Ghana's viral 'Coffin Dance' meme sells as NFT for $1.04 million The viral 'Coffin Dance' meme has been auctioned as an NFT (non-fungible token) for 327 Ethereum worth $1.04 million. The video, which shows Ghanian pallbearers dancing while carrying a coffin, went viral during COVID-19. The...
Quentin Tarantino, another filmmaker, released his âPulp Fictionâ NFTs on the same Cosmos-based blockchain in November. Kevin Smith (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images) Kevin Smith, the filmmaker responsible for cult classics like âClerks,â âChasing Amyâ and âJay and Silent Bob Strike...
ESPNhas clambered aboard the NFT bandwagon: The sports giant is going into business with Tom Brady, angling to sell fans on the idea of owning a digital piece of the famed NFL quarterbackâs legacy. ESPN inked a multiyear deal withAutograph, the NFT startup co-founded by Brady, to release...
KuCoin, a leading global cryptocurrency trading platform, is excited to announce the launch of its NFT launch platform â KuCoin IGO on April 8th. The first project coming to KuCoin IGO is Pikaster. Participation details for the NFT sale will be announced on April 8th, and the first-round sale...
China has not released specific regulation around non-fungible tokens. But technology platforms like Tencent's WeChat are taking a cautious approach to prevent speculation with NFTs. Tencent's WeChat has suspended some accounts associated with so-called non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and clarified...
Sky MavisnoneRoughly $625 million worth of cryptocurrency has been stolen from Ronin, the blockchain underlying popular crypto gameAxie Infinity. Ronin andAxie Infinityoperator Sky Mavisrevealed the breachon Tuesday and froze transactions on the Ronin bridge, which allows depositing and...
(Bloomberg) --For every Bored Ape andCryptoPunkthere is aBaby Baller, one of the thousands of NFT projects that have faltered not long after celebrated debuts. On average, one in three NFT collections have essentially expired, with little or no trading activity, blockchain analytics firm...
Todd RosenbergnoneTop stand-up comedianSebastian Maniscalcosurprised fans at his shows in the New York area by giving away free commemorativeNFTsto all ticketholders â the first comedian to launch such an offering using the next-gen digital collectible technology. The observational...
The Holaplex Marketplace Standard empowers brands and creatives to create marketplaces that they own SOLANA BEACH, Calif., March 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --Holaplex, a community of creator-owned NFT storefronts, today announced a full-stack, open-source marketplace standard to replace the...
Key Takeaways A blog post from Loopring announcing that the beta of GameStop's NFT marketplace is powered by its scaling solution has sparked confusion. GameStop had previously partnered with Immutable X to build its NFT trading platform. Immutable X president Robbie Ferguson confirmed that the...
Topline Liverpool Football Club, one of the worldâs top soccer teams, is kicking off its first venture into nonfungible tokens with a collection of art based on players and managers from the menâs squad, marking one of the biggest deals yet for digital collectibles and sports. Liverpool has...
Twitter users have complained that the exploit has resulted in a sharp decline in the price of their digital collectibles over the past week. Twitter users have complained that the exploit has resulted in a sharp decline in the price of their digital collectibles over the past week. Veve, a...
(The Washington Post illustration; G2 Esports) According to copies of two contracts attached as exhibits to the filing, G2 and Bondly entered into a two-year exclusive partnership on June 2, 2021. As a participant in that partnership, Bondly was tasked with developing and acting as the sales...
Some real estate agents think the industry needs a change. Important breakthroughs integrating blockchain technology are happening in Tampa Bay. Hyde Park Place II is the complex where a condominium will be auctioned as an NFT, non-fungible token, according to Palo Alto-based real estate...
Web3 productslike non-fungible tokensand cryptocurrencies are already changing the world, a shift that blockchain evangelists say will revolutionize how the internet is constructed, how we bank and transfer money, how people pay for goods and even how we socialize in the nascent metaverse. For...
âBlockchainâ would make a good derby name. Lady Trample, left, and Miss Tea Maven, right, are two of the three roller derby skaters who tried to launch a derby-themed NFT project.Photo collage: Amanda Northrop/Vox; illustrations: Samara PepperellnoneWhen you think about roller derby, you...
