NFT Sales and Collections To Watch Out For in 2022

If you've been following blockchain trends, you'll know that NFTs have become the hottest digital assets of the last few years. Everyone from Madonna to Justin Bieber to everyday people has been snapping up NFTs left and right. In 2022, more NFTs than ever before have been released of all types and purposes.

But what NFT collections are the best to invest your money in? You'll be glad to know that 2022 has and will see some of the best collections to ever hit the market. If you're looking to buy NFTs in 2022, here are the ones to watch:

1. Aloki

Many might associate NFTs with owning expensive collectables but Alóki is changing this. As the first Play-to-Own blockchain-based project, Alóki is an NFT game that lets its users make a difference. This is because its virtual ecosystem is connected to actual land in Costa Rica developers are working to preserve, including through the use of profits from the NFTs.

Users will be able to access 4 Alóki NFT collections through the native NFT Marketplace, with the first Avatar NFT scheduled for a launch in late September. It's the unique NFT linked to real environmental utility, allowing its owners to contribute to nature conservation. One NFT bought equals one tree planted, which, in total, gives 10,000 new trees in addition to 11,000 already planted ones. NFT collectors can also win an all-expense-covered trip to the jungle village created by Alóki. The platform is launching a token sale in October, giving investors early access to buying Prana tokens.

2. InfiniGods

InifiGods is a Web3 gaming studio founded by Damon Gura (ex-CEO DGN Games) & Owen O'Donoghue (Ex-Director of Gaming at Facebook) that raised a seed round of $9m led by Pantera Capital with the aim of bringing Web3 experiences to the mobile gaming market.

The InfiniGods philosophy is to focus on fun gameplay, player ownership, and interoperability. They are bringing several games to market over the next 2 years beginning with their first title, InfiniMerge, which aims to be the Candy Crush of Web 3.

The InfiniPass is a lifetime, all-access pass to the InfiniGods Universe of blockchain games. The InfiniPass provides access to early gameplay content, NFT drops, and powerful game boosts and is poised to be one of the year's best releases.

3. OWNIC

OWNIC is a licensed dynamic sports NFT platform spearheading the first-ever sports NFT collectible where an athlete's career growth and performance are reflected on a card. This is achieved by bringing tamper-proof off-chain data on-chain and by introducing an xP power concept. xP represents a card's power and increases based on an athlete's career achievements as well as gamified on-platform elements.

With dynamic NFTs, collectors can be a part of an athlete's journey and put their NFTs to work across five utilities. OWNIC NFT holders will be able to earn rewards, stake their NFTs, unlock signed merch, interact with athletes, and much more.

Soccer star Leonardo Bonucci, as well as MMA legends like Glover Teixeira, Alex Pereira, Rafael Dos Anjos, and many others, have already signed exclusive deals with OWNIC.

4. Monopolon

Monopolon is a GameFi project with a dynamic similar to that of the iconic game 'Monopoly'. Individual NFTs represent players in a 'board' where they can move around to earn rewards, join guilds, engage other players in battle (PvP), and participate in boss raids and guild wars on a grand scale. In the game, the metaverse has been completed but is ruled by five factions, each trying to gain dominance.

Each of these factions is named after a top business mogul; Musketeers, Amazonians, Bynans, Jackknights, and Zuckarians. When players enter the game, they join one and try to secure wins.

Monopolon also has virtual land and infrastructure that players can purchase to build up equity and secure their place in the metaverse.

5. Resurgence

Emergent Games is a leading metaverse and blockchain games studio that brings together industry veterans from PlayStation, Activision and NCsoft, with blockchain technologists from Pluto Labs.

In Resurgence, you will establish your role on a post-apocalyptic Earth hundreds of years after a cataclysmic ecological disaster, as survivors return from their cryogenic refuge to find a beautiful, reborn planet in need of recolonization. Build homesteads, townships, cities & kingdoms utilizing the resources to craft tools, weaponry, technology and trade.

As the recolonization continues, so does the race for survival and the protection of valuable resources from raiding factions, predators and the rise of a new threat to civilization.

6. Coub.com

While the majority of upcoming releases are new to the market, there is a big move into the Web-3 industry being made by giants. Short video platform Coub.com has announced the transition to Web-3, giving access to over 100 million users to Watch-to-Earn and NFT opportunities.

The platform is known for pioneering the short video format — 10-second looped videos — 6 years ahead of TikTok and 8 years ahead of Instagram. Videos, which are usually a fragment of a movie or a game, can be uploaded or imported from such sites as YouTube and edited using the Coub.com video maker. With the new addition, each video can now be turned into an NFT that can be sold, increasing attention towards content creators. The platform will also offer Watch-to-Earn rewards to users for watching, reposting, liking, and commenting on content.

7. Metacloud

Metacloud is the first Metaverse that is merging material reality with virtual reality. Powered by the Binance Smart Chain, it is a virtual reality network that allows its users to purchase land and space. Metacloud is not governed by a single entity but instead, is overseen by an engaged and active community.

Membership to Metacloud is completely free, as is navigating and traversing the metaverse. Events in Metacloud include concerts and it will be hosting music festivals on December 9, 2022, in Porto, Portugal and on December 10, 2022, in Lisbon Portugal.

In Metacloud, you can watch comedy shows, listen to a podcast, try your luck in the casino, and much more. The cloud token is the currency for all events and is available on Pancake Swap.

8. Light One

Light One is a hybrid gaming console created to gamify B2B networking, and to bring more play to work. Through a streamlined and intuitive user experience, Light One intends to lower the technological barrier to entry into Web3. Through their partnership with Polycade, users will be able to play both retro and modern games directly on the platform as well as newer token-driven games with play-to-earn gaming mechanics.

Light One will also publish its own series of games they're calling 'Enlightened Games' that uses meditation and mindfulness principles as part of its game mechanics. Their first game Escape Kim is about Citizen Kim, who may or may not resemble a familiar North Korean dictator on a quest to escape his ego.