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Theme: The future of NFT trading is not on OpenSea

• New marketplaces are cutting into OpenSea’s marketshare, as discussed in CoinGecko’s article Market Share of NFT Marketplaces 
• Most marketplace listings are off-chain, i.e on siloed databases that sometimes can be accessed via APIs, many most listings only visible on original listing marketplace
• Aggregators, new apps will emerge

• Affordable project: wait on value projects to drop in price.

• NFT News
  • Last Ethereum Block Before Merge Minted $47K NFT 
  • An NFT minted after The Merge cost $60,000 in transaction fees 
  • Ethereum Energy Usage, Carbon Footprint Down 99.99% After Merge: Report - Decrypt 
  • $70M Art Collection at MoMA To Be Sold, Proceeds Could Fund NFT Buys - Decrypt 
  • Sotheby’s First Single-owner NFT Auction Hosts MaxStealth’s Collection 
  • Kingship Brings out the Big Guns to Lead its Musical Charge 
  • Exclusive: Jim Carrey Secretly Dropped NFTs Under His Web3 Alias 
  • Rantum’s Mental Model for Analyzing Blockchain Data [Podcast] 
  • OpenSea partners with CurioTools, Icy Tools, and Proof Collective to release Open Rarity

image credit:  macro photo toy ship sinking, DALLE2 OpenAI