The floor price for the Bored Ape Yacht Club's Otherdeed metaverse NFT collection dropped by 25% in three days. Yuga Labs sold land rights for its metaverse project as NFTs for around $7,000 each, excluding gas fees, which cost buyers thousands more. They are now worth roughly $1,600.
$1.3 billion worth of Aptos' native coin APT has been traded since Wednesday. APT's price plummeted by 40% within its first few hours of trading. Perpetual contracts have been seeing a lot of action. Aptos launched its mainnet last week. The project has been criticized for its tokenomics.
The NFT scene on Aptos is growing. Topaz, one of the marketplaces on the Aptos blockchain, says that it has already processed around $87,000 worth of trades. Several NFT projects are preparing to launch soon on Aptos. Aptos claims that it will scale to handle over 160,000 transactions per second, but it can currently only handle around 10 TPS. The upcoming NFT launches will put the Aptos network to the test.
Metaplex, the creator of Solana's NFT standard, is developing a new standard that can enforce royalty payments. Many NFT marketplaces have made paying royalties optional. Creators can currently set royalty rates in their smart contracts, but marketplaces can choose not to honor them. Metaplex aims to support multiple NFT asset standards within its framework. The company plans to reveal additional solutions for web3 creator monetization at the Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon next month.
TokenIcons is a free collection of ERC20 icons for EVMs. It is a community initiative to source and maintain ERC20 icons and info. There are over 150 icons and there is support for Ethereum, Polygon, and Arbitrum.
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This article is a response to Sam Bankman-Fried's Twitter thread on crypto regulations. It addresses each point in detail. Crypto should not be regulated in the same way as the fiat financial system. The former is based on open-source immutable code that acts precisely as it is written while the latter is based on layers of custody and intermediaries that must be trusted opaquely.
Economic freedom is the core of crypto. The Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act aims to regulate centralized crypto venues. It will establish guidelines about how centralized entities can interface with DeFi. Centralized entities will likely have more requirements and potentially customer suitability tests in the future.