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FTX Bankruptcy Puts Bored Apes at Risk

FTX bankruptcy puts 98 OG NFTs at risk—including some of the rarest, golden-furred Bored Apes FTX holds Bored Ape and Otherdeed for Otherside NFTs following helping Yuga Labs raise capital. Thus, around $5.8 million (5,000 ETH) worth of OG NFTs are at risk due to FTX’s recent bankruptcy. Quick Take: Related Content: Sequoia Capital’s $213.5

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Why Do People Buy NFTs? Four Key Reasons

There’s much more to non-fungible tokens (NFTs) than digital art that looks like JPEGS. But why do people buy NFTs? Regardless of the crypto and NFT market being down, people still hope to become rich off this digital art. Or, at least, enjoy having access to unique art and media files, physical or digital goods,

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Reviews

YouHunt: The Zombie P2E Game You Must Hunt Down in 2023

The YoHunt team continuously work on its P2E game to ensure that no technical glitches arise, just zombiesYoHunt is a brand-new augmented reality (AR) mobile game bringing challenging and competitive outdoor play-to-earn (P2E) zombie hunting to the forefront of its mission. Players can hunt down zombies—all of which are non-fungible tokens (NFTs)—in the hope of

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Adidas to Grant Capsule NFT Owners to ‘Unbox The Impossible’

Adidas’ Bored Ape says the ”future is serious fun” while unveiling new Web3 initiative, ’Unbox The Impossible’ Holders of Adidas’ Capsule NFTs—Into The Metaverse—will be able to ’Unbox The Impossible’ on November 16. Quick Take: ’Unbox The Impossible’: What We Know Thus Far All holders of Adidas’ Capsule NFTs will receive a surprise in just

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Ethereum Roadmap Includes New Stage: The Scourge

The Ethereum roadmap aims to include ”reliable and credibly neutral transaction inclusion, to avoid centralization and other protocol risks from MEV” Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, unveils an update to the Ethereum roadmap—showcasing goals to mitigate censorship, block verification and centralization, and so forth under six stages, including a brand new one. Quick Take: What’s In

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SuperRare Launches RarePass for Curated Art Drops

SuperRare creates RarePass—an innovative way to entice new buyers and reward collectors The Ethereum-based, decentralized NFT marketplace SuperRare launches ”RarePass”—a subscription-like service—to reward digital art collectors. Quick Take: Benefits of SuperRare’s RarePass SuperRare is soon to launch a crypto art collecting opportunity dubbed RarePass. Three randomly selected RarePass holders will get the chance to win unique

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Interviews

Discussing All Things Web3 with a Crypto Entrepreneur [Interview with Aleksander Blomquist, Otrai Founder]

NFT Lately chats with Aleksander Blomquist—the crypto entrepreneur behind Web3 projects that provide trading information, communication tools and more Please tell me about yourself and your crypto projects At school, I studied business because of wanting to be an entrepreneur. Now, I am a self-taught web developer and crypto entrepreneur whose most passionate about tech,

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Why Do NFTs Hold Their Value?

NFTs hold their value for numerous reasons related to social media status, bonus content, community access, free merchandise, exclusive prizes and more First and foremost, it’s vital to understand that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are much more than digital art and JPEG images. Rather, thanks to the tokens tracking ownership, the value of these digital assets

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Visa and Crypto.com to Kick-Off FIFA World Cup NFTs

Visa Masters of Movement includes an auction of FIFA World Cup NFTs, personalized digital art and signed memorabilia FIFA World Cup sponsors Visa and Crypto.com are partnering to kick-off NFT collections of both soccer players and fans as part of the Visa Masters of Movement project. Quick Take: The NFTs Behind the ’Visa Masters of

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Xiaomi Invests in 3D Metaverse, Puffverse

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi is investing in a ”Disney-like” metaverse dubbed Puffverse Quick Take: Xiaomi’s Journey Into the Metaverse One of the last global corporations to explore Web3 is Chinese tech giant Xiaomi—the manufacturer of consumer electrics, software, and other electronic items. Currently, Xiaomi is investing in its new 3D metaverse, Puffverse, which will be ”vast,

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Digging Into a Gothic NFT Drop on Halloween | Interview with BEYOND THE WINDOW

NFT Lately discusses all things Halloween with the curator of a gothic NFT drop dubbed ”BEYOND THE WINDOW” Can you tell me about yourself and your project ”BEYOND THE WINDOW”? I am the founder of MERCURY DASHA, a physical and digital fashion and art brand. We do fashion-art NFTs, digital style for metaverse and gaming

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Web3

Fractionalized Ownership Will Drive the Next Wave of NFTs

The co-founder of Arcade, Robert Masiello, shares his thoughts with NFT Lately about how fractionalized ownership can drive the next wave of NFTs After Beeple’s record-breaking sale of an NFT for $69 million made headlines in the spring of 2021, a searing hot NFT summer kicked off—showing the potential these digital assets had to transform the concept

