🪧 First Protest in the Metaverse at Samsung HQ
AUDIO is bridging, more Soccer Fan Tokens will come, Introducing Aok1verse 👾
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New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) filed a patent suggesting an entry to the NFT market. The filed trademark includes registration for “downloadable virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality software; downloadable software for enabling users to experience virtual reality and augmented reality visualization, … downloadable virtual goods, namely, non-fungible tokens; blockchain-based non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and NFT collectible series,” and more! Is NYSE the new Opensea killer???😂
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🎨 NFTs
The virtual reality platform Cyber announced a deal with Rarible to integrate its protocol and create a virtual NFT marketplace. This should be fun.
Sweeping made easy! You can automatically sweep NFT floors with gem.xyz & instantly check out with ETH with the “Buy Now” button and skip the whole payment flow.
Photographer Drift is auctioning a never seen Where My Vans Go piece through Sotheby’s, becoming the youngest African American to do so.
LooksRare team transferred about ~10,500 wETH ($31M+) to personal wallets.
Azuki got a feature on Forbes.
Etherscan launched an NFT display interface.
The new NFT marketplace x2y2 began a vampire attack on OpenSea.
The meme lord of NFT twitter sartoshi who is also the founder of the project mfers, published an explainer covering the project’s background and inspirations.
Conceptual artist SHL0Ms announced their $CAR project where they are selling (i think?) 999 filmed fragments of a detonated Lamborghini Huracan.
Bonsai-themed NFT collection ZENFT is taking its next step by introducing its Forest Spirits expansion.
Sushiswap wants to launch a 10k pfp project.
OpenSea had a phishing attack of $1.7M worth of NFTs being transferred over the weekend.
🔮 Metaverse News
First protest in the metaverse happened at the Samsung Decentraland HQ. Each avatar was carrying signs with ‘I Have A Scream’ written on them and wearing matching red shirts that read Moneyfestation.
Cryptovoxels is listing parcels for its new Comet suburb.
Metakey unveiled its HQ in Decentraland where you can hang, play basketball or use hoverboard. (brb need to check this place out)
The Sandbox will be hosting a Retrograming Game Jam between 22nd-28th of February.
👾 NFT Games
Publishers of the popular Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast, sent an email to mtgDAO saying that the DAO’s plans of launching NFTs based on the game would be unlawful copyright infringement.
🎶 Music
Audius is bridging! They launched a wrapped Solana version of its Ethereum $AUDIO token. This move comes to ensure scalability and meet increasing demand.
Steve Aoki launched Aok1verse, an ecosystem he is building that aims to bridge the metaverse with the real world. He also said he made more money from NFTs than his 10 years of music making.
Snoop Dogg says he wants to turn his recently-acquired Death Row Records into the first NFT music label.
oshi is released ample time on Sound.
⚽️ Sports
NBA Top Shot will auction 30 NFTs, each will unlock access to the next five NBA All-Star Games, as well as some additional perks.
Fan token platform Socios announced a sponsorship and licensing deal with UEFA for the Champions League and other tournaments.
Crypto exchange Bybit made a deal worth $150M with Red Bull Racing where Bybit will be the fan token issuance partner to Oracle Red Bull Racing F1 team.
🎥 Movies
Disney appointed Mike White to lead its metaverse ventures while CEO Bob Chapek said that “teams across the company” are already working on the metaverse. As the company with the most notable IPs, I’m sure Disney’s entry will be above and beyond.
🔥 What else is hot?
Sequoia Capital will be investing $600M in crypto startup tokens, looking to be involved in ‘token-only’ projects.
Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger said, “A single ledger entry in Bitcoin consumes enough energy to power your house for almost a day," he said during the interview. “That's a climate crisis.” Ser, that’s oil. Also ser, we know.
Warren Buffett’s partner Charlie Munger continued his journey in the FUD train, saying “I certainly didn't invest in crypto. I'm proud of the fact that I avoided it. It's like some venereal disease.”
Twitter users can now add their Ethereum address to receive tips!
Binance is going under rebranding as they said that Binance Chain and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) would become one ecosystem: BNB Chain.
Coinbase’s QR Super Bowl ad drove over 20 million users to its site within one minute, making the app #2 on App Store.
Urbit is deploying their own L2 rollup.
Republic of the Marshall Islands recognized DAOs as legal entities with the new law which grants DAOs the same privileges as limited liability corporations (LLCs.)
📖 Reading List
“Forefront Digital Economy Canon - The Best Community Curated Resources” by Eliot Couvat
“Leveraging Social Tokens for Digital Reputation” by Eliot Couvat
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