The Grammy-winning DJ will be releasing his new single on the Polygon-powered site. Diplo (Dave Benett/Getty Images for Ned's Club) Crypto music startup Royal has nabbed Diplo as its latest star, saying Thursday the DJ and electronic musician will be releasing one of his new songs on the...
"They pulled the rug out from under the victims," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said of the creators of the Frosties NFT collection. Two men allegedly behind the "Frosties" non-fungible token (NFT) project, an infamous scam whose Discord server reportedly evaporated hours after mint,...
They took the virtual money and ran. Prosecutors in New Yorkâs Southern District Thursday charged two 20-year-olds in connection with an alleged NFT scam. Ethan Vinh Nguyen and Andre Marcus Quiddaoen Llacuna were charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering for allegedly...
The enigmatic actor is partnering with The Chive to reveal biographical "Bill Murray Stories" for a unique collection of NFTs. Bill Murrayis finally ready to talk about all those âBill Murray Stories.â But in standard Bill Murray fashion, heâs not going to reveal his past and musings in a...
An NFT version of a 61-year-old arrest warrant for anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela will be auctioned off at the weekend in Cape Town, a South African digital auctioneer said Wednesday. A digital reproduction in "NFT" form of the only arrest warrant against anti-apartheid hero Nelson...
Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergenoneYuga Labs, the owner of three of the biggest NFT brands on the market, has raised $450 million in funding at a $4 billion valuation, the company announced today. The team behind Bored Ape Yacht Club plans to use the money to build a media empire around...
A carefully coordinated marketing campaign takes great pains to distance the new token from Yuga Labs, but the firm that created the Bored Ape NFTs appears to be deeply involved. Yuga Labs claims zero responsibility for ApeCoin â itâs just taking a significant chunk of the profits. (The...
The struggling video game retailer recently partnered with Immutable X to build out its NFT initiative. GameStop (GME) said in itsfiscal fourth-quarter earnings reportthat it intends to launch a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace by the end of July. In February,...
The ApeCoin token airdropped to Bored Ape NFT owners is off to a rough start, falling from $39.40 to as low as $6.48. ApeCoin, the token linked to the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) non-fungible token (NFT) collection, is down about 80% in its first two hours of trading. The...
Swedish streaming giant Spotify looks to add blockchain and NFTs to its services, much to the excitement of artists whose earnings could receive a significant boost. Recent job postings reveal that Spotify is headhunting individuals to work on Web 3.0, an umbrella term for a decentralized form of...
SINGAPORE, March 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Singapore based KarineDAO is proud to announce the launch of its NFT collection project, which will help drive female empowerment. In fact, NFTs are relatively new in the digital space and has a massive impact on the digital currency world. According...
Source: iStock/ShariffCThe market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has outperformed the broader crypto market this year both when measured inethereum (ETH)and US dollar terms, according to the Ethereum-focused data analytics firmNansen. The year-to-date outperformance of the NFT market relative to...
A serious shift in the global art scene is under way with increasing interest in digital mediums, including NFTs. Dubai, United Arab Emirates âBack with the first full-scale fair since the COVID-19 pandemic started, the 15th edition of Art Dubai is exploring new frontiers with the launch of...
NFTs are one of the most controversial tech things around at the moment, and for good reason. Artificial scarcity in digital spaces seems to be all the rage, and trading jpegs on the blockchain for stupid amounts of money is popular for some reason. But mistakes can always be made, often...
The Covid-19 pandemic hit artists like Cam Rackam hard. The 42-year-old artist from Huntington Beach, California saw his entire money-making enterprise suffer â art exhibitions got canceled,sales slowedand his commissions dried up. So Rackam pivoted to the digital art world. Up until 2021, the...
Animoca Brands will give F1 Delta Time NFT holders replacement NFTs for REVV Racing and other perks after the F1 license expires. The officially-licensed Ethereum F1 game is shutting down. Image: Animoca Brands Formula 1 was one of the first sports leagues to enter the blockchain space,...
