Last month, Justin Sun, the founder of the popular blockchain TRON, purchased one Ether Rock for $500,000 and he believes that the art is like Picasso in 1932. Ether Rocks is one of the oldest non-fungible token collectibles that started gaining traction earlier this year. The NFT collection was launched in December 2017 and consists of 100 digital rocks that were tokenized on the Ethereum blockchain. Shortly after they were created, ETHRocks sold for 0.0999 ETH which was...
Read More »TRON Partners with E-commerce Platform Shopping.io to Allow Purchases With TRX
Leading cryptocurrency e-commerce platform Shopping.io has continued to onboard several big names in the financial services industry as it makes another landmark move today. This time, it has collaborated with Justin Sun’s blockchain project – TRON. Shopping.io Integrates TRON Shopping.io revealed Wednesday that it had completed a partnership deal with TRON, a popular blockchain project dedicated to building a truly decentralized Internet, to establish its position as a...
Read More »TRON Launches $300 Million Fund for GamiFi Projects
With the increasing interest in blockchain gaming, the popular blockchain platform, TRON, has recently announced the launch of a new $300 million fund dedicated to supporting GameFi projects. TRON Launches $300M Fund to Support Game Developers In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, TRON noted that the fund dubbed TRON Arcade was launched in collaboration with the leading NFT project, APENFT, and the DeFi project, WINKLink. TRON Arcade is geared toward supporting...
Read More »Justin Sun’s JUST NFT Fund Has Released the First-Ever Picasso NFT
NFT fans will be able to enjoy digital visualizations of Picasso’s work as non-fungible tokens courtesy of Justin Sun’s JUST NFT Fund. This initiative is Sun’s latest attempt to bridge the gap between traditional art and its digital counterparty. JUST NFT to Introduce Picasso’s Work To take advantage of the growing demand for non-fungible tokens, Justin Sun, TRON’s founder and BitTorrent’s CEO, introduced a new development last month called JUST NFT Fund. Shortly after, Sun...
Read More »DAO Maker Brings Its Token Launch Framework to TRON
DAO Maker, whose token sale launchpad has incubated a wave of heavily oversubscribed IDOs, is bringing its model to the TRON network. A partnership between TRON and DAO Maker will bring the latter’s formula to the blockchain network founded by Justin Sun and now centered around DeFi. Token launchpads have been one of the biggest growth verticals in DeFi this year, with a host of platforms springing up across various networks, including BSC and Ethereum. TRON has been...
Read More »TRON-Based USDT Hits $24 Billion, More Than the Tether on Ethereum
Roughly two years after adding Tether (USDT) to its blockchain, TRON has reached a significant milestone by outplacing Ethereum as the network with the highest amount of USDT on it. As of now, over half of all the Tether in circulation is on Justin Sun’s brainchild. TRC-20 USDT Surpasses ERC-20 USDT CryptoPotato reported back in 2019 the partnership between TRON and Tether – the company behind the largest stablecoin provider. Launching on TRON came as a diversification for...
Read More »4 Reasons Altcoin Season 2021 Has Officially Started
The cryptocurrency market is on fire. The market capitalization has surged past $2 trillion for the first time in its history. Interestingly enough, this was led mostly by alternative coins, or altcoins, surging in value. Bitcoin, on the other hand, failed to break above $60K on multiple occasions over the past month, giving serious merits to the notion that altcoin season 2021 is brewing. In January this year, CryptoPotato reported that Secrets of Crypto, which is one of the...
Read More »Justin Sun Buys Picasso Painting for $20M to Tokenize on JUST NFT Fund
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...
Read More »TRON’s Justin Sun to Bridge Blockchain and Artists Via the JUST NFT Fund
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...
Read More »TRON Embraces NFTs and Gaming with MixMarvel Partnership
With non-fungible tokens (NFTs) permeating the mainstream, TRON is doing everything it can to guide some of that attention to its network. Following a strategic collaboration between TRON and MixMarvel, the latter’s blockchain-agnostic gaming ecosystem will be bringing its tokenized gaming interface to TRON.This is intended to unlock new value for both communities, as MixMarvel will be able to introduce TRX as a base asset in its gaming ecosystem and gain access to TRON’s community, while the...
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