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10/12/2026

🧭 Mint Radar: 3 mints to watch this week (Oct 12-18)

A thinner week for new mints, and confirmed pricing is thin too. Two of the three have TBA prices and the third is an unconfirmed free claim, so check official channels before committing anything.

1. Enjin, "Terra Essence" claim, Tuesday Oct 13 (Enjin ecosystem, claim via the Multiverse dashboard). Price looks like a free claim, but the team has not confirmed price, supply, or a time of day. Why watch: it is billed as a season pass to Enjin's Multiverse, unlocking the Earth Season, so this is a functional in-ecosystem credential from an established gaming-NFT name with shipped products, not a static art drop.

2. Dalos, "Unfinished Past" on SuperRare, Thursday Oct 15 at 1:00 PM ET. Price TBA, 150 works total with 105 available across presale and public, on Ethereum. Why watch: participatory AI art where each piece evolves over seven years based on the collector's annual on-chain choice to "remember" or "let go." Genuinely novel mechanics, and a real test of whether long-horizon curated art has a home after Foundation's wind-down.

3. Teddy London, "The Crew," mint window opens Friday Oct 16 at 8:05 PM ET and runs through Oct 24 (Base, own mint site). Price not published; holders of the OG "The Beginning" collection get a free mint allocation, plus 21 extra free spots via the Turf Wars leaderboard. 1,977 supply. Why watch: every NFT carries hidden game stats (Aggression, Loyalty, Street Cred) powering Turf Wars, a live Top Trumps-style battle game holders already play. A follow-up to a sold-out January 2026 collection from a team with a shipped product and an active community.

📅 Mint calendar (ET):
Tue Oct 13: Enjin Terra Essence claim opens (free claim, Enjin)
Thu Oct 15, 1:00 PM ET: Dalos "Unfinished Past" on SuperRare (price TBA)
Fri Oct 16, 8:05 PM ET: Teddy London "The Crew" opens on Base (free for OGs)

Two takeaways: utility is leading the week, all three drops tie to games, seasons, or live play rather than static art. And loyalty mechanics keep showing up, season passes, OG free allocations, and free spots through leaderboards reward people who already showed up.

Watch dates:
• Oct 13: Gods Unchained Reckoning pack sale opens (runs to Nov 10; 87 cards, sealed tradable NFT packs)
• Oct 14: Yakkamon reveal (10,000 blind eggs + 1,500 event eggs, Ronin)
• Oct 16: RavenQuest Fortune's Frontier Season 0 (3:00 PM UTC, Immutable zkEVM)
• Oct 29: Ethernal Cubs free mint (3,333 Orbs, Robinhood Chain; whitelist closes Oct 28)

Informational only, not financial advice. Any of these on your radar this week?

Sources in the comments.

10/11/2026

🐄 Sunday floor check: blue chips under pressure as ETH slides.

ETH is hovering around $2,500, down about 7.5% on the week, and most blue chip floors are feeling it. One notable exception this week.

All figures approximate, as of October 11, 2026.

1. CryptoPunks: ~33 ETH (~$82,500), roughly flat to slightly down (~-2 to -3%). Volume is the story here, not price. A ~63 Punk sweep on Sept 23 drove an ~11x weekly volume surge, and two rare Punks sold Oct 1, including the only 7-trait Punk for 3M USDC.

2. Bored Ape Yacht Club: ~6.0 ETH (~$15,000), roughly flat to slightly down (~-2 to -4%). Drifting sideways after a weak September, no single driver, broader blue chip malaise.

3. Pudgy Penguins: ~3.3 ETH (~$8,250), up ~7 to 10%. The outlier of the week. Igloo Inc. announced the Abstract L2 shutdown on Oct 6, refocusing on Pudgy Penguins, and a fresh $1M wallet bought 25 Penguins on Oct 7, spiking the floor ~6.8% in a day on roughly 10x normal volume.

4. Azuki: ~0.60 ETH (~$1,500). Week-over-week change could not be verified against a recent baseline, so treat this as a snapshot, not a trend.

