“Queen of the Metaverse” Cathy Hackl weighs in on NFTs, digital fashion, and their intersection in the Metaverse
Read her latest article here.
OpenSea smashes through ATH (all-time high) volume on their NFT marketplace
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Another record month for @opensea with $150M in volume and 210k NFTs sold! 🚀
duneanalytics.com/rchen8/opensea
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Digital real estate investment firm Republic Realm raises $10 million in latest funding round
This round was led by Galaxy Interactive - a subsidiary of Galaxy Digital (NYSE: $BRPHF).
Two weeks ago, Republic Realm spent nearly $1 million on a 259-parcel “estate” in Decentraland, one of the more popular blockchain-based metaverses. The estate was sold as an NFT (below), which represents their actual ownership of usable space in Decentraland.
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Bid accepted!
Estate Id: 4247
Estate Size: 259 parcels
Price: 1,295,000 MANA ($913,228.2 USD)
market.decentraland.org/estates/4247/d…
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That same day, plans for a Harajuku-themed shopping district subtly appeared on their website…
NFT swaps coming soon
Decentralized exchanges (dexes) like Uniswap, SushiSwap, and 1Inch allow users to swap between ERC-20 tokens (tokens on the Ethereum blockchain). Soon, swapping NFTs will be just as simple. Other features of the NFT swap platforms are TBD.
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A friend proposes an NFT trade: some of theirs for some of yours. Wdyd?
You could go to:
-@opensea
-Sudoswap via @0xmons
-@NftTrader
-@swapkiwi
Also @rariblecom is building an orderbook DEX & there's Cross-Asset-Swap by @vasa_develop in the works too!
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