Welcome to the OpenSea digest. Let’s look back through the biggest NFT and web3 news of the week.

Museum of Art and Light’s first digital exhibition opens

The Museum of Art and Light (MoA+L), a new institution stewarded by art collective Iconic, has announced its first digital exhibition.

Ahead of the museum’s grand opening in Manhattan, Kansas, in November 2024, Iconic will be releasing a series of exclusive digital art pieces for the multi-month exhibition titled Code & Canvas: Defining Digital Art in the Age of Blockchain.

The show will feature works from celebrated artists Grant Yun, Emily Xie, Sasha Stiles, Erick Calderon and Tyler Hobbs. These curated collections and auctions are open to Iconic Art Pass holders and art collectors worldwide.

The first release comes on July 18, with Grant Yun’s “An Old Soul,” a 150-edition token drop paired with 150 museum-quality 24 x 24 signed prints.

Spellborne RPG launches open beta

The monster-catching role-playing game Spellborne has officially entered open beta. Season 1 kicked off on July 4 with 20 new quests, 30+ new monsters and more. Players can now grow more than 16 types of crops in the game’s fictional Heiwa Village, and cultivate new food to feed their monsters.

As a social aspect of the game, players can invite friends, while content creators can share aspects of their gameplay experiences — along with top-notch memes — with their followers.

The beta is now live and playable on Browser, iOS, Android. It’s also expected to be available on Epic Games Store later this year. 

Ledger announces Clear Signing initiative to enhance web3 wallet security

Ledger wallet CTO Charles Guillemet presented a rundown of the company’s exciting next steps to eliminate a web3 wallet security risk known as “blind signing.” The update debuted as a talk on the EthCC stage in Brussels, but Guillemet later tweeted a summary.

Blind signing is like signing a blank check, Guillemet explained. It started because NFT and decentralized finance (DeFi) transactions have become too complex for smart wallet verification systems to handle.

To combat this norm, Ledger is launching a suite of Clear Signing tools, libraries and application programing interfaces (APIs). Standards for each will be published on GitHub, a knowledge-sharing platform for developers, to help encourage widespread knowledge and use.

Learn more about blind signing on the Ledger blog. 

The Sandbox partners with manga series ‘Attack on Titan’

The Sandbox, a popular metaverse world, has teamed up with the manga series “Attack on Titan” to bring exclusive content to its virtual universe. 

First created in 2009, “Attack on Titan'' was written and illustrated by Japanese manga artist Hajime Isayama. The bestselling books were adapted into an anime TV series shortly after. 

Fans will now be able to explore scenes and characters from the iconic manga series directly in The Sandbox. 

Toledo Museum of Art concludes Ethiopian exhibition with NFTs

The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) is wrapping up its year-long Ethiopian art exhibition with an NFT drop from the art collective Yatreda, the institution’s second digital artist in residence. 

Entitled “House of Yatreda,” the installation features both historical pieces and contemporary digital art. The collection was co-curated by the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. It will run from August 17 to November 10, 2024.  

Open Campus gets Arbitrum grant for EDU Chain launch

Open Campus, a community-led education protocol supported by web3 venture studio Animoca Brands and other partners, has received a grant from the Arbitrum Foundation to launch EDU Chain, a blockchain layer designed for educational use cases.

According to a press release, EDU Chain was created to enable faster and more cost-effective transactions on Ethereum. With backing from 60+ partners across web3 and education, Open Campus is looking to create opportunities for both documenting and gamifying learning with the aid of blockchain tech and decentralized applications (dApps). 

Forgotten Runiverse migrates to Ronin

Forgotten Runiverse, the fantasy role-playing game (RPG) based on the Wizards Cult NFT collection, is moving from Arbitrum to the Ronin network this month. 

The game, which allows players to form guilds, participate in expeditions, and craft items, will launch a closed beta on Ronin on July 31, followed by a public event in August. 

It is slated to launch on the Epic Games Store later this year.