E11EVEN Partners – the brand behind the famous disco club in Downtown Miami, the E11EVEN Voda, and the E11EVEN Hotel & Residences, purchased Ape #11 of the Bored Ape Yacht Club for 99ETH ($396,000 at the moment of the transaction). Thus, the company put its name next to Steph Curry, Post Malone, and others who acquired NFTs from the same collection. E11EVEN Deepens Crypto Foray According to a recent press release, Bored Ape number 11, one of the 10,000 NFTs in the Bored...
Read More »Ozzy Osbourne Forays into the NFT Space With ‘Cryptobatz’
Ozzy Osbourne has announced entering the crypto industry with the launch of his very own NFT collection – Cryptobatz. He is paying tribute to one of the most iconic (or bizarre as some may say) moments in music history. With the NFT debut, the former Black Sabbath singer now joins a long list of proponents that includes American heavy metal bands – Megadeth and Avenged Sevenfold – among others. Ozzy Enters NFT Space Osbourne’s tryst with bats isn’t new. His latest NFT...
Read More »Bitcoin Has Proven Itself, Says Billionaire Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio – a prominent investor and founder of Bridgewater Associates – believes humanity is entering an era where there will be a competition of money, and bitcoin will be part of that contest. The primary cryptocurrency is also an alternative to gold, the billionaire added. ‘Bitcoin Has Proven Itself’ The 72-year old American has not always been such an advocate of the leading digital asset. At the beginning of 2020, he said bitcoin fails to serve the purpose of money and...
Read More »NFT Swapping Platform MetaSwap Allegedly Rug Pulled: $600K Worth of BNB Stolen
Reports emerged earlier today indicating that the team behind MetaSwap – a protocol enabling NFT swaps over Ethereum, Binance, and Polygon – has stolen 1,100 BNB. Shortly after, the native token tanked. The blockchain security and data analytics resource – PeckShield – detected suspicious behavior coming from the MetaSwap team and suggested a soft-rug pull. More precisely, the company said the team behind the NFT swapping platform had stolen 1,100 BNB (worth appr. $605,000)...
Read More »NFT Flippening: Bored Ape Yacht Club Floor Price Higher Than CryptoPunks For the First Time
Yesterday, we saw the floor price for NFTs from the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) collection surpass that for the famed Crypto Punks for the first time. The Flippening Data from OpenSea shows that yesterday, the floor price of the BAYC NFT collection was at 54 ETH, while the floor price of an NFT from the CryptoPunk collection was 52.8 ETH. In other words, we witnessed the first-ever flippening in the world of NFTs, where the most expensive collection officially was the Bored...
Read More »Former POTUS Donald Trump Says Crypto is Dangerous But Praises Melania’s NFT Project
Former US President Donald Trump is no fan of cryptocurrencies, and he is making that known once again. The only currency he wants is the US Dollar. Trump has been a critic of cryptocurrencies for quite some time now, and this outlook isn’t changing anytime soon. Even if the former FLOTUS Melania Trump has warmed up to the idea of NFT and digital assets, her husband still believes that cryptocurrencies are dangerous. Donald Trump Weighs on Crypto: Still Not a Big Fan In a...
Read More »China’s Biggest News Agency Xinhua to Launch NFT Collection
Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese state-run media company, has revealed that it will soon issue China’s first “news digital collectibles” in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Xinhua Launches NFT Collection In an official announcement on Wednesday, Xinhua will issue a total of 110,001 copies of unique photographs taken by journalists in 2021. According to the announcement, the digital items will be made up of 11 collections consisting of 10,000 copies, each with one special...
Read More »NBA Star Stephen Curry Celebrates His 3-Point Record by Launching NFT Collection
Golden State Warriors point guard – Stephen Curry – is widely regarded as one of the best shooters in the history of the National Basketball Association. On Monday (December 20), he proved his legacy by scoring the 2,974 3-pointer in his career and thus surpassing Ray Allen’s record. To celebrate this achievement, Curry launched an NFT collection consisting of every 3-pointer he has netted in his NBA appearances. Each collectible is priced at $499 as the athlete will donate...
Read More »MetaMask Teases In-App NFT Extension
MetaMask is one of the most popular non-custodial wallet applications with millions of active users. Now, it also teases that in-app non-fungible tokens will also come to life soon. CryptoPotato reported earlier in November that the popular non-custodial wallet MetaMask has reached a whopping userbase upwards of 21 million. MetaMask is in the middle of the ongoing DeFi boom as it’s the most popular wallet. Now, the team also teased about upcoming NFTs on the MetaMask browser...
Read More »Ubisoft Quartz NFT Initiative Did Only $400 Worth of Sales in 2 Weeks
Despite the project’s promotion and hype, Ubisoft Quartz Beta hasn’t proven very popular. Almost two weeks after launch, the NFT collection of weapon skins and equipment has barely generated $400 in revenue – only 15 sales. Ubisoft’s NFT Flop Liz Edwards – senior character artist for Apex Legends – called out the company’s sales numbers on Sunday. According to Rarible and Objkte – the NFT marketplaces that Ubisoft Quartz’s site links to – only fifteen NFTs in the collection...
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