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Eurovision 2022 Winners Kalush Orchestra Auction off Their Glass Mic Trophy to Aid Ukrainian Army
The winners of Eurovision 2022, the ground-shattering Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra has been popularizing Ukrainian music and culture for years. Having won the Eurovision, they have managed to deliver the message about the tragic events in Ukraine to millions of people around the world and haven’t stopped there. Now, the guys have decided to aid their motherland financially by auctioning off their well-deserved prize, namely Eurovision Glass Mic Trophy, alongside its NFT digital copy. In addition to the valuable prize, the Kalush Orchestra’s frontman Oleh Psiuk is auctioning his iconic pink bucket hat for €5 only! All funds raised from […]
Robinhood is Developing a Revolutionary NFT-Friendly Crypto Wallet
According to the recent announcement made by Robinhood executives at the 2022 Permissionless Conference, the trading platform is about to introduce a new NFT-compatible custodial wallet. In addition to storing NFTs, the wallet by Robinhood will be linked to the major web3 platforms, allowing holders into dozens of ecosystems. While the list of blockchains the Robinhood wallet will support is still kept secret, the trading app stated it would be friendly to even more tokens than are now available within the platform. According to the insider report, users of the new multi-functional Web3 wallet will be able to lend, stake, […]
Love, Death + Robots Vol 3 by Netflix Launches a Hunt for NFT Artworks
The multi-million fandom has been waiting for this news for a pretty long time. Finally, Netflix has rolled out the third season of its groundbreaking Love, Death + Robots series. But this time, the new Volume 3 of Tim Miller’s and David Fincher’s black-humored animated anthology comes backed up with additional perks. The most attentive of you might have noticed QR codes appearing here and there throughout the Vol 3 episodes. Well, what if we tell you that those codes lead to something awe-inspiring? The very first code can be found in the first episode of the third season, titled […]
The Iconic Guitar Maker Fender Files for NFT Patents
One of the world’s top-ranking guitar manufacturers, Fender, is about to enter the web3 realm. The three NFT-related patent requests filed to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) evidence that perfectly. However, this initiative is more about Fender’s intellectual property protection, especially its guitar models, rather than jumping into NFTs. Thus, according to the trademark attorney Mike Kondoudis’ tweet, Fender has submitted a series of trademark applications concerning its headstock shape in potential NFT products, including artworks, photographs, videos, and “audio recordings featuring music and musical instruments”. It’s noteworthy that this filing is already the second Fender’s attempt […]
LimeWire Partners with UMG to Return as a Music-Focused NFT Marketplace
After over a decade of biting the dust, the nostalgic peer-to-peer file sharing platform LimeWire is coming back with a new strategy, focus, and management. Thus, the sharing service once associated with piracy announced its transformation into the NFT marketplace in partnership with the leading company Universal Music Group (UMG). The big comeback was ensured by the “serial founders” Paul and Julian Zehetmayr, co-founders of b2b-software company Stack Holdings. According to founders, the new LimeWire platform will be focused on “NFT newbies,” who feel unconfident in the highly speculative NFT realm. “The biggest challenge with digital collectibles and the broader […]
Dapper Labs Creates the Largest-Ever $750M Fund to Boost Flow and Reward Developers
Dapper Labs, the company behind the NBA Top Shot platform and creator of the Flow blockchain, announced the launch of a $725 million fund to develop the Flow ecosystem. The fund is aimed to focus on processing and evolving products in gaming, DeFi, and other web3 content. For now, it is the largest joint fund organized for a blockchain. “This is the largest multi-investor fund for any blockchain. Funds will be allocated both to projects already working on Flow and to developers of new ones,” Flow representatives commented on the fund creation on Twitter. Thus, 17 venture capital firms, including […]
Meta Announces Piloting Test of NFT Integration to Instagram
The Meta-owned social media power Instagram is finally testing its piloting NFT integration feature. Starting from Monday, May 8th, the selected few USA-based NFT creators and collectors are getting their hands on the groundbreaking feature. The multichain NFT sharing opportunity is aimed to allow verifying, showcasing, and trading of non-fungible tokens on the most popular blockchains, including Ethereum and Polygon for now, and Flow and Solana to be available the other day. According to Instagram head Adam Mosseri’s announcement, “there will be no fees associated with posting or sharing a digital collectible on Instagram.” This information was probably outlined to […]