Top NFT news today, February 19, 2024: The Azuki collection is among the top performers in the last 24 hours in terms of sales volume, Arcade announces an airdrop and Yuga Labs acquires Proof.
NFT Market Data
In the past 24 hours, non-fungible token (NFT) sales volume increased 23% to $46,077,452.
According to CryptoSlamthe number of buyers fell by 2.4% and the number of sellers by 2.4%.
The number of transactions has also remained unchanged over the past day.
In the meantime, Pandora still ranks first by sales volume with $5.4 million and also holds the highest NFT news position.
Of the top ten collections, only one is less than 1%. DMarkt is down 0.33% to $997,040.
The best performers in this group are NodeMonkes And Mutant Ape hunting club. The former’s sales volume is up 197% to $922,424, while the latter’s is up 194% to $1.2 million.
Azuki is among the top winners today
The Azuki collection was among the top performers by sales volume over the past 24 hours.
According to CryptoSlam, sales volume increased 196% to $230,650. It is currently at number 38.
Additionally, buyers and sellers are up 100% and 120% respectively over the same period. The number of transactions increased by 140%.
In the last 30 days, sales volume has dropped 64% to $5 million. Its all-time sales volume is $1.097 billion.
Overall, sales volume has declined significantly since peaking in May 2022.
Source: cryptoslam.io
According to the Open Sea marketplace, the minimum price of the collection is 6,377 ETH.
Meanwhile, Azuki continues his tour.
Shanghai welcomes Azuki this Thursday. As the website says, this is a community-run event organized by the Azuki CN Garden community.
It is made possible by the Garden Tour Passport. By purchasing a ticket, the participant receives a stamp in his passport.
Exclusive community apparel from @metaknight_sf’s new brand, @nxt_labs, will be available for purchase in person. See you in Shanghai ✈️ pic.twitter.com/rfEvthRont
— Azuki (@Azuki) February 19, 2024
The Japanese leg of the tour is also scheduled for April 15.
The Azuki Garden Tour leaves for Tokyo on April 15 ✈️
Collect the Tokyo Passport stamp by attending the event or minting an NFT event. All proceeds go directly to organizing local events with the community.
Event tickets: https://t.co/EDYl47iB8W
Only with stamp:… pic.twitter.com/a7q0TpO5lN
— Azuki (@Azuki) February 11, 2024
Moreover, the Azuki Winter Trial is now live, Azuki founder Zagabond announced. Holders can participate in PVP mini-games for a chance to win on-chain prizes.
Source: ZAGHBOND / Twitter
Arcade Announces Multi-Chain Airdrop
Ethereum-based, NFT-focused decentralized finance protocol (DeFi). Arcade has announced its latest ARCD symbolic air drop.
The airdrop will take place on February 21. The protocol will distribute 750 ARCD tokens to 4,000 NFT and Bitcoin Ordinals holders.
The blog post said so Collision of claims is a PVP airdrop where holders of selected collections participate and have a chance to win 3% of ARCD’s total supply.
The event will continue until the total allocation of 3 million ARCD is fully distributed to the community.
The snapshot date is February 19. Whitelist publication will follow on February 20, followed by ARCD Claim Raffle Whitelist and ARCD Public Claim on February 21.
// ARCD airdrop claim comes in
Codename: Clash of Claims – A PVP airdrop where holders of select collections have a chance to win 3% of the total supply (3 million) of Arcade’s token ARCD.
Next week, the first 4,000 wallets will be able to claim 750 ARCD each,… pic.twitter.com/hotbOlZAyz
— Arcade (@Arcade_xyz) February 14, 2024
The whitelist for phase 1 will consist of 2,000 wallets with a Pudgy penguin, Lil Pudgyor Juicy sealas well as 2,000 wallets that have successfully created a Solana or Bitcoin wallet contains Crazy guys, Tensorians, BTC puppets, NodeMonkesor RSIC.
Both types are randomly selected at the time of the snapshot.
Phase 2 does not have a secure whitelist. It includes all wallets and holders that have not filed a claim but have met the criteria in Phase 1.
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Phase 2: Public Claim (PvP mode):
First come, first served.Phase 2 does not have a secure whitelist and includes all wallets and holders that have not submitted a claim but meet the criteria in Phase 1.
Phase 2 claim will remain open until all remaining spots remaining from Phase 1 (3M…
— Arcade (@Arcade_xyz) February 15, 2024
Yuga Labs obtains evidence
In other NFT news: Yuga Labs – the team behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club, Other side, Twelvefoldand owners of Meebits, CryptoPunksAnd 10KTF – has come into the possession of EVIDENCEincluding the EVIDENCE Collective, Moonbirds, Oddities, MythsAnd Grails exhibition series.
According to the blog post, the acquisition includes PROOF’s team, intellectual property and artistic portfolio.
“Yuga will start by bringing Moonbirds to Otherside, the place where content creators, communities and brands come together to participate in the social fabric of web3,” the report said.
According to the press release, PROOF CEO and founder Kevin Rose will go through “a short transition period” before becoming an advisor to the company.
Josh Ong, Jesse Bryan and Amanda Gadbow will oversee the transition of the Moonbirds collection and other key elements into the Yuga ecosystem.
Yuga Labs has acquired @PROOF_XYZ, including the exhibition series PROOF Collective, @Moonbirds, Mythics, @oddities_xyz and @Grails.
For more information, see the official Yuga News blog: https://t.co/ly3fTYxCBk pic.twitter.com/ouvIM4Hr4S
— Yuga Labs (@yugalabs) February 16, 2024
Daniel Alegre, CEO of Yuga Labs, noted that “Moonbirds is a collection with great potential and many unifying brand elements with Otherside.”
PROOF’s Rose added that “with the PROOF Collective on board, it demonstrates Yuga’s commitment to digital visual arts, and our combined resources will allow us to innovate faster and reach more people.”
I’ve had the privilege of working closely with the PROOF team over the past year, and I’m excited to see them join Yuga Labs today. I am registering as an advisor to support the transition. As a day-one monkey and day-one bird, I look forward to growing stronger… https://t.co/6j0cHPZLdJ
— Josh Ong (@beijingdou) February 16, 2024