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

Gm gm,

At least gm for non-Windows users who escaped the biggest IT outage in history🌝

Trump’s attempted assassination last weekend caused a wave of art-fueled debate in our space. Ever since the US presidential candidate claimed to be ‘pro-crypto,’ CT is all over him.

From Vitalik warning against choosing your political allegiances based on who is "pro-crypto" to folks being clearly excited that his campaign is sparking interest in web3—we’re just glad builders keep building with consumer crypto as a shared vision.

‘Merica’s drama aside, Ethereum ETFs are set to start trading on Tuesday, and experts think this will have a bigger impact on the ETH price (and hopefully our bags!! NFA DYOR)

🔆 OᑎᑕᕼᗩIᑎ ᔑᑌᗰᗰEᖇ 🔆 is going strong with Base drops on Rarible. Artists looking to drop on Base SHOULD NOT CLICK HERE.

Our friends at Celosphere are minting the first RugRadio x Celo Creators Fund drop now—we’re so proud to see them fly!

• Doodles launched the trailer for 'Dullsville and the Doodleverse' animation featuring music by Pharrell Williams—premiering this September at The Toronto International Film Festival.

• Yuga Labs has partnered with Pixel Vault, leveraging the ecosystem’s skills to build the Otherside metaverse.

• Pudgy Penguins got featured on Fox News Miami; and will debut on the Telegram minigame Pixelverse.

• Persona Journey announced it will launch a new game on Base and an anime product in August.

Coinbase made Mister Miggles NFT available to remix, resulting in $MIGGLES running to $75M in just 2 days (BCheque).

This week in memes, summarized in one NFT: Bold Leonidas sold his Trump 1/1 "Missed" for 4.07 ETH.

Autoglyph #167 led as the top sale of the week after changing hands by over 80.7 ETH. Launched in 2019, Autoglyphs is the first onchain generative art project on Ethereum.

True frens don’t let other frens become exit liquidity.