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On Thursday, OpenSea suffered a data breach after an employee at the platform's email delivery partner leaked user data. The marketplace revealed in a blog post that an employee of Customer.io "misused their employee access to download and share email addresses provided by OpenSea users and
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A week after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg made the plan known to the public, Meta has rolled out a test on its Facebook platform to support non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Similar to its Instagram rollout a month ago, the latest feature will only be available to a select group of US-based
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Several Chinese tech giants, including Ant Group, Tencent, Baidu, and JD.com have signed a pact to "self-regulate" their activities in the NFT space. According to a statement released by the China Cultural Industry Association on Thursday, the firms signed a self-regulation pact containing a total of 14
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NFTs scammers will have to watch their backs because authorities are out to get them. In its latest attempt at bringing the much-needed sanctity to the NFT space, the US Department of Justice has filed charges against Vietnamese developer Le Anh Tuan for conspiracy to exploit investors in a suspected
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In a rather interesting turn of events, a Chinese NFT marketplace has announced that it will be buying back all the NFTs sold on its platform due to a lack of regulatory clarity. The Chinese government has remained silent on its stance on non-fungible tokens (NFTs) despite its outright ban
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Cryptoys, an NFT-centric gaming platform, alongside its parent company OnChain Studios, has raised $23 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other participants in the round included Acrew Capital, Animoca Brands, CoinFund, Dapper Labs, Draper & Associates, Mattel, and Sound Ventures. OnChain CEO Will Weinraub said
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The National Hockey League (NHL), alongside its Alumni Association and Players’ Association, announced Thursday that it had signed a multiyear partnership agreement with NFT platform Sweet to launch a digital collectibles marketplace. David Lehanski, the league’s executive vice president of business development and innovation, revealed in an interview that
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Earlier this week, e-commerce company Shopify announced that it would be launching NFT-gated storefronts as a new feature for brands looking to make their stores more exclusive. The online shopping giant, which allows small businesses to create custom e-commerce shops, sees NFTs as the future of e-commerce and is tapping
Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is getting into the world of NFTs following an exclusive deal with Binance. The leading crypto exchange announced the NFT partnership with the football star in a press statement released on June 23, noting that the multi-year partnership seeks to connect the footballer with his fans
The organizers of the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) have found themselves embroiled in a dispute with a group of anonymous crypto investors. According to a post published on Wednesday, the group claims that 200 tickets they paid for directly on the Polygon blockchain were all invalidated and they only received
In a statement released Wednesday, eCommerce giant eBay announced its acquisition of ‘KnownOrigin’, a popular NFT marketplace. According to the release, the deal was closed on Tuesday and is part of eBay’s “tech-led re-imagination.” David Moore, the co-founder of KnownOrigin, said the partnership would open the doors of the
During an event hosted alongside the NFT NYC conference last night, Ethereum NFT project Doodles made a couple of big announcements. The NFT collection revealed that it had secured its first round of funding led by venture capital firm Seven Seven Six. Furthermore, musician and producer Pharrell Williams will join
In a bid to achieve its dream of powering universal ownership and exchange on its platform, decentralized exchange Uniswap has purchased NFT marketplace aggregator Genie for an undisclosed sum. “We’re excited to bring what we’ve learned building DeFi products to NFTs,” Uniswap said in an announcement. The initial
On Tuesday, leading Solana NFT marketplace Magic Eden announced that it had raised $130 million in Series B funding to push its plans of expanding beyond the Solana ecosystem. The funding round, which brought the valuation of the company to $1.6 billion, was co-led by Electric Capital and Greylock,
In a recent policy update, China’s top social media platform WeChat has moved to ban all accounts that provide access to crypto or NFT-related services. According to the new guidelines, all public accounts on its platform involved with the issuance, trading, and financing of crypto and NFTs will henceforth
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TreeTrunk, a ConsenSys Mesh Company, is making its ground-breaking debut this week. Tapping on a robust new NFT draft standard, the decentralized NFT platform will now give creators the power to turn their original artwork into ‘trees’ of authorized digital prints. Notably, artists will be able to create and sell