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Samsung Reveals Virtual Store 837X in Decentraland Metaverse With NFT Badges and Theater – Bitcoin News

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After the electronics giant Samsung disclosed the firm’s upcoming 2022 smart televisions would boast non-fungible token (NFT) support, the company has revealed it has opened a virtual store inside the Decentraland metaverse. Modeled from the physical store Samsung 837, Samsung’s metaverse store is called “Samsung 837X.” Samsung Steps Into the Metaverse Samsung is all about the metaverse and NFTs these days, as the company has opened a store within the blockchain virtual metaverse Decentraland. The Samsung 837X store is modeled from the physical location in New York City, and the…

$2.7 Billion in NFT Sales Recorded Last Month — Ethereum, Ronin, Solana Top 3 NFT Networks – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News

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This week Google Trends shows that the acronym NFT, which stands for non-fungible token, has reached a score of 100, the highest score a search query can get from the data analytics aggregator. Meanwhile, statistics indicate that during the last 30 days across ten different blockchains, there’s been $2.73 billion in NFT sales. NFT Monthly Volume Sees Close to $3 Billion in Sales — Axie Infinity, Clonex, MAYC Sales Reign While the crypto economy has seen a downturn, it’s too early to say whether or not it’s affecting NFT sales.…

Game Giant Konami Joins NFT Race, To Launch With Castlevania Video Game Franchise

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Video Game Giant Konami is launching a NFT auction to commemorate the “Castlevania” franchise. The box will include 14 tokens, audio files, and poster art showing scenes from early Nintendo games. The auction will begin the next week, January 12, 2022. Konami To Launch With Castlevania Commemorative NFTs The Castlevania 35th Anniversary NFT collection online portal was unveiled by Konami on Thursday. The collection will be auctioned off on the NFT marketplace Opensea. The NFTs from Konami will pay tribute to the franchise, which began with the Nintendo Entertainment System…

Pudgy Penguins NFT Project Ousts Founders as Mood Turns Icy

There’s trouble brewing in the huddle. The beloved NFT project Pudgy Penguins voted out its founders on Thursday after they allegedly failed to deliver on stated goals and drained the treasury of funds. And now at least one splinter group is arguing that the entire project should be decentralized, potentially an industry first. Launched in July, Pudgy Penguins has become one of the most successful NFT projects, raking in over 45,400 ETH in sales on NFT marketplace OpenSea. (That works out to about $140 million in today’s ether (ETH) prices.)…

Interest in Bitcoin and Ethereum Slides According to Google Trends Data, NFT Queries Skyrocket – Bitcoin News

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While bitcoin, non-fungible token (NFT) assets, ethereum, and cryptocurrencies had an incredible year in 2021, none of the trends made it into Google’s “Year in Search” review. Currently, interest in bitcoin, in terms of Google searches has dropped considerably since the week of May 16th through the 22nd of last year. Search trends for the term “bitcoin” have slid 72% since it scored the highest score of 100 last May to today’s score of 28. Worldwide Search Queries for ‘Bitcoin,’ ‘Ethereum,’ and ‘Cryptocurrency’ Continue to Slide Interest in bitcoin, NFTs,…

NFT Curation Site JPG Goes Live With $3.8M in Seed Funding

“The scope we’re aiming for is bigger than just artworks,” JPG co-founder Sam Spike told CoinDesk in an interview. “While building relationships with existing galleries is important, our thesis about the cultural importance of NFTs extends into gaming assets, tokenized literature or collectibles, Apes, Cats, whatever it may be.” Source

NFT Analytics Platform Cryptoslam Raises $9M From Animoca Brands, Mark Cuban, Sound Ventures – Finance Bitcoin News

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On Wednesday, the non-fungible token (NFT) data and analytics platform Cryptoslam raised $9 million in a capital funding round led by Animoca Brands. Cryptoslam detailed that Mark Cuban participated in the financing and Ashton Kutcher’s and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures joined in as well. Cryptoslam Reveals $9 Million Capital Raise, Animoca Brands Leads Investment Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have become a big deal and a billion-dollar industry since the boom started last year. On January 5, 2022, the NFT-centric data and analytics platform Cryptoslam revealed the company raised $9 million from…

Bring Your AOZ NFT to Life! Claim Your Free Soul – Sponsored Bitcoin News

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GameStop shares jump 26% in after hours trade after NFT division unveiled

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The share price of Reddit’s cult-favorite stock GameStop Corporation (GME) jumped by one quarter (in after-hours trading following a Wall Street Journal report on its upcoming NFT division. The U.S. retail game store giant has been quietly working on an NFT marketplace since May, and ramped things up in October by listing several job openings for Web 3.0 and NFT-experienced software engineers and product marketers. According to a Jan. 6 report from the WSJ, GameStop has now hired more than 20 people to operate its freshly minted NFT unit. An…

GameStop Surges Following Report It’s Launching NFT Marketplace

Shares of GameStop (GME), the original meme stock that stoked retail investor frenzy in buying highly volatile stocks last January, surged as much as 31% in after-market trading Thursday after the Wall Street Journal reported that the company is launching a division to build a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFT) and to establish cryptocurrency partnerships. The video-game retailer hopes the new unit will lead its turnaround efforts to become profitable, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with its plans. GameStop’s plan calls for it to build an online hub for…