[COMING SOON] ‘Crypto.com Expedition Gear’is an all-new Crypto.com NFT collection, featuring 5 unique backpack NFTs, 25,000 collectibles to be airdropped, as well as 25,000 collectibles to be sold.
[COMING SOON] ‘SANTUARIO’is a collection by award-winning artist Laprisamata. This drop features altars that are inspired by surrealist art and adorned with ornate decorations from over the world. The collection goes live on Crypto.com NFT on 12 May.
Blockchain Games
[COMING SOON] Croskull is launching bitCroSkull, an exclusive Ordinals collection. Croskull will share more about the Ordinals collection in their Twitter Space, titled ‘NFTs & Ordinals: What’s the future for the industry?’.
As of 5 May 2023 Sources: OpenSea, Minted, Crypto.com Research
Blockchain Game Metrics
The following table shows select top games by weekly Unique Active Wallets (UAW):
Game
Blockchain(s)
UAW
Volume
Logo
Iskra
Klaytn, Ethereum
957K (-44%)
$517K
Splinterlands
Hive, WAX
94K (+12%)
$4K
Axie Infinity
Ronin, Ethereum
33K (+12%)
$33.7M
SecondLive
BNB Chain
27K (-12%)
$0.8K
Planet IX
Polygon
27K (+26%)
$789K
As of 5 May 2023 Sources: DappRadar, Crypto.com Research
Gaming Token Performance
The total market cap for gaming tokens now stands at US$12.43 billion, down -5% from last week.
News Highlights
Auction house Sotheby’slaunched an on-chain secondary NFT marketplace on Ethereum and Polygon. The artists featured in the marketplace will rotate every few months. The platform will launch with works from 13 leading digital artists, including Tyler Hobbs, the creator of Fidenza.
NFT marketplace Blur has launched an NFT lending protocol, Blend, which enables peer-to-peer loans and a Buy Now, Pay Later feature. Blend allows collectors to buy blue-chip NFTs with a smaller upfront payment, by first paying a percentage of the full NFT price before financing the remaining amount.
Basketball star LeBron James was spotted wearing RTFKT x Nike sneakers that can only be obtained by minting an Ethereum NFT created by Nike subsidiary, RTFKT. RTFKT co-founder Steven ‘Zaptio’ Vasilev also presented James with an honorary Clone X avatar.
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