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OpenSea collector pays 100 ETH for a free NFT: Nifty Newsletter, April 5–11
LooksRare releases an upgrade that lowers its fees by 75% to compete with OpenSea and Blur.
Nifty News: BTC miners cash $5M on Ordinals, Reddit NFTs get botting backlash and more
Bitcoin transaction fees from Ordinals inscriptions have exploded by 240% over the last month.
Mastercard launches NFT-gated musician accelerator program
This month, Mastercard is launching an artist accelerator program for musicians, with a catch: Access is only possible via an NFT member pass.
Uniswap launches iOS mobile wallet in select countries
The decentralized exchange had previously stated that Apple was not allowing the app to be listed on the App Store.
Asia’s current gaming domination ‘crucial’ for Web3 games: DappRadar
Asia is home to 1.7 billion gamers and contributes over $72 billion in annual gaming revenue, making it a critical market, according to DappRadar.
What happens to your NFTs when you die?
Ajay Prashanth, an executive at NFT insights platform bitsCrunch, said that setting up smart contracts to automate NFT transfer after death is “technically feasible.“
Web3 hosts a Viking-Crypto raid with a unique gamified NFT minting experience
Forget about scarcity — this game aims to produce over 60 million NFTs as part of the gamified NFT minting experience.
20 Caribbean Creators Sharing Their Cultural Traditions on the Blockchain
Web3 has a navel-gazing problem. While it’s hard to pass a day on Twitter without coming across rhetoric of the space’s accessibility and egalitarianism, it remains stubbornly Western-centric. Big international happenings like NFT Paris and NFT Korea Festival absolutely deserve credit for helping to broaden its scope, but even these events can feel like rehashes of the same figures, topics, and artwork that the North American and European crypto art market seem to dictate. Fortunately, there are increasingly common efforts to make Web3 more representative of the global audience of which it’s composed. One group making sure its cultural voice […]
How the Expressions NFT Marketplace Aims to Uplift Global Communities
Next week, the NFT platform Expressions — a marketplace dedicated to supporting underrepresented global art communities in Web3, will launch its genesis art project — Origins & Ancestries. The drop is the first of ten that will take place over the next year and will showcase 1,000 artworks from 12 artists in the Caribbean, including Sofía Maldonado-Suárez (Puerto Rico), Edward Bowen (Trinidad), Carlos Davila Rinaldi (Puerto Rico), Isabel Berenos (Curaçao), and more. Expressions was created with an expansive goal in mind; Web3, for all its open-access rhetoric, remains frustratingly Western-focused, with North American and European artists dominating trends and headlines. […]
Runway: Adidas in Web3, Gucci and Vans on Roblox, and Nike x RTFKT
Welcome back to Runway, where we report to you from the frontlines of the digital fashion revolution. If you were waiting for the other shoe to drop, it finally did. Adidas, Nike x RTFKT, and dotSwoosh make major announcements this week — filling the digital world with more sneakers than we could imagine housing in our closet already stuffed with studded Valentinos, Jimmy Choos, and archival Louboutins. Next week we’ll fill you in on all things digital fashion and luxury that we witnessed during NFT NYC. Until then, read on to see what you missed this week. A new era […]