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Mar 3 25 tweets 20 min read
Weekly NFT Juice (21st Feb - 27th Feb)

NFT Bear Market Is Here?! 😭
3rd Consecutive Week of Decreasing Transaction Volume

Let's take a look 🧵
1a: Past 7 weeks' performance (
@opensea
only!)

Transaction Volume has made another new low (since start of 2022 NFT bull-run)

Compared to the previous week, Volume DECREASED by 4.30% Image
But! There are some signs of life

• Volume decrease is lower (-4.30 % vs -18% prev)
• Transaction increasing, albeit slowing down (13.19% vs 17% prev.)
• Users increasing (4.69% vs -0.33% prev)

If this continues, we could see a reversal in NFTs despite macro uncertainty Image
1b: This particular week (
@opensea
only!)

However, I find the reversal unlikely because the increment of the 3 metrics is not consistent throughout the week but from 2 outlier days (21st & 25th)

Momentum of the 3 metrics continued to dwindle towards the end. Image
Ideally, all 3 metrics would have to increase WoW for us to call a reversal.

But if I had to rank the metrics, it'll be:

1. Volume
2. Unique Traders
3. Transactions

As of now, the most important metric is still -ve WoW.

Follow me to be updated on next week's performance 😛
1c:
@LooksRareNFT

Everyday I'm checking the charts and performance is dipping. Can the devs do something?! 😭

Even Wash Traders are not trading there anymore

• LR's Volume (inclusive of Wash-Trades) is < half of OpenSea's Vol
• At the peak, LR was > 4x that of OpenSea Vol ImageImage
Memes aside, the team has been shipping out features.

These 2 weeks alone:
• List and lower prices of listing for free
• Warning when listing/accepting sales >/< 20% of the current floor
• View NFT's trait count & floor price of trait
You can check the full list of updates here: trello.com/b/bLju7hEQ/pub…

Given community's complaint of OpenSea's poor customer service & servers that go down during high traffic, why do most of the trading still take place on OpenSea?

Will have to do a deeper dive on this.
1d: Top performers and performance of popular NFTs

I promised to include this analysis in this week's release but unfortunately, I haven't completed my Dune dashboard ):

Wanted to pay someone to assist me on this initially but decided that working on it myself is more fun. Soz
IN THE VERSE!

2a: New Launch / Use-cases

•LR's update


•New @gemxyz contract live


@neon_gallery's IRL NFT vending machine official launch
decrypt.co/93568/vending-…
2b: Raises / Partnerships / New Divisions

@FTX_Official's news

•Gaming division


•Luxury Division w/ @laurenremington as Head
Cont for @animocabrands (they are on a roll LOL 🔥)

•Joint Venture w/ @cubeunited to launch AniCube Ent. for K-pop metaverse
animocabrands.com/animoca-brands…

(Actually called K-pop's entrance into metaverse when I was prepping for interviews last Aug)
•In @chillchatme's raise of $1.85m, led by @SolanaVentures

Another monstrous week for @animocabrands 🤯 legitly Metaverse Overlord soon (or already am)
2c: Honourable Mentions

@andrwwang announces web3 initiative for humanitarian aid, first collection for people of Ukraine


@InvsbleFriends minted 24/2 & 1st edition sold to @ZeroSalt420 for 496.69 ETH in a charity auction
@tubbycats minted 21/2, botter managed to yoink 950 cats during public sale for ~304 ETH


@0x_b1 revealed another mega mutant ape
@RTFKTstudios reveals @SandBoxGame available in upcoming Alpha 2


@AzukiZen to fractionalize 20,000 pcs of BOBU on 6th March
OVER THE BRIDGE

3a: Brands entrance & partnerships

@PUMA adds .ETH to name, hinting major moves?


@riotgames invests $3m in World Spark Studios, a blockchain gaming startup developing @Edenbrawl
@intel launches chip to facilitate easier minting of NFTs
nftplazas.com/intel-launch-c…
3b: Hires and Potential Entrance

@Spotify preparing for Web 3 w/ engineer hire
linkedin.com/jobs/view/seni…

•@Sothebyverse hiring Social Media Associate
linkedin.com/jobs/view/soci…
3c: Honourable Mentions

@AnkaraUni to have first course on NFTs, senior officials from Turkey attended
news.bitcoin.com/officials-atte…

@miguelfaus raises money for Indie Film Calladita via NFTs
decrypt.co/93858/indie-fe…
ENDING NOTES

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