Amazon’s “Boximus” NFT Avatars Sold Out Instantly

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Amazon’s NFT avatars — “Boximus” — just sold out in less than a day, proving the metaverse hype isn’t dead yet. Priced at $65.99 each, these digital collectibles were designed for Yuga Labs’ Otherside metaverse, the same creators behind Bored Ape Yacht Club. The Boximus avatars are digital, anthropomorphized Amazon boxes — and yes, they sold out almost instantly.  In this video, we’ll explore why Amazon’s first NFT drop was such a massive success, what it means for the NFT and metaverse markets, and whether this could signal a comeback for mainstream digital collectibles. Plus, we’ll dive into the resale market frenzy, where Boximus NFTs are already being flipped for huge profits. Comment below — would you spend $65 on an Amazon NFT?  📧 Email: cryptorobothelp@gmail.com  💰 Affiliate Links  Sofi Checking & Savings – Get $25 free ➝ https://www.sofi.com/invite/money?gcp=16a53d0f-b4b2-441d-9100-cfb506305260&isAliasGcp=false  Sofi Investing – Free $25 in stock ➝ https://www.sofi.com/invite/invest?gcp=ab31edd8-701e-4109-9225-51b41e35d246&isAliasGcp=false  Coinbase Exchange – Earn up to $300 BTC ➝ https://coinbase.com/join/YPUQLCY?src=referral-link  Tracking Tools – CoinGecko | CoinMarketCap  Trading Tools – Get $15 off TradingView ➝ https://www.tradingview.com/pricing/?share_your_love=cryptonextsteps  #AmazonNFT #Boximus #Metaverse #YugaLabs #Otherside #NFTNews #Web3 #Crypto #NFTCollectibles #Blockchain #DigitalArt #NFTMarket #NFTDrop #AmazonCrypto #CryptoNews

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00:00welcome back to the deep dive today we're uh really digging into something fascinating we're

00:05looking at this well this collision of two very different worlds you've got amazon you know the

00:09giant of efficiency and logistics and then you've got web3 all volatile and driven by scarcity

00:16yeah our mission today is basically to unpack the boxiness phenomenon that's amazon's uh really

00:22direct jump into nfts partnering up with yuga labs you know the board eight people other side

00:28metaverse we've sifted through a whole stack of sources crypto publications but also the big

00:32names like the verge coindesk bloomberg we're trying to figure out if this boxmas thing was just

00:36like a one-off collectible success or if it's actually showing us what's next for e-commerce

00:41e-commerce 3.0 maybe okay let's just dive in amazon the company built on selling everything cheaply

00:46and quickly they just sold out a batch of digital avatars based on their delivery boxes and they've

00:50gone in under 24 hours i mean that alone what's your immediate take on that initial fact it's the

00:54subversion right that's what jumps out amazon's whole model is about well volume abundance and

01:00here they are playing the scarcity game and winning on a huge consumer stage for the first

01:05time really that sellout speed uh all the sources confirm it it just proves there's still real

01:11appetite for digital identity when it's tied to a massive brand but um the key was how they did it the

01:18execution right let's zero in on that execution the specific so the asset was called boximus these uh

01:23kind of crooky digital amazon boxes rather for morphic yeah little box characters exactly and

01:28priced at 65.99 each which i mean that's a key detail isn't it super accessible compared to

01:35typical yuga related stuff oh absolutely totally different ballpark and you know a lot of the early

01:39analysis focused on the revenue like how much did they make but i think that misses the point entirely

01:44how so well that 65.99 it wasn't really the price of the nft it felt more like the price of admission to

01:50a massive customer acquisition experiment ah interesting angle so low price equals low risk

01:56for the average joe precisely it makes it an impulse buy almost amazon gets tons of people buying in

02:02and they get to watch this huge demand curve form in real time all because they deliberately made it

02:07scarce but cheap i have to say when i first read about digital cardboard boxes selling out i was

02:13skeptical was it real excitement for boxmas itself or just you know amazon's algorithm doing its thing

02:19fomo on a massive scale the sources suggest it's a mix and that's exactly why the data is so valuable

