This week, meme.market caught my attention.

Created by the minds behind mint.fun, this new platform pairs memecoins directly with picture memes via ERC-1155 NFTs.

The idea here, of course, is to bridge the gap between meme-themed tokens and actual memes.

Deployed on the Base L2, the platform acts as a marketplace and creator hub where people can buy and sell memecoins + memes along bonding curves and create and earn from new memes in existing markets.

My opinion? Keep an eye out here, as meme.market not only adds depth to the memecoin concept but also pioneers a new model for digital creativity in the cryptoeconomy. It’s worth keeping on your radar accordingly.

For now, though, onto the past week’s NFT news highlights! 👇

-WMP

This week in NFTs…

📰 General news

• Delivery at Dawn, a short film NFT mint for core Ethereum contributors, is coming March 11th.

• $ENJOY, a memecoin for Zora users, is launching on the Zora L2.

• Justin Drake released an NFT Orb for AMAs.

• Magic Eden unveiled its Ethereum marketplace.

• Mint, a new NFT L2, rolled out its testnet.

• VanEck launched a new NFT marketplace, SegMint.

• Zora delivered over $1M worth of creator rewards this month.

🎨 Cryptoart & music

• BasePaint released BasePaint Masterpieces.

• diid published On Compressionism, a new look into a rising onchain art movement.

• fxhash unveiled buso by Patakk, the platform’s inaugural Base drop.

• Jonathan Mann launched Song a Day subscriptions via Hypersub.

• XCOPY 10, an old PixelChain mint, resold for 10 ETH.

🏆 Digital collectibles

• CryptoPunk 3100, an alien punk, received a 4,250 ETH bid, which was then shifted over to fellow alien ‘Punk 7804.

• Goblintown creators Truth Labs is offering equity to its holders.

• Inscription #2, the 2nd Bitcoin Ordinal ever minted, resold for 24.48 BTC.

• Yuga Labs sunsetted support for marketplaces that don’t support royalties.

📱 Onchain social

• Lens launched permissionless signups and reached +200k profiles.

• Paradigm unveiled Frog, a new framework for building Farcaster Frames.

🎮 Decentralized gaming

• Arbitrum announced the Arbitrum Arcade campaign.

• Axie Infinity kicked off Origins S7 Final Era.

• BattlePlan plans to migrate from Arbitrum Nova.

• Crypto The Game allowlisted all S1 players for S2.

• Gods Unchained unveiled mobile support.

• Guild of Guardians released its $GOG token migration portal.

• Immutable reached +200k Immutable Passport users.

• Influence launched its pre-release gameplay.

• Parallel unveiled its open beta.

🪙 NFTfi

• Blast rolled out its mainnet.

• Fungify announced info for its ve404 NFT mint.

• NFTfi.com facilitated a real estate-based 70,000 USDC loan.

• Uniswap intro’d a browser wallet extension, limit orders, and charts.

• X2Y2 rolled out support for Pandora ERC-404 lending.

• Zora added support for Blast and Uniswap.

🌐 Virtual worlds

• Decentraland is preparing for Decentraland Art Week ‘24.

• Otherside conducted its Apes Come Home demo event.

Thanks for reading this week’s roundup! For more catching up, see my other latest write-ups:

• 🎴 Playing the Parallel Open Beta

• 💫 The Infinite Story Machine

• 🙊 What Yuga Should Have Built

• 📱 Lens vs. Farcaster