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This Week's Low-Down:

• 🐧 Pudgy Penguins’ Toys Hit 2,000 Walmart Aisles

• 👾 The Otherside's 'Legends of the Mara' Has Officially Launched

• 🧐 Bitcoin Ordinals Creator Proposes 'Better Alternative' to BRC-20

• BAPE and BAYC Collaborate for Next-Level Streetwear Attire (Bitcolumnist)

• Exploring Umoja, the NFTs that Transform Lives in Uganda (NFT Lately)

• UK Politicians Don Metaverse Avatars as they Share Web3 Roadmap (Cointelegraph)

• Top 6 Web3 Games Lighting up the Ronin Blockchain (NFT Plazas)

• Milan Fashion Week Showcased NFT-Linked Designer Shoe (nft now)

• Moonbeam Token ‘GLMR’ Surges by 50% Following Upbit Listing (Bitcolumnist)

• Paris Fashion Week AR Kiosks Turn Visitors Into Runway Models (Decrypt)

• Why All 10,000 OnChainMonkey NFTs Will Move From Ethereum to Bitcoin (CoinDesk)

• VeeFriends Joins Mattel for Skeletor and Skilled Skeleton Alliance (NFT Plazas)

• Couple Faces Trial After Accidentally Receiving $6.7M from Crypto.com (nft now)

• My Pet Hooligan Goes Full Throttle with September Public Launch (NFT Plazas)

• Play-to-Earn Games are the Reason ‘Real’ Gamers Hate Crypto: Atari Founder (Cointelegraph)

Trending Collections on OpenSea:

• BlockGames Dice [Floor Price - 0.08 ETH]

• Otherside Vessels [Floor Price - 0.18 ETH]

• Nakamigos-CLOAKS [Floor Price - 0.09 ETH]

Pudgy Penguins’ Toys Hit 2,000 Walmart Aisles

Pudgy Penguins has expanded into the physical world by launching its Pudgy Toys collection in a whopping 2,000 Walmart stores in the U.S.

• Each Pudgy Toy comes with a birth certificate that allows users to claim unique traits for their digital 'Forever Pudgy' character in Pudgy World.

• Pudgy World is an online virtual world built on the zkSync Era blockchain.

• Walmart, the largest retailer in the U.S., will now sell Pudgy Toys alongside other consumer brands.

• Pudgy Penguins has achieved $400 million in sales since its launch in 2021, using social media and experiential marketing to engage its audience.

• This move by Pudgy Penguins to sell physical products in recognized retail stores like Walmart demonstrates how NFT collections can connect with mainstream audiences.

The Otherside’s ‘Legends of the Mara’ Has Officially Launched!

The Otherside’s highly-anticipated Metaverse venture, ‘Legends of the Mara’ (LoTM), is finally live in beta, offering a distinctive gaming adventure that blends card collectibles with idle tapping gameplay.

Here’s what to expect:

• The open beta introduces Otherside and its inhabitants, Koda, Mara, and Kodamara.

• Players can hatch Mara, trade Sediment Fragments, and battle the ‘Shattered’ for rewards, including spaceship crafting items and NFTs.

• Oda characters are vital, enabling players to hatch and assign Mara to their Otherdeed based on its Environment Tier.

• Note: Access to the open beta is token-gated for NFT holders only — the floor price of Otherdeed Expanded assets on OpenSea is $405.07 (0.25 ETH).

Bitcoin Ordinals Creator Proposes ‘Better Alternative’ to BRC-20

Bitcoin Ordinals creator Casey Rodarmor proposes 'Runes' as an alternative to the BRC-20 token standard.

• BRC-20 tokens reached a $1 billion market cap within two months, but it’s criticized for causing UTXO proliferation on the Bitcoin network.

• Runes is suggested as a UTXO-based alternative, with the aim to minimize the creation of "junk" UTXOs and promote responsible UTXO management.

• Casey Rodarmor believes that a well-designed fungible token protocol for Bitcoin could bring transaction fee revenue, developer interest, and more users to the network.

• Trevor Owens, co-host of The Ordinals Show, has offered $100,000 from the Bitcoin Frontier Fund to developers who can implement a Rune application, potentially advancing Rodarmor's proposal. 👇

Today's edition was written by Leah Alger.

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