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Mila Kunis-Related Toonstar Web3 Company to Unite NFTs, Retail, and Entertainment in Partnership with the Hot Topic Chain
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
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
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
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 […]
The Second-Highest Price of 300 ETH Was Paid for 000.eth Domain
ENS domains keep gaining popularity in the realm. Today, every company or individual engaged in web3 is committed to owning the .eth name. The current 000.eth domain sale is the best evidence of that. On July 3rd, an anonymous buyer acquired the 000.eth ENS domain for a whopping 300 ETH. According to NFTGo, at the time of purchase, a sum in USD amounted to 316,862.81, making 000.eth the second-highest deal after paradigm.eth bought in October 2021 for 420 ETH (around $1.5 million) accordingly. The venture capital platform Paradigm was rumored to be standing behind the deal, although the company’s execs […]
The First-Ever Harvard Reunion Party Was Held in the Metaverse
Metaverse allows people around the world to get together for work, entertainment, socializing, or education. In times of the Covid-19 pandemic, VR technology gained even more pace, conquering one niche after another. That was how the issue of the Harvard Advanced Management Program class reunion was solved in the best possible way. The problem is clear, as Harvard’s global alumni base consists of adult people with full-time jobs, and the flight ban due to the pandemic doomed the meetup to failure. However, the event organizer, Harvard alumnus Sean West, came up with a breakthrough solution: Mesmerise, a metaverse built with […]
Otherside Is Conducting Testing for Otherdeed NFT Holders
While the much-awaited Othersisde’s First Trip is scheduled for July 16th, the testing and pre-launch preparations are starting already this week. The news was announced on July 4th by the BAYC metaverse officials. Otherside, the joint metaverse game by BAYC and British web3 company Improbable, will hold two First Trip tech demos, on July 6th and July 9th accordingly. The developers addressed the Otherdeed holders in a tweet, asking them to join the Otherside testing to “help steer the Otherside platform in the right direction.” The testing is crucial to ensure the seamless launch of the big project. Of course, […]
The Sandbox Rewards LANDlords For Using Its New Polygon Layer LAND Bridge
The voxelized metaworld The Sandbox never stops evolving to make the user experience even more seamless and hassle-free. Recently, the company announced the long-awaited Polygon LAND bridge launch. The news on the upgrade was announced in The Sandbox tweet, where the metaverse project’s founders advised all gamers to BRIDGE, and here’s why: Each LAND bridged grants a 10 mSAND cashback! LAND multipliers on both mSAND staking programs are back! LAND sales and LAND staking features (on Polygon) are coming soon! In fact, the Polygon Bridge is a Proof of Stake (PoS) mechanism within The Sandbox, which allows the transferring of […]
Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant to Take up the Positions of Advisors at The Futureverse Foundation
The home to FLUF World, New Zealand-based NFT-focused company Non-Fungible Labs has partnered with stellar actor Keanu Reeves and his lifetime partner, artist Alexandra Grant to launch The Futureverse Foundation. The fund was created to aid underrepresented artists by raising awareness of their works both IRL and in digital space. In addition to supporting the artsy community, The Futureverse Foundation also seeks to help average people access the metaverse and the web3. As for Keanu and Alexandra, the renowned couple is onboarding The Futureverse Foundation as advisors. Thus, the actor who has recently made derogatory comments towards NFTs has taken […]
Ledger Announced the Creation of Its Own NFT Marketplace and Web3 Platform
The leading crypto hardware and security company Ledger is starting a new foray into the world of NFTs and web3 services with the launch of a personal non-fungible marketplace dubbed Ledger Market. The news was announced at the Ledger Op3n conference at NFT.NYC, the Ledger’s tweeter post reads. In addition to the NFT platform, the hardware wallet Ledger is also rolling out a bunch of other products and services centered around web3 education and security. The Ledger Market NFT platform promises to focus on security and transparency. According to Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier, the NFT platform will be solving the […]