...topics that we discussed this week include: CPI recap+market reaction BOE pension fund situation Rising retail...

📊 CryptoPunks x Tiffany Pre-Sale: The First 24 Hours Tiffany & Co., American luxury retailer...On August 3, a pre-sale raised 300 ETH by offering 100 NFTiffs for 30 ETH each.

State of the Market NFT trading volumes continue to decline through May, with weekly OpenSea sales hitting...This sale is for NFTs that can be used in the Illuvium: Zero mobile game (which is different from the...The sale will be conducted on the IlluviDex marketplace via a Dutch Auction for Tier 1 – 4 lands....There is a lot of land for sale.

OpenSea sales volumes crept up slightly this week to $1.4B, a decent showing in a relatively slow week...Solana has the 2nd highest volume of NFT sales by chain after Ethereum....A few key highlights from the sale: The sale took over 2 hours to sell out, causing massive congestion...Gas prices stayed above 5,000 gwei throughout the sale.

State of the Market There has been a modest rise in total NFT sales volume this week, partially due...$APE proceeds from the sale will be locked for 1 year....The private whitelist sale is already live and it is trading on the secondary market....It will be conducting a public sale via a Dutch Auction on 27 Apr.

...market is laser-focused on Alo, Lulu, or any ‘real world’ company’s ability to convert attention → sales...Attention = sales. Don’t believe me?...Investors were bearish because video game sales were in the midst of a secular shift from brick-and-mortar...Not to mention the COVID lockdowns, which absolutely decimated in-store sales.

State of the Market Marketplace volumes remain relatively steady this week, with OpenSea weekly sales...Coinbase NFT is still in invite-only beta, with <$1M in sales over the past week....Wall Street Journal recently published an article stating that NFT sales are “flatlining” and have been...The public sale is via a raffle.

State of the Market Total sales volumes has fallen slightly this week, with OpenSea sales volume at...Here’s how wild it was: In less than a week, Moonbirds has done more in sales volume (~$230M) than all...The team has chosen to conduct the sale unusually, starting with a whitelist sale followed by a Dutch...

State of the Market NFT sales volumes remain anemic, with little change over the previous week....OpenSea is doing about $325M in weekly sales or ~$45M daily....Even though sales volumes have come down a lot since earlier in the year, it is still a great business...On some days, there are no sales on SuperRare’s marketplace.

Ethereum remains the dominant blockchain in terms of NFT sales, with nearly 59% of all NFT sales volume...Furthermore, the introduction of Blend also enables “Buy Now, Pay Later,” lowering the entry barrier for retail...On May 31st, 2023, Doodles announced its first venture into the retail world with CAMP stores, revolutionizing...

A limited-edition physical sneaker, dubbed ‘TINAJ’ is now available exclusively to OF1 box owners, retailing...Despite the high price tag, the Eggs were sold out, netting ~$5M in primary sales....As of Q3 2023, Starbucks Rewards stands as one of the most expansive and well-liked retail loyalty programs...Prioritize Community Building In traditional retail models (e.g.

Last cycle, retail came in late and aped dog coins and JPEGs....Retail was the reason why stuff like DOGE and SHIB went nuclear....pre-sale deployers pic.twitter.com/vmYI3yI3Hx — mrink0 (@mrink0) March 18, 2024 As the chart below shows...The final piece of the SOL thesis is retail adoption....As we outlined above, retail is clearly not back. Yet.

Trading volumes come in two forms – consumer (retail) and institutional – with the former generating...Coinbase charges a substantially higher transaction fee on average for retail trades than it does for...To reiterate, this analysis will not include institutional and retail transactional revenue generated...

This collaboration taps into a segment that represents about $2.3B of the $29.2B total U.S. retail toy...sales....With Walmart attracting approximately 180M visitors daily and commanding about 20-25% of the U.S. retail...Taking 20%+ of sale proceeds is common.

Today’s Digest The Bitcoin derivatives market is coming back to life, and retail sentiment fell at record...Funding back at normal, retail spooked, and DeFi keeping chugging along.

This was due to sales history being the core metric used to guide valuation....Removing high sales refers to removing the sales that surpass the highest sales on OpenSea....Removing overtraded sales refers to removing all NFTs traded more than three times per day....Three months ago, 16% of all sales were conducted through aggregators.

...these structural bids remain intact, the market may continue to drift higher even without widespread retail...key thematics driving crypto’s macro narrative this summer and why institutions aren’t waiting for retail...

For example, Epic Games Store’s reliance on exclusives has often led to underwhelming sales, as seen...Retail vs Institutional Interest The flood of new listings in early 2024 exposed a critical mismatch...This market pressure triggered a notable shift in retail behavior.

Crypto derivatives exchange LedgerX is for sale....investors have a massive edge – from increased allocations to a significantly lower cost basis versus retail...

Each Pudgy Toy, available on Amazon and soon in retail stores, grants owners the opportunity to mint...The highest sale so far has been 622 MATIC, or $545.