🌊 GM Flowverse Citizens! Today was a big week for Flow, as the first loan using an NFT as collateral happened - involving a Ballerz on Mantle Finance.
But before we get into the news, we would like to extend a huge welcome to Jacob Tucker, Bjartek, Alxo and Erick to Sock Club after being nominated by the community based on their contribution to the Flow ecosystem.
Today we’re covering:
🎤 Upcoming Drop: GENIACE - Icons of Rap (Featured)
💡 Flow Blockchain News
🆕 New apps on Flow
⚡ Upcoming Flow NFT drops this week
🎤 Upcoming Drop: GENIACE - Icons of Rap (Featured)
Icons of Rap is a premium collection featuring 6 iconic musicians who emerged during the 90s - which is considered the “golden age” of hip hop and rap. This amazing artwork was created by a young, talented Filipino artist Jols Luominen who was picked by the team at GENIACE to work with their artist-in-residence, Ben Salvacion to commemorate this era and genre in music.
The drop features names like Tupac, Biggie, Ice Cube, Nas, Dr Dre, and Jay Z and these NFTs are to celebrate their contribution to music & culture.
BONUS: Buyers of the Ultra Rare editions in this collection (only 30 will be minted) will be airdropped a special 3D hoodie NFT featuring the rapper in the NFT they buy.
Details:
Release date: 1st February 10am EST / 3pm GMT / 11pm SGT
Wallet Support: Blocto
Payment: $FLOW tokens (can be purchased on platform using MoonPay)
Card tiers: There are only 780 Editions in total in this Collection in 3 Rarity Levels (Collectible - 600, Rare - 150 and Ultra Rare - 30).
Prices are 10, 20 and 50 FLOW respectively.
To learn more about the upcoming NFT drop:
We will also be hosting an AMA with the GENIACE team to learn more about what they’re building on the Flowverse Discord at 2pm PT/ 5pm ET 31st Jan.
💡Flow Blockchain News
Rundown of Flow Blockchain news
The DGD Mafia Secondary Marketplace should be dropping this week…
NFT startup Unblocked has raised their seed round at a $90m valuation including investors such as Tiger Global, Dapper Labs and Jay-Z.
UFC Strike announced their second drop to occur on February 7th with the marketplace launching on the same date.
New records were set for Flovatar as their marketplace recorded 100k $FLOW in secondary volume and a record sale of 1001 $FLOW for a Flovatar.
Flovatar also completed their free backgrounds airdrop with the legendary Demon Lair background later selling for 500 $FLOW (~$3k USD).
Matrix World released an alpha-build video preview of their demo space including character selection, an NBA Top Shot moment billboard and the Flow headquarters.
With 1.67m purchases, January has set the all-time record for NBA Top Shot Marketplace purchases in a single month.
THiNG.FUND announced that a non-transferrable fungible token, Contribution Points ($CPs), will fuel their ecosystem
FanCraze sold out their first drop to bring officially licensed ICC cricket NFTs to Flow Blockchain.
The Melos x Starly x David Bowie drop is taking place now featuring unreleased music audio and never-before-seen photos of the legendary rock star.
KLKTN raised $6.4m USD in their latest funding round to revolutionise how creators engage with their fans.
🆕 New to Flow
New Flow Blockchain apps listing on Flowverse
FLOAT: A Flow-enabled proof of attendance platform built by Emerald DAO
Unblocked: Newly imagined NFT applications that enable music & entertainment brands to build meaningful value for their communities
⚡Upcoming Flow Blockchain NFT drops
Drops on Flow this week
🧢 Appetite (Eternal, Jan 31)
🎤 Icons of Rap (Geniace, Feb 1)
👟 Pioneer Collection 2 (In|RIFT, Feb 5)
🤛 Fully Loaded packs (UFC Strike, Feb 7)
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