Latest Muri News

All proceeds from the auction event and sale of 7,000 NFTs will go to the German UN Refugee Agency. 

According to details from Audi, the event will kickstart on May 27. 

Muri unveiled the second part of its manga titled "When the Dark finds the Light" on the website muri.bar — fulfilling part of its main roadmap. The project released part one of its manga on its main website back in March. The second part was created by a Japanese studio.

The Muri floor is around 0.7 ETH, down about 9 percent in the past 24 hours. 

Late last night, Muri airdropped its Night City Land NFTs to holders. With these land NFTs, holders will eventually be able to "build and decorate your very own home." Night City will also host events, organized fights, and team quests. Collectors holding 10 or more NFTs will be able to merge individual lands into a special plot, "including a skyscraper option that's unlocked at 10+ Muris." Since appearing on OpenSea early this morning, Night City has generated 20.8 ETH in volume and the collection's floor price currently sits at 0.15 ETH.

As a preview to the eventual build of 'Night City' Muri is airdropping holders of its NFTs a piece of land. In a Twitter thread, the Muri team shared details about the upcoming land NFT and what holders can expect. Further details about Night City can be found in the project's plans in its latest blog post. 

Muri NFT announced an upcoming snapshot for a land plot airdrop in a tweet announcement on Saturday morning. The snapshot is slated for an unknown time on April 30. Each Muri NFT will be eligible for one land plot NFT airdrop. 

Gmoney's Brick Breaker debut

Gmoney made headlines Monday as the first punk owner to officially use his Punk's IP, leveraging it in the branding for the new Brick Breaker game from GM420 Labs. 

Though the public sale appears to have been botted, more than 2300 were minted at the 0.069 ETH mint price. The collection has already seen strong secondary trading volume. 

These "generative level" NFT games have some additional features highlighted on Monday as well:

• The entire game is unchain, including the code and graphics
• all owners are connected through a shared leaderboard
• anyone can play any of the games/levels simply by clicking in to the NFTs, but only the owners can record high scores

The game NFT has already traded over 400 ETH on secondary and holds at 0.28 ETH floor.

Muri Heats Up Ahead of Public Sale

The Muri project by Haus had a great Monday, as it completed the second phase of its primary sale with the Allow List group able to mint at 50% of the public dutch auction price (0.15 ETH). Over 7k NFTs were minted in the allow list sale, and the project floor rallied from a low point of 0.4 ETH all the way back to 0.6 ETH (a 50% jump in mid-day trading) on ~1100 ETH secondary volume.

The good news for the Haus team didn't stop with the Muri project. Their mint pass, hausphases, was also up ~20% on the day to a 0.69 ETH floor, as more folks realized that holding the Haus pass allowed owners to mint Muri along with other projects before and in the pipeline. The hausphases have now traded over 8300 ETH in secondary volume and have 5100+ owners.

There are just ~800 NFTs left for the final phase of the primary sale today, the public sale which will take place at 3 PM EST, now back at the 0.3 ETH mint price. Given the current secondary floor, this is likely to be a gas war and rapid sell out.

Muri began minting to its allow list today at 0.15 ETH mint price for the 24 hours. The team held a Dutch auction yesterday which sold out at 0.3 ETH, and the remaining unclaimed NFTs will then go to public sale back at 0.3 ETH after the allow list period closes. 

About 4,900 Muris have been minted from the allow list, with just under 2,500 left in the collection. The floor price has held up well through the discounted minting process holding around a 0.5 ETH floor and rising. With a similar minting process to that of the Azuki drop, the NFT community has been swarming this project and the Dutch auction was completed yesterday in under a minute. 

Robert Iger & the Metaverse?

Robert Iger, the former Disney CEO and Chairman, has joined the Board of Directors at Genies Inc., an LA-based NFT and Crypto company. Built with Dapper Labs, Genies Inc. sells digital avatar NFTs on "The Warehouse" marketplace, where it has attracted celebrities from Justin Bieber to Cardi B and a partnership with Universal Music Group.

Robert Iger has been around animation and art for a while, starting at Disney as COO in 2000 before becoming CEO in 2005, the position he held for 15 years.

Robert describing his interests said "I've always been drawn to the intersection between technology and art, and Genies provides unique and compelling opportunities to harness the power of that combination to enable new forms of creativity, expression, and communication,"  

Dour Darcels Collaboration

Dour Darcels has continued to perform well this week, dropping a collaboration announcement that kept the price action high and push the floor over 1 ETH. Partnering with the luxury streetwear store Colette, Dour Darcels has outperformed most of the market over the past week.  

Releasing 25 1/1 NFTs with Collette in an ode to Darcels, the team stated "It’s possible that without Colette Darcel would not be where he is today". Five of the NFTs from the collection will be given away to Dour Darcel holders, Nine of the NFTs will be raffled, one will be reserved for Colette, and the remaining 10 NFTs will be auctioned off. 

Larva Labs Hidden Meebit

A thread circulated on Twitter involving Larva Labs hiding a secret Pig Meebit as a prize for nearly a year. In a wild series of events, Andrew Badr and some friends unlocked a private key to access a Meebit that Larva Labs hid from the public.

