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Highlights:

• Immutable X to launch all-access Immutable Passport to simplify onboarding of gamers to Web3

• OpenSea upgrades its NFT marketplace with a new Gaming category

• Somnium Space** **founder says ChatGPT speeds up plans for his ‘Live Forever’ mode

• The Philosopher says “Burn your NFTs for an eternal position in art history”…and to feature in the upcoming BURN Exhibition in Voxels!

• Updates for BYOPills, Illuvium, NFT Worlds, Treeverse and Worldwide Webb…&

• Get ready as The Sandbox gets set to unlock 12% of its $SAND tokens supply

💹 Market Data

Join us Tuesdays at 5am UTC for a Metaverse Data Dive into our weekly data and focus on a few interesting highlights.

OneLand 7-day data showed total land market cap for the 10 metaverse projects listed on oneland.world stable for the week — up 0.2% (in ETH terms) to 421,064 ETH, or $1.52 billion (-1.86%). It reflected the cryptocurrency market, which has overall held on to its YTD gains, ETH -0.88%.

Context:

• NFT Worlds’ 7-day trading volume (106 ETH) exceeded that of 2023’s first 3 weeks combined, yet unsurprisingly corrected (-66%) from its stellar 4th week (321 ETH). Market cap is up another 2.1% to 33,226 ETH.

• BYO Lands’ top sale of 2.0 ETH was its second highest sale in the past 4.5 months.

• Worldwide Webb recorded its highest sale of an Apartment (12 ETH) in 6 months.

Highlight: Voxels

Voxels witnessed a “special boom” to its weekend data as trading activity soared to 45 sales across Sat and Sun and its highest daily volume (10.64 ETH) in 6 months.

But this all happened due to a hack of around 40 parcels of land. The fact that these parcels were all “sold” for 0.3 ETH led to a 30% decline in average price.

Voxels rounded out the week with sales and trading volume up 113% and 49.5% respectively.

For explanations of our data calculations, check docs.oneland.world. For comprehensive metaverse market and project data, check oneland.world.

Join us Tuesdays at 5am UTC (that’s Paris 6am, Beijing 1pm, Sydney 4pm) for a Metaverse Data Dive. In the process, we’ll show you how easy it is to navigate oneland.world and hone in on the data you want.*

🗞️ Market News

NEW YORK — Jan 29: New York introduced a bill that would legalise cryptocurrency payments and, in the process, enable them for fines, taxes and more.

BITCOIN <> NFTs — Jan 31: Ordinals launched a protocol enabling anyone to mint an NFT on the Bitcoin Network. The launch led to outrage among Bitcoin purists who view it as an attack on Satoshi’s mission.

OPENSEA — Jan 31: OpenSea upgraded its NFT marketplace with new category pages including Art, Membership, PFP, Photography and — now — Gaming. OpenSea breaks it down in this 1-min video.

TWITTER — Feb 1: Elon Musk is building a new payments system with crypto functionality for Twitter and has begun applying for regulatory licenses, according to The Financial Times.

IMMUTABLE X — Feb 3: Immutable X is set to launch an all-access ‘Immutable Passport’ for easy onboarding of gamers to Web3, that also serves as a non-custodial wallet and gamer profile…and ran a 1,000 IMX giveaway to celebrate.

$SAND — Feb 14: The Sandbox will unlock another 12% of its $SAND tokens supply (approx.value — $273m) on February 14.

$SAND is up 90+% since Jan 1 — to what extent the upcoming unlock has affected this (APT and AXS recently enjoyed rallies prior to unlocks, though MANA is up over 100% for the year) is up for conjecture.

Besides, with about half the 12% allocated to investors, it remains to be seen if it will lead to a sell-off as in previous unlocks. This piece from Kaiko Research offers insight.

🌄 Sales & Mints

WEOM — Feb 2: Metaverse for Humanity WEOM is running a limited-edition Land pre-sale till Feb 7 for plots in its Earth, Fire, Air and Water districts on 0,0 Island. Check the below link to see what benefits await early settlers:

And don’t forget OneLand’s feature article on this special metaverse!

STELSI — Jan 26 — Mar 7: Metaverse for the construction and real estate industries STELSI launched its open LAND sale on hola! Island. The details are here.

🎪🏅🎁 Events, Contests & Giveaways

Events

UPLAND — Feb 1–3: Upland ran a Fair Winds Tour of new city Buenos Aires. Tourists got the chance to visit landmarks, museums and learn the history of the famous Argentinian city, and the tango! Tourists earned 0.01 SPARK.

VOXELS — Feb 3: Vintage sportswear retailer AllStarVintage and BlockChain Events held a ‘Brand New World’ event featuring music and wizardry both in Voxels and IRL.

Feb 2: Highley Varlet premiered a screening of ’30 Memes in 30 Days’ in Voxels to promote ’Weed Bags of New York’, which follows the duo’s 7k-mile journey through the streets of New York on the hunt for curious weed bags.

**Feb 3 *— Mar 1:***The Voxels Dilemma, an exhibition of student works from the Digital Arts faculty, University of Applied Arts Vienna runs till Mar 1 at DFC — Francisco Carolinum in Voxels.

