September 7th's NF3 Recap: The Sevens, Missing Frontier and Art Blocks

It seems that every day a new algorithmically-generated art project crops up, but sometimes hype surrounding a collection is so immense that it rises above the rest. The Sevens' strength is derived from its commitment to pop culture and reference to other IP.

From the project's OpenSea, which reveals that the floor has approached 1.55ETH mere hours after the mint sold out: "The Sevens is a collection of 7000 algorithmically generated pieces of art with references from pop culture, anime, games, memes and movies."

The hype around this project was so insane that the gas wars priced out a lot of smaller investors. Near the end of the mint period, gas went up to 8000 gwei, pricing almost everyone out. Someone swooped in and bought up 1000 of the total supply during that period.

For more info on how someone managed to scoop up 1,000, read on below:

Reveal begins tomorrow, September 8th, at 6:30PM UTC.

So much info surrounding Missing Frontier and the universe surrounding it (Missing Watcher) is shrouded in mystery. According to the Watcher's Twitter, "The Watcher S/N 404 is a mysterious entity lost in space." At the beginning of the month, The Watcher launched 2,000 black boxes—which sold out rapidly—that will each randomly mint 2 flash blocks of any tier for the game, Missing Frontier.

Missing Frontier is the corresponding PvP NFT game created by The Watch. Here's a blurb from the project's website, which you should definitely explore:

"Say goodbye to speculative NFTs and brace yourselves for the incoming era: Playable tokens and rewarding gameplays."

All flash blocks will be unveiled down the line, in "a few weeks" according to the project's website. Very few projects have such an extensively thought-out corresponding game, lore and roadmap. The floor explosion recently reflects these unique aspects of the game and its corresponding tokens, reminiscent of the success of Parallel.

This is a project to watch.

Christie's announced today that their Post-War to Present show, which we already knew would feature Curio Cards, will also feature the sale of Art Blocks Curated: Sets 1-3. Art Blocks was one of the first big generative art projects in the NFT landscape, and continues to be one of the most dominant collections in the entire space.

Another interesting aspect of this auction: bidding will be conducted live in ETH. This marks the first time that a leading auction house has utilized this capability, rather than converting from fiat.

Art Blocks continues to make waves. We'll have to wait and see what happens after the auction on October 1st.