02:25to amazon it was definitely designed to spark that speculative buzz yes but critically they sold it

02:31directly on amazon.com right using the normal checkout exactly that builds instant trust people weren't

02:37fiddling with crypto wallets or anything complex so amazon got this incredibly valuable de-risked data

02:43set on how willing mainstream consumers are to buy a digital good directly without needing crypto first

02:50that direct sale integrated seamlessly that's the game changer people have been saying the nft market's

02:55been quiet maybe dead yeah for the last year or so but box and miss suggests maybe the problem wasn't

03:01the idea of nfts but the clumsy infrastructure the difficulty amazon just swooped in provided the trust

03:07the easy on-ramp and boom sellout okay here's where it gets really interesting for me the partnership

03:14why yuga labs i mean amazon's amazon they could build their own web 3 thing if they wanted surely

03:19why team up with yuga the sort of uh established leaders in that metaverse space just for the

03:25guaranteed hype well the height factor is definitely part of it you can't deny that yuga brings instant

03:30credibility and buzz in that world that critique is fair but there were huge technical upsides too like what

03:37look at the bigger picture amazon basically bought a shortcut they avoided potentially years of

03:41development and frankly massive technical debt yuga already had the infrastructure ready to go

03:46infrastructure meaning meaning the other side sdk the software development kit that means these

03:51box miss avatars weren't just pictures they had immediate potential utility within yuga's existing

03:56metaverse other side interoperability from day one ah okay so amazon didn't have to build the whole

04:03metaverse connection themselves they just plugged into yuga's existing system exactly they paid for

04:09speed and proven tech and more than just the world itself yuga brought expertise and access control

04:15things like token gating explain token gating quickly it just means using the nft like a key

04:22you own this box miss nft therefore you get access to this exclusive digital space

04:27or this future product drop or this special feature yuga knows how to do that already so amazon got

04:34to test out digital membership and loyalty concepts instantly without building the tech while yuga got

04:40well massive exposure on amazon a global retail stage yeah you can't really buy that kind of visibility

04:45so this is huge it's amazon directly selling these assets for the first time it signals well it signals

04:49that big tech isn't ditching blockchain or nfts they're just rebranding it embedding it exactly rebranding

04:56embedding it into things people already do entertainment shopping it's moving away from just

05:01hey look at my expensive eight picture towards digital items that do something that represent

05:08your identity online in useful ways seamlessly okay so box of themselves out amazon gets all this data on

05:14who bought it and why but what happened next talk about the secondary market because that's where you

05:19really see the speculation kick in right oh yeah the secondary market lit up almost immediately it was

05:24like watching a classic nft hype cycle replay but uh this time amazon was the one running the show and

05:30collecting all the data so people were flipping the box miss avatars instantly within hours of the main

05:35sale ending they were popping up on secondary marketplaces and the prices depending on which

05:39specific box miss design you got the rarity were way up early reports were talking 2x even 4x the original

05:4665.99 and this proves that yes speculation is still a massive driver in the early stages of these drops

05:53but the really fascinating part is what amazon learned from watching this unfold they now have hard

05:58quantifiable data on their customer base how fast they react to digital scarcity how much extra they're

06:06willing to pay for something exclusive or rare even if it's just a digital box character that kind

06:11of behavioral data linked directly to digital ownership it's priceless for them it really does sound like

06:17they weren't just selling collectibles they were buying a map for future digital loyalty programs or

06:23something that's a good way to put it and speaking of value and visibility in this digital space there

06:28was actually a really interesting um sort of meta note in our source materials oh yeah what was that

06:33it was an excerpt from another show apparently called the crypto robot podcast and it was talking very

06:39directly about how crucial audience engagement is for content creators in this space oh so well this source

06:45explicitly said that things like comments subscribes likes they're essential to get noticed by the

06:51algorithms to keep being able to cover and i think the quote was these wild crossovers between big

06:58tech and web 3. wow so it's like a reflection of the whole thing isn't it yeah amazon uses scarcity

07:04and hype to drive engagement with a digital product and the people analyzing amazon doing that they need

