Huge news out of Sports Illustrated and ConSensys this AM!

They're launching "Box Office" as a new self-service NFT ticketing solution on Polygon.

Here's what you need to know.

A quick 🧵 Highlights of the announcement:

-Box Office is a turnkey solution for owners, organizers and hosts to create, manage and promote live events
-They're launching "Super Ticket" as the ticket solution to connect hosts to attendees
-Pricing is "50 percent lower than competition"

NFT Morning Update

🤯Blur stuns w/ Blend announcement, launches Lending & Buy Now Pay Later program

🚀Launch collections include Punks, Azuki & Miladys; each jump 15%-30%

📈NFT market pumps on the news, most collections up 3%-10%

👀Speculation that DeGods, Beanz, BAKC up next 📰Top News:

Sotheby's launches curated secondary marketplace, with 2.5% fees, enforced royalties, and aggregated 1/1s

Jack Butcher debuted Opepen Pack 001 and 002 on Monday, both over-subscribed

Phantom Wallet released multi-chain support covering Ethereum, Polygon and Solana

NFT Morning Update

📉Most NFTs red as crypto dips; only 3 projects see 500+ ETH volume

📈Bitcoin Ordinals set new records for inscriptions, inscription fees & daily mp volume

🙈Blur announcement expected today

🚀$PEPE sees another massive leg up, reaches new ATH over $530M 🚀Top Volume:

-MAYC (1,190 ETH, 10.5 ETH Floor)
-BAYC (1,003 ETH, 47.3 ETH)
-Azuki (769 ETH; 14.75 ETH)
-Pudgy Penguins (312 ETH, 4.07 ETH)
-Doodles (246 ETH, 2.93 ETH)

NFT Morning Update

📉📈Trading volume at 9,360 ETH, new multi-month low; NFTs see lots of green

🗺Memeland launches Maps raiding (very -EV); Captainz fall 5%

📸DigiDaigaku BTC Ordinals coming soon, snapshot May 1 (Digis at 3.8)

🚀🐸 $PEPE melts faces, sees new ATH & $260M MC 🚀Top Volume:

-Doodles (1,256 ETH; 2.98 ETH floor)
-MAYC (1,112 ETH; 10.62 ETH)
-Azuki (980 ETH; 14.77 ETH)
-BAYC (784 ETH; 48.9 ETH)
-Pudgy Penguins (540 ETH; 4.24 ETH)

"The next billion users are not going to write 12 words on a piece of paper."

ERC-4337 is going to be a game-changer for onboarding.

Here are some of the basics you need to know:

Quick🧵👇 What is ERC-4337?

It is an upgraded token standard which avoids the need for a consensus-layer protocol.

In more plain English, it allows traditional wallets to function like smart contracts that can be programmed with custom capabilities.

NFT Morning Minute

🤯Punks start trading on Blur, see over 1,500 ETH volume as floor hits 64.8 ETH

💰Yuga kicks off TwelveFold, top bid of 2 BTC already

🔵Base, Introduced closes mint with 485,090 supply

📣Mocaverse mints today in most-hyped mint of March 📰Top Headlines:

Sprial Fidenza sells for 350 ETH

Notable Pepes drop 5 new cards, floors fall to 0.11 ETH and 0.0129 ETH for Pepe Checks as eco loses momentum

Owls cool off, hold 0.35 ETH floor

Several BTC Ordinal-adjacent projects mint and dump; Unordinals surge to 3.15 ETH

🤯The CryptoPunks floor is on @blur_io now.

They are in the "Wrapped Cryptopunks" collection (just added yesterday), and there are currently 2,185 punks in supply.

The Blur floor is 63.75 ETH vs 63.99 on the LL main mp, and Blur saw 5 sales vs 2 on the mp.

