LA’s Bored Ape lovers go hungry, Bitcoiners sell $500 Game Boy dupe and more
Bored and hungry LA flips the ultimate NFT-in-a-burger
Los Angeles burger restaurant Bored Up Yacht Club (BAYC) used the nonfungible token (NFT) as the brand is serving its last patties and fries after two years in business and selling as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).
“Today we said goodbye to the Bored and Hungry location in Long Beach, California,” co-founder Andy Nguyen said in an April 8 post.
Nguyen added “branding and franchising company” Hungry DAO has acquired the Bored and Hungry brand, which also has three locations in the Philippines, one in Seoul, South Korea and pop-ups in Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai at the end of the year. .
The restaurant's founding team will join DAO as a shareholder, and the brand will “soon announce their new home in America,” he added.
Bored Up NFT opened in April 2022, and other Bored Up NFT holders have launched businesses — including a Cuban restaurant in Miami — using their rights to NFT.
“The supportive BAYC and Web3 community helped us become the first to leverage ownership of digital IP assets and create a restaurant brand,” Nguyen wrote. “We're proud to have made our mark, and we're excited to see where it takes the community next.”
Game Boy dupe Bitcoin costs $500 to play NFTs.
Ordz Games, a gaming platform based on Bitcoin Ordinals, plans to launch a Bitcoin gaming console and crypto wallet that looks just like a Game Boy for a reported price of $500.
On April 7 at the Web3 gaming expo in Hong Kong, Ordz unveiled the BitBoy One device, which combines the name “Bitcoin” and “Game Boy” – not to be confused with the crypto influencer's one-time “Warrior” of the same name.
Ordz Games expects the console to cost around $500, with exact pricing pending, with pre-orders scheduled for mid-April, GamesBeat reports.
That's 10 times more than handheld retro game consoles like the Anburnik, which start at $50 and compete with the new entry-level PlayStation 5, which costs $50 more.
The BitBoy One can play retro-style play-to-evens games on Bitcoin using the NFT-emulating Ordinals protocol and act as a wallet to store any Bitcoin (BTC) earned, which – obviously – neither the PS5 nor Anbarnik consoles can do. .
The Bitcoin platform can be operated by users who can farm airdrops by leaving the decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) to work, according to the press release.
Doodles to make a movie with Lil Wayne as a skeleton
NFT collective Doodles teased the upcoming animated film Dullsville and The Doodleverse, which will feature rappers Lil Wayne and Koy LeRay as voice characters.
In an April 5 post on X, the group said the film's “storytelling experience” will begin rolling out “in the summer” (that's mid-year for non-Americans) with music, live events, collaborations, merchandise and NFTs. He decided to market it as “digital collection experiences”.
The marketing hype will culminate with the film's premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
Doodles kept little more details about the movie, but Lil Wayne, who is famous for his diamond-certified 2008 Lollipop and 2022 platinum hits, will play their respective movie characters “Captain Stock” – a skeleton – and “Daisy” – an anthropomorphic flower.
The music duo will also be involved in the film's original launch, produced by singer-songwriter and Doodles chief brand officer Pharrell Williams, which will include three music videos.
NFT sales fell for the 5th consecutive week
NFT sales volumes for all blockchains have slipped for the fifth week in a row due to a sharp drop in Ethereum NFT sales in early March.
Cryptoslam! The data shows that on March 4 of this year, NFT sales peaked at $80.4 million, which is more than 50% to $39.4 million five weeks later on April 8.
Ethereum NFT sales volume has seen a significant decline, with 30-day figures falling by almost 48% to $363.3 million – market leader Bitcoin by 13.5%, Solana by more than 15% and Polygon by almost 34%.
Over the past seven days, however, Bitcoin-based NFTs have seen a more than 24% jump in volume to $97.7 million — the only blockchain to post a weekly gain in the top five.
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The most traded NFTs of the past week and past 30 days were “Unassigned Ordinals,” which as the name suggests are not part of any recognized set of Bitcoin Ordinals.
These empty queues saw a transaction volume of $156 million in 30 days, a 54% decrease from the previous 30-day period – $37.4 million in the previous week.
Other news
Dogecoiners have done their own “Runestone” airdrop, copying the incentivized giveaway via Bitcoin Ordinals last month.
Crypto exchange Binance has pulled out of support of Bitcoin Ordinals, saying it needed to “streamline product offerings” nearly a year after introducing Bitcoin Ordinals to the NFT marketplace.
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