April 15 - 19: This week in NFTs, recapped in one letter

Gm,

Happy Bitcoin Halving Day for those of you who celebrate! (we all should, grab some pizza)

We’re hours away from the new era that many believe will further ignite a Bitcoin Renaissance. As Ordinals in NFTs, Runes may revolutionize fungible tokens on the mother chain—and it’s giving bullish vibes!

While degens are still recovering from last week’s market correction, predictions are optimistic for the entire crypto and web3 space.

We’re especially psyched about the Base community response to Rarible these days. Based Bits selling out on launch day? Check.

In the meantime, Bored Apes bounced, builders kept building, and a few memecoins are above water (like Dubai lol, ok I’m done).

Speaking of Dubai, did you manage to mint one of the 7 Base drops Rarible put on display at MATCH Chain’s event? Jimena Buena-Vida, 0FISH0 and Juu Juu Mama are some of the artists who participated. You can only mint these drops for the next 24 hours!

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We’ve been on this rollercoaster ride with you since 2019. You don’t want to sleep on Rarible this next cycle 💛

• Yuga Labs sold the HV-MTL and Legends of the Mara brands to the game dev studio and publisher Faraway. BAYC and MAYC finally bounced back!

• Solana move-to-earn game STEPN partnered up with Adidas, launching its first co-branded NFT sneakers. Future activations may include phygital sneakers.

• ethOS NFTs mint on Base sold out. Users who wish to redeem their physical Ethereum phones must burn tokens.

Another week, another XCOPY NFT hit the top sale! $LAVE was sold yesterday for 315 ETH, worth around $976,752.

Be kind, you never know how people’s trades are going.