News

1. Vera Molnar’s ‘Themes and Variations’ NFT auction at Sotheby raised $1.2m in primary sales.
2. Meta’s metaverse division lost $3.7b in Q2.
3. Animoca Brands has invested $30m into Web3 financial app hi.
4. Ethereum storage start-up EthStorage has raised $7m in a seed funding round that values the firm $100m.
5. Ethereum sidechain Palm Network has announced it is expanding to the Polygon ecosystem through a two-stage process starting next week.

Data

1. The Top 3 NFT Sales over the past 24 hours were CryptoPunk #8713 for 179 ETH ($335k), Pudgy Penguin #5965 for 88 ETH ($164k), and CryptoPunk #4763 for 52 ETH ($98k).
2. The Top 3 NFT Collections by Volume over the past 24 hours were Bored Ape Yacht Club with $1.8m (-62%), Azuki with $1.2m (+9%), and Mutant Ape Yacht Club with $1.1m (-33%).
3. The Top 3 NFT Marketplaces by Volume over the past 24 hours were Blur with $6.9m (-39%), OpenSea with $3.3m (+31%), and Immutable X Marketplace with $1m (+330%).
4. The Total Crypto Market Capitalisation is $1.23t, a 1% increase over the past 24 hours.