Pixels, Portal & Punks 🚀

This Week's Low-Down:

• 🕹️ Top Gaming Titans: Market Mastery of Portal, Pixels, Xai, Mavia

• 💹From $7.6M to $16M: The Meteoric Rise of CryptoPunk #3100

• ⭐ Ordinals Propel Bitcoin NFT Sales to Outshine Ethereum

• BitMart to List $DUKO – ‘Elon’s Most Adorable Pet’ (Bitcolumnist)

• Bitcoin Is Booming—You Can Earn More by Playing These Free Games (Decrypt)

• Bitcoin’s New Runestone Project Airdrops ‘Largest Inscription Ever’ (NFT Plazas)

• Ripple Casino: 12 Best XRP Gambling Sites For 2024 (Bitcolumnist)

• Fractional NFT Ownership Balloons – Doge Leads the Charge (NFT Plazas)

• This Week in Crypto Games: Portal Airdrop Begins, Ethereum Card Battler 'Parallel' Opens Up (Decrypt)

• MVMS 2024: Fast Racing and NFT Prizes Coming to Decentraland (NFT Plazas)

• Minecraft Banned NFTs—So ‘NFT Worlds’ Built Its Own Crypto Game Instead (Decrypt)

• Creator of NFT Worlds Comes Back With a New Game, Hytopia (Bitcolumnist)

• NFT Buyers Almost Double, Market Volume Spikes by 25% (NFT Plazas)

• Uniswap Launches Game-Changing Tools for Effortless Crypto Trading (Bitcolumnist)

• Gods Unchained Goes Mobile, Brings NFTs to Gamers’ Fingertips (NFT Plazas)

Trending Collections on OpenSea:

• Lil Pudgys [Floor Price - 1.33 ETH]

• Lasogette [Floor Price - 0.23 ETH]

• HAPE PRIME [Floor Price - 0.18 ETH]

Top Gaming Titans: Market Mastery of Portal, Pixels, Xai, Mavia

From Portal to Pixels, explore the innovative gaming platform tokens that are gaining recognition in the blockchain gaming scene of 2024.

• Portal reached a $561.6M peak market cap, fueled by airdrop farming and a $9B Binance campaign, with more airdrops and perks planned for its gaming platform.

• Pixels hit a $531M peak market cap, generating over $1B in trading for a Ronin-based game, significantly increasing daily players and Ronin's visibility.

• Xai saw a $440.6M peak market cap, rewarding Guardian Node owners and NFT holders, doubling its price at peak, and recently adding staking rewards.

• Heroes of Mavia achieved a $317.7M peak market cap, with millions of downloads and an airdrop to 100,000 players and NFT owners, leading to a significant price increase post-launch.

From $7.6M to $16M: The Meteoric Rise of CryptoPunk #3100

CryptoPunk #3100 recently sold for a whopping $16,010,724 (4,500 ETH), marking it as the second-highest sale in USD value and the third-highest in ETH for a CryptoPunk.

• CryptoPunk #3100, with a remarkable rank of 10 out of 10,000, is a highly valued and sought-after asset within the collection.

• As per CryptoSlam data, it was last sold three years ago for $7,676,396.50 (equivalent to 4,200 ETH) on the Larva Labs marketplace.

• What sets the CryptoPunks project apart is influencing the NFT space with the ERC-721 token standard.

• The NFT brand is notably recognized in prestigious venues like Christie’s and Art Basel Miami.

Ordinals Propel Bitcoin NFT Sales to Outshine Ethereum

Bitcoin NFTs outperformed Ethereum in weekly sales, setting a year-to-date record, driven by a surge in Bitcoin Ordinals collections like NodeMonkes.

• Bitcoin NFT sales jumped 73% to $173M, with Ordinals-based collections leading the charge, overshadowing Ethereum's $163M.

• The introduction of Ordinals in January 2023 revolutionized Bitcoin NFTs, with unaffiliated Ordinals generating over $43M in sales.

• NodeMonkes, a collection of 10,000 unique pixelated images, saw sales increase nearly 170% to over $41M, casting a light on its favorable status on the Bitcoin network.

• Remarkably, NodeMonkes has hit a market cap of over $500M, becoming the third-largest PFP-style NFT collection across all blockchains.

Today's edition was written by Leah Alger

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