Tag Archives: Non-Fungible Token (NFT)

The rapidly expanding popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has far exceeded the realm of the music industry and has reached the US Major League Baseball (MLB). The President and CEO of the Toronto Blue Jays recently said that his team and the entire league are actively looking for ways to employ NFTs to bolster fan interest in the sport. The MLB Heads for NFTs NFTs are arguably the hottest trend in the cryptocurrency space, perhaps only sharing the popularity crown with...

The American businesswoman, model, actress, and celebrity Paris Hilton, owns bitcoin and is “very, very excited” about the first-ever cryptocurrency. Interestingly, the long-time BTC proponent Max Keiser said that the asset saved her from the wicked path she was on. Hilton is ‘Very Excited’ about Bitcoin The primary cryptocurrency has seen mass endorsement from celebrities in the past several months. From entrepreneurs like Michael Saylor and Elon Musk to legendary legacy...

IOHK, the company behind Cardano, has partnered with Orion Protocol, becoming the first liquidity aggregator of the Cardano blockchain.  Orion has provided a non-custodial gateway to the crypto market by aggregating liquidity from crypto exchanges into a single DeFi platform. The partnership with Cardano comes after a series of integration to other protocols, such as Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche, and Elrond.  Cardano’s Bridge to the Crypto Market This partnership provides...

With the current craze surrounding everything NFT-related, CryptoPotato is happy to announce its plans to mint an NFT on the Cardano blockchain when these capabilities are enabled. The NFT Craze It’s safe to say that non-fungible tokens are this year’s hot topic. From CryptoKitties, CryptoPunks, and Hasmasks, to celebrity music and the NBA highlight reel, creators are digitizing everything, turning it into scarce, unique, and indivisible tokens that are oftentimes auctioned...

In another whopping purchase, Justin Sun, the founder of one of the largest blockchain-based projects, TRON, and the CEO of BitTorrent, has bought Picasso’s “Femme nue couchée au collier” for $20 million.  Besides that, he has also bought “Three self portraits” by Andy Warhol for $2 million, and he plans to tokenize both and launch them on the JUST NFT Fund in the weeks to come. Justin Sun’s Forray into Digital Art Continues Justin Sun is well-known within the cryptocurrency...

With collaboration from the NBA, highlight clips have become NFT collectible cards. Canadian technology company Dapper Labs continues its lucrative streak by nabbing a whopping $305 million dollars from new investors. Private Equity Firm Cotue Rakes in Big Names The New York investment company Coatue Management, responsible for several other technology investments, has sealed a lucrative deal for Dapper Labs. Household NBA names like Michael Jordan, Kevin Durant, and Klay...

Justin Sun, the CEO of TRON and BitTorrent, has doubled-down on his NFT-related endeavors by announcing a designated fund. Called JUST NFT Fund, it aims to close the gap between the most recent craze in the blockchain space and artists wanting to release their own non-fungible tokens.Sun’s NFT FundJustin Sun, and his blockchain-based projects, have been neck-deep with the ongoing NFT craze. Apart from bidding some mindblowing amounts on various NFT projects, Sun has also partnered with...

Leading crypto fintech startup Circle Internet Financial has announced the launch of a payment solution for the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) market. It will enable investors and content creators to make payments using credit cards and cryptocurrencies.Promoting NFT AdoptionThe company stated in an announcement today that it hopes the initiative would get more investors onboarded into the NFT bandwagon. Jeremy Allaire, Circle co-founder, and CEO said the initiative is important for content...

Although it’s the largest and most well-known cryptocurrency globally, bitcoin has lost its top trending spot in the US last week. Instead, the first place went to an NFT platform called Ethernity Chain, which will host the NFT of skateboarding legend Tony Hawk.At the same time, ERN’s price has skyrocketed by more than 20-fold since early March.Ethernity Chain Trends at N1 in the USThe popular monitoring resource CoinGecko breached the top ten trending crypto assets in the US from March 20th...

Notorious digital artist Pplpleaser shared a picture of herself crying… but out of joy. All thanks to the booming interest in NFTs.The artist, who has a reputation not only in the DeFi scene but also in the wider, more “mainstream” art industry, put an NFT up for sale on the auction platform Foundation.app. And things went really well.x*y=k: The $500K NFT Sold by PplpleasrPplpleasr’s token depicts an animation of a Uniswap-Esque unicorn on its journey to reach the “Ethereum Promised Land.” On...