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Dear Bankless Nation, 

This week was full of big NFT developments. The one I’m watching closest right now? OpenSea’s deployment of a new “Seaport” marketplace system on Ethereum:

<div class="tweet" data-attrs="{"url":"https://twitter.com/shegenerates/status/1527685988839038979","full_text":"Looks like the address tagged as 'OpenSea Deployer' on etherescan just made an entirely new marketplace contract. nMaybe the new version of wyvern we've been waiting for?nnetherscan.io/address/0x0000…","username":"shegenerates","name":"Shegen","date":"Fri May 20 16:21:37 +0000 2022","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"retweet_count":3,"like_count":61,"expanded_url":{},"video_url":null}”>

Shegen @shegenerates

Looks like the address tagged as ‘OpenSea Deployer’ on etherescan just made an entirely new marketplace contract.
Maybe the new version of wyvern we’ve been waiting for?

etherscan.io/address/0x0000…

Details are scarce currently, though a two-week Code4rena audit contest that starts today notes the marketplace will be focused on “safely and efficiently creating and fulfilling orders for ERC721 and ERC1155 items.”

I’m not a developer, but a quick review of the Seaport smart contract suggests to me it’ll allow for the creation of zones, or seaports if you will, for fostering customized NFT markets. 

We’ll know more soon, but with OpenSea at the helm it’s likely Seaport will prove to be very consequential to the NFT ecosystem going forward. In the meantime, get caught up on the rest of this week’s action below, thanks kindly for reading, and have a great weekend! 

-WMP

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🛒 NFT News & Platforms

• Coinbase unveiled a new dapp wallet and dapp browser system.

• The Bueno Generator, a no-code tool for creating PFP collections, is now available to everyone; an associated no-code smart contract deployer is on the way, too. 

<div class="tweet" data-attrs="{"url":"https://twitter.com/buenonft/status/1526984072228110337","full_text":"The time has come… nnThe Bueno Generator is now available for everyone 👀🖤 nnCreate your own NFT collection without writing a single line of code →nft.bueno.art ","username":"buenonft","name":"bueno","date":"Wed May 18 17:52:27 +0000 2022","photos":[{"img_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/upload/w_728,c_limit/l_twitter_play_button_rvaygk,w_120/adokp39zdi4jy6nrilke","link_url":"https://t.co/O4ezoCmAkW","alt_text":null}],"quoted_tweet":{},"retweet_count":64,"like_count":292,"expanded_url":{},"video_url":"https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1526949782694023170/pu/vid/1280×720/eP-oRSyzJqqCmeI3.mp4?tag=12"}”>

bueno @buenonft

The time has come…

The Bueno Generator is now available for everyone 👀🖤

Create your own NFT collection without writing a single line of code →nft.bueno.art

• Foundation is now open to all creators. 

• Lens Protocol, a decentralized social graph, launched on Polygon. 

• Linktree adds NFT features in collaboration with OpenSea.

• MEE6, a Discord moderation bot, was temporarily compromised by an employee account, which led to multiple major NFT projects having their Discord servers hacked. 

• Zora introduced Editions to its creator toolkit:

<div class="tweet" data-attrs="{"url":"https://twitter.com/ourZORA/status/1527371187046580224?s=20&t=pPCS62V3YjKyHO1FZKfznQ","full_text":"Introducing the first contract type available on ZORA’s creator toolkit.nn~ Editions ~nnBring your imagination.nWe’ll cover the rest.n↳create.zora.co ","username":"ourZORA","name":"ZORA","date":"Thu May 19 19:30:42 +0000 2022","photos":[{"img_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/upload/w_728,c_limit/l_twitter_play_button_rvaygk,w_120/nkdwlbrr9re6fenrhxga","link_url":"https://t.co/BePsNsDENY","alt_text":null}],"quoted_tweet":{},"retweet_count":54,"like_count":265,"expanded_url":{},"video_url":"https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1527370869244190720/pu/vid/320×320/guGpOeEVMwsow2yt.mp4?tag=12"}”>

ZORA @ourZORA

Introducing the first contract type available on ZORA’s creator toolkit.

