NFT News, 23.10.2022
I hope you have a relaxing weekend. Let's look at some of the stuff that recently happened.
It is hard to dig deeper into all the existing projects, understand how they work, and learn about their history. This is an excellent document on the history of "Doodles":
https://tgid.notion.site
We are in a bear market. But guess what? So many people don't care and keep building. A new marketplace surfaced called Blur:
https://blur.io/
A more in-depth article about Blur:
https://www.coindesk.com
Anthony Hopkins sold his first NFT collection – and it was sold out in minutes:
https://decrypt.co
Not sure it is really sustainable what they sold, but this is the collection:
https://opensea.io/collection/anthony-hopkins-eternal
Billionaires (Elon, Ye) buy their social media platforms, and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey started a new one called "Bluesky." Not much is known, but it will be "decentralized." You can already sign up:
https://bsky.app/
A16 launched an accelerator:
The NFT factory in Paris launched last week. They call it the "Soho House of Web3":
https://www.forbes.com
More impressions on their Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/NFTFactoryParis
If you are a Lord of the Rings fan, you can buy NFTs to get access to exclusive behind-the-scenes material (the more exclusive one is already sold out):
In July, Reddit launched an avatar NFT marketplace in partnership with Polygon. Last week the CPO of Reddit revealed that 3 Mio. "Redditors" have created a wallet:
https://techcrunch.com
Azuki recently launched a token standard called "PBT" – Physical Backed Token. It connects a physical item with an NFT using a chip produced by Arx (https://arx.org/). The interesting part: the NFT stays with the physical object. Any new owner of the physical object can claim the NFT and "take it away" from the prior owner:
All info about PBT:
https://www.pbt.io/
Azuki showcased the technology in 8 golden skateboards they recently auctioned. They sold for a total of $2,3 Mio:
Highsnobiety interviewed the founder of Azuki:
https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/azuki-zagabond-chiru-labs-interview/
Another project combining physical and digital is sLABS.
"Spatial Labs (sLABS) debuts the LNQ Marketplace, a decentralized retail ecosystem that aims to redefine how we buy, own, and sell products in the physical and digital worlds. Every item on the LNQ Marketplace is embedded with LNQ's groundbreaking blockchain-enabled LNQ One Microchip, providing buyer and seller authentication and offering complete transparency into a product's lifecycle."
https://thewearableinternet.com/
A demo of how this works:
https://www.instagram.com/
Have a great week! I am sure new exciting stuff will emerge for the next edition of my news update ...
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