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Now let’s dive into the biggest stories in Web3 from the past week.
Animoca Brands’ Big Moves Continue It was another big week of news for Animoca Brands and their portfolio companies, coming on the heels of last week’s major announcement of a reverse merger with Currenc (with a current valuation of nearly $5B). - Wizzwoods, a multi-chain pixel farm game, announced a $10M raise with Animoca as their lead
investor.
- Cool Cats, who Animoca has a majority stake in, released their Cooltopia game on
Telegram.
- Anichess, the Web3 chess game developed by Animoca in partnership with Chess.com, integrated its
$CHECK token into the gaming experience, and is now listed on OpenSea.
- CryptoSlam announces that their NFT data will power NFT metrics on Yahoo Finance’s new Crypto
Hub.
- Animoca Brands Research dropped their Q3 Listing Report, breaking down the current
token economy.
Aerodrome Takes Flight 
Aerodrome Finance announced major news about plans to merge
with Velodrome to offer a single token and single platform. - Aerodrome’s $AERO token and Velodrome’s $VELO token will consolidate into 1 $AERO token.
- 94.5% of the $AERO supply will go to current $AERO token holders and 5.5% will go to current $VELO holders.
- $AERO will launch on Base and then expand to Ethereum, ARC (Circle’s chain), Syndicate and more EVM chains.
- The Aero platform will be built on MetaDEX03 and offer cross-chain swaps, hidden bridging, private MEV protection, yield compounding, analytics, and zero-fee token launches.
- Aero launches in Q2 2026.
Who Says NFTs are Dead? 
The FWOG memecoin creator launched a phygital NFT collection and proved to doubters that the right products can still thrive as NFTs. - The FWOG NFT mint comes from the artist, Wut, and is a blind box phygital on Solana, priced at $25 for a single box, or $240 for a 12 pack.
- Within 3 days the collection saw 21,165 boxes minted, raising around $460K.
- The major turnout shows that collectors still will show up to collect when the intention is pure, but in this case speculation about an associated ETH PFP collection helped…
- Following the close of the mint, Wut revealed a 5,555 ed NFT collection on Ethereum. Rumors suggest box minters will get a
whitelist for the NFT collection which might be free.
AI 
The AI market is down -19.9% in the past 7 days to a $6.25B market cap. Top token movers include ALCH (+27.14%), FARTCOIN (-29.56%), TOSHI (-28%), REKT (-27.15%), and VIRTUAL (-26.58%). - PredictBase released their v3 prediction market platform including order books, and bets with no
approvals.
- Abstract Chain revealed their new AI accelerator program.
- Virtuals releases ACP Scan, a global agent directory for agents to show example
jobs.
- AI robotics team Small Thing responds to FUD after being accused of manipulating their
token price.
- 2wai team’s tweet gets over 40 million views for their app that turns loved ones into AI
avatars.
- Anthropic uncovers a major AI led espionage campaign from Chinese state sponsored group
who used AI tools to hack into businesses.
NFTs 
- NFT sales fell -5.20% to $76.18M, a new 54 week low. Buyers declined -41.35%, sellers were down
-44.01%, but average sale price climbed 39.49% to $83.75, and trade profits were up 46.19% to -$6.85M.
- Rekt Brands’ Rekt Drinks will now be carried in Giant Eagle stores across Ohio Pennsylvania,
Maryland, and Indiana.
- Otherside metaverse officially opens its doors to the persistent metaverse with the launch
of Nexus.
- Magic Eden announces 30% of all secondary marketplace revenue will go towards $ME token
buybacks.
- Claynosaurz are sponsoring the 2025 World Animation Summit, which includes major names like Netflix,
Disney, Warner Bros, and DreamWorks.
- Cool Cats join the OpenSea Flagship Collection.
- Pudgy Penguins publish a new kids book titled The Worst Birthday Gift
Ever.
ETH NFT Composite - 473.30 (-5.51%)
SOL NFT Composite - 404.51 (-7.85%)
CAR NFT Composite - 150.92 (-4.80%) Top Gainers 7d ASTER - $1.38 (+30.3%)
ZEC - $579.93 (+19.3%)
XMR - $404.72 (+9.6%)
LEO - $9.43 (+2.5%)
CC - $0.1121 (+1.6%)
Top Losers 7d
PUMP - $0.003119 (-29.5%)
SUI - $1.66 (-20.2%)
ICP - $5.20
(-20.1%)
HBAR - $0.1487 (-19.5%)
CRO - $0.1064 (-19.1%) |
