✨ This post originally appeared in Metaversal on Bankless ✨

Over time, all media will likely go “onchain” to some extent.

That’s why in these early days, advances in new directions here offer a taste of what’s to come. A prime example? This week Coinbase dropped its latest earnings report highlights as an NFT mint.

This crypto-native approach by Coinbase is an early showcase of NFTs, and, again, also signals a future where communications of all types will lean on blockchain tech for greater transparency and engagement.

That’s the future to come, and it’s closer than you think. In the meantime, though, let’s look back and catch you up on the rest of the past week’s biggest NFT happenings!

-WMP

This week in NFTs…

📰 General news

• DN-404, an optimized adaptation of ERC-404, launched.

• ENS helped set up a donation address, irc.eth, for humanitarian efforts in Gaza.

• Magic Eden is launching its ETH marketplace on Feb. 27th.

• Zora streamlined its secondary marketplace UX.

🎨 Cryptoart & music

• Fingerprints is hosting the release of Figure’s latest collection, LINE.

• remnynt released Proscenium on Art Blocks.

• The Yellow Collective hosted its 1st artist edition drop, Chief Noggles by Cory Van Lew.

🏆 Digital collectibles

• Pudgy Penguins maestro Luca Netz appeared on Bankless.

📱 Onchain social

• Orb launched its V2 on Lens.

• Pinata launched Photocaster, an image-centric Farcaster client.

• Syndicate intro’d Frame Chain, an OP Stack L3 for Farcaster frame developers.

🎮 Decentralized gaming

• Axie Infinity rolled out an update to its Axie Origins juggling policy.

• Influence is kicking off early access on Feb. 21st.

• Illuvium: Overworld is launching in Q2 2024.

• Pixelmon is migrating to Immutable.

• The Foundry published a primer on Parallel’s play-to-earn system.

🪙 NFTfi

• Arcade is kicking off its ARCD airdrop next week.

• MetaStreet launched ASCEND, a gamified contributor system.

• Nftperp added support for Concentrated Liquidity.

• Priming intro’d Sleeves, a DeFi vault system for caching Parallel cards.

• Uniswap is launching on Zora Network.

🌐 Virtual worlds

• Decentraland added prebuilt templates to its SDK7.

• OpenAI intro’d Sora, a text-to-video AI model, which can prove big for generative environments in the metaverse going forward.