Legendary Hollywood veteran Anthony Hopkins is launching an NFT series featuring his iconic screen images, including his role as Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs." The Golden Globe winner has collaborated with Web3 creative studio Orange Comet to roll out his debut collection. Dubbed "The
Unlockd, a decentralized protocol offering cross-chain NFT liquidity, has raised $4.4 million in a seed funding round led by Blockchain Capital. According to a Thursday announcement, the funding round saw participation from others like Spartan Group, Play Ventures, IDEO CoLab, Bitscale, Eden Ventures, Crypto Plaza, Sfermion, and angel investors
On Thursday, move-to-earn health and fitness app Stepn announced a collaboration with crypto exchange WhaleFin and Spanish soccer club Atlético de Madrid to release an NFT running shoe collection. 0/ We are excited to announce our partnership with @atletienglish 🇪🇸 and @WhaleFinApp to launch a first-of-its-kind co-branded Genesis sneaker!https://t.
Patrick Mahomes has inked a deal with Dapper Labs, which will see the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback become the face of a new NFT platform for the 2022 season. Mahomes will be the face of Dapper’s “NFL ALL DAY,” a digital-video-highlight platform for NFTs set to go live on
In light of Magic Eden’s offer to build an NFT platform specifically for Apecoin holders, NFT marketplace Rarible has submitted a similar proposal to create a bespoke platform for the ApeCoin DAO. Rarible submitted its own proposal on Wednesday, offering to build the NFT marketplace for free. The offer
Despite the ongoing rout in the NFT and general crypto markets, a Bored Ape Yacht Club enthusiast has splashed a whopping $1.5 million on an Ape. The pseudonym collector Vis.eth describes himself as an investor on his Twitter bio, and on Tuesday night, he added Bored Ape #5383
Phantom, a leading Solana-based wallet, has introduced new security features aimed at limiting spamming activities on its platform. The new mechanism, called “Burn NFTs,” will allow users to remove spam NFTs and malicious links sent by potential hackers. The move is expected to curb NFT theft, which has become quite
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Collective NFT ownership platform Fractional recently closed a $20 million Series A round and has changed its name to Tessera. The company announced the name change, alongside the $20 million fundraising round on Wednesday. The round was led by Paradigm, with participation from Uniswap Labs Ventures, Focus Labs, Yunt Capital,
On Wednesday, the Australian Football League (AFL) released its first set of limited-edition NFTs. The launch received a warm welcome despite the ongoing crypto slumber, selling out in less than 12 hours. The AFL unveiled “Ripper Skipper 2022” through its AFL mint initiative, granting those on its “allowlist” access to
Months after purchasing the CryptoPunks and Meebits NFT collections, Yuga Labs announced on Monday that it was releasing the much-anticipated intellectual property (IP) licensing agreement. The licensing agreement gives holders of both collections full commercialization rights to create projects and products based on their NFTs, a privilege already enjoyed by
On Tuesday, Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings disclosed that its non-fungible token (NFT) platform Huanhe will no longer be releasing digital collectibles. The move to halt operations comes barely a year after its launch, with the firm citing the increasing scrutiny it had endured as the main reason for the
Amid the growing popularity of NFT gaming, Polygon’s vice president of global business development for gaming, Urvit Goel, has argued that traditional games are beginning to lose their edge to NFT-integrated games. Speaking to crypto news site Cointelegraph in Seoul last week, Goel highlighted Polygon’s foray into NFT
It’s a no-brainer, asset theft has grown to become one of the biggest problems in the NFT space, and given its position as the largest marketplace for NFT transactions, OpenSea has often come under fire for its actions and policies. In a recent Twitter thread, OpenSea clarified its stance
Days after announcing its multichain expansion into the Ethereum ecosystem, Solana’s crypto unicorn Magic Eden has begun targeting Ethereum-native NFT projects, and first on its list appears to be Yuga Labs’ Bored Ape Yacht Club and Mutant Ape Yacht Club. The leading NFT marketplace has submitted a proposal to
Pinata, an NFT-centric media management firm, has secured a total of $21.5 million in venture capital. A spokesperson for the four-year-old company confirmed that the company recently closed an $18 million Series A round co-led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Greylock Partners and crypto-native investor Pantera. This is
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Nas Academy, an education technology platform created by Israeli YouTuber Nuseir Yassin, will be launching a bundle of courses that can be unlocked by holders of specific non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The initiative, which is being launched in collaboration with the e-learning platform Invisible College, allow NFT holders of the Decentraliens