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Ross is a Junior Web3 Journalist at Bitcolumnist. He is based in Europe and covers NFT & Web3 news and ecosystem developments.
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Reddit has given away over one million Polygon blockchain NFTs themed around the Super Bowl, which takes place today. Quick Take: A Million Super Bowl NFTs and Counting: The Details On Monday, Reddit took to Twitter to announce the details of their partnership with the NFL, to bring free Super Bowl LVII avatars to their
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Tortilla chip giants, Doritos, are entering the metaverse this week through a variety of activities and plans. Across three days next week, the ’Doritos Triangle Studios’, hosted on Decentraland, will include $25,000 worth of prizes. Quick Take: The Details of ’Doritos Triangle Studios’ ’Doritos Triangle Studios’ will run from 8th-10th February this week through three
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Following the acquisition of NFT marketplace, KnownOrigin, eBay have advertised for a variety of web3-focused job roles as they look to further themselves into the NFT industry. Quick Take: New Job Roles This week, multi-billion dollar US-based marketplace, eBay, advertised a selection of web3 related jobs that will focus on their KnownOrigin venture, a company
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MMA Fighter and internet personality, Dillon Danis, has been called out by YouTuber-investigative journalist, Coffeezilla (Stephen Findeisen), for promoting a scam NFT collection, SourzNFT Candies. Findeisen actually just created the project to experiment if celebrities would promote anything for money. Quick Take: About Danis’ Fake Promotion Dillon Danis posted to his Twitter saying ”Check this
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After reports a few weeks ago about the stark decline of Donald Trump’s NFTs being ”dead”, the former US President’s NFT collection has seen a meteoric rise in recent days, for no clear reason. Quick Take: Donald Trump’s NFTs: The Revival A few weeks ago, several news outlets were reporting that former US President, Donald
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A few days ago, to celebrate the Spanish Super Cup final or ’Supercopa de España’, 473 NFTs were launched. In the game, between rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona, the Catalonian side came out 3-1 victors, confirming their 14th Super Cup title. Quick Take: The Spanish Super Cup NFTs This Sunday, to celebrate the final of
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Following the previous controversy fueled by Coffeezilla’s YouTube exposé, Logan Paul has announced a refund plan for his CryptoZoo NFT project, which was previously labelled as a ”scam”. Quick Take: The CryptoZoo Refund Plan YouTuber and Boxer, Logan Paul, today announced the details of a refund plan for dissatisfied customers and investors in his CryptoZoo
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Recently, Game of Thrones, one of the biggest TV shows of all time, released their first NFTs to the public. They sold out the collection on the day of release. Quick Take: About the Game of Thrones NFTs Game of Thrones, which is often classed as one of the biggest (and best) TV shows of
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It was recently announced that popular Solana NFT project, Y00ts, had moved to Polygon. Now, with the latest news and details, it was announced that Y00ts’ owners, DeLabs, received $3 million to do so from Polygon directly. Quick Take: The Initial Move to Polygon for Y00ts A couple of weeks ago, it was announced that
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NFT marketplace and OpenSea competitor, SuperRare, which is mostly known for high-quality NFT artwork, have let go of around 30% of their staff. The reasoning, overhiring in the bull run, and struggling during the ongoing bear run that’s affecting the entire industry, according to ’SuperRare John’ on Twitter. Quick Take: A History of SuperRare SuperRare
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Ohio-born content creator Logan Paul is often seen spinning many plates at once. From boxing Floyd Mayweather and wrestling for WWE to creating an energy drink, he’s seemingly done it all, and seen success from most. However, recently, he’s been called out for his ”scam” NFT project, Cryptozoo, by investigative YouTuber ’Coffezilla’ (real name Stephen
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English football (soccer) club, Manchester United, have been accused by the NFT community of copying the original artwork of an NFT artist. The claims are comparing the artwork from the collection released on the team’s sponsors, Tezos, to another popular artist on the same blockchain. Quick Take: Manchester United’s NFTs: Are They Copies? Undoubtedly, Manchester
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Following lots of anticipation, China’s first national ’digital asset (NFT) marketplace’ is set to launch next week. It will be heavily regulated by the government, but shows their support of NFTs and crypto overall – a great sign for the industry moving forward. Quick Take: China’s NFT Marketplace China is due to release their new
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In the former President’s latest fiasco, Donald Trump’s NFT collection, that recently sold out, has been called out for using copyrighted images including ones from the likes of Amazon and Walmart. Quick Take: A Brief Summary of the Donald Trump Collection Last week, Donald Trump, the former US President and host of ’The Apprentice’ announced
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SoRare, the fantasy sports NFT platform have recently introduced NFTs from the National Basketball Association (NBA) to their product line. Until now, SoRare have had football (soccer) and baseball ones. The premise of the app is owning NFTs of various sports players, earning points based on their real-life performances. Quick Take: A Brief History of
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A handful of celebrities have been named in a class-action lawsuit against Yuga Labs and Bored Ape Yacht Club – mentioning that the founders of the all-time top NFT collection engaged with celebrities to fraud potential investors. They claimed that through these celebrities’ backings, the NFTs were artificially inflated in price. Quick Take: About the
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Memes have been an important part of popular culture and the internet since their start in the mid-90s. Now, ’The Memes by 6529’ is attempting to bring the popular format to NFTs, properly, through their trending collection on OpenSea. What is ’The Memes’ Collection The Memes collection was created by 6529. The project includes various
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In recent days, modern media brand, Wanderers have raised $2M in a round of seed funding, led by top companies Animoca Brands and GameFi Ventures. They become the most recent web3 company to raise multi-million dollars in funding. Quick Take: About Wanderers Wanderers started in August of last year as an 8,888-piece NFT collection. Since,
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The now former President of TIME Magazine, Keith Grossman, is set to join cryptocurrency/NFT startup, Moonpay, as the President of their enterprise business. Grossman spent three and a half years with the New York magazine where he was responsible for overseeing all of the brand’s business, technology and operational aspects. Quick Take: Keith Grossman’s TIME
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Following ’utterly extraordinary’ protests in China against the country’s still strict COVID-19 rules, NFTs from the events have made their way to OpenSea. The moments over the past few days in the world’s most populous country have certainly been historical. Quick Take: About the Protests in China Since coronavirus first arrived in Wuhan, China, the
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This week, only two collections are above VALHALLA on OpenSea’s sales volume charts: Cryptopunks and Bored Ape Yacht Club. So, what is this brand new project smashing it on social media and marketplaces? What is VALHALLA? According to the project’s discord, VALHALLA is ”an NFT project building a community for gamers around the world.” They
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Grand Theft Auto, one of the world’s best-selling video game franchises, have banned all NFTs and crypto from the online servers in their game: Grand Theft Auto 5. This comes after an update to their publisher, Take-Two’s legal enforcement policy. Quick Take: How NFTs Were Used in GTA’s Online Servers Online servers have been a
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Due to the well-reported collapse of the cryptocurrency platform, FTX, the Coachella Lifetime Pass NFTs sold on their NFT marketplace are now unavailable. It was reported that when they were initially launched in February, two of the passes from the limited edition collection were sold for $250,000. Quick Take: About the Coachella NFTs In February
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Manchester United and Portugal soccer star, Cristiano Ronaldo, announced yesterday that he is launching an NFT collection through Binance on Friday, November 18. Based on recent poor form and controversial interview with Piers Morgan, fans have been outraged at the timing of his announcement. Quick Take: Cristiano Ronaldo and Binance NFTs Yesterday, November 15, Cristiano
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