Fifty-one days in and Spencer’s attempts to engineer a turnaround for Moonbirds has already seen the floor price quadruple to 2.36 ETH. Moonbirds are back. The once maligned project that still ranks in the top 10 for all-time trade volume at 356,000 ETH has skyrocketed back up the NFT charts to 2.36 ETH, quadrupling its floor price in the past month. But its definitely spent some time in the wilderness due to multiple ownership changes, directionless plans and waning community sentiment. The NFT project had one of the most highly anticipated mints ever in April 2022, and with prices once again soaring and momentum building, much of the renewed optimism centers around one name: Spencer. Known simply as Spencer on X, the new owner of Moonbirds is no stranger to NFTs hes a prolific collector and head of Spencer Ventures, an institutional-grade NFT fund. Read more
Orange Cap Games has acquired the IP rights to Moonbirds from Yuga Labs, driving the NFT collection’s biggest sales spike in months. Ethereum-based non-fungible token (NFT) collection Moonbirds saw a resurgence in market activity following the sale of its intellectual property (IP) to blockchain game development studio Orange Cap Games. On June 6, data from NFT data aggregator CryptoSlam revealed that Moonbirds reached a weekly sales volume of over $2 million, up 2,525% from the previous week. For monthly volumes, the collection had surpassed its sales performance for all of May by June 6. In June, the collection has sales of around $1.4 million so far, up 43% from May’s $900,000. Moonbirds also reached over 1,000 transactions in the last seven days, a 877% increase over the previous week. Read more
Orange Cap Games has acquired the Moonbirds, Mythics and Oddities NFT collections from Yuga Labs, just a year after the NFT conglomerate acquired them. Crypto gaming startup Orange Cap Games (OCG) has acquired the intellectual property of the Ethereum-based non-fungible token collection Moonbirds from Yuga Labs. OCG said on May 30 that it bought the Moonbirds, Mythics and Oddities NFT collections from Yuga, but did not disclose details or pricing of the deal. It comes a little over a year after Yuga acquired the three collections when it took over the company that created them, PROOF, in February. Read more