Morning Minute | Azuki Introduces Anime.com in Journey Towards Anime 2.0
TylerD's Market Summary
💡 Azuki Introduces Anime.com
The major NFT teams have been cooking this summer.
Bored Apes and their founders are going back to basics, relaunching Dookey Dash, a BAYC Treasure Hunt and an in-house product incubator.
The Pudgy team is busy launching the Abstract L2 looking to broaden its ecosystem.
Doodles are launching successful short films and music videos.
And now - it's Azuki's turn.
What Happened?
Last night, Zagabond announced the launch of Anime.com as a new platform aimed at transforming the anime industry through web3 tech.
The project is part of the broader vision for Anime 2.0, which seeks to create an ecosystem where anime fans and creators can share in the success of the industry.
For a quick summary of Anime.com
- Aims to offer on-chain experiences, including a variety of IPs
- Developed in partnership with Arbitrum on AnimeChain
- Will be released in phases
- Not live yet but users can join the waitlist at the site now
In Zagabond's announcement, he shares how anime IP was the first step towards the 2.0 vision, and infrastructure is the next step.
And Anime.com is that infrastructure.
The market liked the news, with Azuki and Elementals each jumping about 10-13% each (to 5.36 ETH and 0.44 ETH respectively).
Why It Matters
The global anime audience is huge with over 600M fans worldwide.
A shocking stat came out recently that a whopping 72% of people in the US watch anime, a higher total than Japan.
Zagabond and the Azuki team are looking to go after that market.
They've got good IP, shown from the success of their NFTs and now their recent anime shorts.
Now they have to build the infrastructure to support their web3 vision of allowing shared ownership and new ways of engagement in an anime ecosystem.
If they can pull it off, the upside is huge...
🚚 What else is happening in NFTs?
Here is the list of other notable headlines from the day in NFTs:
- ETH led NFT trading volume with $4.6M on the day; Solana was next with $2.5M, and then Bitcoin with $2.3M
- ETH NFT leaders mostly chopped but Azuki outperformed on Anime Chain news; Pudgy even at 10.75 ETH, BAYC even at 12.1 ETH, Azuki +14% at 5.37, Azuki Elementals +12% to 0.44
- CEDEN Nodes (+47%) & Station3 (+45%) were notable top movers
- BTC NFT leaders were mostly red; NodeMonkes -4 at 0.13 BTC, Puppets -5% at 0.088 BTC, Quantum Cats -8% at 0.25 and OMB -1% to 0.159; FSIC (+78%) and Fractal Puppets (+30%) led
- The Runes leaders were also red; DOG -7% at $240M mc, RSIC -5% at $59M mc, PUPS +5% to $26M
- Solana NFTs chopped; Mad Lads even at 60 SOL, SMB Gen 2 +1% at 25.6, DeGods -1 at 25.5, Claynosaurz -5% to 17.2
- Zagabond introduced Anime.com as a new platform aimed at transforming the anime industry through web3 technology, providing deeper engagement for fans and creators
- An XCOPY edition of 10 "Mortal" sold for 220 ETH ($520,000)
- Claynosaurz is teaming up with Gameloft to create a mobile game featuring their signature dinosaur characters
- Prohibition Art announced it will be winding down, live through the rest of September, but reminding everyone that it's art "lives on"
💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker
Here's a rundown of major token or airdrop news from the day:
- Predict dot Fun launched a new Fantasy Top market where users can bet on who will win the Elite Main Tournaments
- Hamster Kombat's $HMSTR token went live on Binance Launchpool and Super Earn
- Pump Fun held a spaces with its community on Thursday, just hours after news was shared that just 100 of the nearly 2M tokens launched on Pump are above a $1M market cap
- Magic Eden will expand to Monad, marking its 5th blockchain
- Treasure announced the launch of an L2 on Zksync
🌎 Around Crypto and Web3
A few other Crypto and Web3 headlines that caught my eye:
- Crypto majors are slightly green this morning up 1%; BTC +1% at $58,325; ETH +1% at $2,370, SOL even at $134
- Memecoin majors are more green with DOGE +5%, PEPE +2%, WIF +1%, BONK +1%, MOG +5%; Tron's leading meme $SUNDOG wicked to $1B after a $2M buy (now $340M)
- Donald Trump announced that he will launch World Liberty Financial on an X Spaces with Rug Radio on Monday night live from Mar-A-Lago
- eToro has settled with the SEC $1.5M and agrees to reduce its crypto services as a part of the settlement
- Coinbase announced its new Wrapped Bitcoin product cbBTC went live on ETH and Base, accumulating $100M in market cap on Day 1
- Grayscale launched its SUI Trust (+20%) and announced plans for an XRP Trust (+8%)
- A Judge elaborated on her ruling in the Kalshi vs CFTC prediction market case, citing the Chevron Rule and stating that the CFTC did not have authority to block them
🚀 Memecoin Movers
- $SPX (+78%, $18M market cap, ETH)
- $LOCKIN (+30%, $14M market cap, SOL)
- $WOLF (+19%, $28M market cap, ETH)
- $VISTA (+23%, $14M market cap, ETH)
- $PHIL (+11%, $21M market cap, ETH)
📈 NFT Floor Price Increase (ETH)
- Project Aeon (53%, 0.14 ETH Floor)
- CEDEN Keystone (47%, 0.11 ETH)
- Station3 (45%, 0.87 ETH)
- QQL (29%, 2.19 ETH)
- Surgartown Oras (26%, 0.14 ETH)
🗓 Upcoming Mints and Events
Today is another slower day of mints to cap off a slow week overall.
It looks to be a quiet weekend, which means anything that is able to gather attention has a chance to do well through the weekend.
See the full list and dive in for more details with Swizzy's daily mint monitor.
- Intrepid x SuperRare (10:00 a.m. ET)
- Memes by 6529 (11:00 a.m. ET)
- Ed Fornieles x Verse (12:00 p.m. ET)
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