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News

Lacoste’s New Virtual Store Includes NFT-Holder Perks

Only NFT holders can open the doors to the third room in Lacoste’s new virtual store, full of additional perks as surprises In light of Christmas cheer, Lacoste has unveiled its first virtual store, which includes additional perks for NFT holders. Quick Take: Opening the Doors to Lacoste’s New Virtual Store – What to Expect

Leah Waters

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BNB Chain NFT Creators can Now Sell Their Work on OpenSea

In an exciting move, the OpenSea NFT marketplace announces support for BNB Chain. As a result, the NFTs’ artists and creators who built on the BNB Chain can now sell their artwork on OpenSea. In particular, OpenSea’s Seaport protocol will allow these sales. Quick Take: Working With the 5th Largest Blockchain In terms of NFT

Anvi Saini

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Yuga Labs’ Leaked Financials Show Insane Profits

Leaked data shows that Yuga Labs has sold more than $300 million worth of metaverse land, which cost the OG NFT developers $4.6 million to build and sell Recently leaked data shows that, since the get-go in 2021, Yuga Labs has made a whopping $137 million from non-fungible token (NFT) initiatives, reaping a generous net revenue of

Leah Waters

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Porsche Makes Its Web3 Debut With Its First NFT Collection

The luxury sports car manufacturer announced its official entry into Web3 today, as well as the preliminary plans for its decentralized future. Quick Take: These Porsche NFTs Might Sell Out Quickly To begin, Porsche’s first Web3 project is a 7,500-piece NFT collection based on the classic Porsche 911. The Porsche NFTs will release in January 2023. Given

Anvi Saini

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Snoop Dogg and His Son Feature in Clay Nation NFT Music Video

Snoop Dogg and his son rap in an NFT music video featuring Bored Apes and CryptoPunks as Clay Nation’s iconic clay characters Rap legend Snoop Dogg and his son Cordell Broadus (Champ Medici) have released an NFT music video dubbed ”Bron and Bronny”, with the top Cardano NFT project, Clay Nation. Quick Take: The Creation

Leah Waters

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TIME President, Keith Grossman, To Join Moonpay As President of Enterprise

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

Ross Wardrop

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Web3 GAM3 Awards – It’s Time to Place Your Vote!

Who will be crowned ’Game of the Year’ at the GAM3 Awards? Superior, Big Time, Gods Unchained, The Harvest or Illuvium? For the first time ever, Web3 games are getting the appreciation they deserve. This upcoming event is set to highlight and showcase the best blockchain games for the first time on December 15, 2022.

Leah Waters

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Prada’s New NFT Collection is Out, and It Has a Holiday Theme

The first Timecapsule NFT collection came out in December 2019, marking the holiday season. The latest collection is the 7th edition of Prada’s series of NFT collections. This edition has 50 NFTs, and it includes physical Prada sweaters made of Merino wool. Quick Take: On December 1, the luxury fashion house will release an exclusive

Anvi Saini

Web3

Christie’s Unveils New NFTs Ahead of Miami Art Week

Christie’s will launch 15 NFTs on its Web3 auction house ahead of Miami Art Week (November 30 – December 7) Regardless of the NFT market taking a turn for the worse, one of the world’s largest auctioneers, Christie’s, is launching a limited-edition collection of on-chain artworks to celebrate Miami Art Week. Miami’s upcoming art event alongside

Leah Waters

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NFTs From China’s Anti-Lockdown Protests Emerge On OpenSea

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

Ross Wardrop

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The Backlash of MetaMask Stealing Users’ Data

MetaMask users took to Twitter to voice outrage concerning the crypto and NFT wallet stealing the data of its Infura users without consent On November 23, 2022, ConsenSys published the most recent version of MetaMask’s privacy policy. The document states that if users’ use Metamask’s default third-party Remote Procedure Call (RPC) provider, Infura, information on the users’

Leah Waters

Web3

Who Invented NFTs and When? | A History of Non-Fungible Tokens

You’ve probably heard of NFTs by now – but what are they, exactly? And who invented them? In this post, we’ll answer those questions and more, so that you can be up to date on all things NFT! What is an NFT? NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are a type of cryptocurrency that represents a unique

Ty Smith

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Macy’s Metaverse Thanksgiving Parade Is an Epic Fail – Here’s What’s Going Wrong

