In the past 7 days, the NFT old blue chips have collectively warmed up. Whether it's the once top PFPs like CryptoPunks, BAYC, MAYC, Azuki, Doodles, or top generative art NFTs like Chromie Squiggle and Fidenza, there has been a significant rebound.
One of the tokens most related to NFT infrastructure, $BLUR, has quietly risen nearly 90% in the past month. After Andrew Kang called for $BLUR at the end of last month, $BLUR has continued to rise, with an increase of nearly 20%.
In a warming atmosphere, Clone X, this old blue chip project with a Nike background, announced a halt to operations, shocking all NFT players just like announcing at a New Year's dinner that one will no longer eat.
In this statement, Clone X's project party, the RTFKT Studio acquired by Nike, announced it would terminate RTFKT's operations. As a transition before the termination, they will complete the last thing in the circle in December — adopting the MNLTH X of 'BLADE DROP'. MNLTH was already launched in 2022, probably using NFTs to mutate virtual shoes.
As for 'BLADE DROP', I searched on Twitter, and it seems that in this 'last dance', the holders cannot even get the final pair of physical shoes from Nike, but rather 3D printed shoes produced by Zellerfeld...
Due to the huge negative news of operations being terminated, CloneX's floor price instantly plummeted by 50%, currently settling at 0.3 ETH. Just 2 days ago, the series' floor price had rebounded to nearly 0.9 ETH.
NFT players accused the RTFKT team of being not even a 'Soft Rug' but a 'Hard Rug', and they dug up the unkind remarks from RTFKT co-founder @benitopagotto last year when the CEO of Pudgy Penguins paid tribute to them.
Luca posted a tribute tweet to RTFKT on September 17 last year.
And 10 days later, @benitopagotto mocked the entry of Pudgy Penguins toys into Walmart, saying, 'From Sotheby's auction house to Walmart, the future of Web3 is truly bright!'
Since the launch of CloneX and the acquisition of RTFKT by Nike, three years have passed in the blink of an eye. We finally welcomed a new bull market, but such an NFT old blue chip with a Nike background suddenly collapsed at dawn.
Due to the sudden incident and chaotic information, this $10 million acquisition offer from @JoeyMoose has attracted much attention from NFT players.
But he is likely joking, as just yesterday he expressed a desire to spend $5 million to buy MoonBirds from Kevin Rose. But dude, MoonBirds have already been acquired by Yuga Labs...
So what will happen next with CloneX? For example, in this current mainstream meme environment, will the community issue a meme token from the perspective of 'CTO Nike'?
I don't know, really don't know. After all, this world is always full of the unexpected.
