October 21 - 25: This week in NFTs, recapped in one letter

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Special gm to all the web3 gamers craving epic gameplay: Ubisoft’s Champions Tactics just dropped on PC as their first NFT game, powered by Oasys.

Meanwhile, meme NFTs are having a moment, and ETH blue-chips aren’t slacking either. Now you can snag a Pudgy Penguin at any of 2,000 Walgreens stores across the U.S. Anime fans, the Azuki team’s cooking up something big, and we’re all eyes.

Real-world blockchain flexes? Buenos Aires just launched decentralized IDs on ZKsync for 3.6M citizens, and crypto payments are going mainstream with the new Avalanche Visa Card.

Not too shabby for a week in web3.

• Launched Sunday, ApeChain headlines this week’s Layer 2 news, followed by World Network’s World Chain, and Kraken’s reveal of its Ink L2 coming in 2025.

• Breaking: Satoshi spotted in Switzerland! Well, his statue, anyway. Tether and the City of Lugano just unveiled a new tribute to the Bitcoin legend.

• Tesla held onto its Bitcoin in Q3, while Microsoft shareholders will vote in December on whether the company should buy in.

Calling all artists! Our partners at RARI Foundation teamed up with Refraction to launch the DeFi Studio Contest on the HUG 💜💜💜

Ten winning artists will be showcased at the Refraction DevCon event in November—plus a $1k prize each! To enter the contest, mint your art on RARI Chain and submit it on the HUG using a secret password 🤫 Here’s Rarible’s secret password: Rarilicious

Sometimes you need to take a step back to move forward.