🎮 I mean $70 Billion is a LOT of money ~ Metaversal Moves

Adidas x Prada, Facebook is coming for us, Twitter introduces Hex shaped verified NFT profile pictures✅

Jan 24, 2022

Dear NFTimer,

It’s here! After some teasers, subscribers to the $2.99-a-month Twitter Blue can now connect a crypto wallet to their profiles, and display any NFTs they own in their profile picture. What’s the difference? These Twitter Blue users can easily be spotted as the shape of their avatars change from a circle to a hexagon.

Twitter Blue @TwitterBlue

gm! You asked (a lot), so we made it. Now rolling out in Labs: NFT Profile Pictures on iOS

Elon wasn’t the happiest. But Elon, think how much Blue they can sell now.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Twitter is spending engineering resources on this bs while crypto scammers are throwing a spambot block party in every thread!?

And I know the market went down down.. down, and down… Difficult times for all hodlers. But this is NFTimes, not DeFi Times, so let’s just get into it, huh?

Dive in👇🏼

🎨 NFTs

The organizer of Other Art Fair Saatchi Art entered the space with “The Other Avatars” Collection.
Adidas is launching its second collection with Prada. Collection of 3000 NFTs features user-generated and creator-owned art, in collaboration with digital artist Zach Lieberman.
Have you seen FomoNouns? Every day, new FomoNouns are created, and users can vote to choose and decide which one is minted.
Prank Youtubers NelkBoys announced the Full Send NFT collection launch and gained 20,000 Discord members in less than an hour (& actually broke Discord.)
CryptoBatz sold out quickly.
OpenSea acquired Dharma Labs to help them scale their engineering, product, and customer support and welcomed a new CTO, co-Founder and CEO of Dharma Labs Nadav Hollander. sigh, much needed🤷🏼‍♀️
Meta is thinking about not only supporting NFTs but launching its own marketplace.
CrypToadz allocated 40 ETH for a community grants pilot program.
Budweiser launched its second collection, and BudLight became a voting member in NounsDAO after buying Noun 179! #enteringthespace #therightway

Bud Light @budlight

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An exploit on OpenSea enabled one buyer to purchase a Bored Ape Yacht Club for 0.77 ETH (~$1,700).
NBA Top Shot has surged 72% in the last month. It’s getting some eyes on it again after the Kevin Durant ad.

🔮 Metaverse News

EnterDAO is the first metaverse land renting marketplace.
Publisher of The Sandbox Game and investor in OpenSea and Axie Infinity, Animoca Brands is valued at $5 billion after raising $359 million.

💃🏼 Fashion

StockX launched StockXVault, a digital NFT that is backed by a physical product and stored in an official physical facility.

👾 NFT Games

Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard (which had big issues and sexual harassment lawsuits this year due to its toxic environment) for an eye-staking $70 billion. This move is seen as Microsoft’s race in the metaverse. BigTech knows metaverse is coming, and they want a (big) part of it.

🎥 Movies

Netflix is testing waters…

Netflix Engineering @NetflixEng

What are your thoughts on NFTs?

🔥 What else is hot?

The company behind the Proof-of-Attendance Protocol, POAP Inc., closed a $10M funding round led by Delphi Digital.
Mastercard and Coinbase are teaming up for the new marketplace launch. You will be able to purchase NFTs using fiat currencies.
NFT aggregator Gem.xyz is live.
Drip is a new web3 protocol built by RadicleDAO, which will allow people to generate continuous income using subscriptions and NFT memberships. Here is how it works.
Robinhood launches crypto wallet beta.
Big Daddy Ape Club on Solana scammed and did a rug pull, going away with 9,136 SOL.
NFT platform Autograph has raised $170 million in its Series B round.

📖 Reading List

“7 Crucial Tips For Creators To Build a Successful DAO and Turn Their Audience Into A Billion-Dollar Community” by Coinvise.
“Decentraland: The Metaverse's Early Mover” by The Generalist
“How to Get a Job in Web3?” by Mason Nystrom

🤪 Cool fun beans

Is she? I’ll believe.

ParisHilton.eth @ParisHilton

I am @CozomoMedici ✨✨

Hi Burger King UK.

Burger King @BurgerKingUK

ok we’ll bite what’s an NFT

🧵 Threads

NiftyPins @niftypins

🧵 1/ Hot off the presses: with the @budlight x @nounsdao Super Bowl commercial partnership, @Budweiser is putting on a #NFT strategy clinic for brands. It started with @tsrocketfactory, @ensdomains, then own Budverse project and now this! 🍻 My post: niftypins.io/budweiser-nft/

niftypins.ioBudweiser NFT Strategy to All Other Brands: Hold My Beer - NFT x IRLThe Budweiser NFT strategy is amazing—from entering the web3 thoughtfully, launching their NFT and partnering with the Nouns project.

Jerry Saltz @jerrysaltz

I think all the people who say NFTs can’t be art, that every one of them is bad, that it’s all crap, are like those nostalgic old-school people who want to return to the gold standard. Of course there’s going to be bad bad NFTs & speculators- just as in the whole art world.

Will Papper ✺ @WillPapper

Hi all, I wrote a history of the early days of $AGLD! The Loot ecosystem is one of the most consequential projects in the NFT space, and the story of AGLD is a window into understanding the rise of @lootproject. Here's a play-by-play of everything as it happened.

Forbes Crypto @ForbesCrypto

"Females are neck and neck with males and make up almost half of #NFT ownership across all age ranges according to #Statista. Compared to #cryptocurrency, where 90 percent of bitcoin users are male." By @lwintermeyer on.forbes.com/6012K8w56

Spice DAO (🏜,🏜) @TheSpiceDAO

Our project has been receiving a lot of attention 🙏 and we'd like to address some of the most common misconceptions 🧵👇

Gary Brannan @garybrannan

I have genuinely spent 10 minutes starting at this but, no, it really DOES appear to be true that a bunch of cryptobros just spent €2.6 MILLION - 100x the asking price - for a book at auction in the mistaken belief that they would therefore own the copyright in it.

Spice DAO (🏜,🏜) @TheSpiceDAO

We won the auction for €2.66M. Now our mission is to: 1. Make the book public (to the extent permitted by law) 2. Produce an original animated limited series inspired by the book and sell it to a streaming service 3. Support derivative projects from the community https://t.co/g4QnF6YZBp

Tell me what you’re working on in the discussion thread! I’ll make sure to check it out, and you might get a feature in the next NFTimes edition!

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