Hat tip to @punksOTC I feel like the incredibly stable Punks market is about to become much more volatile

NFT Morning Update

📈Trading volume back up to 40k ETH (+20%); most NFTs chop

🦉Owls jump another 120% to 0.37 ETH, lead volume

🏴‍☠️Memeland plays "artist died" gag, change reveal plans; Potatoz questing next wk

📝Yuga shares details for TwelveFold, auctions begin today 6 pm ET Other news:

🤯Ordinal Punk 19 trades for wild package of USDC, MAYC, WoW and BTC

🚀Unordinals surge 150% to 2.85 ETH and MegaPunks jump 90% to 0.2 ETH

🙊Yuga files trademark for "DON'T DRINK ME" for potential soft drink product

📣@MocaverseNFT shares new mint details

NFT Morning Update

📉Trading volume at just 33k ETH, lowest levels since Blur SZN2 began; most NFTs chop

🙊Yuga delays The Summoning

🌈Doodles debut DoodleMap

📈Claire Silver's Genesis jumps 50% to 24 ETH

🚀@owlswtf 20x overnight, hit 0.2 this AM after founder hints at burn Other News:

☑️@BuildOnBase change Base metadata to @jackbutcher's Checks in latest evolution

💰@dannycoleee sells 38k editions for "Crowd" in 24 hr OE

📉Momoguro tease new metaverse; floor falls 20% to 0.59 ETH

👨‍🎨@ZenAcademy names @PonderingDraw as artist for upcoming PFPs

Shoutout to the Coinbase team - this new metadata refresh is 🔥🔥🔥

@BuildOnBase 🤝 @jackbutcher

You love to see it!

(Now over 415,000 minted and counting...) The Base team announcement here

https://twitter.com/BuildOnBase/status/1631730059072479248?s=20

NFT Morning Update

📈Bitcoin NFTs surge, Ordinal Punks see new ATH sale of 11.5 BTC and BTC Punks pass 1 ETH floor

🔻Most PFP floors rekt, fall 5-20% in red week

🚀A Fundamental Dispute pops 50%+ to 2.4 ETH (now at 2)

💸Rihanna NFTs rip 9x from 0.125 ETH mint to 1.1 ETH floor Top News:

📸@justinaversano launching new photo-NFT collection on Bitcoin

🥾@jeremybooth debuts collab w/ @Wrangler in epic use of dynamic NFTs (says refresh metadata)

🇫🇷Punks Legacy project to send Punk to the Pompidou in Paris

🙊@CNN comes after Bored Apes, writes hit piece

Pain in Memes land continues

📉The full set drops another 10% this week to 83 ETH

🔻Only 6 of 65 cards are in green, most down ~20%

💡The Naka card is bright spot, up 11% to 27.69 ETH

📈GM Indonesia is top gainer up 25% to 1.95 (2nd lowest supply card)

💰Marketcap at $67.9M Other notable stats:

The average card value is 1.27 ETH (-13% from 2.6, -54% from high)

The median is at 0.56 ETH (-23%), w/ 30 cards now trading below 0.5

The floor is at 0.21 ETH (-25%)

Full SZN2 set of 18 cards is now 9.09 ETH (on 1.18 SZN2 was at 11 ETH across 8 cards)

📣Wow huge news out of @jeremybooth this morning!

He tells holders to refresh metadata, revealing Wrangler gear.

Huge collab here with a major brand in @Wrangler, raising expectations on what's to come.

🥾Holders feeling "bootish" indeed, up 500% on the week at 0.16 ETH. More info here:

https://twitter.com/jeremybooth/status/1624060575671111680?s=20&t=KpD7SgPbhD9W_T_dw80Vcg

Morning Minute

📉Trading volume dips to 22k ETH, just 3 sets over 1k

🙊@OnChainMonkey announce move to BTC, other ETH projects race to do same

💩Yuga delays Dookey score validation + provide clarification, Sewer Passes back to 2.2

🔻SEC comes after Kraken staking, crypto 📉 Top NFT News:

🖼 @DesLucrece's free generative mint "Defy Mosaics" opens at 0.8 ETH

🚀"A Fundamental Dispute" 7x's in its first day from 0.2 ETH to 1.4 ETH

🐺 @wolfdotgame ships updates improving gameplay

🫂 @RugRadio completes mint for "Faces of Web3", floor at 0.11

The Hermès and MetaBirkins headline may be the most notable news of the day for big brands, artists and NFTs.

