Tagged: digital collectibles

January 1, 2022 @ 10:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Surojit Chatterjee, Chief Product Officer at Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), notes that 2021 proved to be “a breakout year for crypto” with Bitcoin (BTC) price gaining nearly 70% YoY, DeFi hitting $150B in value locked, and NFTs “emerging as a new category.” Chatterjee has shared his… Read More

December 27, 2021 @ 1:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The blockchain and crypto-assets space has grown tremendously during the past 18 months due in part to the acceleration of the ongoing digital transformation. Many more consumers and business organizations are completing tasks online instead of visiting physical locations to avoid the further spread of… Read More

December 27, 2021 @ 6:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Adam Jeffcoat, the founder of StudioNX, an Emmy award-winning visual development house that creates character-driven IP for feature film, TV and games. With around 20 years of industry experience, StudioNX also specializes in character design, 2d animation, and directing content for… Read More

December 26, 2021 @ 4:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

StarSharks, a community-led gaming ecosystem dedicated to players creating, sharing and building together, is pleased to confirm the closing of a $4.8 million private round. The shark Metaverse will use the proceeds to create “exciting new games and nurture the community,” according to a release…. Read More

December 15, 2021 @ 9:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The NBA’s Golden State Warriors and FTX US have announced a new and “first-of-its-kind” cryptocurrency partnership in professional sports. As the Warriors’ Official Cryptocurrency Platform and NFT Marketplace, the franchise will “drop NFTs on FTX.us, beginning in early 2022.” As mentioned in an update shared… Read More

December 14, 2021 @ 1:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In an attempt to improve the movie industry, NFT Community Arabian Camels and Swapp Protocol have introduced the “Antara Movie NFT,” which allows buyers to hold as much as 50% Intellectual Property rights to “Antara,” a $50M feature film based on the life of Arabian… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 3:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Following a seed round, the Gaia EverWorld team has announced an NFT sale via a collaboration with the Binance NFT marketplace, as well as securing a grant from the Polygon Foundation, and “completed a successful IDO.” The land sale will “allow Gaia EverWorld to claim… Read More

December 6, 2021 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Beginning on December 2, 2021, people may sign up to get first access to the Blockchain.com NFT marketplace. In the coming weeks, users may start purchasing, selling, and storing non-fungible tokens or NFTs right inside their Blockchain.com Wallet. As mentioned in an update from Blockchain.com… Read More

December 2, 2021 @ 4:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Video games, the Metaverse and NFTs are all becoming increasingly popular in the digital age. Binance NFT claims it has become the largest centralized NFT gaming platform. Since June of this year, Binance NFT has become one of the largest centralized NFT gaming marketplace, onboarding… Read More

December 2, 2021 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mintable, the next-gen NFT minting platform and marketplace, has confirmed the launch of Mintable Go!, which serves as an international fund that aims to “enable novel newcomers to the NFT space to better serve the market for mass adoption.” Amid the rising interest in the… Read More

November 29, 2021 @ 9:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Artist-led production studio Accursed Share has announced a non-fungible toke (NFT) collection by celebrity photographer Frederic Auerbach that will give an “exclusive insight” into his work with five of Hollywood’s notable celebrities as well as 30 “never-before-seen” ‘process’ photos culled from the “working sessions with… Read More

November 28, 2021 @ 8:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Mattias Tengblad, the Co-founder and CEO at Corite, a platform that allows artists and their fans to join forces. Via the Corite platform, people can invest in music they really love and get paid when it’s streamed on Spotify and… Read More

October 26, 2021 @ 9:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Unique Network, a next-gen NFT chain for Polkadot and Kusama, announced that it has secured $11.3 million in the second round of its pre-sale, bringing its total raised to $16 million. The investment round has been led by Web3 investment pioneers Outlier Ventures, who were… Read More

October 23, 2021 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Rally, a cryptocurrency platform for creators, announced that it is committing around $12 million in $RLY tokens from its “community-approved” budget to third-party developer grants in order to expand the functionality of social tokens and NFTs “purchased by fans from their favorite creators on the… Read More

October 20, 2021 @ 8:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Tim Glover, Co-founder of Chronicle, an NFT marketplace, and studio that is committed to delivering eco-friendly NFTs of popular brands’ collectibles to their fans. In this conversation, Tim explored the problems that Chronicle is aiming to solve in the nascent… Read More

October 19, 2021 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Polygon, an Ethereum-powered scaling platform on-boarding consumers to Web 3.0, has announced a blockchain collaboration with DraftKings Marketplace, a digital collectibles ecosystem built by DraftKings (Nasdaq: DKNG) for “mainstream accessibility to support custom NFT drops along with secondary-market transactions.” This deal offers DraftKings Marketplace with… Read More

October 18, 2021 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at CoinList notes that they’re pleased to confirm that beginning on October 16, 2021, FLOW trading and staking is available to US residents via CoinList, CoinList Pro, and the CoinList mobile app. FLOW is a proof-of-stake blockchain that rewards network participants for helping… Read More

October 7, 2021 @ 7:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Republic, the financial services firm offering a full-stack investment crowdfunding platform, has introduced “Republic Music,”  which is described as a new type of investment product that aims to provide an innovative way to create, produce and share royalties acquired from music. The initiative has been… Read More

October 4, 2021 @ 9:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are perhaps the “most exciting” development in crypto in 2021, according to the team at Kraken. The digital assets firm writes in a blog post that many people might believe the future of NFTs is “bright.” However, relatively few understand their true… Read More

September 30, 2021 @ 10:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Matrixport, which claims to be Asia’s fastest-growing crypto-assets financial services platform, and MetaOpus, Non-Fungible Token (NFT) asset issuance and trading platform powered by BlockCreateArt (BCA) Network, have formed a partnership to provide NFT investors “best in class” custody solutions. As mentioned in an update shared… Read More