The internet sleuths began digging after the Proof "Grails" dropped which included a piece from Larva Labs themselves. Inside the piece, a series of Ls set off one discord user's thoughts as it looked deliberate. After a series of translating and finding corresponding numbers within the Meebits collection, the group cracked the code to the 64 private key and acquired a special edition Pig Meebit. 

This is the story of how @larvalabs, the creators CryptoPunks, hid a secret NFT prize almost a year ago—and how a couple of friends and I recently solved the puzzle to claim it.

— Andrew Badr (@andrewbadr) March 14, 2022

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And oh yeah, we just had the biggest acquisition in NFT history, as Yuga Labs bought Larva Labs IP and inventory of Punks and Meebits in a deal that was revealed late Friday. 

It was an eventful weekend to say the least.

This has created an interesting market for new projects to drop, and we are likely to see a pickup in new releases. Here is a list of some notable drops for the week ahead.

In Presale

Muri by Haus had an impressive public dutch auction presale yesterday, ahead of today's allow list mint (3 pm EST) and tomorrow's remaining public sale. The dutch auction of 2000 NFTs sold out in seconds in a gas war at the top price of 0.3 ETH, and the secondary market quickly surged to mid 0.6s before falling back around 0.5 ETH today. 

This anime style project (which has Azuki-like vibes) is from a high caliber team, including founders from Apple and AWS, along with Disney artists. The roadmap starts with a token to be the center of this metaverse, earned by Muri holders (targeting Q1). From there, additional anime releases, physical models and a fashion line are planned.

There will be 5000 NFTs released in today's allow list sale (at 50% of the dutch auction price, so 0.15 ETH), and then the remaining 3000 will go to public sale on Tuesday at the final dutch auction price (so 0.3 ETH). This creates an interesting dynamic, as half of primary buyers will have a 0.15 cost basis while the other half will have a 0.3 ETH cost basis. If the secondary price remains above 0.3 ETH though, a gas war is the likely outcome on Tuesday.

Big Influencer/Artist Tie-ins

Three projects launching this week have some very notable partner and artist tie-ins - GM420 "Brick Breaker", NFTU and Neko Nation.

GM420 Labs

GM420 Labs is dropping 2500 on-chain generative levels of its Brick Breaker game as NFTs today.

Their mystery partner, recently revealed to be Gmoney, has greatly added to the hype, especially now that Gmoney's Ape Punk is be featured in the marketing.

This is very timely, as Punk owners received IP rights just on this past Friday, and thus this is being described as the "First game to be licensed by a punk."

Owners of the GM420 token are entitled to a free mint, and public sale details are expected later today.

NFTU

NFTU is one one of the first college sports NFTs, powered by Recur.

It has been touted by both Dave Portnoy and GaryVee, and thus could see a new potential group of market entrants. Two types of packs went on sale Monday in presale, premium cases for $24.99 and Common Cases for $9.99 - so NBA TopShot style pricing.

There will be 46,000 premium cases (with 5 NFTs each) released over 8 week and 90,000 common cases with 3 NFTs each. The public sale begins on the 15th at 11 AM EST.

Neko Nation

Launching Friday, Neko Nation is described as a "home to citizens and their nekos," and include three types of characters in their world - Catizens, Nekosinners and Nekomancers.

The team has announced collaborations with nine artists to create 1/1s, and this includes a collab with Seerlight, which has certainly added some weight to the project.

Most project details are fairly secretive and/or TBD, including mint price and supply, so be on the lookout for more detail as the week progresses.

Hyped Followings

While not the best metric to identify potential project success, Twitter following is certainly a starting point most minters look at when evaluating projects. These 3 have significant followings and thus will be ones to watch this week:

Skull Toons

Launching March 19, at 10 AM EST, is the latest 3D art project with skull themes from Neo-pop artist Teodoru Badiu.

This 7,777 supply project (mint price TBD) has over 111k followers on Twitter and thus will be a heavily watched mint this weekend. The roadmap includes plans to "summon Gavroche," host games, create a DAO and alludes to an airdrop of new NFTs from Teodoru.

The Ramen Shop,

Coming March 18, is a collection of 4600 3D animated ramen bowls (mint price 0.1 ETH; 2300 wL / 2300 public).

The team has leveraged phase 1 of its roadmap to build community, and has grown their twitter following to 55k+ (discord closed at 15k). The roadmap includes big future plans, including educational sessions and resources, a new project "Ramen Shop Friends", a metaverse and more utility. 

SkyVerse

Potentially dropping this week (date just recently moved) is a metaverse project with 5k unique floating islands and includes plans for a utility token $SKY.

The project's twitter has amassed 106k followers, leveraging partnerships with several projects including Godjira, Sneaky Vampire Syndicate and about a dozen others. From the project whitepaper, 95% of primary sales proceeds will be locked in the SkyVault for future roadmap development. The mint is 0.1 ETH and 100% allow list.

That's it for this week. As always, please do full diligence when evaluating new projects and use best practice wallet security (i.e. minting from fresh wallets), as we saw a few exploits in the past week. Stay safe out there, and happy minting!