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2021-10-18 23:12:15 ​​Jimmy Choo | Eric Hase | Poggy NFT

Luxury fashion accessories brand Jimmy Choo announced its first NFT initiatives in partnership with New York artist and designer, Eric Haze, the Japanese icon and guest style curator, Poggy. It will include an auction and a drop of mystery boxes.

The auction’s highest bidder will receive an animated artwork NFT featuring a digital version of the sneaker and also a limited-edition hand-painted pair of Jimmy Choo sneakers.

Mystery boxes "Chasing Stars" are presented in 4 different Love Pumps issued in four tiers of rarity (ssr, sr, r n). Users who would be lucky to collect either the SSR or the SR will have a chance to receive a super rare, never-before-seen NFT design by Jimmy Choo, launching at a later date (~in December).

Auction Details:
Date: 20 October 2021
Place: Binance NFT Marketplace
Lot: 1/1 animated NFT
Proceeds: The Jimmy Choo Foundation in support of Women for Women International

Drop Details:
Date: 20 October 2021
Place: Binance NFT Marketplace
Quantity: 8,888
Price: 30 BUSD (~30 USD) Open / Comment

2021-10-18 18:14:16 ​​Genopets NFT Game

Genopets is a Move-to-Play NFT game on Solana rewarding for an active lifestyle. Genopets uses data of your phone or fitness wearables to converts your real-life movement into XP to progress in-game.

Within the game, a user will be able to mint a free Genopent NFT with the ability to custom unique ones at a cost (aka Genesis Genopet). The Genopet is encoded with the user's psychographic and biometric data from the start making it a unique NFT. These personal traits are then run through a secure algorithm to determine Genopet’s starting aesthetic and performance attributes. Additionally, in-game choices and real-world actions will bring in-game tokens as the user plays, thus growing the pet.

Top investors include Konvoy Ventures, Pantera Capital, Alameda Research, Old Fashion Research, Solana Capital, Xoogler Ventures, Mechanism Capital, and Animoca Brands has supported the idea behind the game with $8.3. M in a seed funding round.

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2021-10-17 21:42:27 Sunday read: Does the NFT craze actually matter? by Lucas Matney. In the article you will find the opinion on what NFT means for the future of the web Open / Comment

2021-10-16 19:58:05 ​​Upcoming Binance Mystery Boxes

Roman Holiday Mystery Box: each box contains a digitilized 1 sq.cm of the actual oil painting by living artist Frank Holliday, who is a protege of Andy Warhol.
Date: 17th October, 11 AM UTC
Quantity: 33,489
Price: 14.99BUSD (~14.99USD)
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Dream Card Mystery Box: each box contains a card for the multiplayer trading card game inspired by the Pokemon Card Game, where players can build, collect, and create their cards in X World Games.
Date: 18th October, 11 AM UTC
Quantity: 47,500
Price: 10 BUSD (~10USD)
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The AP Unique Moments Collection: each box has unique historic access to some of the most important news coverage made by the Associated Press over the past 100 years. The news reporting at the core of this collection consists of high-resolution images distributed around the world by AP at the time of the events including The Assassination of a President, Nelson Mandela Inauguration, or The Discovery of Pluto
Date: 19th October, 11 AM UTC
Quantity: 24,000
Price: 29BUSD (~29USD)
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2021-10-15 00:30:00 ​​Sotheby’s Metaverse

Today Sotheby's announced it's own Metaverse, a dedicated platform for collectors of digital art, offering a highly curated selection of NFTs handpicked by their specialists.

Sotheby’s Metaverse is a home for the new art movement built on the foundations of crypto and NFTs.

The first auction in the Metaverse will be Natively Digital 1.2., a sale of 53 lots of culturally significant art from the vaults of 19 collectors.

These collectors are people with deep histories and relationships in the digital art and media space, many of whom have been collecting long before NFTs became a common term and have helped build the ecosystem from the ground up.

Auction Details:
Date: 18-26th October 2021
Place: Sotheby’s Metaverse Open / Comment

2021-10-14 22:01:16 ​​nft affirmations

NFT collectors karsendaily.eth, parrott.eth and Knight has created a new collection of 10,000 DEGENerative Affirmations, which capture the culture, community & early adopters of NFTs.

The 10,000 DEGENerative NFTs are the provenance of crypto culture. It will have its own rarity features and have a very NFT vibe. The project is already supported by many influencers and top NFT creators, including
FEWOCiOUS and Coopahtroopa so you might as well check it out.

The drop is in 12 minutes! #cryptoren_hiddengem

Drop details:
Date: 14 october, 12/12 PTS
Place: official website
Price: 0,0777 ETH Open / Comment

2021-10-13 21:02:07 ​​ViacomCBS is getting into NFTs

ViacomCBS announced a partnership with Recur, a company behind NFTU platform (still in progress).

ViacomCBS might create NFT collectibles from its main products: CBS, MTV, Showtime, Paramount Pictures, BET, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central. Moreover, we can expect a whole marketplace for the project. ViacomCBS expects the platform will encourage “peer-to-peer engagement and facilitate innovative ways for users to unlock new experiences,” which might mean there’s a social element to the new experience.

The new platform will launch in the spring of 2022 Open / Comment

2021-10-13 00:02:07 For those into fashion, there is an interesting article at Glossy: How fashion brands are navigating NFTs and what’s next for the metaverse Open / Comment

2021-10-12 19:41:24 ​​Treeverse Metaverse Game Raises $25m Valuation

Treeverse is an upcoming metaverse MMORPG game, that allows users to deploy NFTs in an open and interactive world.

The platform, founded by NFT investor Loopify and co-founder Aizea, recently got a $25m valuation. Among investors, there are IdeoCo Labs, Animoca Brands, SkyVision Capital, and Stani Kulechov.

The good part is you don't need to buy anything to play a game, simply go to Treeverse. Currently, it's a social MMO and will be developed into a blockchain MMORPG with gameplay in 2022.

However tose who owns NFTs from the game do get their own perks, for example, Founders of Privaet Plots of land (holders of first NFTs) spent $520 per mint. These plots have now done over $20m in secondary volume and are trading at $7,000 per plot.

Blockchain game is one of the most fast emerging segments in the gaming industry as NFTs provide users with verifiable ownership of the non-fungible in-game assets.

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2021-10-11 22:07:04 ​​Sail-o-bots NFT

Sail-o-bots (aka Sea Hams) is a 98th Art Blocks project of 750 square floating faces. It is based on the original generative project Strange Robots by Che-Yu Wu, who didn't yet get much attention but already caught the eye of the community whales.

The hams’ unique and nuanced provenance has made them the meme token of Art Blocks. Combining a funny meme with a redemption arc, and a little help from some big names along the way, solidified hams’ prominence in the Art Blocks annals (c)

Read the whole story and reasoning behind the project, and check it out for yourself on ArtBlocks website Open / Comment