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2023-05-02 11:01:26 De-Dollarization: China, Brazil Can Be Instrumental in Building Less Centralized World With No Hegemony, Says Lula’s Adviser

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s chief adviser on foreign policy, Celso Amorim, says China and Brazil “are coming closer together” and they could play important roles in building a less centralized world with no hegemony. Commenting on de-dollarization, he stressed: “I think it’s very important that we are free from the dominance of one single currency because sometimes it is used politically.”

China and Brazil have agreed to conduct trade in their respective currencies, rather than using the U.S. dollar. Additionally, both countries are part of the BRICS group that is reportedly working to create a new form of currency that will further shift them away from USD reliance.

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2023-05-01 15:25:51 DISCIPLINA is a project from the golden age of crypto, made by a relatively anonymous team

It stores verified personal profiles based on academic and professional achievements. It is backed by Cardano founders, who invested in the project.

DISCIPLINA's blockchain is quite compact, just like Mina's. It also has a testnet and a Mac wallet.

NFT's implementation is planned to validate the authenticity of platform's content and courses.

Pros:

Great technology with its own blockchain, not another Ethereum-based token
Strong team
Backed and supported by Cardano founder
Traction in China
Launchpad IDO, sweet profit and BSC is expected - just the way we like it

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2023-05-01 09:14:20 Doodles: Going Mainstream With Web3 IP

The NFT boom of yesteryear caused an explosion of intellectual property creation, with the most resilient products enduring despite the market’s volatility. One of the most successful examples is Doodles, a project that began as a 10,000 profile picture collection of vibrant cartoon portraits.

The Web3 company is now looking at moving beyond the market hype of the past, shifting its focus to building its intellectual property, or IP, outward and connecting the tightly-knit NFT community to the mainstream.

CEO at Doodles and former president of Billboard, Julian Holguin spoke to Blockworks about what the company is building on the Empire podcast.

When the project began, Holguin says, it stood out because of the new strategies it implemented, like gating Discord channels for token holders and structuring itself as a DAO — relatively novel concepts at the time. “The Doodle Bank was established and anybody that owned a Doodle got a chance to actually vote on how the funds and the bank were used.”

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2023-04-30 18:02:03 Starbucks NFT collection celebrating original Seattle store fails to sell out

Starbucks failed to sell out its latest NFT collection, which was modeled on the first coffeehouse it opened in Seattle 52 years ago.

Out of the 5,000 NFTs in the Starbucks First Store Collection that were on offer for $100 each this week, only 4,579 sold, according to data from Starbucks' NFT marketplace partner Nifty Gateway. The performance is starkly different from the coffee giant's previous Siren collection, which paid homage to the company's logo and reportedly sold out in under 20 minutes.

It is unclear what particularly led to the disappointing results, but NFT activity has generally declined over the past few months. NFT trading volume across blockchains has dropped lately, according to The Block's Data Dashboard.

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2023-04-30 13:25:21 G Dragon’s NFT collection

NFT continues to gain applications and adoptions from many significant celebrities. One of the latest is G Dragon, whose NFT collection sold out soon after the sale began.

The pop artist Kwon Ji-yong (G-Dragon), based in South Korea, recently launched an NFT collection termed PEACEMINUSONE NFT collection Archive 2016. The love affair between G Dragon and NFT was first mentioned early this year.

On Feb. 17, the South Korean artist entered a partnership with BNB Chain and Fandom Studios in a mission to create the PEACEMINUSONE NFT collection Archive 2016. At this point, the NFT development was in the early stages.

Later, on March 21, the K-Pop singer announced that he would release a new NFT collection on March 22. The sale for the NFT collection began and ended on March 22.

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2023-04-29 09:00:45 NFT Artist Jeremy Booth Wrangles with Western-Themed ‘Outlaws’ Collection

Is the NFT art scene big enough for two Western-themed art styles? A recently-launched NFT collection titled "Outlaws" has some collectors saying its creative approach treads a bit too close to the work of artist Jeremy Booth.

A collection of 10,000 profile picture (PFP) NFTs, Outlaws’ public mint took place last Wednesday where collectors could mint the digital collectibles for 0.05 Ethereum each. They have since sold out, and on OpenSea, the cheapest Outlaws NFT currently goes for 0.067 Ethereum, according to the marketplace’s website.

Describing it as a moral grey area, one self-described NFT artist named Sadboi said the Outlaws project left them feeling “conflicted” on Friday. From their perspective, it is an “obvious reproduction of what another artist is doing.”

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2023-04-28 18:06:22 $AVG looks to be finding a solid bottom here at this level,

Strong HODLers and I assume will have a very strong CEX listing very soon.

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2023-04-28 09:10:40 Proof Launches Exclusive NFT Collection for Moonbirds Holders

Proof, the Web3 startup behind the smash hit Moonbirds NFT collection, is launching its next digital art series—favoring its existing collectors.

The new collection—"Moonbirds: Diamond Exhibition"—will feature 10,000 digital artworks created by 22 artists, including Beeple, Daniel Isles (aka Dirty Robot), Terrell Jones, Summer Wagner, and Michael Sidofsky. Those works will only be available, however, to Moonbirds holders who have achieved Diamond Nest status by staking their NFTs with the company for a certain period of time.

Moonbirds feature a nesting function that encourages holders to lock up their NFTs instead of listing or selling them. The longer a Moonbird is nested in a holder’s wallet, the more perks and rewards—such as the "Diamond Exhibition"—are made available to that holder.

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2023-04-27 12:01:51 Arbitrum proposal to return 700M ARB fails, whale calls it a “power play”

AIP-1.05 was defeated by 118 million votes after the proposal was introduced following the Arbitrum Foundation’s transfer of funds without community approval.

A controversial proposal seeking the return of 700 million ARB governance tokens to Arbitrum’s DAO treasury was rejected by a massive number of votes on April 15. The improvement proposal called AIP-1.05 was introduced after the Arbitrum Foundation transferred funds without community approval in March.

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2023-04-26 19:31:22 DIA’s Oracle suite accessible on the zkSync Era testnet

DIA’s Oracle suite presently happens to be accessible on zkSync. It comes with customizable price feeds, along with randomness, as well as NFT collections and a lot more. There will also be over three thousand tokens, as well as more than eighteen thousand NFT collections, all for the ultimate benefit of the developers connected with zkSync.

zkSync Era happens to be zkRollup. In turn, it is basically a trustless protocol that happens to utilize cryptographic validity proofs for making provisions for upgradable and cost-effective transactions on Ethereum. Computation happens to be carried out off-chain, as well as data storage. The fees happen to be less than Ethereum, and it is much quicker.

The incorporation of DIA with zkSync Era’s testnet network will provide the opportunity for developers to be able to start trying out various dApps having customizable and clear price feeds. They will also get connected with the price feeds meant for long-tail assets, as well as NFT collections.

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