07:11engagement just to stay visible and keep analyzing it's all about the algorithm the struggle for

07:16attention whether you're selling box miss or talking about boxing it really governs everything

07:21now doesn't it that fight for visibility okay let's pull back to the bigger picture then mass adoption

07:27how does a giant like amazon actually get millions of regular people folks who like you said don't have

07:33crypto wallets maybe don't even know what blockchain is to start owning digital stuff box almost feels like a

07:38big step there it really does and it comes back to that idea of the trust bridge amazon's main goal

07:43here it seems was to hide all the complicated web 3 stuff abstracted away how did they do that

07:49technically primarily using what are called custodial wallets basically amazon likely working with payment

07:55partners holds the nft for the user in a simplified way the user just pays with their credit card like

08:01buying anything else on amazon so no complex setup no buying crypto first none of that they completely

08:07bypassed the biggest hurdles you didn't need to understand self-custody or seed freezes or gas fees

08:15millions of people just bought an nft probably without even realizing the underlying tech was

08:19blockchain that is what a mass adoption moment looks like and it's just the whole story doesn't it

08:24away from just speculative trading more towards well utility digital identity maybe even loyalty precisely

08:32we're moving past the era of just profile pictures being the main thing these web 3 assets are evolving

08:38they're becoming about identity about access about working across different platforms box miss isn't

08:44just a picture it's potentially an access key a digital identity layer within other side maybe eventually

08:49usable in games or vr shopping who knows and we're seeing this trend elsewhere too right amazon isn't

08:54operating in a vacuum here yeah how does box them a stack up against what say nike or starbucks are doing in

09:00web 3. yeah there's definitely a common thread emerging it's all about using digital identity

09:04and ownership as a kind of next level loyalty program well you've got nike with rtfkt and their

09:10clonex avatars that's defining digital fashion and exclusive community access starbucks has their odyssey

09:15program using blockchain stamps which are basically nfts to reward coffee purchases and unlock unique

09:22experiences right the coffee journeys exactly and disney's been working with dapper labs on collectibles that act as

09:28gateways so the pattern is using digital items not just to sell but to engage and reward loyalty over

09:34the long term box miss is amazon's flavor of that using a digital collectible potentially as a key to

09:40unlock perks within their massive retail ecosystem digital ownership as next-gen customer engagement

09:46so wrapping this deep dive up the big takeaway seems to be that the box miss drop wasn't just amazon

09:51selling some quirky digital boxes yeah it was really a master class in strategic data gathering

09:56they partnered smart with yuga for speed and utility they made it incredibly easy for regular

10:01people to buy in hiding the scary crypto stuff and in doing so they dragged digital ownership firmly

10:07into the mainstream shopping experience it really validates brand power and ease of use

10:13as the keys to the next phase of web 3 doesn't it that's absolutely the critical point big tech is

10:19stepping in but very much on their own terms they're shaping what digital scarcity and digital identity

10:24mean for their millions billions of users and you know circling back to that meta point from our

10:30sources the ability for shows like this for analysts for anyone trying to make sense of these huge shifts

10:36our ability to keep tracking these wild crossovers as they put it really does depend on engagement

10:42that's so true so if you found this deep dive valuable if you enjoyed unpacking box miss with us

10:47honestly take a second to hit subscribe maybe leave a comment with your thoughts or share this

10:51it genuinely helps us out it tells the algorithms that this analysis is useful and that lets us keep

10:55doing this work your engagement really does make a difference absolutely and that actually leads

11:00nicely into our final thought for you the listener to chew on amazon's clearly dipped its toes into

11:05digital identity and scarcity now and it worked so the question is how long until we see something

11:11like nft linked amazon prime benefits or maybe actual metaverse shopping experiences integrated into amazon

11:18is that the next logical step and maybe even more interesting who follows them which other big tech

11:23titan jumps into the direct digital asset game next a social media platform a massive food or drinks

11:30company lots to think about definitely we'll be keeping a close eye on how this corporate adoption

11:34wave unfolds thanks for joining us and we'll see you on the next deep dive

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