DeGods has dominated the Solana NFT area, racking up extra buying and selling quantity in SOL than every other undertaking. It now plans to maneuver over to Ethereum, and the undertaking seems to have already caught the attention of not less than one massive investor within the area.
A pseudonymous NFT dealer generally known as “Pokeee” spent almost $1 million to brush 69 DeGods NFTs on Monday. Pokeee made the purchase via the Magic Eden market, utilizing its device that lets patrons “sweep the ground” or purchase up a desired quantity of NFTs from a undertaking. Merchants typically buy quite a few lowest-priced NFTs in a undertaking as a guess on the long run success of the gathering, reasonably than individually deciding on extra useful property.
Pokeee beforehand promised to take action if his tweet from January 13 obtained 1,000 likes on Twitter. He wrote that he would purchase 69 of the NFTs “in help of” the undertaking’s impending transfer to Ethereum, and the tweet in the end racked up almost 3,000 likes. Three days later, the roughly $900,000 buy was accomplished.
Magic Eden beforehand solely allowed as much as 50 NFTs to be bought at a time via its bulk shopping for function. However when prompted by the prospective buyer, who claimed that the proposed change was “of final inconvenience” late on Sunday, {the marketplace} upgraded the performance and enabled the bigger mass buy.
Pokeee (on Twitter) claims to be the identical proprietor behind the Pokeee.eth Ethereum pockets, which holds three useful Bored Ape Yacht Membership NFTs in addition to the titular Ethereum Identify Service (ENS) title and different NFT collectibles.
In a textual content interview that Magic Eden posted as we speak by way of {the marketplace}’s web site, Pokeee claimed that he runs a non-public crypto fund, and stated that he made this sizable DeGods play as a result of undertaking’s deliberate transfer to Ethereum.
“My objective of this funding is definitely to have them bridged to ETH,” he stated. “On account of on-chain dangers, I wasn’t in a position to deploy bigger parts of my portfolio into Solana. I used to be having enjoyable in Solana on smaller NFTs and mints again then.”
DeGods has racked up some $135 million value of buying and selling quantity thus far, per knowledge from CryptoSlam. Whereas it’s crushed in complete USD buying and selling worth by tasks like Solana Monkey Enterprise and Degenerate Ape Academy that have been common when SOL was far more useful, DeGods tops all tasks on a SOL foundation with 3.7 million SOL value of buying and selling thus far.
The undertaking launched in late 2021 however rose considerably in worth and prominence final 12 months, as developer DeLabs—led by the pseudonymous Frank, who just lately revealed his actual title as Rohun Vora—debuted a reward token, rolled out new paintings, bought the rights to a BIG3 basketball league group, and launched a follow-up undertaking known as y00ts.
In late December, DeLabs announced that DeGods might be bridged to Ethereum’s mainnet whereas y00ts will bridge over to Polygon, an Ethereum sidechain. The studio plans to finish each strikes by the top of this quarter, and disclosed that it obtained a $3 million grant from Polygon Labs to maneuver y00ts to the Polygon chain.