Total BAYC thefts crack $18.5 million, “Ape Now, Pay Later” loans come for NFTs and more

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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 up to now. 

In response to knowledge from Dune, a consumer often called “Beetle” found that 130 BAYC and 268 MAYC NFTs have been reported for suspicious exercise, alongside 153 Azuki’s, 202 CloneX and 70 Moonbirds.

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

“Ape Now, Pay Later”

Decentralized finance lending platform, Teller Finance has launched a brand new characteristic that can 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 whole price ticket over time, very like different BNPL providers akin to 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 turn out to be the primary main Australian music pageant to make the most of NFT expertise as a part of its ticketing course of.

In response to the pageant’s official Twitter, a set of 1,111 restricted version NFTs will grant homeowners entry to the occasion like a traditional ticket, however can even open up particular options to the extra Web3 savvy pageant goers together with life-time tickets, VIP experiences, backstage passes and extra.

NFT expertise has entered the pageant ticketing area 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 spread of ultra-exclusive advantages, together with VIP experiences and life-time passes.

That’s not an NFT — That is an NFT.

New evaluation from CashNetUSA has discovered that Australians are large followers of NFTs, rating quantity 8 on the planet by way of month-to-month search quantity on Google and Twitter.

When it got here to sentiment, Australians have been fast to specific constructive ideas about NFT expertise — for each 1,000 tweets, 539 have been discovered to point out “love” for NFTs in comparison with 79 that expressed “hate”. Axie Infinity, the Vietnamese play-to-earn sensation, was the general Aussie favourite NFT undertaking.

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

Moreover, the research discovered that folks from Japanese European international locations have been probably the most captivated with NFTs on each side of the spectrum. Individuals from Montenegro have been almost certainly to submit pro-NFT tweets, whereas Twitter customers from Poland have been more likely to specific an anti-NFT sentiment.

One other survey, launched in March this yr by NFT Membership discovered that Aussies truly rank #2 on the planet for curiosity on the subject of NFTs, overwhelmed to the highest spot by Taiwan.