Tag: NFT

Romania Makes Web 3.0 Move, Launches NFT Trading Platform

There is now a high expectation that Romania will see a big boost, especially in the area of the adoption of Web 3.0 and blockchain technology. Romania, keen on driving Web 3.0 adoption in the country, is set to launch a national non-fungible token (NFT) trading platform through the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI Bucharest). According to reports, the NFT marketplace, dubbed ICI D|Services, will go live on April 26. That is, public and institutional users may begin to mint, manage and trade their unique NFTs…

Polygon, Cardano and Solana See Rise in NFT Sales

It appears the overall NFT market has cooled amid an extended crypto winter, with a handful of collections eliciting brief spikes in trading over the past few months. According to a Dune dashboard by SeaLaunch, the number of unique users across top NFT marketplaces including Blur, OpenSea and LooksRare fell to 7,805 on April 19, a low not seen since July 2021. The number of sales across NFT marketplaces also fell sharply, with 16,149 sales recorded on April 19, according to the same data from Dune. The last time the…

Romania plugs into Web3 with national NFT marketplace

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Romania’s National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI Bucharest) aims to drive Web3 adoption in the country with the launch of an in-house nonfungible token trading platform. The institutional NFT platform, dubbed ICI D|Services, will go live on April 26 and aims to create a link between private and public sector institutions and users. The platform is primarily an NFT marketplace, allowing public and institutional users to mint, manage and trade NFTs. Cointelegraph spoke to ICI Bucharest blockchain laboratory coordinator Paul Niculescu-Mizil Gheorghe to unpack the impetus behind the…

China’s Neo reveals phygital device, aims to catalyze NFT activity

Neo, a blockchain in China building what they describe as a Smart Economy and once a stiff competitor of Ethereum, has unveiled OneBand, a phygital NFT device. Neo unveils OneBand In a Medium post on April 22, Neo said OneBand is a physical ring cryptographically tied to a non-fungible token (NFT).  The physical ring and the NFT, Neo clarifies, are intrinsically linked since the ring is embedded with a near-field communication (NFC) chip and a censored BIP32 master key.  The BIP32 master key standard has been adopted broadly. It would allow NFT…

Blur fixes bug, affected NFT traders to get big bonuses

Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, Blur, has fixed a bug in its message processing that affected some bids canceled in the last 80 hours. Blur detects bug Blur’s chief executive officer (CEO), Pacman, has released a statement confirming that they had detected a bug at around 8 pm PT. Afterward, they disabled the bid to accept a functionality. In 30 minutes, 36 affected bids were received. The team fixed the issue and bids were enabled 30 minutes later at 11:05 pm PT.  Update: At around 8pm PT today, we detected a…

Toy Manufacturer Mattel to Launch P2P Marketplace for Virtual Collectibles on NFT Platform – Blockchain Bitcoin News

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On April 20, the American toy manufacturing company Mattel announced an update to its virtual collectibles platform, which will go live on April 27. The peer-to-peer platform, called Mattel Creations Virtual Collectibles, will coincide with the Hot Wheels NFT Garage Series 5, featuring some of Hot Wheels’ most popular car designs. Mattel Creations Virtual Collectibles Platform to Launch Peer-to-Peer Market Feature The toy manufacturer Mattel, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAT) is continuing to expand into the non-fungible token (NFT) realm with the latest update to its Mattel Creations Virtual Collectibles platform. The…

Games and tokenization are driving NFT industry maturation

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From tokenizing investment assets to game avatars, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have an array of applications that go beyond digital art, with more projects coming online despite the market downturn in 2022.  At the NFT.NYC 2023 conference, Cointelegraph’s team learned first-hand from experts, projects, companies, and the NFT community how the technology is shaping the digital world. Check out the highlights of the three-day event below: NFT games show signs of maturing  After years of development, the first batch of NFT-based gaming projects are entering the market, paving the way for…

Trump’s Second NFT Drop Slumps, Sotheby’s Selling NFTs Seized From 3AC

Trump NFTs, take two: In case you missed out on the first round of outlandish NFTs featuring the former president in various costumes and poses, Trump’s digital trading cards are back for a second series. Although both collections sold out within a day of launch, the first series had greater success in terms of secondary sales. At the time of writing, Trump’s second collection had a floor price on OpenSea of 0.049 ETH – or about $97, which is less than its mint price of $99. Currently, the best offer…

Marvel Studios Founder David Maisel Launches Mythos Studios’ First NFT Collection

On May 2 at 10 a.m. PT, the Ekos Genesis Art Collection will kick off a Dutch auction of 995 1/1 NFTs. The date holds special significance for Maisel, as it marks the 15th anniversary of the theatrical release of “Iron Man,” the movie that kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Dutch auction will last 88 minutes and bidding will start at 10 ether (ETH), then drop by 0.5 ETH every four minutes until the price hits 0.5 ETH. Finally, it will drop to 0.2 ETH for the final…

NYX Professional Makeup Launches NFT Collection for GORJS

For the Dream Vortex NFT project, NYX has partnered with the movers and shakers of the Web 3.0 space. NYX Professional Makeup has released a non-fungible token (NFT) collection for the world’s first beauty DAO – GORJS. Tagged “Dream Vortex”, the collection features 4,150 unique NFTs curated by a group of nine artists. NYX Professional Makeup Touches on Diversity and Inclusion with New NFT Project According to the official press release, each art considers the new era of beauty, focusing on the diversities that exist therein. That is, each NFT…