👮 $1.1 MILLION NFT Scam Uncovered - 25th March, 2022

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24hr Market Overview

NFT Market Volume

Yesterday, Opensea saw a nice increase in volume trading $98.66 million, that's a 23.5% increase on Wednesday.

Azuki saw a second day of increased trading volume, closing the day at 5,092 ETH, up from 1,805 ETH on Wednesday. This comes as further unconfirmed rumors circulated on Twitter that Azuki may be doing a collaboration with the streetwear brand Supreme.

NeoTokyo Citizens also had a busier day than usual, trading 83.19 ETH, the project's biggest day in a month.

Bored Ape Yacht Club had a pretty average day, closing at 1,958 ETH, a very small decrease on Wednesday. Similarly, RTFKT - MNLTH also remained pretty consistent with its trading activity, totaling 366 ETH.

NFT Floor Changes

The markets were fairly green on Thursday. Azuki (16.90 ETH, +6.29%) continued its pump, up from lows of 8.85 ETH earlier in March. Many people often wonder which project will take the #3 spot behind BAYC and Crypto Punks, and you have to wonder whether that could be Azuki.

Gary Vaynerchuk's VeeCon Tickets (2.1 ETH, +31.25%) saw nice gains over the past 24 hours, the tickets allow holders exclusive access to his multi-day Veecon 2022 event. It was also announced that a special artist worked in collaboration with Gary to create the art for the Veecon Tickets which will be revealed at some point in April.

Small Bros (0.078 ETH, -59.54%) had a rough 24 hours. The project minted on Wednesday for 0.069 ETH, and for a short while on Thursday the floor was sitting at 0.18 ETH, however, this has since fallen back to around mint price. Holders are starting to become impatient after not being able to get access to the project's Discord.

Biggest Purchases

🥇 #1) Fidenza #692 bought for 320 ETH ($994,489.91)| Link

🥈 #2) Bored Ape #3231 bought for 170 ETH ($533,768.90)| Link

🥉 #3) Bored Ape #2987 bought for 135 ETH ($420,893.14)| Link

Latest NFT News

👮 US prosecutors have charged two men with fraud and money laundering over a rug-pull NFT Project. Ethan Nguyen and Andre Llacuna allegedly earned around $1.1 million by selling the NFT project 'Frosties'. After raising the money, they shut down the project and deleted the discord community, tweeting "I'm sorry". The upcoming 'Embers' NFT project has also been linked to them.

🎤 Award winning DJ Diplo joins rapper Nas for a musical NFT Drop on the NFT royalties based platform, Royal, on the Polygon chain. Diplo's single 'Don’t Forget My Love' will allow holders to receive royalties through holding NFTs. The NFT will have correspond to different percentages of ownership, with the cheapest, $99 NFT giving its owner 0.004% of the single's streaming royalties and the most expensive tier giving 0.7% for $9,999.

⚽ English soccer (or football) team, Liverpool FC, is the latest household name to embrace Web3 with the launch of their 'LFC Heroes' collection. The collection will feature 24 one-of-one NFTs (one for each first team player and their manager, Jürgen Klopp) and will launch on Sotheby's Metaverse from March 30th to April 1st

Scam Warnings

❌ The same as yesterday - A popular new scam vector has surfaced recently, with targeted emails asking the user to view a google document that they were not expecting. Do not click links that you were not expecting and use caution when interacting!

❌ Undead Blocks Discord hacked. The scam link (.net prefix) has been removed.

❌ Maison Ghost Discord hacked.

Today's Biggest Drops

Big Time: Exalted + Mythic Space Sale:Socials: Twitter - WebsiteWhen: 25th March 08:00 EST / 13:00 GMTPrice: 14680 USDC / 9,999Notes: You will need to create a Big Time account and deposit USDC in your Big Time account.Hype: 🟩🟩⬛

Alpha Sharks Presale:Socials: Discord - Twitter When: 25th March 10:00 EST / 15:00 GMTPrice: 0.2 Ξ / 5,969Notes: The supply for Alpha Sharks is broken down into 5500 for the Presale Whitelist and 469 for the Public Sale.Hype: 🟩⬛⬛

Meme of the Day

Credit: (twitter.com/PuffYatty)

That's all from us! Happy minting! 

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