Original mint price:1.5 SOL (approximately $150 at the time). Okay Bears, a successful non-fungible token (NFT) project launched on theSolana blockchain, is teaming up with global entertainment leaderIMGto launch consumer products and experiences. The deal places IMG as the...
Big gaming firms are working to spur mainstream blockchain gaming adoption, and donât want to âchange that policyâ even if it causes pushback from some. Big gaming firms are working to spur mainstream blockchain gaming adoption, and donât want to âchange that policyâ even if it...
Image Courtesy: NFT EveningThe lifestyle and fashion accessories brand, Vera Bradley is entering the metaverse and creating various NFT collections. The genesis NFT collection is now live and celebrates 40 years of fabulous fashion. Significantly, the âHeritage Passâ (the debut NFT...
Polkadot (DOT) and Kusama (KSM) are barely holding on above the yearly lows and could break down soon, accelerating their rates of decrease. On Thursday, as part of theBerlin Blockchain Week, nine of the Polkadot ecosystemâs top projects gathered to host a conference andnon-fungibletoken (NFT)...
The inaugural collection is a collaboration by artists Glenda LeĂłn and Gustavo PĂ©rez MonzĂłn. Ella Fontanals-Cisneros. Photo Mauricio Donalli.Following a successful partnership with Ars Electronica early this year, which awarded $85,0000 in grants to five Latin American artists who work with...
Berlin, September2022 âSpielworks, a leading blockchain startup specializing in gaming and decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions, partners with four popular NFT games to enable its community to enjoy a native login through the Wombat wallet. The integrated games includeGunstar MetaverseandTiny...
MoMA has a team monitoring the digital art market and will consider purchasing non-fungible tokens. Museum of Modern Art, New York. (Jamison McAndie/Unsplash) New Yorkâs Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is considering buyingnon-fungible tokens(NFT) with some of the proceeds of an auction of...
Ella Fontanals-CisnerosMauricio DonellinoneElla Fontanals-Cisneros, a major collector whose holdings run the gamut of Latin American art to conceptual art to video art, is getting into the NFT game. Using 3D scans, works from her collection, which boasts over 2,000 pieces, are going to be...
Cointelegraph spoke with NFT musicians and Web3 music industry natives to understand what came first: the music or the desire to make an NFT. Cointelegraph spoke with NFT musicians and Web3 music industry natives to understand what came first: the music or the desire to make an NFT....
Yuga Labs, the startup that developed the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) series of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), plans to launch a new NFT series, âMecha Apesâ, by the end of this year, according to a filing on Sept. 15. Thenew collection of NFTs is aimed at raising$50 million and 100,000...
The debate over creator fees or royalties on NFTs has been going on for a while now. Both sides, the creators and collectors, have made their case as to why or why not there should be royalty on top of the sale price of an NFT. NFT marketplaces have become proxies in this debate, by...
Sony held a State of Play event where it gave a glimpse of the first âdigital collectiblesâ that will be offered as rewards for the PlayStation Stars loyalty program. However, Sony has insisted that these collectibles are not non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Digital collectibles for the...
Washington and Pennsylvania wade into a largely unregulated marketplace A visitor at theSeattle NFT Museum in Washington, one of the first states to taxnon-fungible tokensPhoto by Jason Redmond / AFP via Getty ImagesEarlier this summer, Washington and Pennsylvania became the first two states to...
Not enough yachts in the Bored Ape Yacht Club? One NFT holder, crypto CEO, and yacht owner plans to change all of that. Artwork from the Bored Yachts Club. Image: Bored Yachts Club TheBored Ape Yacht Cluboffers plenty of disinterested-looking Apesâ10,000 of them, to be exact,...
Vanity Blocks paid roughly 30 ether to crypto miner F2Pool to mint an NFT of Ethereum's final proof-of-work block. Bids on "The Last POW Block" are half of what its creators paid to create it. (OpenSea) The entirety of Ethereumâs final block before it shifted to a proof-of-stake network...
Seedify Launches NFT Marketplace Token $SNFTS On August 31, 2022, Seedify, one of the biggest launchpads within the crypto sector, released $SNFTS - the Seedify NFT Marketplace token. Seedifyis one of the crypto industry's leading notable launchpads and incubators. They empower innovators and...
Dive Brief: Starbucks is launching an NFT marketplace calledStarbucks Odyssey, which will be integrated with the companyâs loyalty program,it announced Monday. Customers will have two paths to accumulating Starbucks NFTs: they can collect digital stamps by completing in-app tasks, like...
Mythical Gamesâ Blankos Block Party, which the studio claims has more than a million players, is now available on the Epic Games marketplace. Blankos Block Party. Image: Mythical Games Blankos Block Party, anNFT-powered online creation game, launched today on the Epic Games Store, becoming...
Mythical Gamesâ Blankos Block Party became the first blockchain-based game to become available on the Epic Games Store. The game marketplace of Fortnite creator Epic Games has listed its first non-fungible token (NFT)-powered Web3 title, Mythical Gamesâ Blankos Block Party, according to a...
