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Time Magazine’s NFT sale peppered with technical problems 

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Time Stamp: September 26, 2021 3:54 AM - Modified On: September 26, 2021 - Published By:
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When Time Magazine announced it would finally launch its NFT collection, everybody expected that it would sell out quickly, given the magazine’s rich and valuable media content.  While this expectation was indeed met when its NFT collection comprising 4,676 digital art pieces were sold out in just one minute, there was one thing that buyers didn’t expect: Technical glitches.  According to reports, users have experienced gas prices reaching 9,000 gigawei for a rapid transaction. When the minting process was finished, there were roughly 700 holders of NFTs.  Gigawei is a

Twitter launches BTC tipping for iOS users via Lightning Network

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Twitter has launched a tipping feature worldwide via bitcoin’s Layer 2 Lightning Network. The social media company has more than doubled the amount of bitcoin deployed on the network since the start of 2021. The San Francisco-based Twitter enabled tipping via BTC for global users of the iOS, with Android access promised “soon,” FuturesMag disclosed. The feature also gives users the option of tipping content creators in fiat currencies via third-party services like Venmo, Cash App, and Wealthsimple Cash. It is worth noting that Square’s Cash App — a payment

Generative artist nets $5.38 million in latest Art Blocks hit

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Time Stamp: September 14, 2021 7:29 AM - Modified On: September 14, 2021 - Published By:
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A generative artist whose work depicts flowers within a “potentially infinite field of foliage” has made 1,623 ether (around $5.38 million) through a sale on Art Blocks, the non-fungible token (NFT) platform.Monica Rizzolli’s ‘Fragments of an Infinite Field’ collection, comprised of 1,024 pieces, was sold through a Dutch auction on Art Blocks Curated on September 13 – with prices starting at 10 ether. The entire set sold out in under an hour. Transaction data on Etherscan shows Rizzolli netting 1,623 in ether across three transactions in the hours after the

Is this revenue stream sustainable for Ethereum

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Time Stamp: September 7, 2021 9:30 PM - Modified On: September 7, 2021 - Published By:
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The rising interest in NFTs has been well-documented over the past few weeks. Whether it is Ethereum-based Crypto Punks or BSC’s CryptoBlades game, engagement and traffic has been consistent. This has fueled the development of a new marketplace altogether. While activity is bringing eyes to this new form of asset, it is also generating massive sales. In fact, according to data, in the month of August alone, total sales volume worth $5 billion was recorded. That is a whopping 1103% increase month-over-month from July. A total of 5.6 million NFT

Become a part of the NFT ecosystem with Calypso

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Time Stamp: September 1, 2021 5:15 AM - Modified On: September 1, 2021 - Published By:
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Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have seen a boom in recent times, from being a niche market to finding wider appeal among people in the crypto space. While this has opened up the space for artists, creators and collectors alike, there is still a lot that needs to be done in order to facilitate mass appeal. Calypso is a marketplace for NFTs on the Supermoon Lunar System built on the Binance Smart Chain. In this marketplace, users will have access to unique NFTs, which can be bought using the $CYO token. What

NFT Heroes: Fitting the framework of the growing NFT avatar market

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Time Stamp: August 30, 2021 4:46 AM - Modified On: August 30, 2021 - Published By:
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NFT marketplace NFT STARS has announced the launch of its NFT avatar collection – SIDUS: The City of NFT Heroes. The collection features 7,500 unique characters developed in partnership with over 200 modern artists from the international collective NFT256. SIDUS differs from dozens of other collections by combining the functionality of a gaming DAO metaverse, a yield farming service, and a digital art collection, all into one. The NFT Heroes collection comes forth at the perfect time, when NFT avatar projects are on the rise and the NFT market, as

‘Communities Are Very Important For an NFT Project,’ Says Digital Artist

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Time Stamp: August 27, 2021 11:01 AM - Modified On: August 27, 2021 - Published By:
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BeinCrypto spoke to Julien van Dorland, digital artist, and avid non-fungible token (NFT) art collector, about his work, his collections, and the NFT space as a whole. Sponsored Sponsored Van Dorland is a digital artist, an NFT art collector, and founder of Arvable, a digital agency helping artists explore the metaverse and NFTs. Completely immersed in the NFT space, van Dorland is the perfect example of what the future holds when it comes to creating the metaverse. With involvement in almost all elements of the NFT value chain, van Dorland

This time it’s different: When DeFi meets NFTs

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Time Stamp: August 23, 2021 9:17 AM - Modified On: August 23, 2021 - Published By:
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With decentralized finance and nonfungible tokens seeing a meteoric, rise it’s easy to believe crypto apps are finally breaking through. But is there actually real user growth, or is it just the same influencers moving from one hyped market to the next? We sought to answer this puzzle and identify what it means for the future of innovation. So, let’s take a closer look at the growth of DeFi and NFTs.DeFi is arguably the most prevalent application of smart contracts today. Automated market makers, algorithmic stablecoins and yield farming strategies

TikTok Chooses Blockchain-Powered Audius for First Music Integration

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Time Stamp: August 17, 2021 9:59 PM - Modified On: August 17, 2021 - Published By:
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If TikTok is a window into what teens are up to these days, then crypto has a place beside dance videos. On Aug. 17, blockchain-based music streaming protocol Audius announced its partnership with TikTok to allow one-click sharing with the social network.  This is the first music integration TikTok has established. The upshot of the partnership is that a social media giant is betting on a blockchain-powered app before streaming behemoths like Spotify and Apple Music. This signals that Audius, at least, may be ready for primetime and mainstream adoption. With Audius’ goal

Bringing Together NFTs, Sustainability and Music With OneOf CEO Lin Dai

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Time Stamp: August 16, 2021 11:00 AM - Modified On: August 16, 2021 - Published By:
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BeinCrypto spoke to Lin Dai, CEO and co-founder of OneOf. The platform aims to transition music ownership and sharing into the future with its unique “green” non-fungible token (NFT) offerings. Sponsored Sponsored NFTs are no longer a fad or a hype. Rather, they have cemented themselves as a bona fide part of the future of blockchain products. While most NFTs revolve around art, music is not far behind. This industry is catching up and benefiting from this new tokenization strategy. Sponsored Sponsored However, since most NFT marketplaces are geared towards

TRON Launches $300 Million Fund for GamiFi Projects

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Time Stamp: August 10, 2021 11:00 AM - Modified On: August 10, 2021 - Published By:
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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 developers to create games using the play-to-earn mechanism, thus building a robust DeFi content and entertainment community in