17/09/2021 Rugby League World Cup launches the sport’s first NFT marketplace

The Rugby League World Cup is launching its own NFT collection

 

 
  • New NFTs will celebrate the RLWC’s history and star players
  • England-based tournament set for November 2022 after recent postponement

The delayed Rugby League World Cup (RLWC) has launched the sport’s first ever non-fungible Token (NFT) marketplace through a new partnership with blockchain company NuArca.

The new RLWC NFT platform will offer fans access to digital collectibles celebrating the tournament’s history, most decorated players, countries and memorable moments.

Jonathan Neill, the tournament’s commercial director, said: “We believe the launch of our NFT partnership is a first for the sport of rugby league.

RLWC 2021 NFTs will provide fans with an opportunity to show their passion and loyalty for the sport, and alongside collectors, give them the chance to own a piece of rugby league history.”

The 2021 tournament was originally scheduled for this autumn but has been postponed until November 2022 following Australia and New Zealand’s late withdrawal due to Covid-19 concerns. For the first time the RLWC men’s competition will be run in parity with the women’s and wheelchair tournaments, with all participants being paid the equal fees.

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Interesting NFTs
The Harvest
An anthropomorphic figure stands, wide eyed, staring at the viewer; its body masculine, muscular, and humanoid. Its “mind” dissociates into a conglomerate of structures resembling feathers, grain, teeth–as well as a radial flower “node”, casting linear rays throughout the composition. To his left, a vat of bodies gesture and writhe in a kind of amniotic soup, attended by a video game robot. The bot's red display reads “uWu”. Behind the robot and filling the left side of the composition is an archaic figure composed of a variety of vintage objects and symbols. Among them are a hardbound book with ancient cuneiform scripts, indicating barley, beer, bread, ox, house, and sky, behind which is a grimacing, salivating jagged toothed maw; and an old Commodore floppy drive. The figure’s head tilts toward an illuminated crescent moon, suggesting the Egyptian Sacred Bull. The archaic figure is composed of a variety of mutating cells, which shift in color, and pattern; eventually breaking free into an ephemeral broadcast of bubbles which move across the background. The work came into being against a psychological introspection, which included associations to pop culture such as alien abduction and pod people, as well as quite a bit of reflection on grains as a symbol of civilization, agriculture, sustenance, life, and imbibing (mainly whiskies).
缥缈之美的过去与现在(Vanitas Then and Now)
虚空派的画像。在这个虚拟时代,外在之美到底是否还受到时间的限制?(Vanitas portrait of a woman. Is beauty finite or not in the Virtual age?)
Punk #87
Inscription #613
Yoshida on the Tokaido Highway, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) Yoshida on the Tokaido Highway, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji 1831 - Japan
The River Plate Machine
Digital illustration for the cover of These Football Times magazine in its issue dedicated to the Argentine football team "Club Atlético River Plate". Original from 2020. For this cover I have created a complex machine that links all the generations and legends of the club with its great shield and emblem crowning the center as the heart of the fantasy machinery. Full of details and ornaments this is a highly detailed work. An authentic trip to the history of River through the imagination and the colors of the club. The most significant titles of the club are also included, such as the Libertadores Cup, the famous Intercontinental and the new Super Liga and the Argentine Cup in its newest cup design. If you see a hen, don't be surprised, it is the nickname that its fans give themselves, and they like it. ----- https://javierarres.com/about.html