During its State of Play even on Tuesday, Sony gave us a look at some of the first âdigital collectiblesâ thatâll be available as rewards for itsPlayStation Stars loyalty program. The items â which Sony insists are not NFTs or based on the blockchain â are basically little virtual...
Royalty payments have become a cornerstone of the burgeoningnon-fungible token (NFT)industry, allowing artists to profit when their work is resold, venues to profit from secondary markets for NFT tickets, and artists to abandon streaming services in favor of more lucrative, blockchain-driven...
Sony Music Entertainmentâs Columbia Records has officially filed a U.S. trademark application for non-fungible token (NFT) music, visual media, and more. Though Columbia Recordsâ NFT trademark (serial number 97571005) just recently came to light onsocial media, the label officially filed...
The Alpha: Following the July launch ofits very own NFT marketplace, brick-and-mortar gaming retailer GameStop is doubling down on its Web3 strategy ina new partnershipwith the crypto exchange platform FTX. The partnership aims to funnel GameStopâs growing Web3-savvy customer base toward...
Courtesy of MetaMundoMetaMundo has launched its second three-dimensionalNFT, an ocean-adjacent villa, complete with anNFTgallery, meditation pavilions, and entertaining areas. The structure was designed by American architect and hybrid-creative Luis Fernandez to become an immersive space for...
A trademark application covering its future efforts in the Metaverse and NFT space comes only a month after the company announced huge staff cuts. A trademark application covering its future efforts in the Metaverse and NFT space comes only a month after the company announced huge staff cuts....
Demand for non-fungible tokens connected to the late monarch surge along with prices. Image credit: LongLiveTheQueenNFT Twitter pageNon-fungible token (NFT) artworks portraying Queen Elizabeth II flooded the marketplace within minutes of the announcement of her death on Thursday in the U.K.,...
Every day there is a lot of news about the world of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT), metaverse, and Web 3 in general. Here is a summary of the latest, related toUnstoppable Domains, Bored Apes Yacht Club (BAYC), the Nifty Gateway marketplace, and more. Brave collaborates with Unstoppable Domains...
The Alpha: AThursday reportpublished by the White House on Thursday has detailed a list of steps all blockchains can take to become more environmentally sustainable, which directly affects the NFT space. The report argues blockchains operating under a proof-of-work consensus mechanism â...
Investing in a Worthwhile NFT Collection There are an increasing number of scamNon-Fungible Tokens (NFT)projects and NFT creators who are here for the big bucks. Scams seem to be on the rise in this bear market too. Therefore, it might be hard to choose a worthwhile NFT collection among the...
The collection invited NFT artists and designers like Bobby Hundreds, Deadfellaz and Ghxsts to redesign an NBA logo that hasn't changed since 1966. Art by Varvara Alay The Chicago Bulls are releasing a new NFT collection later this month featuring "1-of-1" artworks designed by several...
After releasing dozens of pixel portraits of the late monarch in recent months, the Nouns NFT fork will close its initial collection. An Ethereum NFT from the QueenE project. Image: QueenE AnEthereumNFT project that produced dozens of pieces of Queen Elizabeth II tribute artwork over the...
Redditâs launch of limited edition NFT avatars has led to a large premium on secondary sales on OpenSea. Redditâs launch of limited edition NFT avatars has led to a large premium on secondary sales on OpenSea. Sales of recently launched Reddit blockchain-based avatars are rising...
It sounds like being a host in WestWorld, but less fun. Image: Disney/Anonymous Players in developing countries could work as NPCs in wealthier playersâ worlds, according to one game consultant. âWith the cheap labor of a developing country, you could use people in the Philippines...
The director owned the copyright to the screenplay, while Miramax owned the copyright to the movie. His plans to release NFTs based on the film erupted in a lawsuit. Winston Cho 'Pulp Fiction'Miramax Films/ Courtesy Everett Collectionnone Miramaxâs suit againstQuentin Tarantinoover plans to...
There is a long list of new tokens with names in poor taste such as Queen Elizabeth Inu, Save the Queen, Queen, QueenDoge, London Bridge is Down and Rip Queen Elizabeth. There is a long list of new tokens with names in poor taste such as Queen Elizabeth Inu, Save the Queen, Queen, QueenDoge,...
The consumer electronics company, which has served on the Hedera Governing Council since 2020, is bringing NFTs to television screens through a platform built on the Hedera network. LG will only support NFTs on Hedera Hashgraph. (KÄrlis DambrÄns/Flickr) Another consumer electronics company...
The consumer electronics company, which has served on The Hedera Governing Council since 2020, is bringing NFTs to television screens through a platform built on the Hedera network. LG will only support NFTs on Hedera Hashgraph. (KÄrlis DambrÄns/Flickr) Another consumer electronics company...
