Weekly NFT & GameFi Update (Week 40, 07/10/2022 - 14/10/2022)
OpenSea added Avalanche NFT support. Doodles announced a Miami mini-golf event. Axie Infinity: Raylights, a land mini game, is live.
Key Takeaways
OpenSea added Avalanche support to its online marketplace. According to OpenSea’s rankings, Avalanche’s top two NFT collections of all time are “Smol Joes” and “Smol Lands”.
Doodles, a popular and colourful NFT project, announced a Miami mini golf event this winter. The event, DoodlePutt, will take place in Wynwood, Miami, between the 2nd and 3rd of December.
Axie Infinity: Raylights, a land mini game, is live for all landowners. Players can sow minerals, grow plants, and cultivate their plot. The game can be played directly on a browser with no download required.
X2Y2 recorded a +43% increase in sales and a -37% decrease in transactions. Meanwhile, OpenSea‘s sales were positive at +28% and its transaction count also increased +11%.
The total market cap for GameFi tokens now stands at US$7.75 billion, down -12% from last week.
Crypto.com NFT in the Spotlight
“Action Bears Club” is an engaging way for anyone to get involved in offsetting their carbon footprint. Revenue from the NFTs directly funds two global green projects. There are only 300 mystery packs available, with each pack containing one of seven dancing polar bears.
“Deepest Fears” is a collection of ten NFTs representing ideas that torment us, materialising them, and creating captivating images designed to make something beautiful out of fear. The collection is created by Germán Benito, a seasoned graphic designer from Spain who has a fiery passion for producing remarkably unique pieces of art.
NFT Highlights
GameFi Highlights
Decentraland gears up for its second annual metaverse music festival
Popular move-to-earn game STEPN begins staff layoffs amid the bear market
Gabriel Leydon’s Limit Break purchases $6.5M Super Bowl ad spot for DigiDaigaku NFT collection
Catheon Gaming and Cointelegraph announce strategic blockchain gaming partnership
NFT Transaction Benchmark
Sources:
Magic Eden data refer to the on-chain activity of the tracked smart contracts.
LooksRare, OpenSea, and Coinbase data are retrieved from Dune Analytics.
Magic Eden, X2Y2, NBA Top Shot, and Solanart data are retrieved from DappRadar.
Notes:
1. Year-to-Date (YTD) volume is calculated from the first day of the current year to the current date.
2. Week-on-Week (WoW) % change is calculated based on the differences between two subsequent seven-day periods.
3. Transaction count and average price refer to the number of traders and average price over the past seven days, respectively.
4. LooksRare was launched on 10 January 2022.
5. X2Y2 was launched on 16 February 2022.
6. A significant percentage of the transaction volume on LooksRare/X2Y2 could be from wash trading.
The following chart shows select top NFTs and their historical floor prices:
Top Collections
The following information shows selected top artists (by sales volume on each platform) and a sample of their art.
Platform: Crypto.com NFT
Artist: Loaded Lions
Sales Volume (USD): $77,000
Platform: Minted
Artist: VVS Miner Mole
Sales Volume (USD): $119,000
Platform: Magic Eden
Artist: Lunar NFT
Sales Volume (USD): $3,578,000
Platform: OpenSea
Artist: Bored Ape Yacht Club
Sales Volume (USD): $3,645,000
GameFi Top Gainers & Losers
*Gaming Infrastructure tokens: ENJ, FLOW, WAXP, UOS, MBOX, DAWN, GALA, IMX
*Gaming Utility tokens: AXS, MANA, SAND, ALICE, ILV, ATLAS, POLIS, GODS, GMT, DAR, AURY, APE, PYR
*Gaming Guild tokens: YGG, MC, UNIX, GGG, AGV
Top Games Metrics
* Week-on-Week (WoW) % change is calculated based on the differences between two consecutive seven-day periods
* Users refer to the number of unique wallet addresses interacting with the dApp's smart contracts
* Weekly Volume refers to the total amount of incoming value to the dApp's smart contracts during the seven-day period
* Weekly Transactions refer to the no. of transactions made on the dApp’s smart contracts during the seven-day period
* Stickiness refers to the ratio of daily active users (DAU) to monthly active users (MAU). A high stickiness means users consistently return to the dApp.
* Weekly volume using Splinterlands data is approx US$288K.
* Alien Worlds, Splinterlands, MOBOX, Sunflower Land, Pegaxy, SecondLive, Axie Infinity, DeFi Kingdoms data
from DappRadar
* STEPN data from Dune Analytics
Daily Gamers by Blockchain
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