Check out 10 NFT projects worth following in July

In the last week of June, old-school Ethereum blue-chip NFT projects rebounded. CryptoPunks rebounded by 24%, BAYC rebounded to 30% at one point, Pudgy Penguins rebounded to 50% at one point, and Azuki rebounded to 35% at one point. Solana’s top Mad Lads also rose by 40%, and Bitcoin’s top projects NodeMonkes and Bitcoin Puppets both rose by more than 20%.

Is this a signal for the bottom of NFT? The editor thinks it’s too early to open champagne at this time. However, let’s first look forward to July, which NFT projects are worth our attention.

Abstract Chain (formerly Frame)

As a NFT Layer2 chain, Frame has been silent since the airdrop pre-claim period was extended on January 30th this year. It wasn’t until last week that Frame finally revealed its big move - the chain was acquired by Igloo, the newly established parent company of Pudgy Penguins. With this, the veil has been lifted on all three brands in the Igloo ecosystem - Pudgy Penguins, on-chain IP authorization platform Overpass, and Frame.

Frame has undergone a brand overhaul. In addition to being renamed Abstract, the overall vision has also upgraded from empowering creators and providing a more convenient and secure NFT user experience to targeting mainstream consumers and promoting widespread adoption of Crypto.

The chain will have a protocol-level compulsory royalty to protect the rights and interests of creators. In addition, there has been technical cooperation with Azuki’s fragmented series Bobu in the ERC-6551 aspect before. After the intervention of the Pudgy Penguins team, the editor is looking forward to how this chain will bring breakthroughs in mass consumption.

However, the editor believes that in the short term, it is more hopeful to see Abstract become the “new paradise” for NFT players. Previously, Bitcoin (Ordinals) did not fully absorb the core NFT players of the Ethereum Mainnet, and Base also absorbed a part of the old NFT players, but the wealth effect has been relatively weak. On the contrary, Blast, which is actually not very focused on NFT, seems quite lively from the trading volume of dApps through fantasy.top and Yolo, as well as the promotion of foreign NFT influencers.

Can NFT players bring back a frenzy of ‘Silver Age’ on Abstract? ‘Bronze Age’ is fine too, as long as it gets lively…

Based VC

As the name suggests, Based VC is a licensed VC, with investment partners including well-known NFT projects such as CyberKongz and NeoTokyo.

They will issue a total supply of 2000 Free Mint NFT series. NFT holders will receive $BASED token airdrop, Alpha network access, and priority access to private/public sale of $BASED tokens. In addition, NFT holders can also stake $BASED in the future to enhance the equity level of NFTs.

This is the first time I’ve seen a VC strongly related to NFT issue their own series of pass NFTs to connect with more retail investors and form an Alpha community. Who wouldn’t like Free Mint?

Champions Tactics - The Champions

A Web3 multiplayer tactical competitive game from the gaming giant Ubisoft, which previously issued a Free Mint series called “The Warlords” with a total supply of 9999.

Although the total supply of the new series ‘The Champions’ is as high as 75000, according to the official website, players need to form a ‘3-person team’. This new series will be issued on the Oasys network, Free Mint, and will be minted on July 15th (for The Warlords holders) and July 18th (for allowlist and public sale) respectively.

The closed beta of the game will also start on July 4th. You may say, Ubisoft has come to Web3 and pulled out one of these?

However, the official website’s trailer is quite impressive. Since this is a Free Mint series, we can reserve Ubisoft’s breathing rights until after the actual game experience.

CybeReator

CybeReator has been highly anticipated in the Chinese NFT community due to the legendary Chinese NFT figure ‘Teacher Guan’ @jivacore. Although the project has been relatively quiet in the past few months, SoSoValue, a crypto finance research and innovation firm under Imagine Labs, just announced a $4.15 million seed round financing last week.

Is the tavern owner brewing a new surprise?

Pizza Pets

The first Bitcoin blockchain game brought by Bitcoin NFT projects Pizza Ninjas and MegaPunks. This series will be airdropped to multiple Ordinals communities including Pizza Ninjas and MegaPunks, presenting a Bitcoin-based blockchain-style pet breeding game.

In May, the editor had a conversation with Trevor, the founder of Pizza Ninjas, during Hong Kong Bitcoin Week. Bearded Trevor is very passionate about this series, which makes the editor excited as well. Since there will be a large Bitcoin event in Nashville, Tennessee, USA on July 24th, will Trevor bring surprises to the ‘ninjas’ at that time?

PROFILES

PROFILES is a PFP series and a digital fashion ecosystem. The project was created by @MONKEEMOTO, the first artist in residence of adidas’ Web3 Digital Artist Residency Program.

PROFILES will have a variety of digital wearables that users can equip on their PFPs, enabling extensive customization and personalization. By staking PROFILES PFP, users will receive new ‘outfit packs’ every quarter. @MONKEEMOTO aims to provide designers and fashion enthusiasts with tools, resources, and a platform to bring them into the world of Web3.

The editor is quite attracted by some of the clothing features that have been revealed now, and thinks that this project would be very suitable for using ERC-6551. However, the current plan for the project is to be issued on Solana. According to the official Q&A on the website, the planned issuance time is early July, and the minting price is still awaiting publication.

ChronosWorlds

Produced by SphereStudios, the blockchain game project ChronosWorlds, jointly incubated by the Web3 game incubator Seedify (@SeedifyFund) and the Web3 game platform Elixir Games (@Elixir_Games). This will be a mobile game where players obtain loot through real-time battles and exploration, upgrade their characters, and build their own homes.

The game’s total supply of the Free Mint series, which is 2250, will be issued on July 3rd, and Token $SPHR is also planned to be issued in the third quarter of this year.

Scribbles

Scribbles@Scribblesby 0x VM is the NFT project of @0x VM_BTC, 0x VM is a ‘modular Bitcoin execution layer’, and the mentioned partners currently include Razer, Jump Crypto, Huobi, and Zentry.

From the art previews released by the project and the answers from the mods in Discord, this is not a PFP project. In terms of empowerment, this can be considered a Pass card, as the official promotion mentioned the future airdrop of 0x VM tokens, pre-sale priority, and benefits for ecological partners.

The total supply is 888 , Free Mint. Due to the upcoming deadline for submitting the white wallet, the white list application will also be closed on July 7th. The author believes that this project is likely to be issued at some point in July.

Chooky Records

A music-related NFT project. Chooky Records is an on-chain record company, and their first song collaboration with American rapper Busta Rhymes has already gained 1.5 million plays on Spotify. In addition, they have announced partnerships with Disney-owned streaming service Hulu and the American ticketing sales and distribution company Ticketmaster.

The core right of NFT holders will be to receive a 10% share of the revenue from the sale of music and IP peripheral products on the platform. This series will be issued on the Base network in 1 day.

UniTap

UniTap’s purpose is to bridge the gap between the Tap Protocol (an improved version of the BRC-20 protocol previously developed by TRAC) and BRC-20 and Runes. It will support the mapping of Tap Protocol Tokens to BRC-20 and Runes, as well as seamless swapping between the three.

They will issue a total of 3000 OG Passes on July 3, priced at 0.0049 Bitcoin. Holders will receive 592 official Token airdrops in the future (296 on Tap Protocol and 296 on Runes) and enjoy fee-free transactions on the platform.

Given that TRAC has just announced the imminent launch of Tap Protocol (it’s been a really long time…), perhaps the Tap ecosystem will receive some attention?