5. Milady Maker: ~1.0 ETH (~$2,425), roughly flat on the week. The culture pick, holding steady while the market churns.

Market takeaways: ETH itself is the biggest driver right now. Floors measured in ETH look flat, but in dollars almost everything is cheaper than a week ago. And single catalysts still cut through a quiet market, as the Pudgy whale buy shows.

This is informational, not financial advice. Which floor are you watching closest right now?

Sources in the comments.

10/10/2026

🚩 RED FLAG SATURDAY #1 🚩

This week's red flag: where you buy your hardware wallet matters as much as owning one.

On October 9, Ledger announced it is investigating reports of drained wallets tied to buyers who purchased devices from a reseller called CryptoBilis in Southeast Asia. Onchain sleuth Specter claims inflows from hundreds of victim wallets across Ethereum, TRON, and Bitcoin, with losses of more than $86 million, but those figures are not yet confirmed and Ledger's investigation is still open.

The suspected vector: supply chain tampering. A device that passes through a third party can arrive pre-configured with a recovery phrase the scammer already knows, or the box can include a pre-filled recovery sheet. From that moment, anything you send to that wallet is already theirs.

Ledger says its own systems and infrastructure were not compromised, that no reports involve devices bought directly from Ledger, and it has asked CryptoBilis to halt sales and shipments. Its advice to anyone who bought from that reseller in the last 90 days: do not set up a device you have not opened yet, or move your assets to a new device with a fresh recovery phrase.

Hardware wallets are still one of the safest ways to hold NFTs, but only when the device itself is clean. This week's save-worthy checklist:

✅ BUY DIRECT: Order only from the manufacturer's official site, never marketplaces or third-party resellers, however legit they look.
✅ GENERATE YOUR OWN: A new device must create its OWN recovery phrase during setup. If the box arrives with a pre-written phrase, stop. That is a scam.
✅ VERIFY GENUINE: Run the manufacturer's genuine check in the official app before you move any funds.
✅ SEED PHRASE RULE: Your recovery phrase lives on paper, in your hand. Never type it into an app, a website, an email, or a support chat. Ledger says it will never ask for your 24 words, and no legit company will.
✅ CHECK WHAT YOU SIGN: Clear-sign every transaction and confirm the address on the device's own screen, not just on your phone or laptop.

Genuine question for the comments: do you keep your NFTs on a hardware wallet yet?

Sources in the comments.

10/08/2026

🐄 THE NFT REPORT, Thursday, October 8

1) ⚠️ Abstract, Pudgy Penguins' L2, is shutting down: NFT collectors have until Dec 15 (announced Oct 6)
Abstract, the consumer Ethereum L2 built by Igloo (Pudgy Penguins' parent company), announced it is shutting down after nearly three years. The chain goes dark Dec 15, 2026, and anything left after that becomes inaccessible. Blast announced its own shutdown days earlier, making Abstract the second Ethereum-linked L2 to wind down in under a week.
Why it matters: the NFT catch. Abstract's Migration Hub moves ETH and ERC-20 tokens, but NFTs may need action outside the hub depending on each project's plan, and each project decides its own migration. The Abstract team itself warns of impersonators, fake migration sites, and scam DMs, the classic shutdown-phishing setup. Note: the original Pudgy Penguins collection on Ethereum mainnet and PENGU on Solana are not affected.

2) Gods Unchained "Reckoning": sealed packs you can trade without opening (sale opens Oct 13)
Gods Unchained's new 87-card expansion goes on sale Oct 13, running four weeks through Nov 10. Pack tiers run $1.99 to $249.99 (Mega Shiny). For the first time, the packs themselves are NFTs, so you can hold, trade, or open them whenever you're ready, creating a sealed-product secondary market like physical TCG booster boxes. "Divine Tithings" lets players burn existing cards for up to 35% off a pack purchase, an on-chain deflationary mechanic for card supply.
Why it matters: sealed-NFT speculation is a real money mechanic borrowed straight from physical card games. Watch whether the burn-for-discount actually deflates card supply. Flag: pack mechanics are team-stated from the official collector's guide, no independent market data yet.

