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Top secret Julian Assange and Pak NFT collaboration is wikileaked

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A collaborative NFT project from belagued Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and pseudonymous digital artist Pak is set to drop next week. Assange has been confined in a London prison since April 2019 after his asylum status in the Ecuadorian embassy of London was terminated. The following month he was indicted on 17 counts of espionage in the Eastern District Court of Virginia relating to classified documents he published on Wikileaks. His legal team is currently fighting an extradition case which could see him face the charges in the United States…

Grammy-winner John Legend launches new music and art NFT platform

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American singer-songwriter John Legend is solidifying his position among the ranks of celebrities flocking to the world of nonfungible tokens (NFTs), helping to launch a new NFT platform for musicians and other entertainers. The platform called OurSong allows artists to tokenize and sell their work, awarding buyers with privileges like access to unreleased music and private chatrooms. “Everyone can now turn stories, music, photography, and any kind of art into NFT trading cards called Vibes,” the platform states. “Vibes allow you to unlock exclusive updates and access private chat communities…

Battle for authenticity heats up in world’s most popular NFT collection

In a Discord post published on Wednesday, Matt Hall, the core developer at Larva Labs, the entity behind the popular CryptoPunks V2 and, initially, CryptoPunks V1 nonfungible tokens (NFT) collections, announced he would be โ€œtaking appropriate stepsโ€ in the following days regarding the alleged copyright infringement of โ€œboth the art and the CryptoPunks nameโ€ of the CryptoPunks V1 collection. Normally, this would amount to submitting a takedown notice under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, or DMCA, to the platform responsible for hosting the content for auction. Matt Hall discussing CryptoPunks…

Pixel Vault raises $100M for NFT development platform

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Operator-led venture capital firms Velvet Sea Ventures and 01 Advisors invested $100 million into Pixel Vault, a large nonfungible token collection of superheroes, to jointly launch the rebranded multi-franchise nonfungible token (NFT) entertainment company, Pixel Vault Inc.ย  According to Pixel Vault, the aim of the new venture is to leverage NFTs and intellectual property to tell the stories of crypto-native communitiesย across a variety of mediums, including television, movies and video games.ย Pixel Vault owns 100% of the IP, assets and operations of PUNKS Comic, MetaHero and all future franchises. Pixel Vault’s…

NFT Platform Pixel Vault Closes $100M Investment

NFT (non-fungible token) development platform Pixel Vault has closed a $100 million funding round, the startup announced on Wednesday. The company said that the investment by Velvet Sea Ventures and 01A would enable it to launch a “multi-franchise NFT development platform,” enabling creators and collectors to own digital content. โ€œPixel Vault projects are built with the key tenets of Web 3 at the center โ€“ community empowerment, decentralized governance and true digital ownership,โ€ Pixel Vault founder and CEO Sean Gearin said in the announcement. Pixel Vault went live last May…

New Chainalysis Report Suggests NFT Crime Doesnโ€™t (Always) Pay

โ€œIt’s not a very good idea to get into crime in NFTs because it’s expensive,โ€ said Kim Grauer, Chainalysisโ€™ head of research. โ€œIt’s hard to guarantee you’ll be profitable if you wash trade, and if you want to use [NFTs] to launder money, we can trace it, and you will be able to see who’s in possession of the NFT. There’s things that make the NFT space unattractive for crime.โ€ Source

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Tezos transactions and smart contract activity surge on NFT demand

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The Tezos network has seen impressive growth over the past 12 months in smart contract addresses and general adoption, primarily driven by non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Activity within the Proof-of-Stake ecosystem has had a spurt of growth recently as it aims to compete with Ethereum for NFT minting and markets. According to Coin Metricsโ€™ โ€œState of the Networkโ€ report on Feb. 1, the number of transactions involving smart contracts has surged over the past 12 months to more than 50,000 per day from less than 10,000 per day in January 2021.…

With โ€˜NFT All Stars,โ€™ Two Crypto Art Veterans Take the Conversation Further

Jason Bailey: There wasn’t ever a scripted thing. In fact, it was almost like an anti-script, where Adam [Levine, the showโ€™s producer] was like, โ€œI want it to feel like a casual conversation.โ€ And we knew that we had a target audience that we couldn’t get overly technical with, which is hard, because I think both Marguerite and I are nerds, in different ways. An audience that we had to maybe assume was new to NFTs. Source

With โ€˜NFT All-Stars,โ€™ Two Crypto Art Veterans Take the Conversation Further

Jason Bailey: There wasn’t ever a scripted thing. In fact, it was almost like an anti-script, where Adam [Levine, the showโ€™s producer] was like, โ€œI want it to feel like a casual conversation.โ€ And we knew that we had a target audience that we couldn’t get overly technical with, which is hard, because I think both Marguerite and I are nerds, in different ways. An audience that we had to maybe assume was new to NFTs. Source