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Moonbirds NFT Owl Collection Goes Supersonic

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Every so often a new project will arrive that shakes the Web3 sphere to its very core. This time around, it’s the turn of Moonbirds, 10,000 utility laden owls of the non-fungible variety. Moonbirds fluttered onto the scene at precisely 12pm ET on April 16, at a brain melting 2.5 ETH a pop. A price that in hindsight represented an absolute bargain. As a result, the collection sold out almost immediately and the floor went stratospheric. When the dust had settled just 48 hours later, trading volume was pushing the…

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Bored & Hungry Arrives as First Ever BAYC-Themed Restaurant

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A taste of the extraordinary has just landed on Long Beach California in the shape of the first ever BAYC-themed restaurant. For the next 90 days, Ape fans can indulge in a range of fast-food delights from the newly launched enterprise. ‘Bored and Hungry’ arrived on the scene last Saturday, the brainchild of Web3 entrepreneur, Andy Nguyen. Utilizing the intellectual property acquired by purchasing an ape last March for 90 ETH, patrons can expect to indulge in cartoonified surroundings and consume food served with NFT emblazoned packaging. In addition, the…

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Pudgy Penguins Completes Epic Comeback with $2.5 Million Takeover

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The erratic world of Pudgy Penguins has taken yet another turn for the extraordinary. Non-fungible entrepreneur, Luca Netz, has led a consortium of investors in a 750 ETH takeover of the beleaguered NFT collection. That’s a mighty $2.5 million in old money. Once the darlings of the PFP scene, it hasn’t been plain sailing for the cuddly ice faring creatures. As a result, a rapid fall from grace culminated in a Discord mutiny, ousting the original founders from the project. The following wave of uncertainty has sent token prices crashing…

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NFT Mania – The Rise and Decline of the Mekaverse

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Back in October, a PFP collection arrived on the scene like none that had come before it, sending the NFT community into a fit of anticipation fuelled ecstasy, as the Mekaverse juggernaut began to gain traction. It all started with a tsunami of hype, built on the back of a massive 200k Twitter following. Social media was awash with excitement, and for a short while it was all anyone would speak of. The collection launched on October 8, to a great deal of excitement and sparking an OpenSea frenzy that…

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Larva Labs Trail of Breadcrumbs Sparks Meebits Treasure Hunt

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Over a period of ten months a single Meebits NFT sat idly by, waiting for the finest codebreakers on the blockchain to discover its secrets. That is, until crypto investigators followed a trail of binary breadcrumbs to release it from its digital prison. The epic saga began with the ‘grails drop,’ 20 unique creations by 20 anonymous artists. During the big reveal, collectors learned that item #11 was in fact a prototype of Larva Labs’ seminal AutoGlyphs collection. Then, during an open Discord discussion, user ‘Iceman’ drew attention to a…

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