Galactic Buzz #8!

As the NFT ecosystem escalates globally, marking the territory across the Globe, various impressive trajectories have been reflected by the projects in the space! 🌏

Here’s a gist of what’s beeing cooking in the NFT ecosystem for the past 7-days,

✔️ David Maisel, the founder of Marvel Studios, recently announced the introduction of a one-of-a-kind NFT collection,

✔️ The US Court has ruled that Apple's 30% NFT tax is illegal,

✔️ Prada Celebrates Timecapsule NFT's One-Year Anniversary with an Exclusive Invitation to Prada Mode Tokyo,

✔️ Mike Seavers, a gaming legend, has joined Yuga Labs as CTO,

✔️ Through Web3, the Sovereign Nature Initiative is reimagining nature,

✔️ The 'Perpetual Lending Protocol' by Blur has elicited mixed reactions,

And that’s not anywhere near the end of the list of things happening in the NFT ecosystem for this period! 💫

This week in Kometverse’ Galactic Buzz, we bring to your palms the latest nuts and bolts of the NFT ecosystem!

Top NFT Sales Analytics 📊

• The Global NFT marketplaces’ sales volume  for the 7-day period is over $178.15M with total transactions being 1.21M+.
• Top 5 NFT Sales with their values for the previous 7 days:

Weekly NFT Market Update 🗓️

• Blur introduces Blend, a peer-to-peer perpetual NFT lending protocol with market-determined interest rates, no oracle dependencies, and a "buy now, pay later" option that will be available first with Cryptopunks, Azuki, and Milady Makers.
• RTFKT's Season 1 clothing has begun delivering, and additional batches will follow in the coming weeks.
• Blur predicted a May 1st announcement that will "shake things up" after cutting its Season 2 bidding and listing prizes in half today.
• Memeland launches raiding, allowing Captainz holders to capture maps from other Captainz - and adjusting the win/loss odds in response to poor early feedback.
• The Yuga Labs Ordinals painting has been updated in resolution, and collectors will receive a complimentary 1.2m x 1.2m framed print, according to Michael Figge, the Yuga Labs Chief Creative Office and the artist behind the Twelvefold collection.
• Following the failure of the Diamond Exhibition art raffle mechanic, Moonbirds will launch a new contract that allows holders to reshuffle their art to receive new art pieces, additional rare art, and Moonbirds + Oddities.
• Google Cloud collaborates with Polygon Labs to improve Web3 development, speed transactions, and give developers with better Polygon ecosystem management capabilities.
• The number of Bitcoin Ordinal inscriptions has surpassed two million.
• On Friday, April 28th, Doodles' "The Stoodio," the new home for Doodles experiences, will be live, allowing users to create their own Doodle.
• Binance.US has teamed up with Unstoppable Domains to provide exclusive, decentralized domains. Binance.US domain names are available on Polygon for as little as $10.
• Tensor, a marketplace with a similar user interface and reward principles to Blur, has surpassed Magic Eden as the most dominant Solana secondary market in the last 24 hours.
• Moonbirds launched its Proof + Moonbirds community council, which will consist of ten community-nominated members who will meet bi-weekly with PROOF leadership to discuss views and ideas, as well as to maintain open communication between the team and the community.
• 10KTF has teamed up with Puma to provide allowlisted customers a Grailed Puma Slipstream mint pass for 200 $APE ($800), which can be redeemed for a digital shoe with a 10KTF PFP and its corresponding physical pair.
• NFTfi, an NFT lending platform, has launched a loyalty program in which qualifying borrowers and lenders can earn exclusive, non-transferable points. To obtain "OG points," users must lend or borrow on the platform prior to the May 15th snapshot.
• Amazon has apparently postponed the launch of their NFT marketplace, which was originally expected for late April, until May 15th.

Non-Fungible Brands’ Rankings 🏆

• Top 10 Blockchains by NFT sales volume for the last 7 days:

• NFT Collection ranking by sales for 7-day period:

• Top 10 NFT Marketplaces with their performance in last 7-days:

Stay tuned for weekly NFT updates with Kometverse! 😍

We will soon roll-out the eligibile list for the Komet Believers' drop.

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