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The Amazon.eth Domain $1 Million Offer Went Unanswered

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The ENS domain names phenomenon keeps gaining momentum while more companies, brands, and individuals are jumping into the crypto bandwagon. So, while great demand pushes the .eth domains to skyrocket in pricing, the recent news unveils the total record-breaker, or, just an attempt to become the one. Thus, on July 19th, Amazon.eth ENS domain received an offer for 1 million in USDC from an anonymous wallet address on OpenSea. However, despite the tempting offer, it went unanswered and no transaction was made. It’s worth noting that the latest Amazon.eth sale was accomplished for 33 ETH, or about $100K at that […]

Time Magazine Unveiled the Story of Its Metaverse-Related Issue Creation

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The renowned Time Magazine is continuing its web3 expansion. It already boasts multiple NFT endeavors, including its non-fungible March magazine and the wave-making issue, featuring Vitalik Buterin, just to name a few. However, the media giant never stops exploring the web3 horizons, rolling out the new August issue, featuring the metaverse-themed cover. A couple of days ago, Time Magazine revealed the story in the core of its ‘Behind The Metaverse’ issue creation via the blog post. Thus, the magazine’s August issue cover, starring the iconic NFT character Aku, was developed by Aku’s creator, former MLB player Micah Johnson. The artist […]

Tony Hawk Joins Efforts with The Sandbox and Autograph to Create the World’s Largest Metaverse Skatepark and NFTs

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The most renowned and skillful skateboard guru of all times, Tony Hawk, is bringing his rich legacy to the metaverse. Thus, in partnership with the leading metaverse platform The Sandbox, and the NFT solution source Autograph, Tony Hawk is about to create the largest skatepark in the Metaverse.  The pro-skater’s entertainment zone will be set on 6×6 land in The Sandbox, bringing skateboarding and graffiti together in one universe. Moreover, the metaverse skatepark will be launched alongside the exclusive NFT collection powered by Autograph. The non-fungible tokens, inspired by Tony Hawk’s tremendous career, will feature the most iconic skateboards, merch, […]

Rarible Is About to Add Solana to Its Multi-Chain NFT Family

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The Solana blockchain-based NFTs are gaining momentum, pushing major NFT marketplaces to their adoption. Currently, following in the footsteps of the recent Solana NFT integration into the OpenSea ecosystem, the leading marketplace’s rival Rarible will now support Solana tokens as well. The long-awaited SOL NFT integration will allow users to buy and sell Solana tokens without any gas fee for a month. After a 30-day promotion period finishes, everyone will have to pay only 1% on every transaction made. Thus, Solana enters the ever-growing list of blockchains adopted by Rarible, including Ethereum, Flow, Tezos, Polygon’s MATIC, Immutable X, and Rarible’s […]

Snapchat Will Launch NFT Filter Update Later in August

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The social media giants are gradually adopting blockchain and NFTs to meet their users’ ever-growing demands. Not willing to drag behind Meta, Twitter, and others, Snapchat also starts experimenting with non-fungible technology. Thus, the social media platform is testing the feature allowing Snap users to show off their NFTs as in-house filters. But that’s not all. According to the press release, Snapchat is developing a breakthrough opportunity, allowing users to mutate non-fungible pictures into AR filters. The augmented reality-backed masks are said to be available to overlay on IRL landscapes. Snapchat promises to release the new non-fungible updates later in […]

Polygon’s MATIC Skyrockets After Becoming Disney Accelerator’s Single Official Blockchain

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MATIC soars 25% against the backdrop of the fresh announcement from Disney. Thus, yesterday, on July 13th, Disney officially confirmed the choice in favor of the green Polygon blockchain to boost the company’s web3 expansion within the brand-new Disney Accelerator program. Disney Accelerator aims to bring the 100 years of the company’s legacy to digital worlds, “building the future of immersive experiences and specializing in technologies such as augmented reality (AR), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and artificial intelligence (AI) characters.” However, Polygon appears to be only one of six close partners to promote the Disney Accelerator project. The other five are […]

Mila Kunis-Related Toonstar Web3 Company to Unite NFTs, Retail, and Entertainment in Partnership with the Hot Topic Chain

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The digital arm of Mila Kunis’ Orchard Farm Productions, the web3 animation studio Toonstar, is entering the big NFT waters by teaming up with the Hot Topic US-operating retailer. The collaboration aims to merge retail, entertainment, and non-fungible technology to make the web3 mainstream. Thus, the Toonstar x Hot Topic partnership marks the new era of retail, which will entirely change the concept of IRL sales, bringing NFT and web3 products to physical shelves and vice versa. The agreement suggests that Toonstar takes up the development and provision of NFTs and other digital activations for both original projects and Hot […]

Gary Vee Teases New NFT Opportunities in a Cereal Club-Related Short Video

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Gary Vaynerchuk, known to be one of the most sonorous names in the NFT world, has recently announced his vision for the NFT future. And this future is centered around the entrepreneur’s project dubbed Cereal Club launched back in February 2022. On July 6th, the Twitter community was treated to a teasing animated video, where the Cereal Club characters start their most favorable time of the day with a bowl of cereal. What’s more, all the characters of the Cereal Club, namely cute Cereal Bowl-headed creatures, show off a broad array of merch and accessories, as well as share a […]

The Sandbox and Playboy to Launch the MetaMansion

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On July 11th, one of the world’s largest metaverse spaces, The Sandbox, entered a new big deal, bringing the Playboy lifestyle edition to VR spaces. Thus, The Sandbox is about to take the impressive Playboy community to the metaverse with the MetaMansion launch. The endeavor promises a bunch of Playboy-themed gaming experiences based on the huge collection of content gathered throughout almost 70 years of the brand’s existence. With this partnership, Playboy hopes to leverage the immersive gaming, social play, programmed events, and upcoming NFT collectible releases to The Sandbox metaverse lands. Playboy’s MetaMansion won’t become the lifestyle edition’s first […]

The UAE Is About to Launch the World’s First Hospital in the Metaverse

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The United Arab Emirates is known to be one of the most breakthrough countries keen on innovations. Thus, it’s no surprise that it’s the UAE that is launching the world’s first metaverse hospital to empower medical tourism. The UAE’s chain of cutting-edge hospitals Thumbay Group has already taken up and will be managing the project. The metaverse hospital will be accessible via avatars, allowing visitors to interact with medical staff in VR. The Thumbay Group’s founder, Dr. Thumbay Moideen, promises to launch the metaverse facility by October 2022, which will look exactly the same as the IRL hospital. This will […]
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