NFT Protocol (NFT) News

Data from NonFungible.com shows that the NFT market records new highs this year. In the first half of 2021, the total amount of NFT sales is approximately 2.5 B. It's worth mentioning that for the same interval last year the indicator was $13.7 million. In June, sales on the NFT platform OpenSea...

The State Hermitage is in talks with the Binance exchange regarding the issuance of NFTs and the sale of tokenized works of art. This is reported by "Interfax" concerning the statement of the head of the legal department of the museum Marina Tsyguleva. She clarified that all exhibits are...

Music, podcast, and streaming service Tidal, owned by payment company Square, will explore the possibility of using non-fungible tokens (NFT) on its platform. That was announced by Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z during a live broadcast on Twitter. In their opinion, the tool will allow artists to manage...

American hip-hop record label Roc-A-Fella established by Jay-Z, Damon Dash, and Biggs Burke sued Damon Dash for intending to mint and sell Jay-Z's first album "Reasonable Doubt" as an NFT. The lawsuit shows that Dash intended to purchase an NFT of the album on the network SuperFarm via an...

CNN will list historical moments in the news in the NFT format as part of the Vault by CNN: Moments That Changed Us project. The NFT collection will include iconic moments from CNN's 41-year history. Non-fungible tokens include exclusive TV channel content, presidential election results, space...

Over the past 30 days, sales of non-fungible tokens (NFT) have decreased by about 20 times. According to data from analytical service Nonfungible. On May 9, NFT's sales reached $ 176 million per day, and by June 15, the figure was reduced to $ 8.7 million. “Every time any trend rises rapidly,...

Interest in Dogecoin remains to be high. There are a series of NFTs with the image of Shiba Inu presented on the website very.auction. One of them was required for 1696 Ether valued at $4 M. The buyer was PleasrDAO, a club interested in buying blockchain-based collectibles. The photo of the Shiba...

The NEAR Foundation, a non-profit organization, has partnered with the South Pole and Mintbase to announce a Green NFT auction. ForkLog was informed about this by representatives of the project. “This is part of our journey to decarbonize the entire IT sector and turn important technologies like...

The preponderance owner of Marilyn Monroe's intellectual property, Authentic Brands Group (ABG) has put up for sale a collection of NFTs inspired by the legendary American actress. The collection titled "Metamorphosis of Marilyn Monroe" includes works by 3D artists Vasya Kolotusha,...

The creator of the Internet meme “Pepe the Frog” Matt Fury will release a limited collection of non-fungible tokens (NFT). The artist told Decrypt about this. The PEGZ collection includes NFT portraits of characters created by the author in 2D, 3D, and animation. For every ten collected tokens,...

Formula 1 racing champion Honda has partnered with blockchain platform Tezos to launch a line of collectible non-fungible tokens (NFT). As part of the agreement, Red Bull Racing will release the first-ever NFT collection on the Tezos blockchain. Team Leader Christian Horner noted that the platform...

Black Eyed Peas band member Allen Pineda Lindo, under the pseudonym Apl.de.Ap, has announced the release of four non-fungible tokens (NFT) on the Portion marketplace. Each NFT is a unique video clip with unreleased music from Apl.de.Ap. Artists Tom Coben and AJ Dimarucot helped the musician to...

American model and actress Emily Ratajkowski sold NFT Buying Myself Back: A Model for Redistribution at Christie's for $175,000. The name NFT refers to an article by Ratajkowski in The Cut blog of New York Magazine on September 15, 2020. In the article, the model criticized artist Richard Prince...

Multiple world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather has announced the release of a collection of non-fungible tokens (NFT) ahead of the fight against blogger Logan Paul. “Right now my career is over, but my name will always live on because of what I have done, the legacy I left, and the mark I left...

The head of American entertainment company Live Nation, Michael Rapino, in the framework of the quarterly earnings report, spoke about plans to enter the market of NFT to perpetuate the "magic moments" of concerts. “We envision Live Nation with a marketplace and see some of the live...

Protocol Labs, behind the development of the Filecoin decentralized platform, has released a free service called NFT.Storage. It is designed to store non-fungible tokens. The service was developed in conjunction with blockchain startup Pinata. It is based on Filecoin and IPFS technologies....

In 2005, amateur photographer Dave Roth snapped a photo of his daughter Zoe. In the resulting photo, the girl is standing at the house, which is engulfed in flames, and smiles mysteriously. At that time, the family did not even suspect that this photo would become an Internet phenomenon - the most...

Hacker Monsieur Personne created fake copies of the most expensive NFT painting Everydays: The First 5000 Days by American artist Beeple to debunk the myth of the uniqueness and safety of tokens. It is about forging cryptographic evidence of ownership of an original work of art. The hacker created...