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Hong Kong Rugby Union Unveils NFT Marketplace

The Hong Kong Rugby Union NFT marketplace will offer team card NFTs for sale ahead of the competition On October 29, the Hong Kong Rugby Union (HKRU) announced the launch of its first-ever NFT marketplace ”Hong Kong Sevens”, powered by NuArca Labs. Quik Take: The hub for buying, selling and trading NFTs aims to connect

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Top Halloween NFT Collections to Purchase This Spooky Season

Trick, treat or NFTs? The celebrate the spooky season, here’s a list of our top 10 Halloween NFT collections It’s Halloween season, and what better way to celebrate than to purchase a new NFT representing something out of the ordinary by being a little creepy? Many NFTs gain access to events, roll out roadmap milestones,

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NFTs Join Guinness World Records for the First Time

The Guinness World Records 2023 states CryptoPunk #5822 is the most expensive NFT in existence This year, the Guinness World Records began honoring the blockchain’s achievements by highlighting the success of Web3 projects for the first time ever. Inside of the book, the ”Cryptomania” section records the achievements of the blockchain, covering the most trivia

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Hasbulla NFTs: Why Are They Popular?

Hasbulla NFTs gain popularity following the curator’s rare characteristics and talents Like many other Web3 collectibles, Hasbulla NFTs represent underlying digital art alongside ownership recorded on the blockchain. The curator, Hasbulla Magomedov, is a Russian social media star and martial artist that is just 3’3 tall. His rare characteristics and talents bring curiosity to his

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The Women Behind Crypto Tech Women Making Waves In the NFT Space

NFT Lately catches up with the Crypto Tech Women team, Celi and Gigi, to discuss how the NFT project empowers women in the Web3 sphere Tell me about the Crypto Tech Women: Celi: Crypto Tech Women (CTW) is a Web3 community-centric brand created with a mission to empower, educate and help women join the Web3

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Deadfellaz and DraftKings Team Up for Halloween

Deadfellaz and DraftKings dig into Halloween by creating unique, spooky-looking NFT cards Although Deadfellaz is already joining forces with Steve Aoki for a Halloween special, the Ethereum NFT collection is also teaming up with DraftKings. But rather than launching spooky attire, it’s bringing limited-edition NFT player cards to the table. Quick Take: About Deadfellaz and DraftKings

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Telegram is Ready to Launch Username Auction Marketplace

Telegram contacted all app members to reveal it’s soon launching its long-awaited username auction marketplace The anticipated plan for Telegram to launch a username auction marketplace is just around the corner, according to a Telegram message posted today. Quick Take: Why Telegram is Leaning Into Web3 Despite Pavel Durov, Telegram’s founder, revealing his interest in

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What Does Paper Hands Mean?

Traders with ”diamond hands” believe in the eventual profitability of stocks/crypto despite value dropping. But what does ”paper hands” mean? ”Paper hands” is another one of those crypto-related buzzwords that get heard time and time again despite many not knowing what it means. That’s where we come in—to help boost your blockchain knowledge! So, let’s

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Features

The Upcoming Ticket-Gating App Issuing NFTs as Event Tickets

NFT Lately talks to members of the Groovoo team about what’s in store for the ticket-gating app and event industry challenges After three years of lockdowns around the globe following COVID-19, concerts, sporting events, and conferences saw a decline in demand as many venues were regularly shutting down. Luckily for creatives, events are finally back

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Everything About FEWOCiOUS’ Paint Drop NFT Collection

About FEWOCiOUS’ successful ”Paint Drop NFT” collection, and what’s next for the well-renowned 19-year-old digital artist Victor Langlois, otherwise known as ”FEWOCiOUS”, is no stranger to making a quick fix of cash from non-fungible tokens (NFTs). After raking in $3.1 million by generating digital sneakers in partnership with the Nike-owned NFT collection, RTFKT, the 19-year-old

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Kraft Food Aims to Drive Wienermobile Metaverse and NFTs

Kraft Food is driving Wienermobile metaverse and NFTs to the forefront of its virtual mission On October 11, Kraft Foods made its most recent metaverse trademark application with the Trademark Office and US Patent for its classic Wienermobile. Quick Take: The Need for a Wienermobile Metaverse and NFTs Kraft Food’s ”Wienermobile” already exists as a

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An NFT House Just Sold for $175k

Reasons why this NFT house sold for $175k—the use cases of real estate NFTs Despite real estate typically has a good history, less volatile than the blockchain market, the real estate company Roofstock combined the two fields by selling a tokenized version of an NFT house in South Carolina on OpenSea for just $175k just last week.

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