Nifty News: 'Degen' season returns with feet NFTs, disappointing Game of Thrones NFTs and more

'Degen' play smells similar pixelated feet

Feetpix.wtf’s recently launched nonfungible token (NFT) collection, “Feetpix” has seemingly taken the NFT assemblage by tempest with surging trading volumes, prompting immoderate to suggest the instrumentality of “degen” season.

Feetpix.wtf’s postulation soared up of the likes of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) connected Jan. 11 with the fifth-highest trading measurement recorded connected NFT marketplace OpenSea.

Feetpix NFTs travel successful antithetic tegument tones, nail colors, shoes and backgrounds. Image: OpenSea.

The task — which released 10,000 Feetpix NFTs — has traded implicit 825 Ether (ETH)($1,157,000) crossed astir 18,000 transactions since its merchandise connected Jan. 8.

Crypto Twitter is inactive divided connected what inspired the surge successful ft fetish-NFT trading volumes, though Feetpix noted the lack of a roadmap, committedness and selling strategy suggested a “love for feet” is not conscionable morganatic but besides intelligibly monetizable done the usage of integer art.

0 Roadmap
0 Promises
0 Marketing
0 Paid influencers
1 Common emotion for feet pic.twitter.com/Z8R8BWTXFh

— feetpix (@feetpixwtf) January 10, 2023

Several Twitter users highlighted the absurd, short-term occurrence of the project, suggesting a instrumentality of “degen szn” (season) which entailed a wide trading measurement of high-risk NFT collectibles astatine the highest of the bull marketplace successful 2021.

But adjacent the creators themselves implied thing could beryllium mentally incorrect with collectors, suggesting buyers “stop buying feetpix” and alternatively “use that wealth for therapy.”

Game of Thrones NFTs: ‘Worst happening I’ve ever seen’

Game of Thrones’ highly anticipated "Build Your Realm" NFT postulation motorboat has received a hefty dose of disapproval contempt wholly selling retired successful 7 hours connected the NFT marketplace Nifty’s.

The postulation was described by the pseudonymous co-founder of Web3 gaming task Treeverse, Loopify, connected Jan. 11 arsenic the “worst happening I’ve ever seen.”

— Loopify ‍♂️ (@Loopifyyy) January 11, 2023

Loopify told their 200,000 Twitter followers successful a abstracted station that immoderate of the avatars possessed “salad fingers.”

NFT enthusiast Justin Taylor shared his disapproval with his astir 60,000 Twitter followers stating the motorboat lacked “creative vision” and was outright “terrible.”

— Justin Taylor (@TheSmarmyBum) January 11, 2023

The archetypal bid NFT postulation was calved from a collaboration betwixt Nifty’s and NFT accumulation institution Daz 3D, wherever each NFT is minted connected Palm — an Ethereum-compatible sidechain — allowing collectors to make their ain unsocial realms and avatars.

While the accelerated sellout came arsenic small astonishment owed to the popularity of the show, galore collectors reported issues with the minting process successful summation to the wide disappointment of the poorly designed avatars.

Yuga Labs announces skill-based NFT mint

Yuga Labs — the originative squad down the BAYC — is acceptable to grow its NFT ecosystem with the motorboat of a skill-based NFT crippled called “Dookey Dash.”

In bid to participate, BAYC and Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) holders volition request to mint a “Sewer Pass” connected Jan. 17 successful bid to commencement playing the crippled connected Jan. 18.

Apes, agelong your eyeballs and lukewarm up your scroll muscles — tons of caller info astir adjacent week. Short version: monkey butthole, Sewer Pass January 17, skill-based mint begins January 18, caller powerfulness sources. Video explainer coming soon, much astatine https://t.co/h8JXeLkC57, and the pic.twitter.com/bF1h2qAXrM

— Bored Ape Yacht Club (@BoredApeYC) January 12, 2023

The purpose of the crippled volition beryllium to navigate the sewer, assertion arsenic galore NFT rewards arsenic imaginable and grounds the highest people until Feb. 8 erstwhile the leaderboard freezes.

“Sewer Pass holders volition vie for the highest people and gain their caller powerfulness source," the BAYC wrote, adding “the highest single-run people connected your circumstantial Sewer Pass and accompanying wallet that achieved the tally volition find what it reveals."

However, it’s not wide what the prizes volition dwell of with Yuga stating connected BAYC’s Twitter relationship that prizes volition “evolve passim 2023.”

The four-week Dookey Dash experimentation besides appears to beryllium the archetypal portion of a communicative experience, with segments “It’s Alive!” and “Chapter 1” expected to proceed with the “Sewer Close” connected Feb. 8, according to a roadmap acceptable retired by Yuga.

Tennis Australia inactive playing shot with NFTs

Tennis Australia has confirmed it’s inactive investing successful the NFT space, by continuing its Australian Open (AO) Artball NFT postulation it created past twelvemonth arsenic a means to prosecute NFT collectors and tennis fanatics.

The Artball NFT serves to “leverage unrecorded lucifer information to deepen planetary instrumentality engagement beyond a tournament” done the integer realm, according to the Artball website.

— AOmetaverse (@AOmetaverse) January 10, 2023

With 6776 Australian Open Artballs sold successful past year’s collection, an further 2,454 Artballs volition deed the marketplace successful clip for the 2023 tournament, which officially kicks disconnected adjacent Monday, Jan. 16 successful Melbourne.

According to the website each Australian Open ArtBall is linked to unrecorded lucifer information corresponding to a 17cm by 17cm crippled connected the court.

If a winning changeable from immoderate lucifer lands connected a collector's crippled the NFT metadata volition beryllium updated successful existent clip and the collector volition beryllium rewarded.

One of the peculiar ArtBalls is Artball SuperSight which enables an full suite of exclusive 360-degree front-row viewing tools, a 3D stats explorer and personalized streams that has been “custom built” for members.

Collectors volition besides beryllium successful the moving to triumph 2 escaped tickets to the equivalent unrecorded lucifer successful AO24 if their Artball scores a “Match Point” successful AO23 successful summation to being granted entree to “exclusive behind-the-scenes streams.”

AO Artball holders tin triumph themselves tickets to AO2024 if definite conditions are met. Source: Australian Open Artball.io.

Artball minting is presently taxable to a waitlist, according to the AOmetaverse Twitter page.

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NFT level Upshot has created a trading tool that scores and classifies wallets based connected their trading success, which volition alteration crypto newcomers to get a person look into the strategies adopted by palmy collectors.

Blockchain information steadfast SlowMist revealed a sneaky instrumentality scammers utilized successful 2022 to bargain NFTs was a “zero dollar purchase” scam wherever victims were tricked into signing implicit NFTs for fundamentally nary outgo successful a fake income order, with scammers capable to acquisition the NFTs done a marketplace astatine a terms they determined.