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2023-02-15 09:14:02 Ordinals Gain Momentum With 76,000 NFTs Minted to Bitcoin

Despite pushback from Bitcoin purists, Ordinals—the NFT-like project on the Bitcoin blockchain—shows no signs of slowing, as over 76,400 inscriptions have been created to date. The number of Ordinals spiked on February 9, 2023, exceeding 20,800 inscriptions for the day, according to data from Dune. Launched last month, Ordinals is the latest project aiming to bring NFTs into the Bitcoin ecosystem. Counterparty, launched in 2014, was the first project that introduced non-fungible tokens to Bitcoin with the Rare Pepes collection, followed by the 2017 launch of Stacks. Developers have inscribed JPEGs, audio files, videos, and even video games to test the limits of what can go on the Bitcoin blockchain. While the total number of Bitcoin NFTs is unknown, the Ordinals website and Gamma, a Bitcoin NFT marketplace on Stacks.

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2023-02-15 03:14:02 LACMA Art Museum Acquires NFT Collection With CryptoPunk, Art Blocks

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the latest major art museum to add NFT artwork to its collection, announcing today that it has acquired a series of notable and valuable NFT pieces through donations from notable collectors. LACMA accepted a donation of 22 tokenized digital artwork pieces from the pseudonymous Cozomo de’ Medici, a well-known Crypto Twitter personality. The collection includes CryptoPunks NFT #3831, which was last sold for $2.1 million worth of ETH in 2021. It also features NFTs from Art Blocks, a popular platform that features artwork generated by algorithms deployed on a blockchain network. Art Blocks works from Dmitri Cherniak’s "Ringers" and Monica Rizzolli’s.

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2023-02-14 21:14:01 RIOT Energy Joins the Metaverse with Virtual Storefront & Vending Machines in Sky City

Realistic metaverse game company AlterVerse is proud to announce a new partnership with 100% plant-powered, organic energy drink manufacturer RIOT Energy! Construction of a new storefront for RIOT Energy is underway in Sky City. The store is also equipped with newly designed energy drink vending machines. RIOT Energy aims to overthrow the ‘big energy’ sector in order to provide gamers the cleanest energy in the market — with all the sustained energy and focus needed from real, simple, and effective ingredients. They then realized the energy drink industry has continually underserved their customers with sugary, potentially harmful chemical combos; while remaining generally unresponsive to the customer demand for better. In 2016, the Founders of RIOT Energy began searching for a better ingredient energy drink made from ingredients.

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2023-02-14 15:14:00 Microsoft Reportedly Shutting Down Industrial Metaverse Focused Group

Software giant Microsoft is shutting down one of its most significant groups dedicated to the development and promotion of the industrial metaverse. According to reports, the company terminated its whole Industrial Metaverse Core group, which was composed of 100 employees. Microsoft, the Washington-based software giant, seems to be abandoning the metaverse in favor of other initiatives. According to reports from The Information, the company announced internally the disbandment of the Industrial Metaverse Core group, a division of the company directed to bring the metaverse to industrial environments. The group, which was formed just 4 months ago, served as a bridge for the implementation of metaverse interfaces to control electrical power plants, industrial robotics, and transportation networks.

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2023-02-14 09:14:01 Most Indians keen to explore virtual dating in Metaverse

Apart from exploring shopping, socialising and attending virtual concerts, Indians are keen to explore virtual dating in the Metaverse, a new research said on Monday. According to financial services technology firm FIS research, about 60 per cent of men and 48 per cent of women are interested. In India, where arranged marriages are common and traditional gender roles often limit dating opportunities, the Metaverse offers a new way for people to meet and potentially find a romantic partner, said the research. In Metaverse, users can create avatars in a virtual world to represent themselves and interact with others in a variety of environments, such as virtual bars, clubs, and other social spaces. People who are shy or have difficulty meeting new people in person may find these virtual dating platforms.

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2023-02-06 03:25:00 OpeaSea Releases Numerous New Creation Tools

Designers now have new options to mint assets on the site thanks to the new Drop features that the NFT marketplace OpeaSea has introduced. The implementation is anticipated to enable all platform users to set up smart contracts on all EVM chains. OpenSea revealed the upcoming Drops phase on February 2. Over the coming weeks, the implementation is anticipated to enable all platform users to set up smart contracts on all EVM chains, modify drop methods, and design unique landing sites. Those who are interested in getting an early peek at the toolkit can request it online, according to a statement from OpenSea, which stated that access will initially be given to a small group of developers in the upcoming weeks. allowlist support, and multi-stage minting phases.

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2023-02-05 21:14:01 Samsung Is Collaborating With Google And Qualcomm On Metaverse Hardware Solutions

Samsung, a South Korean electronics manufacturer, has announced that it is developing its own metaverse and extended reality gadget, hinting at the possibility of a VR headgear in the near future. a shift away from regular smartphones and toward something greater. The smartphone will be produced in partnership with Google and Qualcomm, according to TM Roh, president of Samsung‘s mobile experience unit. The firm may be able to merge the metaverse with smartphones in the future. Samsung has already invested in various metaverse firms. According to Ro, the firm’s new gadget will be powered by a Qualcomm processor specifically engineered to perform better in virtual reality applications and will run a Google-powered operating system.

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2023-02-05 15:14:01 Nouns Comic Books Turn Ethereum NFTs Into ‘Unconstrained Anarchy’

Nouns, the Ethereum NFT-based project building open-source IP, has already put its vibrant characters into a Super Bowl commercial, the annual Rose Parade, and elsewhere around the physical and digital worlds. Now they’re headed to bookstores and comic shops. Titan Comics, which specializes in licensed comic books tied to IP like “The Simpsons” and “Blade Runner,” is bringing Nouns to physical comic books starting in April with a six-issue run of “Nouns: Nountown.” It’s written by Titan Senior Editor David Leach and illustrated by Danny Schlitz, with an eventual graphic novel to be published by Penguin Random House. DAO—or decentralized autonomous organization, a type of tokenized online group—made up of Nouns NFT holders.

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2023-02-05 09:14:01 Logan Paul Faces ‘Rug Pull’ Class-Action Lawsuit Over CryptoZoo NFTs

Famed internet personality Logan Paul and NFT project CryptoZoo have been accused of engaging in a “rug pull” in a new class-action lawsuit. Announced in September 2021, CryptoZoo was marketed as an NFT-based game and billed as “an autonomous ecosystem”. A filing made in the District Court of the Western District of Texas alleged that the defendants “executed a ‘rug pull’,” promoting CryptoZoo’s products using Paul’s online following “to consumers unfamiliar with digital currency products, leading to tens of thousands of people” purchasing these. NFT line, promising certain benefits to consumers, but then the developers abandon the project and fail to deliver the promised benefits, while fraudulently retaining the buyers’ funds.

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2023-02-05 03:14:01 FTX-backed NFT company airing $6.5 million Super Bowl commercial

“Seinfeld” co-creator Larry David is unlikely to make an appearance at this year's Super Bowl after shilling for FTX during last year’s game, but that doesn’t mean there won't be anyone with ties to the collapsed crypto exchange there promoting digital assets. The NFT and gaming company Limit Break, backed by FTX in a funding round last year, spent $6.5 million for a 30-second advert that will air during this year’s Super Bowl, the company said in a statement. It’s the first time an NFT developer has purchased an ad during the Super Bowl, one of the most-watched events on television that brings in an audience of roughly 100 million people each year. Limit Break will use its time to promote a “free” NFT tied to the web3 gaming ecosystem it has been developing.

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