The popular NFT marketplace X2Y2 announced it will no longer make buyers pay royalties on certain NFT purchases, sparking debate on the importance of such payments to the industry. Royalty payments have become a cornerstone of the growing non-fungible token (NFT) industry, allowing artists to...
(CNN)âShortly after theFBI searched his Mar-a-Lago homeearlier this month, former President Donald Trump fumed on social media about agents rummaging throughhis wife's clothing and personal items. "Just learned that agents went through the First Lady's closets and rummaged through her...
Racing behemoth Formula Onehas filedtwo trademarks related to non-fungible tokens and crypto for the Las Vegas Grand Prix event, which is expected to take place in November 2023.As per the filings, Formula One plans to offer virtual goods in the form of sporting equipment, virtual clothing,...
The rap legends will return to the award show after over a decade with their song âFrom the D to the LBC.â Image: "From the D to the LBC" on YouTube. Snoop Dogg and Eminem will bring theirBored Ape Yacht Club(BAYC) NFTs to the VMAs this Sunday,performing from inside Yuga Labsâ...
Chingariâs Creator Cuts NFT marketplace will empower the creators by offering a unique financial and community engagement opportunity. The platform will offer both â creators and NFT owners â rewards in its native cryptocurrency GARI tokens. On Monday, August 22, on-chain social media...
Despite warnings on Crypto Twitter, NFT project SudoRare has disappeared from social media along with more than $800,000 in user funds. NFTs. Image: Shutterstock SudoRare, anNFTplatform that forked from SudoSwap and LooksRare, is just the latest crypto projectto run offwith users' funds. The...
Many people donât even know what an NFT is (itâs a ânon-fungible tokenâ) or how to buy one. This Trojan startup aims to take care of that. Just what is an NFT? Essentially, itâs a unique piece of digital art that is certified using blockchain, an immutable record of ownership....
Key Takeaways NFT exchange SudoRare scammed users out of about $820,000 in various crypto tokens Tuesday. Immediately after the incident, the anonymous developers behind the project deleted the exchange's website and disappeared from Twitter. Blockchain security firm PeckShield has linked one...
XCOPY reportedly had a big payday, but the artist has yet to acknowledge the sale. This article originally appeared on Lucky Trader:Donât Panic by XCOPY Sells for 500 ETH Donât Panic, an NFT artwork created by famous artist XCOPY in February 2019, recently sold for 500 ETH, or $805,895. The...
The collection of pixelated face profile pictures took over the top spot of NFT floor prices for the first time since December as both collections continue to plunge in value. The floor price for CryptoPunk non-fungible tokens (NFT) briefly passed that of rival blue chip collection Bored Ape...
Quick take: NFTs are turning out to be a gem for fashion brands. Leading brands have generated at least $1 million for a total of $260 million. Nike tops the list with a whopping $185 million revenue from NFT sales. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)are becoming an exciting revenue channel for...
It shouldn't come as a surprise that celebrities have been slow to adopt crypto, even when mass commercialization is around the corner. Iâve always wondered what wouldâve happened had Taylor Swiftâs first re-recorded album, âFearless (Taylor's Version),'' been released as a...
Metagameâs founder, whoâs behind the NFT offering, said he has no idea whether itâll actually incentivize hackers to return funds, but itâll âbe cool if it does!â Metagameâs founder, whoâs behind the NFT offering, said he has no idea whether itâll actually incentivize hackers...
Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergenoneNon-fungible tokens or NFTs are sold on the promise of âownership,â but a new review suggests many creators and buyers still have no idea what that means. A review from blockchain investment company Galaxy Digital finds that only one of the 25 most...
Rich Fury / Forum PhotosnoneThere hasnât been any shortage of musicians getting involved in the growing NFT (non-fungible token) arena. ButMuseâs âWill of the Peopleâ album, coming out this Friday, still looks to be a first of sorts, as far as adding a fairly straightforward,...
Non-fungible tokens exploded in popularity last year, with plenty of famous celebrities using their following in order to promote the new crypto craze.Their promotional efforts didnât go in vain. According to anew surveypublished by Washington, D.C.-based think tank Pew Research Center, 49%...
Nonfungible tokens give major brands new ways of interacting with their consumers spanning art, fashion and gaming. Nonfungible tokens give major brands new ways of interacting with their consumers spanning art, fashion and gaming. The hype surrounding nonfungible tokens (NFTs) has allowed...
Faulty auction mechanics highlighted the downside of letting people borrow money against their Bored Apes. NFT-collateralized crypto loans platform BendDAO looked to right itself Monday after lurching through a nearly disastrous liquidity crisis over the weekend, a situation that underscored...
The Bored Apes have been sitting pretty all year, but the CryptoPunks may be seeing a second wind. ByAndrew HaywardandRyan Ozawa For a brief, shining moment Sunday morning, the CryptoPunks flipped the Bored Ape Yacht Club, the floor price of the veteran NFT collection topping that of the...