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Bored Ape

Bored Ape Yacht Club token was sold for almost $1.4M

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The owner of the non-fungible token (NFT) Bored Ape Yacht Club #9452 sold it at 4337 times the purchase price - for 347 ETH. “I bought my monkey for 0.08 ETH on minting night and just sold it for 347 ETH. I can't find the words right now. I'm crying. Thanks to the Bored Ape Yach Club for...

PepsiCo

PepsiCo announces its first NFT collection

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PepsiCo has announced the Pepsi Mic Drop NFT collection on Ethereum. Tokens will be received by members of the waiting list, registration for which will open on December 10. The collection consists of 1,893 tokens - in honor of the year the company was founded. According to the press release, the...

Ulbricht

FreeRossDAO acquires NFT collection of Silk Road founder Ulbricht

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Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) FreeRossDAO has acquired the NFT collection of the founder of the Silk Road darknet marketplace Ross Ulbricht. The winning bid on the SuperRare platform auction was 1,446 ETH. The auction was won by user yfimaxi. In a conversation with Decrypt, a...

China

People's Bank of China intends to track NFT

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After China decided to stop all sorts of activities related to cryptocurrencies, a "big road" opened up for the NFT market because all traders redirected their interest to trading non-fungible tokens. It would seem that the main threat that the authorities saw in digital assets is already...

South Korea

South Korean has no plans to regulate the NFT market

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The NFT token market is not of interest to the Korean authorities. The country's Financial Services Commission (FSC) does not consider such instruments as assets and will not impose a specific regulatory framework for them. The NFT ecosystem has been growing steadily over the past few days. Show...

Matrix

Nifty's to release NFT based on The Matrix: Resurrection movie

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Social media platform Nifty's will release non-fungible tokens (NFT) based on The Matrix Resurrection movie in collaboration with Warner Bros. According to Variety, the collection includes 100,000 unique avatars of characters living in The Matrix, but not the main characters in the film. The start...

Grammy Awards

OneOf to release NFT for Grammy Music Awards

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The non-fungible token music platform OneOf has announced a partnership with the US National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. As part of the agreement, the project will issue NFTs for the 64th, 65th, and 66th annual Grammy Awards. OneOf bills itself as a "green NFT platform" based...

Plate

A license plate with NFT was put up for sale for 5888 ETH in US

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The state of California sells a physical license plate with the letters "MM" paired with an NFT that is on display on the OpenSea marketplace. The cost of the kit is 5888 ETH. In 2017, local authorities allowed license plate owners to resell them. In California, two to seven characters...

NFT

Ant Group and Tencent distanced themselves from the term "NFT"

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Chinese tech giants Ant Group and Tencent have changed the term “non-fungible tokens” (NFT) to “digital collectibles” on their platforms and sites. At AntChain Fan Tablet, assets are now defined as “virtual digital goods”. Tencent's Magic Core platform, which is considered China's...

Snark.art

NFT crystals from the Snark.art platform sold for more than $4M

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The Snark.art platform sold out the NFT collection Organic Growth: Crystal Reef from artists Michael Joo and Danila Krivoruchko in three days, earning more than $ 4 million. According to the creators of the collection, the final appearance of each of the crystals depends on the history of the...

TikTok

TikTok announced the release of the NFT collection

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Popular service TikTok announced the release of NFTs with the participation of famous content authors. The Top Moments collection will include six “culturally significant TikTok videos” from Lil Nas X, Bella Poarch, Rudy Willingham, Curtis Roach, Gary Weinerchuk, Brittany Brosky, and more. They...

Twitter

Twitter demonstrated the work of the NFT verification system

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Twitter Marketing Head Justin Taylor posted a video demonstrating an interface for working with non-fungible tokens (NFT). The social platform will allow members to use the latter as avatars. The video was recorded by senior Twitter developer Mada Aflak. To install NFT instead of a profile photo,...

Trippy Bunny

Trippy Bunny donates all income to a suicide prevention fund

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The NFT-project Trippy Bunny, operating based on the Solana platform, donates 100% of its income to the American Suicide Prevention Foundation. As of today, the site for the sale of non-financial tokens has donated over $ 220,000 to charity. The statement, in which the developers of Trippy Bunny...

Pompliano

Anthony Pompliano admits he underestimated the NFT sector

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Anthony Pompliano, the co-founder of venture capital firm Morgan Creek Digital, admitted that the non-fungible token (NFT) sector is going to be much larger than he expected. He noted the rise in popularity of NFT, pointing out that token sales hit a record high in the second quarter of 2021....

FTX

Bitcoin exchange FTX launches NFT minting feature

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Founder and head of FTX cryptocurrency exchange Sam Bankman-Fried announced the addition of a new feature for issuing non-fungible tokens (NFT) on the mainstream and US platforms. By default, all NFTs will be cross-chain compatible with Ethereum and Solana. Deposits and withdrawals will open within...

OpenSea

OpenSea NFT Marketplace Trading Volume Exceeds $3B

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Over the past 30 days, the NFT-centric OpenSea platform has had a trading volume of $ 3.11 billion. During the month, the marketplace recorded more than 195,000 unique users who made 2.22 million transactions. According to Dune Analytics, in August the marketplace's trading volume exceeded the...

John Cena

WWE launches NFT token trading featuring John Cena

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On August 18, WWE announced the release of their digital token. These are so-called non-fungible tokens that will take part in NFT trades. The virtual tokenized coins will reportedly feature a photograph of WWE Hall of Famer John Cena. It should be noted that this initiative came from the legendary...

NFT

Jumbish art organization announces joining NFT market

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The founder of the famous art organization Jumbish, Shankar Mridha, said that his company is going to soon join the NFT market and start selling art collectibles, which are securities and tokens. According to reports, the uniqueness of this event will be the moment that the Jumbish NFT Marketplace...