Here's why... 👜What happened?

Mason Rothschild created custom digital Birkin bags in a collection called "MetaBirkins."

There were 100 MetaBirkins in different colors and styles, and Rothschild made about $125,000 off the NFT sales.

Rothschild considered his collection an art project.

🚀OnChainMonkeys have gone parabolic

The OCMs were at 0.79 ETH floor yesterday.

📈They have since jumped over 200% to 2.6 ETH in a rapid leg up.

The driver?

🙈A simple tweet:
"Wen OnChainMonkey Ordinals 👀"

What's the next ETH project to tease a move to BTC??? The tweet that sent the market

https://twitter.com/OnChainMonkey/status/1623462468080001025?s=20&t=zNF8Sh75Lx8ynwOT5VwGaw

Morning Minute

📈Trading volume hits 27k ETH, highest in 2 weeks

🙈BTC NFTs trend on Twitter, Ordinal Punks reach 4 BTC floor and see new ATH 9.5 BTC sale

🚀Micro-caps surge, multiple sets see 10-50x gains

💩Yuga closes the sewers, Passes locked

🔥Jack Butcher announces burn NFT Headlines:

🆔@Zeneca launches student IDs for ZenAcademy as soulbound tokens

🫂 @RugRadio team expands their PFP mint to new communities

🐧@pudgypenguins lead volume with 3k ETH tho floor falls to 5.2 ETH

🐒@OnChainMonkey jump 100%+ to 1.9

🚀Chungos go parabolic to 0.2

📈The NFT bull market may be in the micro-caps

Some recent insane runs:
➡️Checks: $8 to $4,000 (500x)
➡️On the Edge of Oblivion: 0.025 ETH to 3.6 (144x)
➡️Chungos: 0.006 ETH to 0.23 (38x)
➡️Opepens: 0.005 ETH to 0.22 (44x)

And that doesn't even include Ordinal Punks (40x) Some chart porn:

Checks

Each week our team at @LuckyTraderHQ answers a few pressing Q's from the top news in NFTs.

Here are some of my favorite answers from this week's topics:

🎮 Yuga Labs / Blizzard
🗺️ Doodles Roadmap
📉 Trump NFTs
🎄 Holiday NFT Gift Ideas

Quick 🧵👇 🎮Yuga Labs Hires New CEO - bullish or bearish?

Sharing my answer for this one.

While it was a big hire, it doesn't sync with their ethos for me. Too buttoned up, not edgy enough.

And I HATE that he bought a mutant and not an ape.

NFT Morning Update

🔑BAYC drops trailer for The Trial featuring toilet humor and a lodged key

🐕Mutant Hounds pop 50% post-reveal in bullish turn

📈Memes by 6529 and Friendship Bracelets both grind up

🎁Blur recalculates Airdrop 2, most see big increase Top NFT Volume:

-BAKC (4,125 ETH, 8.2 ETH Floor)
-Azuki (2,776 ETH, 11.1 ETH)
-BAYC (1,962 ETH, 66.9 ETH)
-MAYC (1,778 ETH, 15 ETH)
-Moonbirds (1,382 ETH, 7.13 ETH)

Lascaux is executing some of the best performance art seen to date in the NFT space, via airdrops, burns, mystery & game theory galore.

I've been engrossed for days & am now telling this story, tracking the events, & sharing theories in this live blog.

luckytrader.com/news/live-blog… shoutouts to @anonscontent, @CryptoXpresso, and @parachicaa whose theories and content were great inputs to the post