Cointelegraph By Ornella Hernández
Today's Nifty News rounds up NFT projects centered around the Winter Olympics, which began Friday in Beijing, China. The following are initiatives taken by the International Olympic Committee, or IOC, The British Olympic Association, and an independent artist leading up the 2022 games.IOC celebrates Olympic history Since June 2021, the...
The media and entertainment industry, in particular Hollywood, has a grip-like monopoly on the intellectual property, or IP, produced for public consumption. Writers and artists rarely maintain true ownership over the characters they create and have little to no say in the merchandise or content that is ultimately...
After releasing its latest financial results report, Nintendo held a live Q&A where they reportedly expressed "interest" and "potential" in the Metaverse when it comes to introducing blockchain and NFT technology into their video games. According to the Twitter of David Gibson, Senior Analyst at MST Financial, he asked...
Operator-led venture capital firms Velvet Sea Ventures and 01 Advisors invested $100 million into Pixel Vault, a large nonfungible token collection of superheroes, to jointly launch the rebranded multi-franchise nonfungible token (NFT) entertainment company, Pixel Vault Inc. According to Pixel Vault, the aim of the new venture is to...
Let's start off the week with the latest nonfungible token (NFT)-related news in today's Nifty News. The following collections are either ongoing or launching the first week of February.The Beatles memorabilia up for auctionJulian Lennon, the son of The Beatles' musician John Lennon’s, put up NFTs for auction...
Nicolas Pouard, vice president at Ubisoft's Strategic Innovations Lab, commented on the negative gamer feedback that Ubisoft received after introducing Quartz and Digits, in an interview with Finder."It's a reaction we are accustomed to. I think it's great because it shows how engaged our players are and how passionate they are...
Since 2019, Swiss financial crypto intermediaries have required proof of ownership of an external wallet's address for Bitcoin withdrawals and deposits to their customers' non-custodial wallets. One automated mechanism used for this is the Address Ownership Proof Protocol, or AOPP. The Trezor hardware wallet introduced AOPP signing as part...
Twitter users reacted negatively to an OpenSea email sent to users who still had inactive listings on their accounts. In the email, OpenSea explained that old NFTs listings are still fulfillable, and should be canceled by the user because OpenSea is unable to cancel them on their behalf. They...
Both OpenSea and Metamask have logged cases of IP address leaks associated with transferring nonfungible tokens (NFTs), according to researchers at Convex Labs and OMNIA protocol.Nick Bax, head of research at NFT organization Convex Labs tested out how NFT marketplaces like OpenSea allow vendors or attackers to harvest...
There was so much Nifty News this week that a second round-up was necessary to catch up on the latest nonfungible token (NFT)-related news.FLUF World and Snoop Dog partner for charity FLUF World, Beyond VR studio and Snoop Dogg teamed up to raised over $1 million via a one-day...
