Welcome to the OpenSea Digest, our recap of the biggest NFT and web3 news from the week.
Sotheby’s Digital Art Day Sale Showcases Blue Chip and Emerging Digital Artists
This week, Sotheby’s is offering a curated selection of works by boundary-pushing technologists as part of its “Digital Art Day” sale, with bidding opening on August 15 and running through August 22. The sale features work by renowned generative artist and painter Tyler Hobbs, digital folk artist Emily Xie, and Seneca, lead designer of Bored Ape Yacht Club’s famous characters, among others.
Bidders will also have the chance to acquire pieces like CryptoPunk #491, first minted in 2017, and works from generative artist Dmitri Cherniak’s Ringers series, which made headlines in 2023 when Ringers #879, known as “The Goose,” sold for $6.2 million.
Warpcast Launches New Discovery Features and NFT Gated Chat Improvements
Dan Romero, co-founder of social protocol Farcaster, and Warpcast, an application built on Farcaster (known as the decentralized version of X), announced two major updates this week.
First, Warpcast’s new Discover feature makes it easier for users to discover apps, actions, and frameworks, and developers can submit their own apps for listing, making it easier for users to find them.
Warpcast has also just improved its NFT gated group chats, with updates including better support for contract addresses in CAIP-10 format, as well as automatic removal of members who are not holders. Now, if a user loses the NFT required to access the group chat, the system will automatically delete them.
Deletion checks will be conducted every day at 12 a.m. Pacific Time. The update is compatible with Ethereum, Base, Zora, Optimism, and Arbitrum blockchains. Solana and Polygon, as well as ERC-20 tokens, are not yet supported.
Unstoppable Domains and Farmsent Partner to Launch .farms Domains
Decentralized domain name platform Unstoppable Domains has partnered with agricultural collaborative ecosystem Farmsent to offer .farms domain names. Members can now obtain a web3 domain that indicates that they belong to the Farmsent community and create a custom page to showcase their products.
Confiction Labs launches 'proof of exposure' to fight bots
Singapore-based game developer Confiction Labs has launched a new in-game solution to combat what they see as the rise of bots in the Web3 gaming space.
The process, called “proof of exposure,” is coming to Confiction Labs’ multiplayer shooter Riftstorm, where players will now encounter NFTs woven into the game’s storyline, requiring them to pass a vetting process involving third-party data, user-submitted data, and large language models.
Uprising’s genesis NFT collection sold out in two hours, no public minting required
Uprising, a layer 2 gaming blockchain that runs on validators owned by Sega, Ubisoft, and other industry players, released its NFT collection, Uprising Genesis: Origins, on August 14, rolling out in three phases as planned, with all 1,111 free-minted NFTs selling out in two hours.
Uprising NFTs will function as game passes and grant players access to upcoming web3 games on the Uprising platform, and they will also reportedly offer the possibility of unlocking various utilities, bonuses, and points in the future.
BitMEX’s Arthur Hayes to Launch New Bitcoin Ordinals Series
On August 15, Arthur Hayes announced the launch of Airheads, a new product in a series of 10,000 Ordinals, where each digital product comes with artwork showing the amount of Bitcoin (BTC) held by the buyer.
The series encourages holders to “embrace financial success unshamelessly,” and the characters depicted in the artwork will inflate to a certain size based on the amount of BTC in someone’s wallet, with buyers holding large amounts of BTC receiving “fat” Airheads, while buyers holding less BTC will receive less inflated Airheads.
The Airheads permission list will last four to six weeks, with a leaderboard showing the top 10,000 deciding who gets cast.
Dates for Subjective Arts Festival announced
The inaugural Subjective Art Festival will take place in Tribeca from September 27-29, with panels and exhibitions celebrating and showcasing today’s leading digital artists and collectives, where you can see and experience immersive art forms from a variety of disciplines including generative art, AI art, glitch, video, photography, and animation.
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