The popular Polygon-based NFT collection will introduce its first play-to-earn game later this month. Crypto Unicorns, a leadingnon-fungible token(NFT) collection on the Polygon blockchain, has completed a $26 million token sale that included purchases from TCG and Backed VC. The...
Dr. Disrespectâs game studio Midnight Society has former âCall of Dutyâ and âHaloâ employees at its helm. "Visor Cortex" NFTs from Midnight Society. YouTuber and âCall of Dutyâ streamer Dr Disrespect launched his game development studio Midnight Society back in December, and...
DigiArt is suing artist Danny Casale, also known as Coolman Coffeedan, for allegedly producing more than 10,000 NFTs in breach of their contract Artist Danny Casale, also known as Coolman CoffeedanCourtesy the artist, The Art Plug Artist Danny Casale, who often operates under the...
With Bored Apes and CryptoPunks under the same corporate roof, the NFT market barrels toward further centralization. This past fall, Iwroteabout the idea that, while much of the rhetoric around cryptocurrencies has to do with âdecentralizationâ as a guiding ethos, the NFT sector is in fact...
He provided some details, but didnât talk specific features.Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeMark Zuckerberg said that Meta would add NFTs to Instagram,according toEngadgetandThe Daily Beast. While he didn't describe exactly what that would look like, he saidduring a session at South By...
The Covid-19 pandemic hit artists like Cam Rackam hard. The 42-year-old artist from Huntington Beach, California saw his entire money-making enterprise suffer â art exhibitions got canceled,sales slowedand his commissions dried up. So Rackam pivoted to the digital art world. Up until 2021,...
-Start your engines. The Jungle Freaks team is proud to announce one of their newest and most innovative projects to date, the Jungle Freaks Motor Club (JFMC), the first-ever hand drawn generative NFT car collection. Jungles Freaks drive fast because life is fast! The highly anticipated...
Fans will be able to trade music-related assets including limited-edition releases Peer-to-peer music sharing platformLimeWirehas taken a left turn and is now relaunching as anNFTmarketplace specialising in art, music and entertainment. Over a decade since it shut down, the platform is returning...
Have you been seeing less NFT chatter around the internet lately? Hearing a bit less about the metaverse? Well, youâre not alone. Despite an initial surge in usage of the buzzwords, interest in both concepts appears to be sharply declining, at least according toGoogle search trends, which have...
John Terryâs collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have plummeted in value by 90 per cent over the past month, with England internationals Tammy Abraham and Ashley Cole quietly deleting their endorsements of the controversial scheme,The Athleticcan reveal. This comes as the Premier League is...
The Atlanta Hawks, in collaboration with Atlanta-based GigLabs, today introduced the âHarry the Hawkâ collection â the teamâs first iteration of limited Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Non-fungible tokens can digitally represent any asset, including online-only assets like digital...
The nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace is booming with sales jumping by more than 200 times in 2021, according to a new report which also highlights how NFTs have become precisely that, a marketplace. Sales of NFTs jumped 21,000 per cent to more than $17.6 billion (almost âŹ16 billion) in 2021,...
The world of NFTs is never dull â as long as the money never stops. While investors continue to pour billions into the sector, albeit at a slowing pace, more crypto buyers are spinning up funds to back NFT platforms, projects and the non-fungible tokens themselves. While dedicated funds...
The digital artist knows NFTs aren't perfect: "Letâs fix the problems, and letâs use this technology to better things." Mike Winkelmannâs life changed on March 11, 2021, and so did the trajectories of the art and the blockchain communities. That day, Winkelmann, a digital artist more...
The multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate Warner Bros. has announced the firm is working with Cartamundi Group in order to launch DC Comics-themed hybrid trading cards. DC multiverse fans can leverage the Hro application in order to gain access to their favorite DC...
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd â ADRâsnon-fungible token (NFT) marketplaceJingtanhas suspended 680 user accounts for using massage guns and computer software to spam purchases on the platform. What Happened:Some users used massage guns to carry out rapid and continuous âbuyâ buttons in order...
One of the World's Largest Private Banksy Collections and Acclaimed Artists and Photographers Choose Kreatr to NFT Certify Their Physical Artwork LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kreatr, a first-of-its-kind, creator-centric physical NFT marketplace for art and photography today announced...