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Lucky Trader covers the latest NFT news for Wednesday, August 31.
This article originally appeared on Lucky Trader: Daily NFT News & Drops for August 26 | LuckyTrader
Lucky Trader covers the latest NFT news for Wednesday, August 31. Top stories include Future Proof’s flurry of announcements, the y00ts team Twitter suspension, Jim Cramer saving the crypto markets, and a few new art NFT projects to watch.
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The week in NFT world got off to a blazing fast start, with Monday’s DigiDaigaku announcement of a $200M fundraise sending the Digi floor all the way to 16 ETH (it’s since retraced) and then Tuesday’s marquee event for the Proof Collective ecosystem in Future Proof capturing the market’s attention.
Trading volume remains up, at least compared to the weekend, with the last two days tallying 11.2K ETH each. This was the second-highest two-day stretch in all of August, and several new drops and existing floors have benefitted.
Now there is a bit of a mid-week lull ahead of the big end-of-week action with y00ts and the DigiDaigaku airdrop both coming on Friday. But there are still a few drops to watch today.
Let’s get into it.
Here are the two primary drops on the radar for today, both art-related:
Art Blocks is back today, this time with an audio-visual Factory drop from the co-founder of Alchemix @thetechn0cratic.
“3 Minute Meditations” is the first generative drop aiming to provide a “short, meditative experience” with its unique combination of fundamental frequencies and harmonics on top of them. From the project description, these beats combine “to form an entrancing soundscape that moves through temporary dissonance into climactic harmony. The associated visuals are representative of the sound, and follow a journey that mirrors the sonic meditation.”
With a supply of 333, this set is on the larger side for recent Factory drops. Monday’s Factory drop “CryptoCountries” did not perform well, minting just 22 of 267 at a 0.15 ETH mint price. And outside of Squiggles and a few of the best collections, most Art Blocks projects are still falling on secondary with a general lack of liquidity.
So it’s a tough market to launch in. This is a cool and unique project, but ~$150 is still a lot for a three-minute meditation audio-visual NFT. If this one does mint out, it will likely struggle on secondary beyond maybe the first hour of trading, as the general influx of new art on a weekly basis has just not been met with requisite demand. But if you like the art, by all means, mint away.
Meditations will launch at 1:00 p.m. ET in an exponential dutch auction, starting at 2 ETH and dropping to 0.1 ETH final resting price.
Wednesday at 12pm CT, @thetechn0cratic will release 3 Minute Meditations
Grab some headphones and check out the Live View. The preview image doesn’t do this project justice
Project page: https://t.co/fKQ1etYNgI pic.twitter.com/y5FpqV4l8L
Today the Doodle Labs team is partnering with traditional artist Neil Grayson for the NFT debut of Industrial Melanism. Grayson launched a series of oil paintings under the same title in 2018, which were featured in New York museums such as the Eykyn Maclean.
The set takes its name and inspiration from Charles Darwin and evolution, specifically focused on an event from the Industrial Revolution where the burning of coal turned a series of moths that were previously light-colored to 98% dark within one generation (their dark fathers helped them match the coal-dyed air pollution saving them from predators). He uses this light/dark combo in the oil paintings, which based on the specific precious metals used in his oils, has a way of making “the dark paintings look light and the light paintings look dark”.
From a market perspective, this is an interesting drop. On one hand, clearly, Grayson is an accomplished artist and this set has a history in museums. On the other, Doodle Labs has had very little success thus far in its existence, with several launches failing to even mint out.
Given all the PREMINT raffles and allowlist built for this, and the 170K followers on Twitter, this one should have no problem minting out. And at a 0.2 ETH mint price, it likely will have some upside potential, even with the 999 supply. The variety in outputs will be key for this one, along with any degree of rarity. If there is a nice rare lotto, then this one could very well follow the same arc as some of the recent gmDAO drops; but if too similar, this one probably falls back to mint price.
Industrial Melanism is launching today at 3:00 p.m. ET.
We’re excited to introduce @neilgraysonnyc as the next Doodle Labs artist, bringing his collection Industrial Melanism to the blockchain via generative art.
This series of 999 NFTs will be launching August 31. For details, check out @IndustrialNFT or the Doodle Labs Discord. pic.twitter.com/GvHv0uG5Au
The top story from Tuesday was Kevin Rose and the Proof Collective’s Future Proof event, which was full of announcements. The hour-long conference, which was streamed on YouTube, contained a series of announcements related to each of the pillars of the Proof ecosystem. The biggest announcement of them all was that of a $50M Series A investment round led by a16z, which Kevin described as driven both by the funds as well as access to the a16z team’s experience in launching companies and products.
