This week’s Nifty News sees Louis Vuitton’s arrival on the non-fungible token (NFT) gaming scene, Johnnie Walker’s entry into Web 3.0, and Elon Musk’s apparent embrace of Bored Ape Yacht Club.
Louis Vuitton makes its mark on the NFT gaming scene
To commemorate Louis Vuitton’s bicentennial at the end of 2021, the French luxury brand launched an NFT game called “Louis: The Game”. At the time of publishing, the game has been downloaded over 2 million times on both Android and iOS devices. “Louis: The Game” follows its protagonist, vivienne, while overcoming challenges, collect candles and other collectibles. NFT artist Beeple has designed 30 in-game NFTs that can be earned. At the end of April, new levels were published and with them new opportunities to win NFTs that will be distributed through a raffle until August 4, 2022.
Larva Labs deletes all your tweets
In a curious and quiet move, the Twitter account run by the founders of Larva Labs (LL) zeroed out its tweet count on May 2. Since Yuga Labs acquired the Larva Labs, CryptoPunks, and Meebits collections in March, most of the tweets regarding these collections have moved to the @cryptopunksnfts and @MeebitsNFTs accounts.
However, LL founders Matt and John stated that they would continue to post to @LarvaLabs. The company continues to carry out other Web3 projects, including Autoglyphs, as well as some mobile applications.
We’ve changed our handle following the acquisition announcement. Follow along here for CryptoPunks updates, and keep up with Meebits over at @MeebitsNFTs. The projects’ founders, Matt & John, will keep posting as @larvalabs.
— CryptoPunks (@cryptopunksnfts) March 22, 2022
For nostalgic fans of the OG NFT collection, a user known as “@swissdegen” has backed up all Larva Labs tweets since 2017. Why? “Because of the culture,” she tweeted.
Is Elon Musk supporting NFTs?
The new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk changed his Twitter profile picture (PFP) to a collage of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs for less than a day and caused quite a stir on Crypto Twitter. Musk’s profile photo also drove up the value of ApeCoin, Yuga Labs’ cryptocurrency. The image has since been deleted because Michael Bouhanna, a Sotheby’s executive, had originally created it for Sotheby’s sale of NFTs. and asked credit for it.
@elonmusk as much I admire your work I’d like you to remove your pfp that I created for our Sotheby’s sale. Or you credit me. Happy to send you the original file minted with the buyer approval pic.twitter.com/e83ZyxWGH5
— Michael Bouhanna (@michaelbouhanna) May 4, 2022
Users who tracked down some of the NFTs in the profile picture confirmed that Elon does indeed have an impressive collection of Bored Apes, including three gold monkeys. The wallet also contains Doodles, Azuki, and Moonbirds, all transferred from the MoonPay vault. However, some of the Bored Apes in the PFP collage are not owned by Elon Musk, such as he pointed the user “@franklinisbored”, raising fears of copyright infringement.
VeeFriends partners with Johnnie Walker
scotch whiskey Johnnie Walker and parent company DIAGEO partnered with Gary Vaynerchuk’s VeeFriends project to offer Gift Goat VeeFriends NFT holders spirits-related deals. Gift Goat is one of 268 characters in the original VeeFriends collection. There are 555 Gift Goat tokens in total.
All Gift Goat tokens will unlock 18 luxury gift experiences curated by Gary Vaynerchuk over three years. Each experience combines a bespoke physical gift with unique NFTs from a notable artist from the space. The Johnnie Walker collaboration will also kick off an activation at the upcoming VeeCon conference with tickets to NFTs.
In other news
Two weeks after Coinbase launched the beta version of its NFT marketplace, the cryptocurrency exchange opened it up to the world on Wednesday. coinbase cleared up on Twitter that having an open beta means that more features will be continually added, but with the help of the public.
The last week of April saw a sudden spike in demand for 3- and 4-digit domain names from Ethereum Name Service, or ENS, marking a trend of NFT investors preferring a shorter token ID. Coinciding with the new registrations, there was a strong increase in the price of the ENS token. Additionally, secondary ENS name sales on OpenSea reached a peak volume of 446 Ether (ETH) in the past week.
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