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February 2023 Recap 😊
10 Crypto + NFT news highlights from the past month!
GM Baos,
Can you believe we're already 3 months into 2023?! I hear March is supposed to be extra lucky 🍀😉
Today's Dumpling covers 10 key news pieces that shaped the month of February. Make yourself a cup of coffee (or drive to Starbucks 🤪) and let's dive in.
Lamborghini NFTs 🛞
Lamborghini Huracán NFTs? I'm here for it. 63 exclusive 'Iconic Imaginarium' NFTs were available on nft.lamborghini.com at a mint price of $1,963.
The Huracán Sterrato is a thrilling drive for those who live life the unexpected way.
The exclusive limited edition ‘Iconic Imaginarium’ is out today. Only 63 pieces available for mint on .
#Lamborghini#TheEpicRoadTrip
@Web3Pro_@invntatom@INVNTGROUP
— Lamborghini (@Lamborghini)
4:31 PM • Feb 23, 2023
The SEC's potential ban on staking 🇺🇸
Kraken shut down its staking services in the U.S. and paid a $30m fine to the SEC. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong later said Coinbase would happily defend its staking services in court.
Coinbase's staking services are not securities. We will happily defend this in court if needed.
— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong)
5:54 PM • Feb 12, 2023
$BLUR launch & start of Season 2 😈
Blur's airdrop on the 14th was totally worth the wait. Are you excited for Season 2?! The secret to maximizing rewards in Season 2 is loyalty 👀
Blur Bidding Pools have reached a new ATH of $143.51M TVL.
This is a huge win for the Blur community, which will be distributed 300M+ BLUR in Season 2.
— Blur (@blur_io)
8:02 PM • Feb 27, 2023
OpenSea fees ➡️ 0%
After Blur started gaining significant market share, OpenSea switched to 0% fees. OpenSea also announced a new creator earnings model and an update they made to the operator filter.
We’re making some big changes today:
1) OpenSea fee → 0% for a limited time
2) Moving to optional creator earnings (0.5% min) for all collections without on-chain enforcement (old & new)
3) Marketplaces with the same policies will not be blocked by the operator filter— OpenSea (@opensea)
8:36 PM • Feb 17, 2023
Binance fear, uncertainty & doubt (FUD) 🥲
Several months later and Binance is still experiencing major FUD. There were reports that Binace was considering to delist US- based cryptocurrencies, which CZ later debunked. Additionally, Paxos was ordered by New York regulators to stop issuing $BUSD.
Franklinisbored continued w/ his usual activities 😂
@Franklinisbored did a massive sweep (500+) of BEANZ and became a top holder within 24 hours. Then as regular, he started dumping hundreds of the BEANZ shortly afterwards for quick profits!
As you may already know, I placed a fat-finger collection offer of 35 ETH on Beanz. I meant to type a much lower bid with a quantity of 35, but I instead bid 35 ETH for 1 purchase (floor of like 1.73 ETH at the time). It got accepted before I could cancel.
Oops.
I’ll be okay.
— Franklin (@franklinisbored)
6:01 AM • Feb 19, 2023
0n1Force 🔥
The NFT project 0n1Force was bought by former Binance and YGG executives. Old Fashioned Research (OFR) led the community buyout. The new board intends to allocate a significant amount of funds towards growing their IP.
GM Enclave! It is official, the founding team has 100% exited the company and turned over ownership to @ofrfund led by @thedaoofwei, Ling Zhang, and @Goltra please give them a warm welcome and show them how strong we are!
— 0N1 Force (@0n1Force)
6:36 PM • Feb 22, 2023
Drive to Survive: Season 5 🏎
Last year during the 2022 F1 Season, Azuki partnered with Oracle Red Bull Racing, and introduced the first- ever NFT on an F1 car (Lei the Lighting Azuki). In Season 5 of Netflix's show Drive to Survive, we got to see Lei alongside Bybit's logo. Who binge watched it and caught a glimpse of him?! 🧐
Did you catch Lei (Azuki #8494) on Netflix?
@redbullracing@Bybit_Official ⚡️#DriveToSurvive5
— Azuki (@Azuki)
9:04 PM • Feb 25, 2023
A Taco Bell wedding 💍🌮
Why get married in Vegas, when you can get married in the Metaverse? An IRL couple exchanged vows in a Metaverse wedding ceremony, hosted by fast food restaurant Taco Bell. The contest received entries from 300 couples!
Wedding bells will be ringing 🔔
Jump in to celebrate the marriage of two @tacobell lovers tying the knot in the Metaverse. 💕
A real wedding with a real couple, a real officiant, in an unreal Taco Bell Metaverse venue. 🌮
events.decentraland.org/event/?id=bacf…
— Decentraland (@decentraland)
6:45 PM • Feb 23, 2023
Memeland's 999 WETH bid 🏴☠️
Remember when 18 year old Twitch streamer @Mongraal won the Dookey Dash golden key by achieving the highest score? He later listed it for 2222 ETH and Memeland was one of the bidders 🤣
CASUAL NEWS: @Memeland MADE A 999 WETH BID ON THE GOLDEN KEY!!! 🔑🔑🔑
@Mongraal, THE BALL IS IN YOUR COURT.
@BoredApeYC, LFG!!! #dookeydash
— Memeland (3.33%) 🏴☠️ (@Memeland)
6:21 AM • Feb 27, 2023
Web3 Jobs ✨
Made us Kek
Most NFTs are pngs but everyone calls them jpegs 🤔
— Bao (@bao_nft)
8:36 PM • Mar 4, 2023
I always forget how beautiful Denver is. Maybe I should move here
— foobar (@0xfoobar)
9:33 PM • Mar 5, 2023
There's never a boring day in web3 🫡
–Cassidy