3) Astra Nova torches 350M RVV in the first phase of a 1B token mega-burn (Oct 2)
The AI-gaming ecosystem burned 350 million RVV tokens in a single BNB Chain transaction, the first of six phases in a 1 billion RVV Mega Burn. Max supply drops from 10B to 9B, and the team's figures put circulating supply at about 1.02B, so the full program is roughly the size of the entire circulating float. A continuous buyback-and-burn tied to TokenPlay transaction fees burns alongside it.
Why it matters: a live case study in game-token deflation, scheduled mega-burn plus fee-linked continuous burn. Context: RVV suffered a roughly $10M market-maker hack in Oct 2025, and the team completed a 660M-RVV buyback in Jan 2026. Flag: figures are team-stated, and the team did not disclose which allocation the burned tokens came from.

4) SecondFi opens recovery portal for June's $21M Cardano hack: 30 ADA per NFT, about $7.60 (Oct 8)
SecondFi, at the center of a June 2026 Cardano hack (a nonce-derivation flaw that let attackers derive private keys), opened a claims portal paying 30 ADA per unrecoverable NFT, roughly $7.60. Victims verify against an incident snapshot, generate a zero-knowledge proof (up to 15 min), wait up to five working days, and must set up a brand-new Cardano wallet.
Why it matters: the math. Pennies-on-the-dollar compensation is the brutal reality of post-hack payouts. And a red flag worth knowing: the outlet reporting this says SecondFi asks victims to enter their private recovery phrases directly on the company's site, a practice every security playbook calls phishing 101, even when the asker claims to be legitimate. No legitimate process should ever need your seed phrase on a website. Flag: single-sourced (The Currency Analytics), treat the seed-phrase claim as that outlet's reporting, not verified fact.

5) CFTC proposes a federal crypto rulebook while Treasury scraps the $10K wallet-reporting rule (Oct 5-6)
On Oct 5, the CFTC proposed Regulation CTX (crypto asset transactions) and Regulation CAM (a new "crypto asset market" registration category), a federal rulebook for exchanges offering leveraged trading, with proof-of-reserves obligations and anti-manipulation controls. On Oct 6, FinCEN withdrew the never-finalized 2020 proposal requiring reports on crypto transfers over $10,000 to self-custodied wallets, plus a 2023 mixer-reporting proposal.
Why it matters: directly relevant to NFT marketplaces and collectors. The CFTC's "actual delivery" line turns on whether customers control their private keys, which determines whether spot markets fall under federal oversight, and proof-of-reserves may become standard. The FinCEN withdrawal removes a long-standing compliance threat over self-custody wallets, which every NFT collector uses. Flag: these are proposals, not final rules. Comment windows are open, nothing is final.

🧠 SAVE THIS: ABSTRACT SHUTDOWN SAFETY CHECKLIST
• Inventory every wallet that ever touched Abstract, you'd be surprised what's still parked there
• Migrate only through official links (migrate.abs.xyz), never through a DM or a link someone sent you
• For each NFT collection, get the migration plan from the project's own verified channels, the hub may not move your NFTs
• Pull assets out of apps and positions first, then bridge, and allow up to 24 hours for bridge times
• Treat every "migration" DM as a scam until proven otherwise, the team itself warns this will happen
• Don't wait for December, bridge delays and project cutoffs can strand you

📦 KEY TAKEAWAYS
• L2s aren't permanent: the second Ethereum-linked chain wound down this week. If your NFTs live on a smaller chain, know the exit plan.
• Game-token economics are running live deflation experiments: sealed packs you can trade, mega-burns, fee-linked burns.
• Post-hack recovery is usually pennies on the dollar. Prevention (revoking approvals, test sends) beats any portal.
• Regulators are writing the rulebook in real time, and self-custody just caught a break.

📅 DATES ON THE CALENDAR
• Gods Unchained Reckoning pack sale opens Oct 13 (runs through Nov 10)
• Yakkamon Genesis reveal Oct 14
• RavenQuest Fortune's Frontier launches Oct 16
• Ethernal Cubs free mint Oct 29 (whitelist closes Oct 28)
• KOMPETE October Ticket ends Oct 31
• Abstract chain goes dark Dec 15 (migration cutoff)

Sources in the comments.

