Author: Jeremy Ryan

A new create and earn opportunity arises as Boss Fighters offers users the chance to design their own Boss skins, with the top designs minted as actual game NFTs, and the winning designer receiving copies to sell or give away! User created content has long been a hallmark of gaming in the form of game mods. But web3 gaming is taking things to the next level by finding ways to reward these content creators through various create and earn programs. The latest to join this rising tide of user generated content is Boss Fighters, who have announced a special contest,…

In a groundbreaking announcement, Gameta, the Web3 gaming sensation that has taken the digital world by storm, has officially joined hands with AlienSwap, a rising star in the multi-chain NFT trading marketplace. This strategic partnership is set to revolutionize the NFT landscape, bringing unprecedented opportunities and features to the rapidly evolving Web3 ecosystem. This exciting revelation has captured the attention of NFT enthusiasts, investors, and gamers alike. #Gameta is thrilled to announce our #Partnership with @AlienSwap_NFT????#AlienSwap is a multi-chain NFT trading marketplace and aggregator, committed to building a leading NFT trading layer.???? Stay tuned for next step of collaboration !…

Real life experiences say as much about who we are as what we’ve done or accomplished. It’s the workouts you’ve completed at CrossFit as a fitness enthusiast. It’s the Comic-Cons you’ve attended as a Marvel fan. It’s the raids you’ve completed in World of Warcraft as a dedicated gamer. As a descriptive, the passion itself is inherently limited in nature; it’s the experiences that truly drive identity. But in the Web3 space, which flaunts digital identity as a buzz phrase, we’ve failed to effectively connect our real-world activities to online presence through on-chain mechanisms—truly capturing our holistic selves across virtual…

Fusing art and technology, the Musée d’Orsay, in partnership with the Tezos Foundation, is launching digital NFT souvenirs for its upcoming exhibition, “Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: The Final Months.” KERU crafted these unique digital collectibles, including a representation of Van Gogh’s final palette, and you can also share them via augmented reality on mobile devices. Van Gogh NFT Souvenirs to Be Distributed Via Tezos Christophe Leribault, president of the Musées d’Orsay and de l’Orangerie, expressed his enthusiasm for the initiative, stating, “We are excited to offer our visitors the opportunity to take away with them digital souvenirs of this exceptional…

A nonfungible token (NFT) artist raised nearly $140,000 ( £114,000) from an art event in Edinburgh, Scotland to support cancer treatment. Maggie’s Edinburgh — an institution dedicated to free cancer treatment — received £114,000 from Trevor Jones, a popular crypto artist from Scotland, who raised funds at a charity exhibition and auction at an annual Web3 Castle Party near Paris. According to Maggie’s Edinburgh Fundraising, the funds collected by Jones amounted to the highest single donation from an art event recorded in the Edinburgh Center’s 27 years history. A spokesperson representing Maggie’s Edinburgh attributed the success to “the support and…

Following a six-month-long teaser, the long-awaited debut of Yuga Labs’ Legends of the Mara (LoTM) finally became live and active in beta on September 26.The collection-based 2D strategy game was met with excitement. However, such enthusiasm soon led to disappointment, as it encountered out-of-the-blue technical issues spurred by high demand.The Shattered Defense game mode is notably the hot commodity causing these technical hiccups. Yuga Labs soon acknowledged its woes, posting a tweet on September 26, saying, “We encountered an unexpected response from the volume of folks playing Shattered Defense. We have stabilized the Camp game but need some time to…

It was 2021, and the Musée d’Orsay had a problem. The Parisian museum, which boasts the largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, was struggling to attract visitors amid the seesaw uncertainty of Covid lockdowns. Some museum staff felt assured that the French people’s commitment to cultural enlightenment would prevail, and museum attendance would soon return to pre-pandemic levels. But the doors were open—and huge crowds hadn’t turned up. “French people came less, young people came less,” Guillaume Roux, the Orsay’s director of development, told Decrypt’s SCENE. “We realized that we would have to fight to gain…

Dog and cat video peddler the Pet Collective may not be a major Hollywood studio, but that doesn’t mean it can’t leverage NFTs and blockchain technology in order to connect with its most avid fans. Following the lead of major Hollywood studios such as Disney and Universal Pictures, and major brands like Nike and Gucci, the Pet Collective has teamed up with a blockchain company Theta Labs in order to create stronger ties with its fans. Boasting about five million subscribers on both YouTube and TikTok, the Pet Collective has build a following by posting entertaining pet videos for more…

Blockchain validation. Payments between different network layers. Digital asset recommendations in the metaverse. These are some of the areas PayPal’s research and development efforts appear focused on, according to a slate of recently published patent applications. The most recent application, published Thursday and originally filed in March 2022, delves into the details of how validators or miners should be selected during the process of adding transactions to the blockchain. The document states that the company’s disclosed techniques could “advantageously allow steering of blockchain requests to a desired subset of miners/validators.” Three other patent applications, released on Sept. 21, were also…

Telegram is a messenger application popular among hundreds of millions of users across the world. Now, imagine if the app creates its own crypto platform and at least 1% of those users take an interest in it… Well, this is pretty much the reality. Although there is no data on how many Telegram users will actually adopt the TON token, and although this cryptocurrency is technically no longer officially connected to the aforementioned messenger app, there will always be an association between the two. Even outside of that, Toncoin is an amazing crypto project in and of itself. Today, I…