Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores...
Sandbox recently ran one of their first play to earn events with their Alpha experience. But for quite a while, Sandbox has also been hosting build to earn contests with Game Maker, and Voxedit, the recommended object editing tool. Events for both of these tools offer tangible rewards...
The NBA and Dapper Labs’ Top Shot collectibles represents one of the most high-profile collaborations in the NFT sphere. Now however, they are taking their relationship to the next level with an incredible new auction, potentially offering the best basketball prizes the world has ever seen.The latest offering...
Introducing Twelve Earthly Branches (TEB), a new NFT project which pays homage to the namesake East-Asian mythological story. TEB LAB have sought inspiration from the South-Korean adoption of the story, where twelve animals took part in a race to determine their place in the Asian 12-year cycle. Combined...
Deep in the murky depths of the Ethereum blockchain, there dwells a myriad of noble and majestic beings. A host of fantastical sea beasts with a penchant for humanistic trappings, lazily swimming to the crypto surface. As a result, the first 7777 “We Own Sea (W.O.S.)” NFTs will...
The NFT space is no stranger to dubious projects and out and out chicanery looking to part innocent collectors with their hard-earned funds. As a result, noble Twitter user and concerned citizen, Wilxlee has published an in-depth list of red flags to keep an eye out for.Topping off...
What is Near protocol blockchain?Near Protocol is a decentralized application (DApp) platform that focuses on usability among developers and users. As a competitor of Ethereum, NearProtocol is also smart-contract capable and a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain. Near uses sharding technology to achieve scalability, a core aspect discussed later. The...
NFT marketplace LooksRare are refunding the costs spent by users when issuing collection approvals to list NFTs. Users can expect to receive rebates for gas fees they incur from the first 10 successful collection approvals they make between February 16th-23rd.Up to 0.004 ETH ($12) will be refunded per...
OpenSea, one of the most popular nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace, has rolled out an upgrade to its smart contract, a proactive measure to weed out inactive listings on the platform.As a part of the planned upgrade, all OpenSea users will need to migrate their NFT listings — currently...
Last week’s Crypto Biz newsletter explained how Wall Street is essentially marketing Bitcoin (BTC) for us after Wells Fargo said digital assets could “soon hit a hyper-inflection point” in terms of adoption. This week, JPMorgan Chase issued its own bullish outlook when it labeled the Metaverse a $1...