Genuine question for the room: if your favorite chain announced a 60-day shutdown tomorrow, which of your NFTs would you save first, and what would you check before moving them?

10/08/2026

🐄 THE NFT REPORT: this week's episode is live!

Daisy and the Professor are back behind the MOO19 news desk:
📊 Market check on Curio Cards, Azuki, Dmitri Cherniak's Ringers, Uniswap v3 Positions, and NodeMonkes, with floors and volume
🧠 Cow-pedia: the Professor breaks down decentralized metadata, IPFS and Arweave
🌦️ The MOO19 Weather Center with your crypto market outlook
⭐ This week's ratings, from 7.1 up to 9.8

Which collection should get the deep dive next week?

10/07/2026

🐄 THE NFT REPORT, Wednesday, October 7

1) Oh Baby Pass mints tomorrow: Oh Baby Games' first NFT (Oct 8)
After four years shipping games (Oh Baby Kart, Shogun Curse, Bam Bam Boom, Pawker), the studio drops its first NFT, the Oh Baby Pass. 1,250 supply, 0.10 ETH, three phases all on Oct 8 via OpenSea on Ethereum. The pass levels up as you play across the studio's catalog, and past play counts retroactively.
Why it matters: this is the games-first, assets-second approach the space keeps asking for. One NFT carrying progression across multiple shipped titles is a rarity. Caveat: writeups disagree on the public-mint times, so confirm the hour on the project's own channels before showing up. (Studio raised a $6M seed round in 2023 and ran a Paramount/Nickelodeon SpongeBob collab.)

2) MMU Frontier: Season One launches with an Outpost NFT drop (Oct 5)
Chadlabs' free browser-based Mars colony survival game opened Season One. The Outpost Collection on WAX: 22 machines in 5 finishes, 18,415 cards total, $10 packs of 5, no reprints. The Founders' Blend lets holders of the original collections burn 10 old NFTs for new cards and packs until Nov 2. A 20-billion CHAD season reward jar is live across the first four seasons.
Why it matters: the burn-and-reblend echoes the dead-game NFT recycling trend, and the season jar is the money-mechanics angle. Flag: so far this is project-published (team blog and YouTube), with no independent press yet.

3) Illuvium crowns its first Arena Challengers champion (Oct 4)
Illuvium's Arena Challengers Series #1 grand finals ran Oct 4, broadcast live with eight top players. Patch 1.18.7 reshaped the meta days before (a heavy Rypter Omega nerf, Verminio and Octius buffs). Earlier coverage earmarked $14M+ for future tournaments.
Why it matters: a major NFT game building real competitive infrastructure, recurring format, balance patches, and prize pools. Substance over hype.

4) Duck My Duck: 6M Telegram players, Ducky Gods volume tops 55K GRAM
The Telegram social GameFi platform reports 6 million registered players, twice last year's figure. Its Ducky Gods NFT collection (gameplay multipliers, tournament access) crossed 55,000 GRAM in trading volume on Getgems. Core loops: duck breeding and genetics, clan battles, leaderboards.
Why it matters: actual scale in the TON ecosystem, with secondary-market demand for utility NFTs. Flag: company press release, all figures are team-stated.

5) ⚠️ NEAR Intents: $3.8M cross-chain exploit fully recovered (Oct 2)
Someone drained about $3.87M in USDT from a BNB Chain vault through a bug in the Omni deposit and withdrawal infrastructure. The team identified the exploiter within 24 hours, patched within an hour, and the full amount came back Oct 2; services resumed across 11 networks. Post-mortem is still pending.
Why it matters: the rare good outcome. It also marks the soft spot: cross-chain deposit paths, bridges, intents, and vaults are where the money leaks.

🧠 SAVE THIS: CROSS-CHAIN SAFETY CHECKLIST
• Moving assets across chains means trusting a contract you didn't write: read what it does first
• Approvals are the attack surface: revoke unused ones (Revoke.cash), check allowances regularly
• Large transfers: send a small test amount first, confirm the path works
• When a protocol is exploited, freeze your approvals immediately, don't wait for the post-mortem

📦 KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Gaming is still where NFT utility lives: progression passes, season jars, and esports structures.
• Burns and blends are becoming the standard way old collections stay relevant.
• Cross-chain is the highest-risk surface in the stack: test small, revoke often.

