Author: Jeremy Ryan

NFT Earlier this year, the new marketplace Blur made waves in the NFT sector. Recent numbers suggest its lending platform could create a similar buzz. However, there are real and serious risks when borrowing against an NFT. Blur’s lending platform, Blend, has quickly gained popularity since its launch just ten days ago. According to data from Dune dashboard, users have already borrowed a staggering 51,656 ETH—equivalent to $95 million—against their digital collectibles. Impressively, over 3,000 individual loans have been opened on the platform thus far. Blend Supports Four Collections Blend currently supports loans backed by four NFT collections: Miladys, Azukis,…

Axie Origins pushes forward with a new season of their creature battling strategy game, bringing game updates, new rewards, and even the ability to upgrader starter Axies! With many improvements for new and lower ranked players, Axie Origins is focused on growing and maintaining their playerbase. The focus of season 4 of Axie Origins seems to be new player experience. With new starter runes and charms, quicker progression at lower ranks, and the ability to upgrader starter Axies! Axie Origins is still one of the most played games in the web3 gaming space. And their ongoing dedication to enhancing and…

NFT Alo Yoga, an apparel and accessories retailer with dozens of locations across several U.S. states, has rolled out an in-store NFT claim in collaboration with crypto payments firm MoonPay, letting brick-and-mortar customers receive free digital collectibles featuring “daily affirmations.” Launched for Mental Health Awareness Month in the United States, the in-store experience lets customers tap a smartphone against a terminal that reads “Tap for Mindfulness” at the checkout counter. The terminal is equipped with a near-field communication (NFC) chip that points customers towards a website and ultimately lets them claim a free daily NFT. The NFTs are built around…

Hold on to your horses folks, there’s more to NFTs than just pretty pictures, as Generative Dungeon has set out to prove. Through its ultimate utility, anyone can jump in and go dungeon crawling directly from the NFT.Despite launching a whole year and a half ago, Generative Dungeon has quietly built following of staunch Web3 enthusiasts. All safe in the knowledge that this cutting-edge collection of 3000 NFTs contains some of the best immersive NF-enter-T-ainment in town!Via the project, avid explorers can head to any of the 3000 NFTs in OpenSea and immediately dive into a unique ‘Generative Dungeon’ experience.…

NFT Digital mental health collective Peace Inside Live is releasing a wellness-inspired non-fungible token (NFT) collection to raise funds for mental health in the Web3 space. The company is teaming up with 11 partners, including alternative wellness advocate Deepak Chopra’s metaverse organization Seva.Love, TIME magazine’s Web3 arm TIMEPieces, crypto domain provider Unstoppable Domains, digital artist Adam Bomb Squad and NFT platform House of First, to release the JOMO Effect NFT collection in honor of May’s Mental Health awareness month. With over 40 creators contributing digital art works to the collection, the tokens are available to mint as an open-edition on…

Blockchain Flare Network (FLR), a Ripple-backed Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) protocol, has unveiled its latest partnership with multinational tech giant Google Cloud. As reported by the protocol, its API Portal is now integrated with the Google Cloud Marketplace, a move that allows anyone who uses Google Cloud can enjoy easy access to all of the API Portal’s current APIs via their existing Google Cloud account. With #Flare’s @APIPortal now integrated with @googlecloud Marketplace, anyone who uses Google Cloud can enjoy easy access to all of the API Portal’s current APIs via their existing Google Cloud account. 1/5 https://t.co/Cb2zhnNN4Q — Flare…

Blockchain Building blockchain-based applications tends to involve compromise at some point. Companies need to decide what to sacrifice — speed, cost, security and so forth — to achieve their particular priorities. A service may choose to build on a layer-1 blockchain like Solana over Ethereum for speed and cost advantages, but miss out on the network effect advantages of Ethereum. Alternatively, they might select a layer-2 rollup like Arbitrum or Optimism to stay in the Ethereum ecosystem, but give up some of the advantages of existing directly on a layer-1 solution. On a recent episode of the 0xResearch podcast, founder…

NFT Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday delighted fans of the counterculture non-fungible token (NFT) collection Miladys, when he shared a meme containing the instantly recognizable image of one of the avatar NFTs overlaid with the words, “There is no meme, I love you.” The collection instantly shot to the top trending spot on NFT marketplace OpenSea, with the floor price briefly hitting an all-time high of 7.3 ETH (approximately $13,700), then dipping back down to 5.6 ETH at press time. The collection has seen a 59% increase in floor price over the past seven days. See Also: Miladys NFT…

NFT Tabi, the nonfungible token marketplace previously as Treasureland, has completed a $10 million angel funding round, the BNB Chain-based platform announced on May 10. The funding was seeded by venture capital firms Animoca Brands, Binance Labs, Draper Dragon, Hashkey Capital, Infinity Crypto Ventures and Youbi Capital. Individual investors include Bo Feng of Dragonfly Capital, Riyad AD of Saudi Arabia, and Suji Yan of Mask Network. According to developers, the funds will be primarily used to develop Tabi’s gaming ecosystem and construct its upcoming on-chain identity protocol. Aside from its NFT trading and launchpad features, Tabi converts users’ on-chain activities…

Blockchain Urbit isn’t a blockchain, but it was started seven years before bitcoin, with a similar idea of attempting to create a peer-to-peer network that is free from the influence of big companies or the government. That’s a key reason Urbit often gets discussed in the context of crypto and invited to blockchain-industry conferences. One doesn’t have to spend a lot of time on the Urbit Foundation’s website to come across some of the themes popular among blockchain advocates – the idea of trying to short-circuit middlemen and centralized applications that dominate online activity. “We think the internet can’t be…