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Frida Kahlo, Sotheby’s, and Ukrainian Meta History: The Shorts from the Third Decentraland’s Metaverse Art Week

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This year’s Metaverse Art Week named The World is Made of Code stands out with big names and urgent topics on the agenda. Thus, the 3rd annual event by Decentraland’s Metaverse Art Week (MAW) 2022 joins “mind-bending installations” from Frida Kahlo’s Family with contributions from the most renowned official Ukrainian NFT project, Meta History. Inspired by this year’s Venice Biennale, the MAW 2022 will be devoted to artsy representations abundant in mathematical designs one can find in nature, and bridge the metaverse implementation of what the IRL immersive experience is. “Metaverse Art Week 2022 is coming at a pivotal moment […]

Fractional Rebrands to Tessera while Raising $20M in Funding

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The crypto community once again is quaked by the big news. Recently, the NFT-based platform initially dubbed Fractional was rebranded to Tessera, having raised $20 million from the most reputable ventures. Making its competitors bite the dust, the company moves forward in re-affirming its foothold in the realm. The driving force of the endeavor was Paradigm, which led the funding round with the participation of Focus Labs, Uniswap Labs Ventures, E Girl Capital, and Yunt Capital. Additionally, about 50 Angel Investors have contributed to the round by raising Tessera to the non-fungible Olympus with $20 of funding. Notably, most of […]

Gordon Ramsey to Bring Hell’s Kitchen to The Sandbox Metaverse

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The world’s most viewed gastronomic TV show with Gordon Ramsay as a chef is about to set the metaverse on fire. Thus, Hell’s Kitchen joins efforts with ITV Studios to enter The Sandbox lands and spice up the web with the first cooking-themed game. The whole large program’s fanbase will be treated to a fully-fledged cooking experience, reviving the most iconic moments in VR. As The Sandbox-Hell’s Kitchen statement reads, the metaverse gourmets will be able to “create new dishes, win competitions, collect recipes and compete for a chance to make it to Head Chef.” The heart and soul of […]

Ethereum Merge to Proof-of-Stake May Be Coming Earlier Than Expected

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The long-awaited Ethereum Merge is expected to be finally released on the 15th or 16th of September. This news is based on a call with core Ethereum developers, and especially Anthony Sassano’s announcement on Twitter.  “The Ethereum mainnet merge has been tentatively scheduled for around September 15th/16th. The Merge is coming”, wrote the co-founder of the Ethereum research website EthHub.  The main point of the blockchain’s upgrade to ETH 2.0 is that Ethereum will start operating on a proof-of-stake (PoS) instead of a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus model. This is a significant change because it provokes the work of the basic […]

Paris Hilton is Bringing her Malibu Mansion to the Metaverse within her Partnership with the Sandbox

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World-famous entrepreneur, DJ, and acknowledged socialite Paris Hilton continues her Metaverse expansion. Being one of the first celebrities to start exploring the Web3 world, Paris has already dropped several NFT collections, managed to build an excellent portfolio of non-fungible artworks, and is actively involved in advising and helping artists with minting their NFTs.  On August 9th, the crypto queen announced her partnership with the Sandbox, saying on her Twitter “We are going to expand Paris World onto The Sandbox and it’s going to be THE place to sliv in the #Metaverse.” In collaboration with the celebrity’s media content company and […]

Magic Eden Offers to Create an ApeCoin NFT Marketplace just for Bored Ape Yacht Club

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The leading Solana-based NFT Marketplace Magic Eden is actively introducing new features and exploring non-fungible opportunities to strengthen its presence in web3.  Having just announced its expansion into the Ethereum market, Magic Eden has come up with a new offer, namely to create a Bored Ape Yacht Club marketplace for the ApeCoin (APE) community.  With the APE community in mind, the perhaps-to be ApeCoin marketplace is intended to provide the NFT holders of the Bored Ape NFTs with a bunch of advantages such as lower trading fees.  Based on the pitch, the proposed marketplace would present even lower seller’s fees […]

NFT Media Distribution Platform Pinata raised $21.5M in Seed and Series A Funding

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Despite the appreciable fading of interest in the NFTs, especially compared to the last August when it was blazing, NFT platforms and companies continue cementing their presence in Web3.  An NFT-focused media distribution platform Pinata, involved in providing the media infrastructure and support for web3 apps, marketplaces, and crypto projects across all blockchains, has recently raised $21.5M in Seed and Series A Funding.  The platform raised $3.5 million in a seed round in 2021 and $18 million in Series A which resulted in a whopping total amount. The recent Series A was co-led by Greylock and Pantera, and the seed […]

Pearson to Leverage Its Profits from Textbook Sales Due to NFTs

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NFT technology is booming, opening bountiful prospects for non-blockchain companies, including media giants and publishers. British academic textbook publisher Pearson is not staying behind and is on the alert to join the NFT movement. Currently, Pearson is looking to leverage its profits due to the NFT verification to keep track of digital textbook sales on the secondary market.  According to the publisher’s CEO Andy Bird, Pearson textbooks are resold up to seven times in their shelf life. By applying the NFT verification to each textbook, the company’s CEO hopes to gain a significant number of small revenue sources that would […]

Unique Network Makes a CryptoPunk NFT Accessible to Everyone through Fractionalizing Its Ownership Rights

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Non-fungible investments keep soaring even given the current bearish moods. Even against the backdrop of a decrease in ETH price, the most desired collections like CryptoPunks or BAYC are still synonymous with everything luxurious and one-of-a-kind in the NFT collector’s world. While each token costs a fortune, these blue-chip ecosystems have long been inaccessible for average NFT investors, until the present day. To provide every willing collector with a stake in the top-tier CryptoPunk ownership, the NFT infrastructure Unique Network to split the ownership rights among a whopping 56,000 user addresses who have initially signed up for a share.  “This […]

Vitalik Buterin Brings the Idea of Stealth Addresses for NFTs to Masses

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Anonymity is one of the key factors of blockchain technology, which pushes more users to choose in favor of DeFi. On Monday, August 8th, Vitalik Buterin came up with a new idea to contribute to the privacy of NFT transactions. Ethereum co-founder revealed a concept of stealth address implementation for ERC-721 NFTs. This was preceded by Buterin’s remark regarding Merkle trees and Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments of Knowledge, or zk-SNARKs, being a more complicated method for stealth addresses for ERC-721 tokens compared to his brand-new solution.  The news about Vitalik’s concept arrived via his official Twitter post with a link […]
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