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2021-06-11 20:22:24 ​​GRAYCRAFT1 NFT by GRAY

GRAY , a Singapore-based luxury brand known for its futuristic and architectural designs, today announces the launch of the GRAYCRAFT1 NFT.

Each NFT will be sold as a unique intersection of visual audio animation with a 3D model. Select GRAYCRAFT1’s will also have a made-to-order sculpture available for purchase separately. The launch event will be hosted in the RAPTURE gallery in Decentraland

There are 6 different models, GRAYCRAFT1-2, and 1-3 will be a unique 1/1 NFT while GRAYCRAFT1-1, 1-4, 1-5, and 1-6 will be limited to 10, 25, 25, 15 editions each respectively. The physical GRAYCRAFT sculptures machined from aerospace aluminum will be sold on GRAY’s website separately from the NFT and are limited to 25 editions.

NFT Auction Details
Date: June 11, 10 AM EST – June 14, 10 AM EST
Reserve price: 0.1ETH
Auction Site: Opensea
To view the GRAYCRAFT1 NFTs, visit this link. Open / Comment

2021-06-11 15:55:32 ​​If you still wondering how someone can spend almost $12M on single Crypto Punk, here is the 6 Reasons Top Investment Portfolios hold Cryptopunk NFTs by SillyTuna, the hero of the recent news

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2021-06-11 14:28:39 ​​First Pack-Based NFT Product by Panini

Panini America was the first company to introduce NFT NBA cards in January of 2020. Later this month, Panini America will release its first pack-based NFT release: 2020-21 Prizm Basketball NFT Blockchain.

All cards in the set will be housed in the Panini NFT Blockchain platform.

The first drop is planned on June 16, with three-card Red Mosaic Prizm Preview packs that retail for $10 each. The second drops is on June 23, a limited quantity of three-card Green Ice Prizm Preview packs will be available for $20 apiece.
Both the Red Mosaic and Green Ice packs will open for “pre-sale” on Wednesday of their respective release week.

The current schedule of all drops you can find here Open / Comment

2021-06-11 09:00:28 ​​Ikonick Signs NFT Licensing Deal With Bravado

Leading digital art brand Ikonick is teaming up with Bravado (Universal Music) to produce, market, and distribute canvas art and NFTs with their artists.

Together, Bravado and Ikonick will work to expand both the commercial and creative opportunities in the online art market. Though the specific artists and brands involved in the deal have not been named at this time, Ikonick and Bravado’s NFT drops will begin drops this year.

Bravado’s roster includes some of today’s leading names in music, including Ariana Grande, Adele, Billie Eilish, Blackpink, Elton John, Doja Cat, Eminem, Kanye West, Justin Bieber, Kid Cudi, Lil Wayne, Lorde, Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Playboi Carti, Pusha T, the Rolling Stones, Selena Gomez, Shawn Mendes, the Strokes, Travis Scott, the 1975, the Weeknd and many more. Open / Comment

2021-06-10 20:54:53 ​​The new world auction record for a single CryptoPunk was just set by Sotheby's

“CryptoPunk #7523”, one of the sought-after Alien with blue-green skin and a medical mask, was sold for $11.8 million by Sillytuna as a part of Native Digitally NFT auction.

He was also the one to buy the oldest NFT Quantum by Kevin McCoy

A true collector indeed. Despite all the speculations on the downfall of the NFT market, it is getting hot in here. Can’t wait for what the future brings us! Open / Comment

2021-06-10 19:40:00 ​​'Perfect 10' anniversary celebrated with NFT

Romanian former gymnastics star Nadia Comaneci was gifted an NFT by a group of Romanian creatives to mark the 45th anniversary since she became the first gymnast to score a Perfect 10 at the Olympic Games.

The NFT is a digital necklace made of 10 pieces that are 3D renderings of a vault, uneven bars, beam, and floor moves she performed in Montreal in 1976.

Six other NFTs inspired by the “Perfect Ten” were created and will be auctioned off on Open Sea on July 18 — the exact day when Comaneci made history.

Altogether, the six pieces to be auctioned and the one given to Comaneci, symbolizes the string of seven perfect 10 scores, the gymnast obtained at the Olympics. Open / Comment

2021-06-10 19:39:33 ​​NFT Startup Mythical Games Raises $75M

Mythical Games, a crypto gaming startup focused on "playable NFTs", has raised a $75 million Series B financing round to continue developing its NFT-driven games and platform.

The company has developed the Blankos Block Party, a blockchain-based, collectibles-centric PC game in which players can create, play, and interact in a shared environment.

Beyond its own game, Mythical Games is also building a platform for other game developers to add crypto and NFT elements to their titles, enabling player-owned economies in which users own and can resell exclusive digital items.

Growth equity firm WestCap led the B round, which included participation by VaynerFund, 01 Advisors, Galaxy Digital, Alumni Ventures, Javelin Venture Partners, and Stuck Capital. This new funding round brings Mythical’s total investment to $120 million to date.

Mythical Games will make more announcements next week during a talk at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Viewers can tune in on Monday, June 14 at 11:10 a.m. Pacific time. The company plans to release one of the first NFT Twitch Drops via the popular streaming service in which viewers can earn free in-game NFTs just for watching the event. Open / Comment

2021-06-10 17:06:00 ​​Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale

Today, June 10, is the last day of bidding for Natively Digital, a collection of remarkable, unique artworks co-curated by Sotheby's and Robert Alice (check out his iNFT).
The auction presents 28 Lots of raw NFTs built on pre-Ethereum chains alongside newer, complex NFTs.

Among them are:
Quantum by Kevin McCoy, a very early example of utilizing a blockchain token to identify the provenance of a piece of art. Originally minted on May 3, 2014, on Namecoin blockchain, and preserved on a token minted on May 28, 2021, by the artist
INFINITΞ FUTURΞ by Don Diablo, a mixture between a digital art piece, a physical piece, and a glimpse of the future. The digital part of the NFT is a mesmerizing visualization of an infinite loop showing an energy form trapped in a constantly evolving maze, symbolizing the inevitable circle of life.
Fade by Pak, a digital timepiece that will disappear over a year, making one full rotation every 60 seconds. The basis of the work revolves around themes of identity and permanence

Check out all the works at Sotheby's

Natively Digital is showing the genius of crypto-art, representing only a portion of the diversity within the rising crypto-art community. While many in the art world have been cautious of at NFTs, the big auction houses as Sotheby's and Christie's approached the new art world with an open mind, ready for the new art revolution to emerge. Open / Comment

2021-06-09 15:52:23 ​​The NFT trend has also caught the attention of celebrities, who use their profiles to mint their own NFTs and sell them to the highest bidder. Recently Lindsay Lohan sold her latest single, "Lullaby", for $85,000
Here, she tells us how to get filthy rich on NFTs. Open / Comment

2021-06-09 14:09:54 ​​UC Berkley is joining NFT

The Fourth Pillar NFT is a digital collage of 10 pages of details based on the Nobel Prize-winning research behind cancer immunotherapy by Jim Allison was auctioned on June 8 for 22 ETH ($54,360), 85% of which will go to UC Berkeley to fund research and education with a focus on seed funding for early-stage research that could have a broad impact on society.

The winning bidder was a group of 31 UC Berkeley alumni who pooled their funds in a decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, to bid on the NFT.

The NFT was minted by UC Berkeley on May 27 to honor the breakthrough research of James Allison at UC Berkeley in the 1990s as well as to raise money for current research that could have a similar impact. This is the first university-issued NFT based on an invention.

UC Berkeley plans to also auction an NFT honoring another Nobel Prize-winning UC Berkeley invention, CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. Open / Comment