Tag: NFT

Russian protest group Pussy Riot seeks to tackle gender inequality in the NFT space

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Russian punk rock collective Pussy Riot is planning to launch a DAO for LBTQ+ and women artists. As the group’s co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova told Cointelegraph, The DAO will be working on reducing the gender inequality that still marks the NFT space and, more broadly, the crypto industry. Despite the large gender gap in crypto — around 60% of US crypto investors are white men according to a survey from August 2021 — Nadya is convinced that it is still early enough for Pussy Riot to make an impact. “The NFT space…

NFT Market Looksrare Surpasses Opensea’s 24-Hour Sales With $385 Million in Volume – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News

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A new non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace called Looksrare has surpassed Opensea in terms of daily volume on Wednesday. Statistics show 3,264 Looksrare traders have executed $385.39 million in sales during the last day, as the marketplace has seen a 1,461% increase in daily volume. Looksrare NFT Market Captures Number 1 Position in Terms of Daily NFT Volume There’s a new Ethereum-based NFT marketplace called Looksrare and during the last day, it has surpassed Opensea in 24-hour volume. Of course, Opensea is the largest NFT marketplace in terms of all-time volume…

175-Year-Old News Cooperative the Associated Press Plans to Launch NFT Marketplace – Blockchain Bitcoin News

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On January 10, 2022, the Associated Press (AP), the American non-profit news cooperative founded in 1846, has announced the news agency is launching a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace. The AP NFT market was built by the distributed ledger technology provider Xooa and on top of the Polygon blockchain network. AP Announces NFT Marketplace Launch The 175-year-old news cooperative the Associated Press revealed that the organization is launching an NFT marketplace using the Polygon blockchain network. According to the AP announcement, the NFT market built by Xooa will allow NFT collectors…

Sega Might Drop NFT Experiments if Perceived by Gamers as a Money Grab – Games Bitcoin News

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Sega, a leading videogame development company, has announced its new stance when it comes to the play-to-earn model and the inclusion of NFTs in its games. In the latest management meeting of the company, which happened on December 24th, Sega CEO Haruki Satomi stated that the company may drop its current experiments in the NFT field if players take a negative view of the subject. Sega CEO Reveals Company Might Scrap NFT Plans The CEO of Sega, Haruki Satomi, has referred to the possible stance the company may…

Animoca Brands’ Lympo NFT platform hacked for $18.7 million

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Sports NFT minting platform and Animoca Brands subsidiary Lympo suffered from a hot wallet security breach and lost 165.2 million LMT tokens worth $18.7 million at the time of the hack. A short Medium update from the Lympo team stated that on Jan. 10 hackers managed to gain access to Lympo’s operational hot wallet and “stole a total of approximately 165.2 million LMT from it.” According to the post, ten different project wallets were compromised in the attack. It appears that most of the stolen tokens were sent to a…

Associated Press to launch Polygon-based photography NFT platform

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The Associated Press (AP) is launching a nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace where collectors will be able to purchase tokenized photographs from the global news platform. The initial collection of NFTs will include photographs of subjects like space, climate, and war from AP photojournalists. They will be released over several weeks starting on Jan. 31 for varying prices, according to the marketplace’s website. The photographs will be minted as NFTs on the Ethereum layer-two scaling network, Polygon. The platform will support secondary transactions using debit or credit cards, and payments in…

New NFT marketplace LooksRare allows traders to earn rewards

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LooksRare, a recently launched nonfungible token, or NFT, marketplace, says it wants to index all NFT collections on the Ethereum blockchain. The site went live on Monday with a token airdrop. #LooksRare NFT Marketplace Now Live! $LOOKS airdrop claim open⏰ Staking starts at block 13977012Trading reward calculations start tomorrow LFG! https://t.co/Y1jt9Kmqt6 — LooksRare – NFT Marketplace (@LooksRareNFT) January 10, 2022 Created by two anonymous co-founders, known as Zodd and Guts, LooksRare claimed to be made “By NFT People, for NFT People.” According to its blog announcement, the LooksRare team is…

5 NFT marketplaces that could topple OpenSea in 2022

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OpenSea has been the dominant decentralized platform for users looking to mint, buy, sell and trade nonfungible tokens (NFTs). Serving more as an NFT aggregator than a gallery, OpenSea locked in $3.25 billion in volume for December 2021 alone, according to data from Dune Analytics and from December 2020 to December 2021, the total volume increased by a whopping 90,968%. No stranger to contention and criticism, OpenSea has had its fair share of perils and pitfalls. Most notably, its former head of product, Nate Chastain, found using insider information to…

Reality Star Who Made $200K Selling Farts in Mason Jars Launches NFT Collection – Blockchain Bitcoin News

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Just recently the reality star, American Youtuber, and Tiktoker Stephanie Matto made international headlines after raising $200K from selling her farts contained in mason jars online. After Matto had to go to the hospital and after a doctor told her the farting idea was causing her to get hospitalized, she’s decided to sell her fart jars as non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles. Tiktoker Reveals Fart Jars NFT Collection The Youtuber and Tiktoker Stephanie Matto chose an interesting career choice when she decided to sell her farts in mason jars to paying…

Game on NFT™, a Work of Art That Celebrates Bitcoin and Bitcoiners – Press release Bitcoin News

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press release PRESS RELEASE. Chicago, IL – 9th January, 2022 – Denjary Watru, the creator of the Game On NFT™ has dropped an NFT that is sure to become highly sought after by all those who know and understand Bitcoin, its implications for society going forward, and who have an appreciation for the value of digital art. According to Denjary, the inspiration for the Game On NFT™ happened during his routine treadmill workout and while talking on the phone to a friend, attempting to explain Bitcoin. Surrounded by sports themed…