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A Major Bored Ape society (BAYC) NFT hodler lost 100 Ether (ETH), worth $150,000 as a results of a joke bid on his own registered Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain.
Nickelodeon’s sell-out NFT drop has surged to second place on OpenSea’s 24-hour sales volume chart, and former Simpson’s animator Erick Tran is functioning on an animated NFT series.
The NFT whale, who owns 57 BAYC NFTs and goes by @franklinisbored on Twitter, minted the ENS domain “stop-doing-fake-bids-its-honestly-lame-my-guy.eth” using an alternate wallet on July 20.
The move was part of a meme discussed with other NFT collectors within the community during which he was attempting to trigger the EnsBidsBot account to tweet a few hefty 100 ETH bid on an ENS domain, essentially to mock the aim of such Twitter accounts.
What phrase or meme do you want me to have the ens bot tweet out as a .eth address with a 100 WETH bid? Lol I would have to mint the ENS address myself too.
— Franklin 🅱️uilding 57 apes (@franklinisbored) July 19, 2022
However, after his ENS domain actually got a bid of 1.9 ETH ($2,900), @franklinisbored promptly accepted the bid but forgot to retract the 100 ETH bid he had placed beforehand.
Recounting the go on Twitter, he highlighted the ridiculousness of true by noting that “this could be a mistake that I can’t imagine anyone else fixing the trouble to form.”
“I was celebrating my joke of a website sale, sharing the spoils, but in an exceedingly dream of greed, forgot to cancel my very own bid of 100 ETH to shop for it back. this may be the joke and bag fumble of the century. I deserve all of the jokes and criticism.”
Oh no, I lost 100 ETH. I was celebrating my joke of a domain sale, sharing the spoils, but in a dream of greed, forgot to cancel my own bid of 100 ETH to buy it back. This will be the joke and bag fumble of the century. I deserve all of the jokes and criticism.
— Franklin 🅱️uilding 57 apes (@franklinisbored) July 20, 2022
ENS may be a blockchain naming protocol that allows users to mint names as ERC-721 tokens that may link to crypto wallets, and has become a handy tool for removing the necessity to share lengthy automated wallet address ids.
Nickelodeon’s successful NFT drop
The first plunge into the NFT space from beloved children’s broadcast developer Nickelodeon has gone off with a bang, with trading volumes surging after the project sold out all of its 10,000 NFT avatars on.
The drop went survive July 19 and consists of 10,000 NFTs depicting 12 different characters from the Rugrats and Hey Arnold! with randomized and unique traits. The collectibles were sold for $50 a pop, but the ground price on OpenSea has since risen to 0.29 ETH ($440).
Over the past 24 hours, Nickelodeon’s NFTs have generated the second largest amount of trading volume out of any project listed on OpenSea at 1,066.05 ETH ($1.6 million).
💚🧡#⃣1⃣💚🧡 pic.twitter.com/r0w0jfUDQa
— nickelodeon_nft (@nickelodeon_nft) July 20, 2022
GameStop NFT surges past Coinbase NFT
GameStop’s NFT marketplace launch appears to own been a powerful success, with the platform generating over double the overall amount of sales volume of Coinbase NFT since its launch on July 11.
According to data from GameStop NFT’s website and compiled by Cointelegraph, the platform has generated over $8.6 million worth of NFT sales to date.
In comparison, Coinbase’s muchly anticipated NFT marketplace has generated just $3.58 million despite launching in May. Notably, GameStop also charges a 2.25% fee on all NFT sales, while Coinbase is yet to introduce fees to the platform.
At the time of writing, two projects on GameStop NFT have generated quite $1 million worth of sales volume in MetaBoy and Cyber Crew [C4] with $2 million and $1.59 million apiece.
Former Simpsons animator to launch NFT-based animated series
Former animator of iconic cartoon series The Simpsons, Erick Tran has partnered up with blockchain-based Film and television production firm Mogul Productions to launch an NFT-based animated series inspired by the history of Hollywood.
The show are going to be called The Mogies and it’ll be in the midst of a group of 1,923 NFTs, during a nod to the 100th anniversary next year of the Hollywood sign being erected. Each Mogie NFT will depict a parodied version of a famous Hollywood celeb, and holders of the tokens are granted IP rights to the content depicted in their NFT.
Tran and his team at the CHAVVO studio are functioning on the series, and therefore the story is ready to follow the stories of the parodied icons as they create their way through Hollywood. The project also will see the launch of the exclusive Mogieland Metaverse for NFT hodlers, who will gain access to benefits like virtual red carpet events and behind-the-scenes content.
