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2022-09-05 08:15:05 DAO Powered Cardano NFT Marketplace Wafini Set To Launch After The Vasil Hard Fork

Cardano is poised to undergo one of it's most significant network upgrades which would see the POS blockchain have increased speed and throughput. Wafini a new NFT marketplace looking to compete with the Likes of already established marketplaces has kicked off it's much awaited presale whitelist for initial adopters. One of the core objectives of Wafini is to utilise multiple features that will be brought about by the Vasil Hard Fork to build a Marketplace with unique features that are yet to be seen on any Cardano marketplace. Wafini also announces the launch of the initial private seed round whitelist of $WFI Tokens, the utility-based Wafini NFT marketplace Tokens ($WFI) on the Cardano blockchain.

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2022-09-05 03:01:25 NFT Watchdog Group Sees Its NFT Collection Exploited

Rug Pull Finder, an NFT watchdog group that seeks to prevent fraud, hacks, and scams in the non-fungible token space, has seen its own NFT project exploited. But a flaw in its smart contract made it possible for two people to mint 450 NFTs instead of the permissible one NFT per wallet. Rug Pull Finder announced the development itself, saying it was informed of the exploit 30 minutes before the mint went live, but they “did not believe the credibility of the information sent to.” Meanwhile, community members made fun of the group’s inability to prevent the exploit, with crypto sec expert OKHotshot pointing out that the 400 NFT mint was technically not a hack or exploit because the contract allowed it.

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2022-09-04 22:22:02 Bambang Soesatyo Supports Open University in Entering the Metaverse World

Chairman of the MPR Bambang Soesatyo supports the breakthrough of the Open University (UT) which will soon enter the metaverse world to facilitate academic and non-academic services to students and academics. According to him, this breakthrough will strengthen UT as a cyber university and cyber academy. The transformation of the new status, which is now waiting to be signed by President Joko Widodo alias Jokowi, continued Bamsoet, hints that soon UT will have independence in managing its household affairs as well as having wider opportunities to develop potential and make innovations faster.

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2022-09-04 16:20:08 Bill Murray’s Ethereum Wallet Hacked for $174K After NFT Charity Auction

The Ethereum wallet tied to actor and comedian Bill Murray—which is being used to sell official NFTs inspired by his life—was attacked last night following the completion of a charity auction this week, Murray’s partners at The Chive and Project Venkman tell Decrypt. Ultimately, nearly 110 Wrapped Ethereum (WETH) was stolen from the wallet, worth about $174,000 at the time of the attack. The funds were stolen from the wallet following the auction of an exclusive, single-edition NFT this week on Coinbase NFT, which raised 119.2 WETH, or about $185,000 at the time of sale. All funds were intended for charitable purposes.

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2022-09-04 09:50:05 FIFA Launches NFT Collection on Algorand (ALGO)

The global governing body for football, FIFA, is launching a non-fungible token platform on Algorand. FIFA announced that it would launch FIFA+ Collect later this month on FIFA+, and fans will be able to own digital collectibles of great football moments and art. The global football body is partnering with Algorand for the NFTs. The blockchain became FIFA’s official blockchain platform in May and will support the FIFA+ Collect NFT platform.

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2022-09-04 03:40:05 NFT Steez and Lukso co-founder explore the implications of digital self-sovereignty in Web3

Sovereign identity has been a hot topic in blockchain and cryptocurrency, especially with the rise of the creator economy. Currently, there are two types of digital identities. One is federated and centralized whereby data is in the control of the service provider. During the interview, Hernandez explained the paradigm shift between centralized platforms to a more “platform-less future” and stressed that users need to be in control of their identities and creation on more “agnostic platforms,” where the can own their intellectual property via “Universal Profiles.”.

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2022-09-03 22:45:10 Creators of the Otherside Metaverse Drop New Teaser Video Featuring Creatures Called Kodas

Yuga Labs, the creators of the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC), and Bored Ape Kennel Club (BAKC) non-fungible token (NFT) collections, has released another video clip showcasing the Otherside metaverse. The second Otherside trailer features characters called “Kodas” and the development team says “the story continues later this Q4.” The second trailer is somewhat of a backstory before the BAYC dubbed “Curtis” steps through the portal, while the Doors song “Break On Through” plays. The 2-minute clip features a character called a “Koda” and one of them equipped with a sword is filling up a jar with some kind of foreign liquid.

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2022-09-03 17:10:06 FIFA Embraces NFTs Tied to Classic Games Highlights for World Cup 2022

Soccer’s governing body FIFA has chosen the occasion of the 2022 Qatar World Cup to launch an NFT-based (non-fungible token) collection of classic clips from the history of the international soccer tournament. FIFA+ Collect will launch later this month and allow soccer fans to own and trade “moments in time” featuring the greatest goals. The FIFA World Cup NFT clips will be connected to the Algorand blockchain as part of a deal cemented back in May to be a Qatar 2022 blockchain partner and wallet provider.

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2022-09-03 09:20:03 New Canvass to launch NFT collection on Polygon

New Canvass has revealed plans to initiate its forthcoming NFT and Social token drop for its Lustration Project on the Polygon blockchain. Polygon confirmed this development in a blog post today while unveiling the token as $LSTR. According to the post, the Lustration project drives a popular animation VR series in the fictional afterworld known as ‘The Between.’ The post describes the fictional story of Lustration as a modification of comical contents with a unified name. Polygon confirms that the story will be written and directed by the producer of Australian First Nations, Ryan Griffen. The project attracted good attention during its first season, which was shown on Meta Quests HMDs, after a world premiere at SXSW 2022.

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2022-09-03 02:55:03 The Continued Unraveling of Mark Zuckerberg’s Malicious Metaverse

The good news is that we’re getting a lot of free entertainment out of Mark Zuckerberg’s attempts to be “the face” of this dead-end transition, and the past few weeks have seen some real highlights, culminating with a transcendently embarrassing appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast last week. The past few weeks have been particularly brutal for Zuckerberg’s grand ambition to create a Second Life mod in which everyone is a double amputee. The current (far from first) wave of embarrassing flubs kicked off on August 17 when Zuckerberg posted a “selfie” from Meta’s Horizon World’s rollout in France.

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