📅 DATES ON THE CALENDAR
• Oh Baby Pass mint, Oct 8 (Ethereum, OpenSea)
• Lunar Flock penguin mint, Oct 10-17 (Base)
• Yakkamon Genesis reveal, Oct 14
• RavenQuest Fortune's Frontier launches Oct 16
• Ethernal Cubs free mint, Oct 29 (whitelist closes Oct 28)
• Ubisoft Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles sunsets Oct 30

Sources in the comments.

Genuine question for the room: if one NFT leveled up across every game you play, what should it unlock first, and why?

10/06/2026

🐄 THE NFT REPORT, Tuesday, October 6

1) NomStead turns crafted gear into tradable NFT Packs (Oct 5)
NomStead, the tile-based sandbox MMO on Immutable zkEVM, now lets players "pack" high-tier items, Demon Weapons, tools, and hard-to-craft production buildings (Industries), into NFT Packs that trade on the secondary market. These items were account-locked before; packed items become onchain assets that can be sold peer to peer (a NomStead Visa is required for in-game P2P trading). A division of labor is already emerging: crafters build, fighters buy.
Why it matters: this is the money-mechanics thesis playing out live. Player labor converts into liquid assets, and the game grows real specialist roles. The open question is whether prices hold once the novelty fades.

2) ⚠️ DON'T LET AN AI DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE (save this one)
Around 80 people lost a reported $69,651 in September to Tronify.rent, a site posing as a TRON "energy rental" service. It claims a Florida LLC address and SOC 2 compliance, none of which is confirmed. The twist: at least one victim asked Google Gemini whether the site was safe and was told it appeared safe. Independent threat data backs the red flags: PhishDestroy flagged the domain in February and April with a 90/100 critical rating, and registrar abuse reports went unanswered. The loss figure comes from investigator JP's Oct 4 report and has not been independently forensically confirmed; the Gemini endorsement claim rests on one victim report.
Why it matters: AI assistants reason about a site's text while seeing none of the chain signals. Trust tooling, not summaries.

🧠 SCAM RED-FLAG CHECKLIST
• An AI said it's safe: get a second opinion from a security tool, not another chatbot
• LLC name, compliance badges, polished copy: all clonable in an afternoon
• Check the domain's threat reputation (PhishDestroy, ScamSniffer) before connecting a wallet
• Connecting a wallet means handing over the keys: read every approval, revoke what you don't use

3) Ethernal Cubs: free 3,333-Orb mint on Robinhood Chain (mints to watch)
From Proud Lion Studios (previously Aptos collections): a free mint of 3,333 sealed "Orbs" on Robinhood Chain, gas only (a couple of cents). Whitelist spots are earned, not bought: the board closes Wed Oct 28 (23:59 UTC), mint opens Thu Oct 29 at 10am ET on OpenSea, window ends Nov 5. Routes include holding Proud Lions or GUI Lions on Aptos, a social/task board, community games, and a Galxe quest (1,500 spots, first-come since Sept 28). Sealed Orbs reveal tiers later.
Why it matters: earned-not-bought whitelist is the healthiest mint design we've seen this season. Note: the team's own guide warns look-alike collections have already appeared on OpenSea, so verify the collection link from the project's own channels. (Mint details are from the project's own guide; treat as team-stated until the contract is live.)

4) Lunar Flock: 10,000 hand-drawn penguins on Base (mints to watch)
A 10,000-piece hand-drawn penguin collection on Base, tied to Penguin Month (Oct 1–31), framed around African penguin conservation (roughly one penguin per remaining breeding pair). Mint window: Oct 10–17.
Why it matters: conservation funding is the kind of utility that survives bear markets. Not a pure art drop.

📦 KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Player economies are growing up: packed assets, real roles, real prices.
• Due diligence is a stack, not a single check: threat intel, contract verification, and a second pair of eyes.
• Earned whitelists and conservation-linked mints are the formats doing the work right now.

