Dapper Labs becomes the first NFT company to register to lobby with the US government

Based in Vancouver, Dapper Labs offers a variety of NFT based products and dapps. These include games like CryptoKitties, where players can breed and raise NFT kittens, and Cheeze Wizards, a tournament series where collectible characters can duel each other. Additionally, Dapper Labs is partnered with the NBA and is responsible for Top Shot, an NFT marketplace that sells highlights from basketball games. The UFC has also partnered with Dapper Labs to offer a similar service in the near future. According to the announcement, Dapper Labs has recruited Crossroads Strategies…

Why You Need to Buy Sassy Unicorns NFT – Sponsored Bitcoin News

sponsored What Are Sassy Unicorns NFT Sassy Unicorns are a collection of 10,000 unique NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. Each unicorn is available to adopt, with unicorns distributed randomly at the minting event. Special About Sassy Unicorns NFT Each NFT holder can yield 7$ daily by holding NFT in their wallet. Passive Income Token The goal is to create a loop. The passive income increases the value of the NFT, the price of the token increases because the floor price increases, so the passive income increases again because token price…

Polygon network activity spikes as NFT sales reach new height

The number of nonfungible tokens (NFT’s) sold on the layer-two protocol Polygon reached an all-time high last month at just short of 2 million.  According to Dune Analytics, this marks a near 60% rise in comparison to November and the third consecutive monthly increase for the network. An Ethereum-based scaling solution seeking to construct, distribute and manage securities on blockchain technology, Polygon’s ecosystem has grown exponentially over the past twelve months, registering in excess of 3,000 decentralized applications on its network, in addition to a total value locked figure of…

Why was 2021 an important year for NFT?

In the last few years, gaming has evolved to become something more than just a pastime. It is now a full-fledged industry with some of the biggest names in the business investing in it. Real money is being invested in virtual goods that don’t have any value in the outside world. NFTs are changing the game and maybe the next best thing to happen to the gaming industry. Thоugh NFTs hаve been аrоund sinсe 2014, it wasn’t until 2021 thаt this revоlutiоnаry teсhnоlоgy entered the mаinstreаm, аffeсting the аrt wоrld…

Singapore Tycoons’ Sons Plan Private NFT Club That Will Become an ARC to the Metaverse: Report

A son of a Singapore financier and a son of the family that started Mewah International Inc., an edible oils company, have founded ARC, a private, NFT-based social networking app that will be open to anyone who owns their non-fungible token, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. They plan to eventually create an “ARC metaverse,” a huge virtual community that includes a gaming element. Source

The worst influencer and celebrity NFT cash grabs of 2021

The monumental growth of the nonfungible token (NFT) sector in 2021 was a double-edged sword. While it may have transformed the wealth of countless investors and artists alike, it also gave birth to an alarming trend of popular figures who pounced on the tech to turn JPEGs into a quick profit.  Here, we’ll take a look at four influencers and celebrities who allegedly threw quality and utility out the window to vacuum capital out of their supporters’ pockets amid a year plagued by a global pandemic, labor shortages, unstable finances…

Leading NFT Marketplace Opensea Raises $300 Million, Firm’s Post-Money Valuation Taps $13.3 Billion – Finance Bitcoin News

Leading non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Opensea announced the firm has raised $300 million in a Series C funding round led by Paradigm and Coatue. Opensea’s latest capital raise has propelled the company to a $13.3 billion post-money valuation. Opensea Raises $300 Million, Commands Post-Money Valuation of $13.3 Billion In mid-November, a report authored by theinformation.com’s Kate Clark and Berber Jin explained that Opensea was fielding new investments after investors were allegedly chomping at the bit to fund the project. At the time, Opensea’s estimated valuation was $10 billion and two…

Golf startup putts $10.5 million in NFT sales

No sector of the economy or indeed life is safe from nonfungible tokens (NFTs) or tokenization. Golf is the latest sport to succumb to the lure of NFTs and a round of decentralization thanks to the efforts of LinksDAO.  In a sold-out NFT drop, LinksDAO raised $10.5 million to fund its golfing aspirations. More than 9,000 “leisure membership” and “global membership” NFTs were purchased on the OpenSea platform, exchanged for Ether (ETH). It would seem that while 2021 was a thriving year of decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) activity, with some…

Martial Arts Icon and Philosopher Bruce Lee Commemorated in NFT Collection Endorsed by Family Company – Blockchain Bitcoin News

While many celebrities have launched non-fungible token (NFT) collections, a number of NFT compilations have featured luminaries who have passed away. Legends such as Jerry Garcia, Kurt Cobain, Muhammad Ali, Elvis, Tupac, and more have been featured in NFT collections. This Saturday, Ethernity and Bruce Lee’s family will be dropping the renowned martial artist’s first NFT collection dubbed “The Formless Form.” ‘Be Like Water Making Its Way Through Cracks’ The Hong Kong and American martial artist, martial arts instructor, film star, and philosopher, Bruce Lee, is an extremely popular pop-culture…