Welcome to the OpenSea newsletter, let's review the most important NFT and web3 news of the week.
Jack Butcher brought the 'Pay What You Want' receipt distribution initiative to the Miami Beach Basel art fair.
Artist Jack Butcher is known to NFT collectors for his defining projects such as Checks and Openen. He showcased a physical self-checkout kiosk named 'Self Checkout' at the Miami Beach Basel art fair.
Visitors can walk up, pay any amount, and the machine will print a receipt that includes a 'mnemonic', or a key that can activate a micro crypto wallet, and record the NFT version of that receipt on the Ethereum blockchain.
At the start of the art fair, Butcher listed the installation costs at approximately $74,211, and by the end of the fair, the 'Self Checkout' project collected 5,837 receipts through online, offline, and on-chain transactions, averaging $11.41 per receipt, with the 1/1 auction concluding with a final profit and loss of $114,706.51 and total revenue of $188,917.51.
According to the artist himself on Twitter, Self Checkout has been acquired by the Beijing X Art Museum.
Rekt has partnered with X Games to create a regulated pathway for large token holders.
Rekt Drinks, the beverage company behind the REKT token, announced it will become a partner of the 2026 Aspen X Games, and the company also announced a partnership with the Abu Dhabi Global Market-regulated wealth platform Aspen Digital, which has been approved for compliant trading involving the Rekt token.
This update means that family offices and other large investors can now choose to access the token through regulated channels; Rekt stated that Aspen Digital and EVG will be responsible for conducting educational outreach in the Middle East and Asia to explain how the digital token operates.
The GBOY token will launch on Solana this December.
The art and AI studio Neuko, known for its role-playing illustrations of GBOY, announced that the GBOY token is set to launch on the Solana blockchain in December. The studio also released a brief description related to 'gboyspecial' along with a Solana wallet address.
The Blockchain Game Alliance published the 2025 industry status report.
The Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA) released the 2025 industry status report, marking the fifth consecutive year the organization has collected survey data from professionals in the blockchain gaming field.
The report gathered feedback from industry insiders, describing how they view the current industry landscape and their outlook for 2026, outlining the conditions, obstacles, and opportunities identified by respondents in their daily work.
For collectors and developers interested in blockchain gaming, this report serves as a snapshot of how industry participants describe the future direction of development and what insiders are currently focusing on.
The final exclusive edition of Refik Anadol's (Winds of Yawanawa) raised $1 million for Amazon conservation.
According to a post by the artist on X, digital artist Refik Anadol's data-driven artwork 'Winds of Yawanawa' sold for $1 million at Art Basel Miami.
Investor Jim Breyer purchased it as the first digital artwork in his art collection, with all proceeds donated to Re:wild, an organization working on environmental protection in collaboration with Amazon rainforest indigenous tribes.
In the post, Anadol thanked Breyer, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, and Re:wild's Haley Mellin for helping advance the project's conservation goals, calling this collaboration a remarkable moment for the initiative.
OpenSea and Pudgy Penguins launched their collaborative booth for the first time at Solana Breakpoint.
OpenSea has partnered with Pudgy Penguins to set up a co-branded booth at Solana Breakpoint on December 11 at 10 AM (local time), where visitors will be immersed in an interactive space inspired by the Pudgy community, welcoming all guests to explore and experience this installation art during the exhibition.
Solana Breakpoint is the annual global conference for the network, bringing together developers, founders, creators, and collectors for product launches, practical courses, and community activities.
The 2025 gathering will take place from December 11 to 13 in Abu Dhabi, one of the major hubs of the ecosystem, allowing attendees to network face-to-face and learn about new developments in the fields of DeFi, NFTs, and tools.
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