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For the second consecutive year, mining giant Nornickel became the only Russian company to be included in Forbes Blockchain 50, the list of global digitization leaders. In recent years, the company has been pushing for the digitalization of assets by creating financial products both for investors in Europe and for
On Monday, Sungkyunkwan University announced that NFT certificates would be issued at its graduation ceremony on the 16th of this month. Three students who won in-school competitions will be the recipients of the NFTs. This is arguably the first time a domestic university is tapping on NFT tech to produce
How much can you spend on an NFT? Well, a bandana-wearing CryptoPunk has smashed previous sales records after being sold for 8,000ETH on Saturday. Deepak Thapliyal, the CEO of blockchain firm “Chain,” is the new owner of the CryptoPunk. He spent nearly $24 million to acquire CryptoPunk #5822, explaining
Thrilled by the success NFT creators have had with their digital arts, French truffle grower Bernard Planche has decided to use an NFT auction to sell one of the largest truffles ever unearthed. The auction will be conducted on OpenSea, and the bidding ends today. The winner can pay for
Otaku Klub NFT, the world’s first-ever Japanese anime NFT project with real utilities, including a crypto game and a mangaverse, is launching in the second quarter of 2022. The Otaku official site announced that a presale would take place 24 hours before the general sale, and members of the
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Despite all of the fintech innovations and the fact that the world as we know it is being disrupted, there are still relatively few authoritative frameworks that chart the history of cryptocurrencies and their rapid evolution from 2008 onwards. The world is still trying to get its head around Bitcoin
On Wednesday, NFT community Candy Digital in partnership with Race Team Alliance unveiled a new set of digital collectibles called “Candy Racing”. The dynamic “digi-cast” NFTs feature 23 NASCAR Cup Series drivers from 10 racing teams and will drop on Feb. 15, five days before the 2022 Daytona 500. Candy’
The United Nations specialized agency for telecommunications standardization, ITU-T, has approved an NFT technical framework led by the Chinese multinational technology and entertainment conglomerate, Tencent Holdings. Tencent will be collaborating on the initiative with a number of other companies, including Alibaba subsidiary Ant Group, the China Academy of Information and
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In 2021, many smart contract platforms competed for users' attention and attempted to be the next Ethereum killer. The terms DeFi, GameFi, and NFT, have been all over the media lately, and any of these would not be possible without smart contracts. As more smart contract platforms are introduced,
In a rather interesting and new use case of NFTs, Italian auto brand Alfa Romeo revealed on Tuesday that its new Tonale SUV would use digital collectibles to track and store maintenance records on the blockchain. Alfa Romeo lauds itself as the first carmaker to embrace NFTs in such a
To mark this year's International Women’s Day, the United Nations (UN) is planning to hold its first-ever female-focused NFT exhibition at its headquarters in New York. The women-focused Ethereum NFT collection “Boss Beauties” will debut a one-of-one collection called Boss Beauty Role Models on March 8. We
AssangeDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) set up to support the liberation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from prison, has concluded its fundraiser campaign, raising 17,422 ETH (approximately $53.7 million). AssangeDAO plans to redirect the funds to bid on a one-of-one NFT from the “Censored” collection created by
Blockchain gaming studio Gala Games announced on Monday that it would be allocating $5 billion to further its NFT ambitions in the coming year. The Las Vegas-based startup is seeking to ramp up its presence in the NFT sector by investing in music, movies, and theme park NFTs. $2 billion
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has made a legal demand for NFT auction site HitPiece to cease and desist from music NFTs. RIAA sent a letter to the attorneys representing the notorious (and now offline) NFT site HitPiece.com and its founders, demanding that they halt all infringement
On Monday, Aave founder Stani Kulechov announced the launch of Lens, a social media protocol that relies on NFTs for data management. He described it as "[a] permissionless, composable, & decentralized social graph that makes building a Web3 social platform easy […] powered by NFTs, so you own and control
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Top brands like Twitter, McDonald’s, Nike, and many others have made a foray into the NFT space as it continues to gain traction. Amid the frenzy, the number of people looking to buy digital collectibles has continued to grow. According to data from CryptoSlam, the number of unique NFT