📅 DATES ON THE CALENDAR
• Yakkamon Genesis reveal, Oct 14; eggs trading pre-reveal on Ronin
• RavenQuest Fortune's Frontier launches Oct 16
• Ethernal Cubs free mint, Oct 29 (whitelist closes Oct 28)

Sources in the comments.

Genuine question for the room: if you could pack any in-game item you own into a tradable NFT, which one goes first, and why?

10/02/2026

Crypto made simple!

One character, one lane, and zero lore dumps.

10/02/2026

🐄 THE NFT REPORT, Thursday, October 1

📌 STILL ACTIVE: THE LIMIT BREAK EXPLOIT (save this one)
The Payment Processor V2 flaw behind last week's Magic Eden drain is still unpatched and still being used, per a Sept 30 warning from Yuga Labs' 0xQuit. One fresh victim lost 0.15246 WETH one block after accepting an offer, the attacker routing 99% to Titan Builder so no whitehat rescue was possible. The contract can't be paused or upgraded, so old wallet approvals stay weaponizable across Ethereum, Polygon, Base, Arbitrum, and ApeChain. Revoke.cash still flags the approval on all five chains. (Loss totals are disputed; Revoke.cash puts it near $2.8M. Treat exact figures as estimates.)
Quick-take: old listings don't protect you. Cancelling a listing does not remove the approval.
What to do: revoke the Payment Processor V2 spender on every chain you've used it on. Spender addresses and the recovery site are in the comment.

2) Coincheck NFT mandates passkeys for withdrawals (Sept 30)
Japan's major NFT marketplace is reportedly requiring passkey setup before external NFT withdrawals. No passkey, no withdrawal, which could slow trades in fast-moving markets. Two-factor auth stays for some account changes, so users run both. The mandate isn't confirmed by the marketplace itself, so flagging it as reported.
Why it matters: marketplaces are tightening security at the account level, not just the contract level. Expect this to spread.

3) Sony's Soneium partners to tokenize K-pop IP (Sept 29)
Sony's Ethereum L2 Soneium teamed with Korean entertainment company DayOneDream to bring K-pop IP and its revenue streams onchain via the WAVIST platform, announced during Korea Blockchain Week. The precedent: WAVIST completed a full lifecycle of a tokenized K-pop IP bond (issuance, financing, redemption, burn) in May, ran a $3.22M asset sale with SBI Digital Markets and Kyobo Life, and is structuring a $15M fund. Acts named: BTOB, Lee Chae Yeon, MEMI, 2F. Honest caveats: no first-asset date or offering size disclosed, and investment products are offered outside the US only.
Why it matters: entertainment royalties are the cleanest use case for NFT-style ownership. A bond is a promise onchain; a hit song works the same way.

4) WisdomTree launches WisdomTree Onchain, tokenized funds top $1.2B (Sept 29)
Tokenized registered funds passed $1.2B, up from about $770M at the start of the year. Fifteen SEC-registered funds across eight public chains, with 24/7 dealer-principal secondary liquidity for the WTGXX money market fund under first-of-its-kind SEC exemptive relief, and MoonPay putting WTGXX in front of its 35M+ accounts.
Why it matters: regulated, 24/7 money market access is what institutional crypto actually looks like in practice.

📦 KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Security is the week's theme: unpatched old approvals are the threat, account-level hardening is the trend.
• Real-world assets keep compounding: K-pop royalties on one side, regulated money-market funds on the other.
• The mint rule that never expires: verify the contract on the project's own channels before you connect a wallet.

📅 DATES STILL ON THE CALENDAR
• Yakkamon Genesis reveal, Oct 14; eggs trading pre-reveal on Ronin
• RavenQuest Fortune's Frontier launches Oct 16

Sources in the comments.

Genuine question for the room: if your marketplace required passkeys for every NFT withdrawal, would that make you feel safer, or just slow you down? Tell us why.

09/25/2026

Most game items are locked inside one game forever. NFT gaming changes that, so what you earn is truly yours. What item have you ever wished you could take with you?