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NFT Major League Baseball is releasing new 2023 season digital collectibles with Candy Digital, the NFT startup that’s entering its third season as an official MLB partner. Candy Digital was founded in 2021 as the NFT market surged to new heights, but faced challenges in late 2022 and at the start of this year. The firm laid off more than one-third of its approximately 100-person team in November 2021, a source confirmed to Decrypt, and then this past January, Fanatics sold its roughly 60% majority stake in Candy to a group led by Galaxy Digital. In an email sent to…

Enjinstarter and Staynex team up for an extraordinary NFT campaign, granting fans unique access to matches and luxury accommodations with Arsenal NFTs.As Arsenal Football Club dominates the Premier League, fans around the world are buzzing with excitement. Now, thanks to a special NFT campaign by Enjinstarter and Staynex, die-hard Arsenal enthusiasts have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness their favorite club compete for its first Premier League title since 2004. With Arsenal Journey Pass NFTs, fans can experience the thrill of the game in a whole new way.Arsenal Journey Pass NFTsLaunching on OpenSea on April 7th, the Arsenal Journal Pass NFTs…

NFT The Russian government has cited an NFT as evidence for criminal charges against Pussy Riot relating to “hurting the religious feelings” of the people of Russia, according to a press release issued by the group on Wednesday. Artist and activist Nadya Tolokonnikova, better known as the face and voice of Russian feminist protest and performance art group Pussy Riot, has been added to a list of wanted individuals by the Russian Interior Ministry, the Associated Press reported. Citing Russian news outlet Mediazona—an independent news service and media outlet that Tolokonnikova co-founded—the wire service noted that offending religious citizens became…

NFT Solana profile picture (PFP) collection y00ts is the most prominent NFT project to date to migrate from one chain to another—and early data suggests the community of holders is supporting the move, with nearly 77% of the NFTs already migrated to Polygon since the late Monday launch. DeLabs, the Web3 startup behind both y00ts and the even more valuable DeGods project on Solana, announced in December that both collections would undergo the process of “bridging” to a new blockchain in the coming months—y00ts to Polygon and DeGods to Ethereum. Both moves were ultimately set for March. Late Monday night,…

One of the most successful Solana NFT projects, y00ts, just moved its 15K collectibles to Polygon. Accordingly, the project founders at DeLabs received a whopping $3 million from Polygon for their decision. Now, the team is trying to convince y00ts holders to move their NFTs to Polygon with contests, free staking, and more. Watch out: you must pay a 33.3% extra “Paper Hands Bridge Tax” if you don’t move your assets before April 3rd! The y00ts NFT collection migrated from Solana to Polygon in a long-anticipated move announced last December. From Solana to Polygon: Why Did y00ts Make The Move?…

Pre-registrations for early access are open for StarGarden, an upcoming free to play, auto-battler from Project Eluune. This is the first game from Project Eluune, though they already have a couple of NFT collections released. The number of auto-battlers with web3 connections continues to grow. One of the latest additions, called StarGarden, seeks to bring cooperative social aspects to the forefront of in-game progression. They have opened pre-registrations for those interested in early access the game. There isn’t a whole lot of detailed information about the game, but hopefully, with their recent appearance at GDC, the StarGarden team will soon…

Blockchain Seven blockchain infrastructure companies have added support for Pyth Network, an oracle service on the Solana blockchain. These include Everstake, P2P, Syndica, Figment, Triton, Coinbase Cloud, and Blockdaemon. According to a media statement from Pyth Data Association, a Swiss association managing the project, these companies will support Pyth’s data providers and assist them in maintain their node infrastructure. Pyth Network’s oracle solution aggregates off-chain data needed by applications such as those in the decentralized finance sector. Today’s announcement comes as Pyth Network is looking to expand the infrastructure requirements for its oracle solution. The network relies on more than…

Blockchain Blockchain technology has come a long way since the launch of Bitcoin over a decade ago. However, its inherent scalability issues still pose a challenge for mainstream adoption. As the number of users and transactions on blockchain networks grows, the need for a scalable Layer 2 solution becomes increasingly urgent. As blockchain technology continues to gain traction across industries, the need for a scalable solution grows ever more apparent. While traditional blockchain networks offer significant benefits, such as decentralization and security, their scalability limits have made it challenging for blockchain to be adopted as a mainstream payment method. As…

NFT Art Blocks has led the charge for blockchain-based generative art, but the more than $1.4 billion worth of secondary market NFT sales registered to date across its collections have taken place on external platforms. But that may no longer be the case going forward, as the company today announced the launch of its own specialized secondary marketplace. Now integrated within the existing Art Blocks website, the marketplace lets art collectors browse listed NFTs across all existing Art Blocks collections, whether they’re listed natively on the marketplace or aggregated from other major platforms like OpenSea and X2Y2. Art Blocks takes…

NFT Earlier this month, Metalabel created an NFT collection in collaboration with the Web3 funding platform Gitcoin, and it briefly became a lightning rod of speculation for its connection to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. The collection paid homage to the concept of quadratic funding—a mechanism that underpins how around $70 million of donations have been distributed between projects on Gitcoin so far. It included a digitized version of a 2018 whitepaper that pioneered the subject, penned by Buterin, along with economists Glen Weyl and Zoë Hitzig. Twelve limited-edition NFTs were signed by the authors and were sold via a Dutch…