Max Antony Rapkin
Ecommerce is growing increasingly ubiquitous, with one in four people on the planet shopping online now. With this in mind, and the metaverse twinkling on our horizon, e-commerce is set to enter a transformative period.The rise of ecommerce, with its intrinsic ease and convenience, is steadily surpassing the physical bricks-and-mortar...
CEO Anthony Mongiello has revealed plans for the Bulls and Apes Project (B.A.P.) to amp up its community engagement, gamification of its ecosystem and marketing campaigns.Bulls and Apes Project is firing on all cylinders, with multiple community initiatives launching in the coming weeks. Despite uncertain times for the...
The once dominant marketplace is rapidly losing its market share to Blur.According to the DappRadar industry report, NFTs are making a strong start to the year. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said about the NFT marketplace Opensea. Indeed, the secondary marketplace which dominated for so long is now...
Legends of the Mara is a new offering from Yuga Labs, which will come with its own companion NFT collection.Yuga Labs is back with a new experience for its loyal NFT holders. Legends of the Mara is a collection-based 2D strategy game “that picks up where the 2nd...
The new token-gated option from Ticketmaster will begin with popular metal band Avenged Sevenfold.Ticketmaster is introducing non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for artists on its platform. Indeed, this new era starts with the metal band Avenged Sevenfold, who developed the feature with Ticketmaster. In essence, Avenged Sevenfold already has its own...
Animoca co-founder Yat Siu says that the company is pursuing its original plan to raise a metaverse fund. Venture Capital firm Animoca Brands has denied reports that its metaverse fund is being slashed to $800 million. Moreover, further reports that the company’s valuation has dropped to below $2 billion...
Investment is pouring into the metaverse and more land is being traded than ever before. The metaverse is gathering momentum in 2023. According to DappRadar, virtual land trading reached an all-time high in Q1 2023. In total, there were 147,000 trades, with Otherside and MG Land accounting for 75%...
The case involving “Quantum” is an example of how blockchain technology protects the rights of digital artists.Canadian company Free Holdings will not get the chance to go to court over the first-known NFT on record. That’s because Judge James Cott, a magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court, has...
This is a major play by Sony, which will allow for NFTs to be transferred across different games and consoles.It is no secret that Sony Interactive Entertainment is going big on non-fungible tokens (NFTs). However, news of Sony’s latest patent for transferable NFTs is causing much excitement in...
NFT traders are reeling from the SVB crash, which hit the industry hard.There’s nothing like an unexpected catastrophe to kill the buzz. Indeed, following the FTX black swan event, we’ve been dealing with another cataclysmic episode thanks to Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). In fact, NFT trading volume had...
