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2021-11-09 15:16:03 ​​Zhang Huan: The NFT Art Trilogy

Zhang Huan (张洹) is one of China's best-known conceptual artists, widely known for his early performance art centered around existential explorations and social commentary.

Zhang Huan partnered with Chinese curator expert EchoX and the State Hermitage Museum (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) for the upcoming virtual NFT exhibition Ethereal Aether with his The NFT Art Trilogy series (Ash Square, The Celestial Burial of an Artist, and Poppy Fields)

For The Celestial Burial of an Artist, the artist invites his audience to participate by entering a virtual game room one by one, interacting and attempting to eliminate his avatar dressed in a golden meat suit. Audience will have an opportunity to mint an NFT, which will become a part of the world’s first NFT perfomance.

The Poppy Fields artwork taps into the nature of crypto, with Zhang offering a share of the copyright of the NFT to buyers in the form of mystery boxes. The piece builds on the artist’s signature series recently featured in Dior Lady Art collaboration.

Exhibition details:
Date: 10th November -10th December
Place: Official website

The Celestial Burial of an Artist:
Whitelist till 15th November via link - sign up to EchoX, connect Metamask or Tezos (for free).
Quantity: 2,500 NFTs
Price of mint: 0.025 ETH
Priority Pass will be granted to the top 500 participants who filled the form - you will need to follow Twitter and Instagram accounts, join Discord servers and submit screenshot proves. Open / Comment

2021-11-08 17:29:32 ​​Whale Tracking by NFTGO

One of the leading NFT aggregator platforms NFTGO has launched Whale Tracking feature.

Whales are Ethereum accounts (wallets) with more than $1M worth of NFTs. As of today, 600 whales hold $2.08B worth of NFTs. This gives them a market share of 34.10%.

NFTGO has enabled users to grasp every piece of information regarding whales. Currently available:
◆ whales list,
◆ ranking (cheapest NFTs they bought, most involved projects),
◆ current activity (what any of them are minting, buying, and selling at the moment)
◆ follow option: the info on a particular whale.

All the tricks behind this feature are described in NFTGO Medium post.
Official website. To use whale tracking you will need to login/sign up to NFTGO website (metamask required, no fees applied).
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2021-11-07 20:49:00 ​​Disney Golden Moments

Walt Disney Animation Studios has partnered with Veve to drop the first-ever official NFTs. Everyday for a week Veve will release two golden statues of characters and icons featured on Disney+.

”The Disney Golden Moments" collection is only offered for purchase in a blind box. A 6% licensor fee will be applied to Disney sales in the secondary market in addition to the existing VeVe 2.5% secondary market fee.

Every customer in select markets who first purchases an NFT from this Golden Moments collection will also receive a three-month subscription to Disney+ (only for USA, Canada, the UK, Germany, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, and Singapore)

Drop details:
Next Date: 8th November, 12 PM PST | 3 PM EST
Place: Veve app (collectibles)
Price: $60 per blind box
Lots:
Elsa from Frozen - 12,333 pieces, common
Mickey Sorcerer's Hat from the Sorcerer’s Apprentice in the “Fantasia” (1940) - 6,333 pieces, rare Open / Comment

2021-11-07 17:09:48 ​​News Update in Short

Faraway raises $21M to make social games with player-driven economies | Venture beat

$1.4 million loan with an NFT as collateral | The Block

Enjin announced $100M Efinity Metaverse Fund to boost NFT marketplace | Enjin

Gaming startup Mythical Games raises $150 million in Series C round led by a16z | Decrypt

Ubisoft plans to develop blockchain-based play-to-earn NFT games | The Gamer

EA calls NFT and blockchain games 'the future of our industry' | PC gamer

Solana Powers Up Web3 Gaming Projects with $100M Funding Deal | The defiant Open / Comment

2021-11-06 23:20:00 ​​Weekend Reading

to listen:
◆ The Scoop Podcast, Ep. 70 DJ Alesso and Lin Dai, CEO of OneOf, explain why artists are getting into NFTs | The Block

to read:
◆ 10 NFT Business Ideas You Can Start Today | Forbes

◆ The Ultimate Guide to NFT Marketing and Promotion | Hackernoon

◆ Research Report on Genopets we told you about in this post | Impossible Finance

