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Frida Kahlo, Sotheby’s, and Ukrainian Meta History: The Shorts from the Third Decentraland’s Metaverse Art Week
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
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 […]
Meta History Raises Over $1M for Ukraine and Launches the New NFT Warline Collection
Launched back in March, one month after the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine, the Meta History’s NFT war museum managed to raise $1,290,398 (803.28 ETH) so far. All the funds raised are being transferred to the Aid For Ukraine crypto fund, which was established by the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation in partnership with national web3 companies and funds. “Ukraine’s First NFT Museum ⎯ META HISTORY ⎯ has raised over $1,000,000 for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The project team sent all proceeds to Aid For Ukraine, a crypto fund dedicated to the military. The NFT will not […]
Snapchat Will Launch NFT Filter Update Later in August
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 […]
Lamborghini-Backed Vincenzo Sospiri’s Racing Team to Authenticate Car Parts with NFTs
NFTs have long ago stopped being just JPG pictures stored forever on the blockchain. For example, the NFT certification has become a fast and meaningful way to prove the authenticity of anything, starting from ownership rights to car parts certification. Thus, Lamborghini-backed, former racing champ Vincenzo Sospiri’s Racing (VSR) team has partnered with NFT platform Go2NFT and blockchain company Skey Network to authenticate automobile parts by means of NFTs. According to Vincenzo himself, the NFT technology will largely benefit the racing team. “This also brings great responsibility – to ensure that we can securely authenticate and audit every part of […]