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Axie Infinity, NFT and Other Projects Fall Victims of a Phishing Attack
18.5.2022
Messaging platform Discord servers of multiple large NFT collections and crypto projects, including play-to-earn game Axie Infinity, have been compromised, with attackers publishing phishing links that appear to be NFT mints.
Some other affected projects include popular NFT collections...
Japanese City to Launch Metaverse Project with Entertainment Industry Behemoth
18.5.2022
Local Japanese government bodies are set to begin metaverse projects – and may make use of NFTs and avatars in a new virtual space.
The ball is beginning to roll in Yabu, a city in the nation’s Hyogo Prefecture, where local authorities have teamed up with Yoshimoto Kogyo, one of Japan’s biggest...
Tezos Foundation Launches Fund to Collect NFT Creations by African and Asian Artists
16.5.2022
The Tezos Foundation recently said it has committed $1.23 million to a fund that will be used to collect non-fungible tokens (NFTs) created by African and Asian artists. Photographer Misan Harriman has been selected as the curator of the foundation’s permanent art collection. Supporting...
Seaside Resort in Slovenia Promotes Itself With NFTs
15.5.2022
The tourism organization in Portorož, a summer resort on the Adriatic coast of Slovenia, has decided to promote the destination using non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The project represents the digital component of this year’s campaign to attract visitors to the region. Tourists...
Top 5 Play-to-Earn Games on BNB Smart Chain
13.5.2022
Play-to-earn (P2E) games are gaining popularity as they enable gamers across the globe to earn crypto for playing games online.
Read on to discover the most popular play-to-earn games on BNB Smart Chain.
BNB Smart Chain, formerly known as Binance Smart Chain (BSC), is an Ethereum Virtual...
AMC Calls Crypto Adoption a ‘Massive Home Run,’ but Wary of Regulatory Challenges of Coin Issuance
11.5.2022
The American entertainment industry giant AMC Entertainment Holdings has expanded on its crypto and non-fungible token (NFT) plans – claiming that it has “eight different NFT programs that either already have been launched or are in the works,” but adding that it will only press ahead with...
Sales of Blue-Chip NFTs Plunge Amid Crypto Market Crash
11.5.2022
Sales of blue-chip non-fungible token (NFT) collections Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and Otherdeed have taken a plunge amid a broader crash in the crypto market.
BAYC's sales have fallen by nearly 39% over the past week, dropping to USD 72.5m. The collection's floor price has also taken a...
Belgian Museum Tokenizes Million-Euro Masterpiece to Allow its Fractional Ownership
10.5.2022
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) in Belgium is working with two blockchain companies to tokenize Carnaval de Binche, a million-euro painting by Belgian artist James Ensor, to allow everyone to become a “co-owner” of the masterpiece....
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Azuki Sales Skyrocket as Floor Price Drops by Nearly 45%
10.5.2022
Sales of the popular Azuki non-fungible token (NFT) collection have skyrocketed over the past 24 hours after a blog post by the project's pseudonymous founder sent the collection’s starting price (floor price) down by 44.8%.
In the blog post, titled "A Builder's Journey," pseudonymous Azuki...
Japanese Prime Minister Talks up Japan’s Web3, NFT Focus at Investors Summit
10.5.2022
The Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has stated that Web3-related growth – including metaverse and non-fungible token (NFT)-related developments – will be part of the nation’s growth strategy going forward, and called on British business leaders to back his project....
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Just How Sustainable Are Play-to-Earn Gaming Pyramids?
8.5.2022
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The play-to-earn (P2E) GameFi sector was one of crypto’s biggest success stories in 2021, with Axie Infinity alone accounting for USD 3.5bn in NFT sales last year. This is in addition to the increasingly high market capitalizations of a growing number of play-to-earn tokens, with...
Sony Partners With Theta Labs to Launch 3D NFTs for Its Spatial Reality Display
7.5.2022
Sony Group Corporation has revealed it has partnered with Theta Labs in order to launch 3D non-fungible token (NFT) assets. The upcoming NFTs will be crafted for the Sony Spatial Reality Display and are designed for three-dimensional viewing. Sony 3D NFTs to Enhance Spatial Reality Display Features...
Top 5 Play-to-Earn Games on Polygon
6.5.2022
Play-to-earn (P2E) gaming is booming, with players across the globe connecting their crypto wallets and playing their favorite games to earn crypto.
Read on to discover the top five blockchain games on Polygon....
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Sony & Theta Set to Launch ‘3D NFTs’, Eye Tie-in with its Spatial Reality Display
6.5.2022
Non-fungible tokens (NFT) are going 3D – and Sony wants to be the firm that takes them into a new dimension....
Read More: Sony & Theta Set to Launch ‘3D NFTs’, Eye Tie-in with its Spatial Reality Display
New Zealand VC Launches $5 Million Web3 and Crypto-Focused Fund
6.5.2022
New Zealand-based venture capital firm Global From Day 1 (GD1) recently said it had launched a $5 million Web3 and crypto-focused venture capital fund to back local startups. The fund will invest in pre-seed to Series A companies across decentralized finance (defi), decentralized autonomous...
NFT Market Gets Back on Track Thanks to Moonbirds and Solana NFTs
5.5.2022
After a six-week cooldown period started in mid-February, the non-fungible token (NFT) market saw a boost in activity throughout April. Popular NFT collection Moonbirds and a rise in demand for Solana (SOL)-based NFTs were the primary drivers.
The NFT market recorded USD 6.3bn in monthly...
Polkadot Becomes a 'Fully Interoperable Multichain' With the Launch of its Cross-Consensus Messaging Format
4.5.2022
Popular blockchain protocol Polkadot (DOT) has launched its messaging system XCM (cross-consensus messaging) to enable communication between its various parachains and allow assets like non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to be transferred from one chain to another.
With the launch of this format...
Elon Musk May Launch Twitter IPO After Takeover - Report
4.5.2022
As Elon Musk is advancing his plan to buy Twitter in a deal valued at some USD 44bn, the Tesla CEO has reportedly told potential investors that the social platform could be returned to public ownership after a few years.
Musk declared that he intended to launch Twitter’s initial public offering...
This Level of Transaction Fees Would be 'Truly Acceptable' According to Ethereum's Buterin
4.5.2022
Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has said layer 2 (L2) transaction fees need to be under USD 0.05 in order to become “truly acceptable.”
The statement came in response to a Twitter post from Ryan Sean Adams, co-founder of Web3 company Bankless and the host of the Bankless podcast,...
Otherdeed NFTs Sale Drop by 25%, Pushing Buyers Further Underwater
4.5.2022
Most buyers of the hotly-anticipated Otherdeed non-fungible tokens (NFTs) drop are not able to sell their digital land deeds at a profit, due to the high Ethereum (ETH) gas fees they paid during minting, as well as the decreasing demand.
According to NFT data aggregator CryptoSlam, Otherdeed...