With few attendees and not much to rant about, Macy’s Virtual Thanksgiving Day Parade is an epic failure Following the hype of Macy’s 96th Thanksgiving Day Parade, the American chain of high-end department stores is hosting its very own virtual parade to further celebrate the occasion. Unfortunately, the event—that’s been running all day—isn’t what it was cracked

Leah Waters

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ApeCoin DAO Launches Community-Driven BAYC NFT Marketplace

ApeCoin DAO has built its own private white-label BAYC NFT marketplace. Zach Heerwagen, the founder of Snag Solutions, took to Twitter yesterday to announce the launch of Snag Solution’s Apecoin NFT marketplace, which enables trades for popular Yuga Labs-developed collections including the Bored Ape Yacht Club, Mutant Ape Yacht Club, and Otherside metaverse game. Quick

Anvi Saini

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Pepsi Black Opens Up NFT Rewards for Indian Consumers

Indian consumers who partake in the #PepsiBlackeffect challenge will have the chance to win Pepsi Black digital collectibles and merchandise Fizzy-pop giant Pepsi Black announced it will shortly open up its first drop of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to Indian consumers last week. Quick Take: Reasons for Popping Open a Pepsi Black NFT PepsiCo’s Indian design team, with

Leah Waters

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Reebok Joins Nike and Adidas In The Web3 Space

Reebok, a fitness clothing and footwear manufacturer has filed two trademark applications for its name in the metaverse and the NFT space. Quick Take: Reebok has signed its name into the Metaverse by delivering two requests. Michael Kondoudis, a metaverse trademark attorney, announced the news on Twitter. Given that, the company filed the official application

Anvi Saini

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The Sandbox Sells LAND Featuring Big-Name Celebs and Brands

The Sandbox sells LAND NFTs in collaboration with the likes of Tony Hawk, Snoop Dogg, Playboy, and other famous personalities and brands Quick Take: Starting tomorrow (November 24), The Sandbox sells LAND—its virtual real estate that makes up the metaverse—featuring Tony Hawk, Snoop Dogg, Playboy, and several other big-name personalities and brands to its players. The Sandbox

Leah Waters

Web3

Mattel Launches an NFT Marketplace With Hot Wheels Collection

Mattel announced a new NFT marketplace as it expanded its NFT business. It will be converting its famous intellectual property into digital art. The Mattel Creations portal will be deployed on the Flow blockchain this week. Quick Take: Basically, the California-based entertainment conglomerate manufactures dolls, games, and action figures and owns the intellectual property (IP)

Anvi Saini

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Magic Eden Expands Its Marketplace With Polygon NFTs

The NFT marketplace Magic Eden opens its arms to all Web3 developers working on the Polygon blockchain network The cross-chain marketplace Magic Eden is welcoming a new ecosystem of creators and developers by supporting all Polygon-based non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Quick Take: Perks of Magic Eden Integrating Polygon – Reasons Why The NFT marketplace’s most reliable

Leah Waters

Guides

NFT Artists to Watch Out For (With Unique Use Cases)

These NFT artists to watch out for focus on our carbon footprint, tech-savvy digital art, and big juicy Harley Davidson wheels Picking the right NFT artists to watch out for can be a tricky task. However, many artists whose NFTs are growing in value provide something out of the ordinary. With that in mind, this guide will

Leah Waters

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Grand Theft Auto Ban NFTs And Crypto From Their Online Servers

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

Ross Wardrop

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Macy’s Will Host Thanksgiving Day Parade in Metaverse, Showcase NFTs

Quick Take: Macy’s is the latest company to make a major push into Web3. Today, they announced the initiative via a press release. According to the company, “As we countdown to the 96th Macy’s Parade, we are excited to bring this spectacle once again to the web3 virtual landscape with a fun experience that empowers our

Ty Smith

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Coachella Lifetime Pass NFTs Made Unavailable Due To FTX Collapse

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

Ross Wardrop

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LandVault and Chainlink Labs Hinge to Build on the Metaverse

LandVault and Chainlink are building new and exciting ways to accelerate and boost a new future of business on the metaverse LandVault and Chainlink Labs are channeling ways to accelerate the growth of Web3 experiences. The Web3 powerhouses are building real estate on the metaverse, using Chainlink Lab’s industry-standard oracle solutions and LandVault’s proprietary technology

Leah Waters