◆ Beneath The NFT Hype: Signals Of Real Change | Forbes

◆ Welcome to the Crypto Metaverse, Where It’s All Too Easy to Lose | Bloomberg Opinion

◆ Which blockchain is the most decentralized? Experts answer | Cointelegraph

◆ Carsten Höller Interview | Artnews
FYI In collaboration with Acute Art, Carsten Höller launches his hallucinatory AR experience 7.8 (Reduced Reality App) as part of Dreamverse. The work makes your phone flicker, vibrate and sound at 7.8 Hz, a frequency that stimulates brain waves and, after a while, may induce hallucinations.

◆ NFT.NYC: The Metaverse Takes Manhattan | The New York Times

◆ Art X Lagos puts NFTs by African artists in the limelight | The Art Newspaper

Image by Michelle Pereira for ABC Arts Open / Comment

2021-11-06 20:21:30 ​​The Final Wave of the McLaren F1 Racing Collective NFT Series

On sale now! Only a limited number of the final five pieces in this set are available.

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Prices: from $9.99 to $39.99 Open / Comment

2021-11-06 20:05:01 ​​Square Enix Gets into NFTs And Blockchain Games

Videogame publisher Square Enix (Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider, Dragon Quest) described in its Q2 financial report plans to expand in the NFT space by offering collectibles and blockchain-driven video games.

Following the successful sale of Shi-San-Sei Million Arthur NFT back in October, the company is seriously considering a "robust entry into blockchain games."

The market is shifting from centralized to decentralized game formats, and the rise of blockchain games and in-game NFTs is inevitable.

Source: Daniel Ahmad - check out the presentation screens for details Open / Comment

2021-11-06 17:58:53 ​​Mixi NFTs on Flow

Media powerhouse mixi, Inc. known for mobile game Monster Strike & sports betting service TIPSTAR partnered with Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot, CriptoKitties) to launch NFT experiences for consumers on Flow, a next-generation blockchain designed for consumer-friendly applications.

mixi will develop innovative new products that will live on Flow while leveraging the Dapper Labs team's operational know-how and development support. According to the announcement the debut NFT experiences targeted Japanese consumers, though the NFTs might attract international attention.

Knowing Japanese devotion to collectibles we might expect a huge success especially with DapperLabs involved

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2021-11-05 18:35:03 ​​Matrix NFTs

NFT platform Nifty & Warner Bros partnered to launch Matrix Avatars NFT project to promote the fourth film, “The Matrix: Resurrections”.

The avatars will represent characters living in the Matrix. They will be randomly generated and will resemble ordinary people in The Matrix. On December 16th, avatar owners will choose Blue or Red Pill. The Blue Pill will keep the avatars locked in their current state and digital environment (i.e. in the Matrix), while the Red Pill will transform them into Matrix resistance fighters. In the coming months, there will be other challenges and options, letting users upgrade their avatars, or earn new NFTs.

Other leading production companies in the NFT space:
Fox invested $100 million to launch an NFT division, launched an animated series Krapopolis curated entirely on blockchain, and partnered with WWE for NFTs.
Disney will launch digital collectibles with VeVe.

Drop details:
Date: starting November 30
Place: Nifty - in some cases VPN is needed to enter the platform
Quantity: 100,000 avatars
Price: $50 each
Discord
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2021-11-04 19:00:14 ​​BTS NFTs

Hybe, the South Korean agency behind K-pop megastars BTS, announced today partnership with Korean crypto exchange Upbit to enter NFTs with a new joint venture company.

The plan is to create and sell BTS NFTs on Hybe’s global fan-to-artist communication app, Weverse. Currently, there are plans for animated images and voices of artist. In addition to the NFT JV, there will be a BTS video game, and a ‘webtoon’ business.

More from Korea: JYP Entertainment partnered with Dunamu to set up a K-pop-based NFT platform in July, while SM announced its launch to build a cryptocurrency and blockchain platform in 2019. Open / Comment