Things are heating up in the CryptoSlam ecosystem with 2 big announcements this week. - CryptoSlam is partnering with Tatum to bring SLAMai’s Web3 intelligence
to their blockchain development platform. 
- The launch of SLAM Nation - a new hub for builders to power their AI
platforms with SLAMai insights, WalletDNA, developer and social support, and more. 
We’re just getting started, so stay tuned for more announcements over the coming weeks! Now onto the past week of big news and market
moves from across crypto and AI.
OpenSea Rewards Make Waves + $SEA TGE Details OpenSea’s first farming season rewards were distributed along with our first details about when we’ll get the marketplace’s new $SEA token. - Last Thursday traders got to cracking open their rewards chests that contained over $12M in
rewards.
- The community was largely disappointed with their rewards, some receiving just 1/5 of the value they spent on
farming NFTs and tokens.
- Some lucky traders received massive rewards like CryptoPunks, though they are expected to KYC.
- $SEA TGE details have emerged, with confirmation that the token will arrive in Q1
2026.
- 50% of $SEA supply will go to the community, 25% at the initial claim and the rest likely over a farming season.
- 50% of OpenSea revenue will be used to buy back $SEA.
- Staking rewards are in the works, and may share token and NFT trading fees with users who stake $SEA behind specific assets.
Coinbase and Binance Battle Over Listing Fees 
The CEX vs DEX war is brewing after a public battle over exchange listing fees. - Limitless founder CJ sparked a war of words after accusing Binance of charging nearly 10% of their token supply for
an exchange listing.
- CZ replied by revealing Binance’s practices, saying that Binance doesn’t receive payment, and instead gives
tokens to platform users and to use for marketing.
- An official Binance account joined the fight and accused the Limitless founder of making allegations that are
false and defamatory.
- Multiple project founders joined the conversation backing up claims that massive token fees are charged for token
listings.
- Coinbase took advantage of the narrative to finally list the BNB token on its own exchange, and launched a new “The Blue Carpet” listing experience site for token projects.
The Bored Apes are gearing up for their annual ApeFest and big announcements this week have the iconic NFT brand looking like their 2021/22 version. - ApeFest 2025 kicks off in Las Vegas this Thursday in Las Vegas.
- Yuga Labs announced that Big Boi, Clipse, Kodak Black, Justin Blau and Rhetorik will be performing at the
festival live.
- BMW is partnering with ApeFest again to likely give away a custom wrapped Ape themed
car.
- Big merch drops both at ComplexCon and ApeFest. The ApeFest merch can be purchased online.
- New NFT stickers arrived on Telegram for BAYC holders, while Yuga Labs announced that OpenSea is now the Bored Apes official marketplace partner.
AI 
The AI market is down 3.21% in the past 7 days to a $15.36B market cap. Top token movers include OPEN (+237.8%), FARTCOIN (-27.95%), FET (-20.43%), VIRTUAL (-14.15%), and IOTX (-12.32%). - The $VIRTUAL token got a surprise listing on Robinhood last week and announced their new Virtuals Robotics platform along with SeeSaw mobile app
- Six AI models are in a trading competition, each starting with $10K and trading to the top. Models include
DeepSeek, Grok4, Claude, QWEN3, GPT5, and Gemini 2.5.
- Backroom revealed a new partnership with Aerodrome to power their ICM Incubator
platform.
- Virtuals Butler utilization hit an all time high as traders farm weekly rewards for Unicorn
launches.
- Replicats have been accepted into Google for Startups Cloud Program.
NFTs 
- NFT sales fell -10.80% to $149.73M, while sellers fell -22.68%, buyers -8.27%, and trade profits -84.57% to -$6.42M.
- Top sales this week include Cobie’s UpOnly podcast NFT for $25M, XCOPY’s Do Nothing for 63.8 ETH ($246K), CryptoPunk 7625 for 47 ETH ($185K), and Plush Pepe #7 for 2,500 TON ($55,250).
- Magic Eden is dropping over $20K in RWA card packs today including some big Pokemon
prizes.
- NBA Top Shot made big changes to Rookie Moments rarity, dropping Commons to 1,140, Rare 492, and Legendary
35.
- Inscription #1 was sold for an undisclosed amount to one of the co-creators of the Ordinals
Protocol.
- Chimpers launched a new TokenWorks strategy token on Friday, hitting an ATH at 2.8m
MC.
- Igloo Inc partners with Invariant to bring Pudgy Penguins and $PENGU to Washington
D.C.
ETH NFT Composite - 590.89 (-3.32%)
SOL NFT Composite - 427.92 (-5.09%)
POL NFT Composite - 3.18 (-1.24%)
CAR NFT Composite
- 187.19 (-2.81%) Top Gainers 7d M - $2.24 (+10.2%)
HASH - $0.03665 (+10.0%)
FIGR_HELOC - $1.03 (+3.3%)
ZEC - $265.26 (+2.6%)
TRX - $0.3222 (+1.6%)
Top Losers 7d
COAI - $11.15 (-45.1%)
ASTER - $1.01 (-28.5%)
IP - $5.38
(-17.0%)
SEI - $0.1903 (-13.3%)
MNT - $1.64 (-13.3%)
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