A Dune analytics platform consumer has discovered that greater than $18.5 million value of Bored Ape Yacht Membership (BAYC) and Mutant Ape Yacht Membership (MAYC) nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have been marked as stolen or flagged for suspicious exercise on OpenSea so far. 

In accordance to knowledge from Dune, a consumer generally known as Beetle found that 130 BAYC and 268 MAYC NFTs had been reported for suspicious exercise, alongside 153 Azuki’s, 202 CloneX and 70 Moonbirds.

The entire market value of stolen NFTs from these notable collections quantities to simply over $25 million.

This dashboard appears to be like into locked PFP NFTs on OpenSea which have been flagged as stolen/suspicious

Fascinating work by Beetle https://t.co/gJsgaraoVL

— Dune (@DuneAnalytics) July 6, 2022

“Ape Now, Pay Later”

Decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform Teller Finance has launched a brand new characteristic that may grant its customers entry to a “purchase now, pay later” (BNPL) characteristic to buy NFTs.

The brand new characteristic, humorously titled “Ape Now, Pay Later,” is constructed on the Polygon Community and permits customers to personal NFTs outright whereas paying off the full price ticket over time, very similar to different BNPL companies reminiscent of AfterPay.

On the time of writing, Teller Finance’s BNPL characteristic applies to notable NFT collections together with Bored Ape Yacht Membership, Mutant Ape Yacht Membership, Moonbirds, Doodles, Cool Cats, Azuki, Meebits and extra.

Australia launches first NFT-ticketed music pageant

An all-ages touring music pageant named “The Grass is Greener” has develop into the primary main Australian music pageant to make the most of NFT expertise as a part of its ticketing course of.

We’re SO excited to make our mark in historical past as Australia’s FIRST EVER NFT ticketed music pageant.

With a restricted provide of distinctive PFP NFTs…that is the FIRST EVER PFP NFT Ticketed Music Pageant within the WORLD!

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— The Grass is Greener Music Pageant (@TGIGFestival_) Might 17, 2022

In line with the pageant’s official Twitter, a set of 1,111 limited-edition NFTs will grant homeowners entry to the occasion like a traditional ticket, however may even open up particular options to the extra Web3 savvy festival-goers together with lifetime tickets, VIP experiences, backstage passes and extra.

NFT expertise has entered the pageant ticketing enviornment globally. Earlier this yr, main American music pageant Coachella built-in NFT expertise with their “Coachella Keys” assortment, which allowed dedicated followers to mint NFTs that granted a variety of ultra-exclusive advantages, together with VIP experiences and lifelong passes.

That’s not an NFT — That is an NFT.

New evaluation from CashNetUSA has discovered that Australians are huge followers of NFTs, rating quantity eight on the earth by way of month-to-month search quantity on Google and Twitter.

When it got here to sentiment, Australians had been fast to precise optimistic ideas about NFT expertise. For each 1,000 tweets, 539 had been discovered to indicate “love” for NFTs in contrast with 79 that expressed “hate.” Axie Infinity, the Vietnamese play-to-earn sensation, was the general Aussie favourite NFT challenge.

Singapore and Hong Kong took the highest spots, nevertheless, with extra searches for NFTs than every other nation with 18,717 and 15,213 month-to-month searches, respectively. 

Moreover, the examine discovered that folks from Jap European nations had been essentially the most obsessed with NFTs on either side of the spectrum. Folks from Montenegro had been most certainly to publish pro-NFT tweets, whereas Twitter customers from Poland had been more likely to precise an anti-NFT sentiment.

One other survey launched in March this yr by NFT Membership discovered that Aussies really rank quantity two on the earth for curiosity in relation to NFTs, overwhelmed to the highest spot by Taiwan.