NFT

2022-02-28 10:00:41 The Doggies (Snoop Dogg)
10,000 metaverse-ready Avatars, playable in The Sandbox. Each Doggy has been generated from over 150+ traits, curated by Snoop Dogg himself. Owning a Doggy provides access to a playable The Sandbox avatar, as well as access to future features inside the metaverse. Open / Comment

2022-02-28 06:00:53 eBay is exploring the possibility of adding cryptocurrencies as a means of payment. Open / Comment

2022-02-27 14:01:27 Unknown person paid $500k ETH fee to issue 1k NFT

The crypto investor paid 204 ETH ($490 thousand, taking into account the current exchange rate at 17:45 Moscow time) commission for the release of 1 thousand non-fungible tokens from the Tubby Cats collection, according to RBC citing Etherscan. The creation of the NFT tokens themselves cost the collector 100 ETH ($240,000). In total, the crypto investor spent $730,000 to receive tokens. Open / Comment

2022-02-27 10:02:05 Higher Than The Sun

"Higher Than The Sun" is a drop by artist and photographer Flower Blocks as part of the Blossom Maneuver collection. Flower Blocks is a well-known artist using flowers and floral arrangements in his work, he has collaborated with Vogue Italy magazine, De beers corporation, as well as the Barbour brand.

Auction starting bid - 0.50 ETH Open / Comment

2022-02-27 10:01:54 Rakuten launched NFT marketplace

Rakuten announced the launch of the Rakuten NFT NFT marketplace. The Japanese e-commerce giant attributed the move to the growing adoption of cryptocurrencies in the country.

The platform will provide users with the opportunity (from 2023, including peer-to-peer) to buy and sell tokens in various areas - from sports and entertainment to music and anime.

Intellectual property owners will be able to create their own pages for issuing and selling NFTs. It is planned to introduce various payment methods.

The platform announced collaborations with manga artist Hiroshi Kurogane (comics), Asahi Corporation (TV shows), and Under Beasty (j-pop music) to release NFT collections. Open / Comment

2022-02-26 14:01:21 Invisible Friends
Invisible Friends is a collection of 5,000 animated invisible characters by Markus Magnusson. Invisible Friends is a Random Character Collective project. Open / Comment

2022-02-26 10:00:32 Alibaba started giving away NFTs as rewards in the first blockchain game

Alibaba has started giving away NFTs as rewards in its first blockchain game, Ant Adventure. It is reported by Yahoo Finance.

Users are encouraged to complete a series of quizzes that help raise awareness of fraud. Points for successful completion can be exchanged for NFTs. Players can see the tokens on the Jingtan site, which is owned by Ant Group. At the same time, tokens can be sold only after 180 days from the moment they were received. Open / Comment

2022-02-26 06:00:09 Artist blows up Lamborghini Huracan for NFT tokens $250,000 supercar turned into 999 wrecks

While the cryptocurrencies boom continues in the world, and many artists transfer their works to virtual media, some “digital” artists are taking extraordinary measures to draw attention to the new trend. One of them was a web user under the nickname Shl0ms, who decided to oppose the policy of getting rich quick with the help of cryptocurrencies. He staged an action during which he destroyed a Lamborghini Huracan with explosives. Open / Comment

2022-02-25 14:01:59 Leading NFT trading platform OpenSea has confirmed that hackers broke the code over the weekend and stole about $1.7 million worth of tokens, Business Insider writes.

The platform believes that the hackers used the smart contract code used in the NFT for a phishing attack.

Cryptocurrency-related hacks are on the rise, and Saturday's attack on OpenSea is no exception: hackers, through a ploy called "phishing," forged an official message to look like a real one, tricking NFT platform users into signing a smart card. contracts to allow transactions with tokens. They then completed the contracting process to transfer NFTs (non-fungible tokens) to their own address. Open / Comment

2022-02-25 10:02:09 The owner of the NFT from the CryptoPunks collection disrupted the auction at Sotheby's

An anonymous seller of a set of 104 NFTs from the CryptoPunks collection pulled the lot from the Sotheby's auction at the last moment.

The auction was scheduled for February 23rd. The auction house expected the sale price to be $20-$30 million.

On February 8, announcing the auction, the owner of the collection assets under the pseudonym 0x650d wrote:

“Today I am delighted to announce my partnership with Sotheby’s to deliver the most significant NFT sale of all time.”

However, before the start of the auction, the collector withdrew the lot from sale and stated:

"Never mind, I decided to hold on."

He then posted a series of memes, initially hinting at a reluctance to sell assets amid falling prices. Then 0x650d made it clear that by “throwing” Sotheby’s with an auction, he was bringing CryptoPunks to the mainstream. Open / Comment