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An NFT trader who noticed a bot was copying his trades tricked the bot out of 800 ETH, worth around $1.5 million. In this week’s newsletter, read about how the team behind Bitcoin Ordinals plans to drive the development of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) on Bitcoin and find out why metaverse platform The Sandbox requires Know Your Customer (KYC) checks for staking. In other news, learn why NFT gas usage is on a downward trend, and don’t forget this week’s Nifty News, featuring an NFT trader tricking a bot and bagging $1.5 million in profit .  Bitcoin Ordinals team launches nonprofit to grow protocol development The team behind Bitcoin Ordinals has launched a nonprofit aiming to boost the development of NFTs on Bitcoin. Dubbed the Open Ordinals Institute, the nonprofit will provide funding for Ordinals developers. The Bitcoin Ordinals protocol was launched in January, and it rapidly became one of the most popular trends in crypto. Users rushed to inscribe their assets like NFTs and Bitcoi...

The creators of the popular NFT game Axie Infinity announced a partnership with NFT collection CyberKongz to migrate the Play & Kollect game to Ronin. In this week’s newsletter, read about how Reddit onboarded millions into Web3 through its nonfungible token (NFT) avatars, and check out McDonald’s first metaverse experience in The Sandbox. Find out why professional gamers are interested in trying out Web3 games, and why Axie Infinity creator Sky Mavis is partnering with NFT collection CyberKongz to develop a new game. And don’t forget this week’s Nifty News, featuring an NFT image of Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Reddit engineer shares strategy behind NFT onboarding at EthCC At the recent Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) event, Reddit’s senior engineer Mirela Spasova shared how the online forum platform onboarded millions to its NFT avatars. Spasova highlighted that the motivation behind the project was empowering users with freedom of use. By making the collectible p...