TON Society Reveals Biometric Proof-of-Personhood Palm Scanning Program

TON Society announced a proof-of-personhood program targeting Telegram users, who can voluntarily scan their palms in exchange for benefits. The organization allocated 1 million TON for this initiative, distributed among 500 million participants in the next 5 years after completing their palm verification using Humancode’s artificial intelligence (AI) biometric tech. TON Society Announces Digital Identification […] Source BitcoincryptoexchangeExchanges CryptoX Portal

Palm Foundation Picks Polygon to Scale Native Network

Additionally, the Palm Network will be compatible with Ethereum and Polygon 2.0, helping projects expand into additional ecosystems with a focus beyond NFTs. Jordi Baylina, co-founder of Polygon, said in a press release that the Polygon Supernet’s high speed, low cost and customizable nature makes it an ideal network for the Palm Foundation’s expansion of access to NFTs. Source

Azuki Is Rebuilding After Its Elementals Mint Mishap, Candy Digital and Palm NFT Studio Merge

What: Generative artist Vera Molnár, who is credited by many scholars as the first female digital artist, is releasing her first-and-only on-chain generative art project through art auction house Sotheby’s. Her work, which began integrating computer art in the 1960s, is regularly cited as an influence for modern generative artists such as Dmitri Cherniak and Tyler Hobbs. The 500-edition collection, formulated around three letters that have heavily influenced digital art, is a reflection of her career and how the practice has changed with the integration of NFTs. Source

Candy Digital and Palm NFT Studio Announce Merger

“We’re thrilled to bring together two teams that have been market leaders in innovation and fan engagement,” Lawin told CoinDesk. “Palm NFT Studio shares Candy’s excitement about the role that digital assets will play as the connective tissue between fans, brands and content in Web3, and we’re looking forward to bringing world-class brands like Warner Bros. Discovery and DC to the Candy platform and community.” Source

Palm NFT Studio Launches Palm Generative Art Maker

The tool provides the infrastructure for artists to carefully craft their code, store it on-chain and produce a body of generative artwork. While the process has previously been challenging for creators without knowledge of coding, the tool simplifies bulk rendering, trait and rarity systems, and the generation of assets. In addition, the tool allows users to develop motion and static 3D assets, as well generate the text and metadata. Source

Google Launches API for AI language Model PaLM Challenging ChatGPT-3

Google’s API for PaLM will help businesses “generate text, images, code, videos, audio, and more from simple natural language prompts”. Catching up on OpenAI’s accelerating development on ChatGPT, Google has now started offering developers access to one of its most advanced AI-based language models, PaLM. Along with other API enterprise tools, Google is launching an API for PaLM which will help businesses “generate text, images, code, videos, audio, and more from simple natural language prompts”. Similar to the GPT series created by OpenAI, PaLM is a large language model first…

NFT Company Palm Teams up with Pussy Riot to Foster Activist Art

Additionally, Palm and Tolokonnikova will continue to empower artists through an upcoming feminist art contest set to take place in April during the NFT.NYC conference. PalmDAO is calling on activists and artists to submit their work to the competition. From there, Tolokonnikova will select five finalists to be showcased during the event, where one winner will earn $1,000 and a special display of their work. Source

Archie Comics and Palm NFT Studio want fans to co-create the comic’s future series

American comic book publisher Archie Comics, known for its iconic Riverdale characters, is leveraging the blockchain to develop fan-generated art and stories as well as Archie-inspired nonfungible token (NFT) collections. Laura Braga and Vincezo Federici, the artists behind the 80-year-old franchise, partnered with Palm NFT Studio, to create a new blockchain-based writer’s room called the “Archiverse: Eclipse.”  Source: Palm NFT Studio According to the company, the Archiverse intends to empower Archie Comics fans to author the brand’s future through generative storytelling. Its writer’s room invites fans to create and submit…

Microsoft leads startup Palm NFT Studio’s $27M series B round

Crypto startup Palm NFT Studio announced a Series B raise of $27 million on Thursday led by Microsoft’s venture fund M12. Palm NFT, cofounded by ConsenSys founder and Ethereum cofounder Joseph Lubin, provides strategic and technical services for creators to build NFT marketplaces.  Other major backers include Griffin Gaming Partners, RRE, Third Kind Venture Capital, Sfermion, the LAO, Warner Bros., and SK Inc. According to the statement issued on their company blog, the raise will enable the team to scale the Palm NFT Studio’s technology platform and offer it to third…

Microsoft Leads $27M Funding Round for Palm NFT Studio

Microsoft’s venture arm is leading a $27 million bet on NFT studio Palm. The raise will be used primarily to scale the company’s operations with a slew of new hires, a representative of the studio told CoinDesk. Palm works with companies and brands to help them create NFT projects, using Ethereum on the backend. It’s exactly the type of blockchain service that Microsoft and its M12 Venture Fund sees potential in – on an enterprise level. “We’re focused on early stage B2B,” M12 managing director Matt Goldstein told CoinDesk in…