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

Meebits Gets Moody

NFT project Meebits turned two years old this week. As part of the celebrations, the collection launched Living PFPs, which allows holders to “bring [their] Meebits to life in a new way.” 

According to Yuga Labs, Living PFPs will allow holders to customize their Meebits PFPs to better express themselves. The first way they’ll be able to do that is through MB1.2 — Moods. To enable this, users can visit turnon.meebits.app and connect their wallet to see their Meebits express themselves through a predetermined set of 13 Moods. 

What distinguishes a Living PFP from a dynamic NFT is that the Living PFP will reflect the changes made to it by its holder without changing the metadata.

In addition, in MB1.1, Meebits has introduced a new render style of the original Meebits 3D voxel artwork and provided them as free-to-claim art prints to holders.

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Sports Illustrated Launches NFT Ticketing Platform

Sports Illustrated announced the launch of a new NFT ticketing platform built on Polygon this week called Box Office, Powered by SI Tickets. Box Office calls itself “an all-new, self-service event management and blockchain ticketing platform.” They call out a few specific advantages of using the new service, namely:

• The benefits of NFT tickets over non-blockchain-backed tickets
• The ability to create an event in just 10 minutes and see it displayed alongside big events in sports, concerts, and theater
• The ability to generate revenue on the resale of tickets
• Lower fees than other ticketing platforms

Box Office was created in partnership with ConsenSys, the Ethereum software firm behind MetaMask, with the goal of “disrupting the primary ticket market,” according to SI Tickets’ CEO David Lane. NFT ticketing is a growing use case, with the potential to reduce fraudulent activity around ticketing, increase payment security, and improve verification of ticket ownership.

Phantom Wallet Adding Ethereum and Polygon Support

The self-custodial wallet, Phantom, announced this week that it would begin supporting Ethereum and Polygon for both mobile app and desktop browser wallets. Launched in 2021, Phantom had been an exclusively Solana wallet until this point.

Ultimately, this new change will give users the ability to interact with the new blockchains while still using Phantom and allow them access to additional dApps on those chains. Ideally, it will simplify the management of having multiple accounts and digital items across blockchains. 

Mastercard Crypto Credential

On April 28th, Mastercard announced Mastercard Crypto Credential. According to the company, it’s “a set of common standards and infrastructure that will help verify interactions among consumers and businesses using blockchain networks.” 

Master Crypto Credential aims to define verification levels and provide enabling technology to give users more use cases. Some examples Mastercard gave of ways in which the credential will work:

• Providing easier-to-remember aliases for wallet addresses to make sharing them simpler among users
• Bringing richer information to blockchain transactions through metadata
• Tapping into Mastercard’s CipherTrace services to help verify addresses and support cross-border transactions

Mastercard says they will also partner with public blockchain networks and organizations Aptos Labs, Ava Labs, Polygon, and The Solana Foundation, to bring Mastercard Crypto Credential to app developers in their ecosystems.