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In today's newsletter we look at virtual influencers and their rise in Web3. A new platform empowers them by tokenizing their brands, while we even see one particular influencer gaining traction! Let's goooo! 📡💙

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📡On Your Radar: Industry headlines

🔵 SocialFi and InfoFi platform Kaito currently has Mavryk Network as one of the major talking topics, because $MVRK TGE is coming soon. Mavryk will become an L1 blockchain network, tailored for the tokenization of Real-World Assets (RWAs).

🟦 Seiscan is the newest explorer for Sei Network, built by Etherscan.

🔷 Venus Protocol froze its services last week in order to help a victim who had been tricked. This shows the preventing crime from happening - as it happens - is possible in crypto.

🔵 The first week of September had less than 200,000 NFT buyers. Volume wise we're now at $91.96 million. Pudgy Penguins and Moonbirds, both projects were doing great this summer, saw their trading volume drop over 71%. The dip follows the months of July and August when the market did very well.

🟦 Perpetual trading platform Moonlander on Cronos has just been listed on DappRadar. It now has over $32 million in TVL.

🔷 You can now play EVE Frontier in its Free Trial Access phase, until September 15th.

🔥Grow the value of virtual celebrities with Alt.Town

You can launch memecoins, or invest in tokenized AI agents, and with the arrival of Alt.Town you can now bet on virtual celebrities. Tokenized Vtubers or virtual idols are core to the experience of Alt.Town. Built on opBNB and BNB Chain, this platform attracted over 8,500 active wallets in the past week. However, volume is still a bit low on Alt.Town, recording $32,190 in dapp volume in the past week.

With 29th spot in the SocialFi Rankings, Alt.town is still a small fish. Leading dapps in the charts attract hundreds of thousands of wallets per week. However, out of all those dapps Alt.town has seen the most growth. It's clear that the success of tokenized physical collectibles, memecoin launchpads and AI agents, have brought renewed interest to SocialFi.

In recent weeks we have seen a wide variety of new platforms launching and finding an audience. Drafted.fun is a fantasy esports prediction game, Hype.fun is all about tokenization of social influence, while Puush.fun brings that memecoin action to the Cronos community.

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👉 These are the top gaming NFT sales of the week

In the past 7 days, the top gaming NFT sold for 2.5 ETH or $10,700. It was the Town of the Duke for the MMORPG Mirandus. At the same time ChronoForge, another MMORPG, saw two of its land parcels sell for 2 ETH each. Among the top 10 you will also find assets for Forgotten Runiverse, Digidaigaku Genesis, and League of Kingdoms.

In the past 7 days, close to $7 million worth of NFT were traded. HV-MTL saw a serious uptick, increasing the average price by 62% to $213. Topia Worlds had a 52% increase in average price, reaching $1,510. With a 134% increase in average price, Forgotten Runes stands out as well.

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📡 Manage and track your tokens and NFT on Chiliz

We're excited to reveal that you can now explore Chiliz through your portfolio page on DappRadar. Simply list your wallet, and the portfolio will now show which tokens and NFTs you have in your Chiliz wallet.

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💥 Uniswap V2 grows thanks to memecoin money

Uniswap V2 is still seeing tremendous growth, growing its dapp volume 159% to $31.2 billion. At the same time the TVL of the platform went up 183% in the past 7 days, reaching a total of $5.4 billion. This alone places Uniswap V2 as #11 among all DeFi platforms.

This success mainly comes from memecoin deploying their liquidity in Uniswap V2, simply because it's easy to do. In terms of features, V3 and V4 of Uniswap are far superior. But technological features aren't always a reason for teams to deploy their liquidity.

Memecoin projects and AI agent platform often deploy their liquidity on Uniswap V2, and that's exactly what we're seeing here. Tokens may have a bit of overvaluation when they deploy, adding somewhat unrealistic value to the TVL of Uniswap V2. Nonetheless, this trend highlights the need for onchain immutability, allowing teams to utilize smart contracts as building blocks for their product.

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🔥 Virtual influencer Cloudheart gains traction

You thought the time of 100% digital influencers was still far away? Nothing is further from the truth. Cloudyheart is active on X, publishes music, and has her own cryptocurrency with $CLOUDY. This token on Solana gained 65% in value in the past week, now valued $0.000583. Therefore $CLOUDY is fastest growing cryptocurrency in the 'meme' category.

Interested in more virtual influencers? AIXBT is known for their crypto insights, while the AI character Truth Terminal became millionaire thanks $GOAT. There's a wide variety of virtual influencers already, and they are coming for the crypto space. Some of them simply make music or produce entertainment, others serve as information hubs for the crypto industry.

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