DECENTRALAND — Upcoming: Metaverse Fashion Week 2023 is happening on Mar 28–31. If your community is planning an event or after-party for MVFW23, make sure to submit it here by the Feb 17 deadline so the Decentraland Foundation can help organize and promote!

Recap: Check out this fun mini-recap of the Australian Open 2023 Decentraland experience from Armenian.tez:

Contests & Giveaways

THE SANDBOX — Jan 30 — Feb 13: The Sandbox kicked off its Valentine’s Day VoxEdit Contest. Entrants need to create a GIF of their fully animated asset to share amongst 15k SAND in prizes; 1st prize — 6k SAND.

Feb 1 — Mar 1: Join the hunt for 130 Lucky Envelopes to unlock a Lunar New Year Mystery Box and discover what mysterious NFT awaits inside.

COMEARTH — Jan 30 — Feb 9: E-commerce metaverse Comearth is running a series of quests on Web3 community platform Crews to win a free LAND NFT worth $200, and more.

VOXELS — Feb 1 — Mar 1: Burn your NFT to feature in the BURN Meta-Exhibition happening Apr 1! Submit here.

Burn is preservation. It is to save Art from all commerce & trade, and give it an eternal position in Art History.

Or so says The Philosopher😇

Catch up on this week’s TWITTER SPACES, PROJECT STREAMS & INTERVIEWS:

DECENTRALAND: Wearable Wednesdays with MVFW23 supermodel @tangpoko

OTHERSIDE: Otherside 2023 Speculation hosted by OtherGuild

OTHERSIDE: The Metaverse & Otherside with OtherSpaceFM

SOMNIUM SPACE: Building WebWORLDS from scratch

THE SANDBOX: Securing the Sandbox Metaverse

UPLAND: How to bring life into the Upland Metaverse with UplandGuide

WEOM x AYA STELLAR: Bringing Mindful Wellness to Web3

🛠️ Project Updates

THE SANDBOX — Jan 30: Ethan Liu of nspace discussed the transformation of paper comics into NFTs and his latest creations, notably the World Meta Comic Corridor, the first comic gallery in the Metaverse.

SOMNIUM SPACE — Jan 31: Somnium Space announced its @teslasuit Glove will be compatible with the VR world at launch in 2023.

Feb 2: Founder Artur Sychov says ChatGPT has accelerated plans for his ‘Live Forever’ mode, which enables people to talk to their loved ones after they die.

The revelation came after @ArtificCZ asked ChatGPT how to integrate ChatGPT into the VR world, and it responded with a plan of action… Intriguing? Spooky? Learn more:

Feb 5: Somnium Space dropped a Jan 2023 Recap Thread, incl. its SomniumVR1 headset reveal and ChatGPT-powered AI assistant in VR, plus in-world mirror implementations and even smell integration…

To keep up to date with the latest global tech, you really can’t go past Somnium Space. Considering a plot? Stay tuned to updates, follow the data, study the map.

BYOPILLS — Jan 31: The BYOHub has been updated with VYBE, a score that reflects a player’s BYO achievements & badges, and plays a key role in one’s future experience of BYOPills.

ILLUVIUM — Jan 31: Illuvium Zero Alpha v0.1.2 is now available for download. Public patch notes can be found here.

NFT WORLDS — Feb 1: NFTWorlds Lootbox holders can now open their boxes, while those without can pick up a 1st Edition Holiday Lootbox here.

OTHERSIDE — Feb 1: Otherside insider Harry Liu dropped some early concept art & illustration for the burgeoning metaverse. Zoom in!

TREEVERSE — Feb 1: Treeverse’s January Monthly Update is live, incl. dev insights/upcoming changes coming from feedback of its recent Pre-Alpha testing and Game Jam. Also — various Pre-Alpha clips, and more sneak peaks of the stunning artwork of the Treeverse world.

WORLDWIDE WEBB — Feb 1: Players who signed up for PvP testing can now enter the PVP Build at https://pvp.webb.blue/ and draft teams for the holders-only tournament. How to connect:

Feb 4: Rugbusterz update! Now — easier for new players, more difficult challenges in later stages, awa weapon and loot changes.

Worldwide Webb integrated RealSupDucks NFTs.

To integrate your NFT collection into the #Webb, even join the PvP season, reply this tweet.

👬 Partnerships

WEOM <> COPERNIC SPACE — Feb 1: Metaverse for Humanity WEOM and Copernic Space announced a team-up to build a SpacePort on WEOM’s 0,0 Island that will feature cosmic experiences, a @spaceibles art gallery and access to real assets in space..!

WEOM <> We All Survived Death: WEOM and We All Survived Death (WASD) will announce a strategic partnership on the Gaming Apes Show on Feb 7 incl. a live stream of a never-before-seen Island build — the 1st use case of interoperability assets on 0,0 Island.

THE SANDBOX <> SKYBOUND ENTERTAINMENT — Feb 1: Skybound Entertainment is bringing the groundbreaking comic ‘Invincible’ (2003–2018) into The Sandbox.

Do you know?! Back in 2014, ‘Invincible’ featured in the original, 2D pixel mobile version of The Sandbox! Check it:

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