Today we announced PROOF has raised a $50 million Series A led by @a16z crypto with participation from @sevensevensix @trueventures @Collab_Currency @FLAMINGODAO @svangel and @garyvee. More info here https://t.co/h3Bq0BjL6B
Other key announcements included:
Overall, sentiment around the event seemed bullish, especially for the long-term potential of the brand. But given how short-term focused the NFT space is right now, price action did dump a bit after the event, with Moonbirds falling from 17 ETH to as low as 13 ETH before recovering to 15 ETH this morning, and Oddities falling below 1.5 ETH.
Piggybacking off its massive momentum from Monday, the DigiDaigaku team released a bit more information for its upcoming airdrop this Friday. While not much is known yet about what this NFT will be (a new character, a dragon, a tool/weapon?), we now know it will be stackable, burnable, and combinable. So it does seem like this drop will help move the set forward into revealing what this game they’re building may entail. The Digi floor fell 10% on the day to 13 ETH, in the wake of its massive run on Monday.
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y00ts was back in headlines Tuesday, as Frank DeGods and all of the main Twitter accounts were suspended Tuesday morning. This sent $DUST off a cliff, as it fell from an overnight peak of $3.80 all the way below $3 before recovering a bit to $3.19 at the time of writing. The team was able to recover their accounts within a few hours, and as of now, the highly anticipated y00ts mint is still on for Friday.
All of our team’s twitter accounts were just suspended. Not sure if mine will be to. Just be patient we are contacting @Twitter right now. This could be an attack. Do not click any links.
Here is a quick round-up of the rest of the main headlines from Tuesday:
While NFT trading volume has been up for the past two days, the floors at the top of the leaderboard are not really reflecting it.
The Proof ecosystem dominated trading Tuesday, with Moonbirds, Oddities, and PROOF Pass combining for ~1,750 ETH volume. The Moonbirds fell hard post-event but rallied overnight back to 15.4 ETH. The Oddities ran to 2.5 ETH during the event but fell back to 1.5, likely due to Mythicals not being released until 2023 and traders opting for later entry. The PROOF Pass floor is at 60 ETH, by far the highest entry for any group access pass in the NFT market, which has to be considered a win coming out of the event.
Yuga was next in line, with BAYC/MAYC combining for 500 ETH as their floor held steady at 77 ETH / 14 ETH.
Recent rocket DigiDaigaku fell back 14% to 13.4 ETH, as trading volume dropped 90 percent from the surge on Monday.
A few notable winners on the day featured three new projects, Phoenixes debuted and reached 0.15 ETH, CryptoSimeji’s jumped 30% to 0.26 ETH and GODA Pass project Art Party ran 27 percent to 0.72 ETH.
One notable loser on the day was Renga, down ~20% to 0.62 ETH from recent highs near 0.8 ETH, as details of their pending reveal have still not been released and the market is losing patience.
The crypto markets were turning bearish Tuesday until late afternoon when infamous commentator Jim Cramer advised everyone to avoid all risk assets, specifically naming crypto. With the trending meme to trade the opposite of Cramer’s calls, the markets started celebrating, the max long posts started surfacing, and ETH quickly rallied about 5 percent from the local bottom. At the time of writing, ETH is at $1,590 and BTC is at $20,300. That puts the BTC:ETH ratio at 12.76:1, nearing its local lows and showcasing the market’s interest in Vitalik’s ecosystem.
Equities dipped Tuesday even as crypto rallied a bit, as the macro picture seems as bleak as ever. Interest rates are back up, there is no sign of inflation dropping any time soon (seriously have you been to a grocery store lately?), and now the market awaits the job numbers coming Friday as the latest metric which will likely impact the market movement.
The Merge trade is going to come back into the spotlight very soon, as it is now just ~2 weeks away. It will be interesting to watch the impact on NFTs, which have been having a recent rebound with ETH stabilizing in the $1,400-$1,700 range. ETH moving violently up or down will likely pause this recent recovery, though general sentiment seems to be that cheaper ETH will actually be better for NFT prices (in ETH) in the near term.
That aside, this market is clearly in hyper-short-term trading mode. This post below from T-Rey may be the best summary of that short-term trading mode around the Future Proof event. Kevin Rose and the team had about as good of a conference as possible, with multiple major announcements and laying out a great vision, and almost all of the NFT floors in the NFT ecosystem proceeded to dump after. It raises the question of what kind of announcement at all could move these markets right now, and most founders are simply opting not to try (see Doodles).
Company announces new creative product launch. New tech platform to benefit everyone. Free money coming soon and a $50 million capital raise. All communicated effectively. NFT investors “not good enough, expected more”. This is why people hate us
That emphasis on short-term trading means the new projects will remain a key focus, and we have seen a lot of nice success there this week. Multiple new projects have run into the 0.1-0.2 ETH range, and early minters have been nicely rewarded. Expect a continued focus on these stealth drops and free mints over the rest of this week, especially as we have a lull ahead of the two huge drops on Friday in y00ts and the Digi airdrop.
As always, good luck to those minting today, be careful out there and make sure to stay up to date with the latest news with the Lucky Trader newsfeed.
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