Author: Jeremy Ryan

NFT LooksRare is starting an NFT raffle where users can buy entries for 0.01 ether (ETH) or less. All they need to participate is a crypto wallet and enough ether to cover the entry cost and gas fees, according to the NFT marketplace. Zodd, the pseudonymous co-founder of LooksRare, announced ‘LooksRare Raffles’ in a Tuesday blog post. They said that the top prize every day for this week would be a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT (BAYC). Though only one BAYC NFT is up for grabs each day, the platform said the prize pool also includes other “blue chip” NFTs.…

NFT The advent of tokenized music assets and NFTs allowed investors to acquire rights to their favorite music, a feat that was nearly impossible a few years back. This use case has increased investor interest in Web3 and blockchain technology recently. In a new development, Web3 marketplace AnotherBlock has secured a new round of VC funding after successfully selling Rihanna’s music rights on the platform. The Sweden-based company raised €4 million in a funding round led by a UK-based venture capitalist, Stride VC. AnotherBlock Raises $4.35 Million In Seed Funding AnotherBlock is a Web3 marketplace for music founded in 2022…

Blockchain The new compatibility will let Ledger Live allow users to send, receive, and stake Cosmos’ native ATOM token as well as three other Cosmos-based projects: Onomy, Quicksilver, and Persistence. Ledger’s goal is to add more than 20 new Cosmos projects by the end of the year and Axelar is due to be added within two weeks. Ledger Live is an app that enables Ledger users to send, receive, and stake tokens. The team believes Ledger is the first hardware wallet to offer all three functionalities for the Cosmos ecosystem. “Supporting new assets is a challenge. We have teams dedicated…

NFT Sky Mavis, the creator of the Axie Infinity NFT project, is launching the Axie Infinity: Origins card game on the Apple App Store in key markets where the game is most popular. The game was previously available in a limited number of regions on the Google Play Store and through the company’s Mavis Hub. The game will first launch on the Apple Store in Latin America and Asia in countries such as Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Venezuela, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam. The game has 1.5 million installs across all platforms and plans to continue its global expansion through Google…

Blockchain Decentralized applications (dApps) are becoming increasingly popular as more businesses and developers seek to leverage the benefits of decentralized networks such as blockchain. However, developing dApps can be complex and time-consuming. To simplify the process, developers can use frameworks that provide a set of tools and functionalities to test, compile, deploy and debug their applications. There are several popular frameworks for developing decentralized applications. In this article, we will explore the Cardano ecosystem and learn about the smart contract framework available to developers. Plutus: Cardano’s smart contract language Cardano’s Plutus programming language is a high-level, functional programming language designed…

Blockchain It is no secret that the space industry has been experiencing an unprecedented surge in recent years and is expected to continue to grow. On a daily basis, we see news about countries and private companies competing to claim their stake in future lunar missions, expand their orbital presence and attemping to create comprehensive space programs. As exciting and invigorating as it may be, the space industry still faces various challenges, including issues with security, trust and transparency, which potentially hinder its growth. To help remediate these issues, blockchain can serve as one of the potential technology solutions. For…

Following a short delay, Yuga Labs has finally revealed it’s hotly anticipated HV-MTL (Heavy Metal) Evo1 NFTs. However, against the normal tide of the NFT big hitter, much of the community has been left underwhelmed by the project.Back in January, Yuga’s flagship project, the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) launched a mini game that saw competitors zoom through the sewers in search of a golden key lodged up a monkey’s anus. Despite only having one winner, Dookey Dash saw its 30k participants all receive a ‘Power Source’ NFT. Now however, as May 17 brought life to a fresh new day,…

NFT Avalaunch delivers its own created Peek NFT. It has been built to make it a product that encompasses a one-of-its-kind NFT marketplace and targets NFTs without utility. Peek NFT will be instrumental in changing the very way NFT trading is carried out. Subsequently, it will provide backing for creations developed on the Avalanche blockchain. The Peek NFT will play an active part where Avalanche is concerned about organizing NFT collections with a better positioning inside a more extensive ecosystem. These very NFTs will not be looked upon as simply collectibles but created to value further in terms of users…

NFT The article, written by three authors, laid out the prosecutors’ vision of the market risks and the following reasons to enforce it more actively. The authors pointed out that the trend of “securitization” of NFTs, which refers to the shared ownership of one copy by multiple users, no longer corresponds to the criteria of non-reproducibility, indivisibility, and uniqueness. They believe that this trend poses a great risk to the stability of the NFT market and needs to be addressed as soon as possible. In addition, the prosecutors expressed their concern about the “inflation of prices” on NFTs, which has…

NFT The Litecoin community has reason to celebrate as the Litecoin Ordinals have reached a milestone of 2 million inscriptions. This achievement was even more impressive as the platform added over a million inscriptions in less than a week without any issues! The Litecoin Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the development and adoption of Litecoin, expressed their excitement over the milestone and tweeted, “Adding more than a million in less than a week.. without any issues. Fee and transaction times the same. business as usual.” The Litecoin Ordinals is a decentralized application built on the Litecoin blockchain that allows…