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Shrapnel opens marketplace | An Alien Punk sells for $16.42M | Runestone artist behind top NFTs revealed.
This Week's Low-Down:
⚔️ Shrapnel Unwraps Marketplace with Weapon Skins Available
👽 Second Largest CryptoPunk: Alien Punk #7804 Nets $16.42M
🎨 Runestone's Creative Force Revealed as Artist of Top NFTs
$DUKO to Amplify SOL Memecoin Scene on Bitget, Bybit, OKX (Bitcolumnist)
Bitcoin Meets Wu-Tang: Rapper Ghostface Killah Is Releasing Music via Ordinals (Decrypt)
‘Forever Has Fallen’ Opens Story-Driven Metaverse of Mystery (NFT Plazas)
Sequence Partners with Google Cloud to Simplify Web3 Gaming Development (Cointelegraph)
Lisbon to Host NFC 2024 Where Innovation Meets Digital Art (Bitcolumnist)
A Beginner’s Guide to AI Tokens (CoinDesk)
Funko Lights Up Droppp with Star Wars Digital Pop! Series (NFT Plazas)
Asia Broadband Introduces Golden Rascals NFT Collection (Bitcolumnist)
Virtual Accountant Bridges Crypto and Traditional Finance — Here’s how (Cointelegraph)
Memes Have a New Top Dog: Dogwifhat Ethereum NFT Sells for $4.3 Million (Decrypt)
Milady Memecoin Rides Solana Buzz, Hits $18.7M Presale Target (NFT Plazas)
Trending Collections on OpenSea:
Peplicator by Matt Furie [Floor Price - 0.02 ETH]
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Shrapnel Unwraps Marketplace with Weapon Skins Available
Shrapnel has launched its exclusive marketplace, showcasing 20 official weapon skins, highlighted by the debut of its Legendary Skins, 'NISHIKIGOI'.
✦ WEAPON SKINS ✦
On March 20th (tomorrow), 9.30AM PST, we are releasing 20 Shrapnel Official weapon skins on our marketplace, including our very first set of Legendary skins - “NISHIKIGOI”!
➜ Can be purchased with SHRAP only
➜ 10 marketplace exclusive, 10 which can be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…— SHRAPNEL 🔺 (@playSHRAPNEL)
8:36 PM • Mar 19, 2024
10 NISHIKIGOI skins are exclusively available on the marketplace for immediate purchase or can be earned later through gameplay, alongside others.
Players can showcase their new Skins during the STX2 playtest, anticipating future capabilities for looting these items.
Additionally, the game introduces a quieter, more maneuverable submachine gun with a suppressor attachment for various weapons.
Shrapnel also plans user-generated content and partnership Skins, promising airdrops from communities like NeoTokyo and Superverse.
Second Largest CryptoPunk: Alien Punk #7804 Nets $16.42M
CryptoPunks NFT #7804—a rare Alien Punk—sold for $16.42 million (4,850 ETH) yesterday, becoming the collection's second-largest sale ever in both ETH and USD.
Punk 7804 bought for 4,850 ETH ($16,421,614.53 USD) by 0x9bc2d5 from 0xf4b4a5. cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/de…#cryptopunks#ethereum
— CryptoPunks Bot (@cryptopunksbot)
8:04 PM • Mar 20, 2024
Punk #7804’s sale occurred during a week when Ethereum's price was down despite the crypto recently hitting its highest price in over two years.
This transaction comes after Alien Punk #3100 was sold for $16.03 million (4,500 ETH) on March 3.
The seller of Punk #7804, who bought it for $7.57 million (4,200 ETH) in 2021, shared their regret of not "elevating" the NFT's profile. Hence, the sale.👇
End of an era. I've long since felt like an imposter. Holding punks, and potentially NFTs a whole hostage by not elevating 7804 in the way he deserves.
After over a year of looking around I feel I've found the right buyer with the right vision to appropriately elevate this asset
— Peruggia (@peruggia_v)
8:09 PM • Mar 20, 2024
Runestone's Creative Force Revealed as Artist of Top NFTs
Last but not least, Runestones’ creator, Leonidas, reveals Francisco Alarcon, famed for Taproot Wizards, Quantum Cats, FLARES, Infinites, The Umwelt, and SOLIDS, as the collection’s notable artist.
I’m very excited to reveal that the artist behind the iconic Runestone parent inscription is none other than the legendary Ordinals OG Francisco Alarcon (@0xfar) who has created works such as Taproot Wizards, Quantum Cats, FLARES, Infinites, The Umwelt, and SOLIDS!
— Leonidas (@LeonidasNFT)
4:39 PM • Mar 20, 2024
After a major airdrop on March 14, distributing 112,383 tokens, Runestone rapidly became the largest project in the entire Bitcoin Ordinals ecosystem.
Adding to the collection’s significance, a Runestone was burned to Satoshi Nakamoto’s address.
Following the hype, the Ordinals project was showcased on a billboard in New York’s Time Square yesterday (no AI!).
Today's edition was written by Leah Alger