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GameStop

GameStop to launch NFT marketplace by the end of July

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US video game console and game retailer GameStop has announced that it will launch an NFT marketplace before the end of the second fiscal quarter of 2022. The firm first announced the initiative in February. The platform will be based on the second-level Ethereum solution from the Australian...

Rarible

Rarible integrates NFT on the Polygon platform

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The Rarible NFT marketplace has added support for assets issued on the Polygon second-tier network. The integration brought the number of platforms used by the protocol to four, along with Ethereum, Tezos, and Flow. Rarible said that as part of the partnership, the NFT and gaming division of...

CryptoPunks

Over $200K worth of NFTs from CryptoPunks collection donated to Ukraine

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An unknown person donated an NFT from the CryptoPunks collection to the Ukrainian crypto fund. The token is valued at over $200,000. Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine for IT Development Oleksandr Bornyakov valued the token at 56 ETH (~$148,000). He likely refers to the cost of...

NFT

OnlyFans and YouTube announced the introduction of NFT technology

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The content subscription service OnlyFans, which is very popular in the "adult entertainment" industry, is empowering its potential creators. According to an official statement from the developers, the startup has added a feature that allows you to set non-fungible tokens as a profile...

NYSE

NYSE files for NFT-focused trademark

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The New York Stock Exchange has filed a trademark application for a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace and virtual goods. In April 2021, the site released an NFT "in honor of the IPO of high-tech American companies." Each token contains Spotify, Snowflake, Unity, DoorDash, Roblox, and...

Cent

Cent suspended trading due to fakes and plagiarism

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The NFT platform Cent has suspended trading. The reasons for this decision were the sale of copied and fake NFTs from users who do not have the rights to tokenized content. The head of the marketplace Cameron Hijazi called it a "fundamental problem" in the booming digital asset...

Eich

Brave CEO: NFT has signs of a scam, like the Internet in its early years

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The NFT space is rife with silliness and scams that were inherent on the internet from its inception to its significant transformation. This was stated by Brave CEO Brendan Eich in an interview. “We are in the early stages of Web 3.0 and nobody knows what that means. Especially in the case of...

Ye

Kanye West does not intend to cooperate with NFT platforms

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The famous American rapper, music producer, composer, and designer Kanye West published a post on his Instagram account where he spoke negatively about non-fungible tokens. So, the man shared with his subscribers a photograph of an ordinary white sheet with some text. If you carefully read the...

Lamborghini

Lamborghini launches NFT collection

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Recently, the NFT space has been actively replenished with new supporters - from ordinary "Instagrammers" to world-famous corporations. For example, the Italian manufacturer of expensive sports cars Lamborghini recently announced that their company is preparing to launch an unusual...

Adidas Prada

Adidas and Prada team up for exclusive NFT collection

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Adidas Originals and Prada have teamed up again to create a new product. So, just recently, the companies released a joint collection called Re-Nylon, which is branded items made from innovative textiles, created from recycled plastic waste and textile fiber waste. Less than a month after the...

Twitter

Twitter sees its future in crypto and announced launch of new feature

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Based on the official statement, it became known that Twitter, which already uses NFT, has included a new feature in the list of available features. Users can now officially validate non-fungible tokens that are used for a profile picture. So, for example, if earlier a user, copying this or that...

Nirvana

Nirvana will sell a series of NFTs consisting of exclusive photos

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In February, the famous American rock band Nirvana will launch a collection of non-fungible tokens (NFT), which will consist of exclusive photos of the team. It should be noted that the presented photos were not in print and were taken before the release of the second Nevermind album in 1991....

Irene Zhao

Instagram model made a fortune selling an NFT collection of her photos

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Popular Instagram model Irene Zhao recently launched a special Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) called IreneDAO, as well as a collection of native tokens, which caused a flurry of discussion in the NFT space. IreneDAO was launched on the weekend, but in two days the popularity of the...

The Gap

The Gap launches its first Tezos-powered NFT collection

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Popular clothing brand The Gap has teamed up with production studio InterPop to launch its virtual collection on the Tezos platform. San Francisco-based retailer The Gap made the announcement recently, noting that users will be able to buy their brand's limited-edition digital hoodie. The company...

Ghozali

Indonesian student sells his selfies by turning them into NFTs

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The other day, Ghozali Godzalo, an Indonesian college student, was able to sell a collection of his photographs, turning them into NFT tokens, for nearly $1 million. The collection consists of nearly 1,000 selfies he took from 2017 to 2021, between the ages of 18 and 22. It is worth noting that...

Pudgy Penguins

The cost of Pudgy Penguins NFT increased by 50% in just one day

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Recently, many analytical business publications writing about cryptocurrency pointed to an unexpected rise in the price of Pudgy Penguins NFT. The cost of non-fungible tokens of this project increased by 53.6% in just a day. Experts attribute this to the fact that an indefatigable scandal has...

CoinGecko

CoinGecko releases NFT book for beginners

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CoinGecko analytical service has released a book "How to NFT" in English for newcomers to the cryptocurrency industry. “Just as DeFi revolutionized finance, NFTs are designed to be a game-changer for a new generation of artists, musicians, and gamers,” said CoinGecko co-founder Bobby...

SMS

The world's first SMS was sold at an NFT auction

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A digital duplicate of the world's first SMS was traded at an auction in France. SMS with the text "Merry Christmas" December 3, 1992 programmer Neil Papworth sent the leader of the British mobile operator Vodafone Richard Jarvis. An NFT lot includes a copy of the authentic communication...