nd place in NFT trading volume, with $167+m in just 30 days, behind Ethereum ($395.5m), but well ahead of Solana ($55.8m), due to the impact of the Ordinals Protocol.
BTC payment app Strike will expand to 65 countries and move its HQ to El Salvador.
Last week at Bitcoin2023, US 2024 presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jnr and Tulsi Gabbard defended Bitcoin as a defence against the totalitarian tendencies of governments and world bodies like WHO and WEF.
WORLDCOIN — 5.25: Open AI CEO Sam Altman’s Worldcoin raised $115 million led by Blockchain Capital. The money will support R&D of multiple projects incl. an alternative to the CAPTCHA test to distinguish humans from machines.
🌄 Sales & Mints
THE SANDBOX — 5.24: LAND sale in the K-VERSE. Become neighbours with these 7 brands in new Hallyu town: MARBLEX, 채널A, Dalgomz, hypersportsclub, CJ ENM Movie, StudioDragon & Renault Korea.
5.24–6.7: Registration kicks off May 24, 3pm UTC / 6.8: Winners announced / 6.8–12: Get your LAND
VOXELS — 6–13.6: Architect Island sale! Classic English auction on OpenSea.
PARIS HILTON — 25.3: Paris Hilton Avatar community AL mint. 6.1: LAND/Avatar Owner AL mint.
The collection features 5,555 Avatars designed by Paris. Early members of Paris World Discord get to the front of the queue.
🎪 Events, Contests & Giveaways 🏅
THE SANDBOX:
VOXEDIT CONTEST — 5.23–6.6: Bring your unsettling tales and chilling nightmares to life in the CreepyPasta Voxedit Contest! 15k $SAND to win.
PWC HONG KONG — 5.23–6.6: Complete quests, learn about digital assets w/ PwC Hong Kong, and visit the Recruitment Zone.
3VEREST — 5.23–6.7: Ascend 3VEREST & explore its wonders, but beware its dangers.
STEVE AOKI CHALLENGE — 5.26–6.2: FInd Steve’s secret dojo at the 24/7 Playhouse. @steveaoki avatar holders share in bonus 20k $SAND pool.
SOMNIUM SPACE — 5.25: Last week’s VR Events Recap!
UPLAND — till 5.29: Spark Week. Level up your Upland status & earn big Spark rewards until Monday, May 29, 9am PT. From 5.23: Register for the Spark Sale. 5.25: Sparked Up Treasure Hunt Tier.
DECENTRALAND — 6.27–29: MetaversePride returns for its 3rd year, celebrating the diversity of the global LGBTQIA+ community.
🔈 Catch up on this week’s Twitter Spaces, Project Streams & Interviews
AYA STELLAR: AYA TALKS x Palehorse Consciousness Applied in NFT/Blockchain
DECENTRALAND: Community Building Decentraland with Sinful & Canessa
OTHERSIDE: Web3 Gaming Insights, Analytics & Otherside Strategies hosted by OtherSpaceFM
SOMNIUM SPACE: Immersed Minds / Building WebWorlds from Scratch / Weekly Mixed Reality Streams — Music, DJ, Dance, Meditation w/ @OLYsounds
THE SANDBOX: VoxEdit Monday — Let’s Make a Pizza #BitcoinPizzaDay / Game Maker 0.8.3 is Live
TOPIA: Create Voxel-style 3D Models for TOPIA w/ co-founder @Temptranquil / Open Floor Community Space
🛠️ Project Updates
ARCADE LAND — 5.22: Builder Asset Editor went live. Put up buildings and billboards using build button on your land. More info in https://arcade.inc/.
**BYOPILLS — 5.28: **BYOPills released its BYOVerse Litepaper — a comprehensive guide to all aspects of the BYOVerse incl. world components & mechanics, player experiences, core economic loop & governance, & more…
ILLUVIUM — 5.25: Launch of Illuvium: Zero Alpha Season 1, May 25, approx 8:30–9am UTC.
To participate, you need to own at least 1 plot of land, which you can purchase from current landowners in Illuvidex or wait till the next Land Sale — TBA.
TOPIA — 5.23:* *$TOPIA Governance went live. You can now submit TEPs (Topia Ecosystem Proposals) via our governance page. Proposal template guidelines & rules.
METAFLUENCE — 5.23: Social influencer metaverse project Metafluence made its public launch, incl. a referral rewards program. Download the application. Register.
THE SANDBOX — 5.25: New GameMaker 0.8.3 is live with bug fixes & new features. Download.
WEOM — 5.24: Metaverse for Humanity WEOM’s Alpha Testing is open for registration! There will be 3 releases in June to test! Be part of WEOM history.
Learn more about this unique metaverse.
UPCOMING:
UPLAND — 6.5: Uncollected earnings caps for owned properties will be activated. Earnings will stop accruing at certain thresholds based on Upland status and can no longer be collected on a per-property basis.
👬 Partnerships
ANIMOCA/MOCAVERSE x CYBERCONNECT — 5.22: Animoca’s Mocaverse NFT project is teaming up with Web3 social network CyberConnect aiming to leverage its social network protocol to enhance Mocaverse’s Membership Program.
ARCADE x GAMESWIFT — 5.23: Arcade made its debut on GameSwift, the first modular gaming blockchain based on zkEVM.
SOMNIUM SPACE x HYPERVISION — 5.23: Somnium Space led a funding round for Israeli VR optics development house Hypervision Ltd with Lynx Mixed Reality and Virgineers.
REALITY+ x BBC STUDIOS — 5.25: BBC and Reality+ will partner to bring a number of immersive experiences into The Sandbox, incl. Top Gear & the classic Doctor Who.
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