~ Editions ~

Bring your imagination.
We’ll cover the rest.
↳create.zora.co

🏆 Digital Collectibles

• Chimpers (allowlist) minting begins today.

• ChainFaces HD minting also kicked off this week.

• Nouns DAO unveiled Prop House V2, which extends funding auctions to other NFT communities:

<div class="tweet" data-attrs="{"url":"https://twitter.com/cryptoseneca/status/1527311318272778240?t=YocZ6MUQ0Id3syHh7KN7Wg&s=09","full_text":"today we're launching @nounsprophouse v2: independent houses.nnin order to scale @nounsdao ecosystem funding, prop house is expanding beyond its immediate vicinity by plugging into the crypto native social graph: ERC721s.nnread more: nouni.sh/8t35zq839c ","username":"cryptoseneca","name":"seneca ⌐◨-◨","date":"Thu May 19 15:32:49 +0000 2022","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/FTIV0U4VEAETxU1.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/TT6CSmTYzf","alt_text":null}],"quoted_tweet":{},"retweet_count":34,"like_count":150,"expanded_url":{},"video_url":null}”>

seneca ⌐◨-◨ @cryptoseneca

today we’re launching @nounsprophouse v2: independent houses.

in order to scale @nounsdao ecosystem funding, prop house is expanding beyond its immediate vicinity by plugging into the crypto native social graph: ERC721s.

read more: nouni.sh/8t35zq839c

🎨 NFT art

• Cory Van Lew and other artists reveal difficulties they’ve faced in receiving payments from Sotheby’s for NFT auctions they participated in last year. 

• jmw327, a popular pixel artist, made x4 their annual salary by auctioning Corner on Foundation:

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jmw327 @jmw327

Check out this NFT by @jmw327 on @foundation! 🌐

foundation.app/@jmw327/pixels…Corner | Foundationa little corner of townfoundation.app

• Shunsuke Takawo began his Tiny Sketches NFT collection:

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NEORT @neort_io

Takawo’s TinySketches original NFTs are now on sale!
They are 240 editions in total and 60 NFTs available every week!
tinysketches.neort.io/nft
#tinysketches #NFT

🎮 NFT Gaming

• a16z announced a new $600M GameFi fund. 

• Axie Infinity announced AxieCon: Barcelona, which will run from September 7th through September 10th later this year:

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Axie Infinity🦇🔊 @AxieInfinity

1/ AxieCon: Barcelona 🇪🇸

A nation gathers

September 7 – 10

Waitlist registration: axiecon.axieinfinity.com

💽 Music

• Coopahtroopa.eth published This Week in Music NFTs – May 16th.

🌐 Virtual Worlds

• Voxels (formerly Cryptovoxels) started rolling out its $FOLKS airdrop.

• Decentraland is stabilizing its wearable publication fee at $500 USD rather than 500 $MANA. 

• Justin McAfee, a researcher with 1kx, published “Virtual Beings: a New Internative-Native Medium for Storytelling.”

• Wassieverse will arrive next month. 

• Webaverse kicked off a partnership with Tubby Cats.

💎 DeFi x NFTs

• Slingshot, a web3 trading platform, unveiled a mobile app with a referral program that offers NFT rewards. 

• Argent added L2 support for the $JPG index token.

Action steps

• 📺 Watch Building PREMINT with Brenden Mulligan on Overpriced JPEGs

• 📺 Watch Instagram Bringing NFTs to 2.9B People on Bankless

• 🧐 Read my latest tactic How to prepare for an Arbitrum airdrop

Author Bio

William M. Peaster is a professional writer and creator of Metaversal—a Bankless newsletter focused on the emergence of NFTs in the cryptoeconomy. He’s also recently been contributing content to Bankless, JPG, and beyond!

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