Author: Jeremy Ryan

NFT The National Basketball Association (NBA) will partner Ant Group – Chinese tech giant Alibaba’s fintech affiliate – to issue NBA-themed non-fungible tokens (NFT) and create content. Fast facts The collaboration will bring NBA’s fan engagement into the virtual space in China, according to a Tuesday announcement by NBA China, the basketball league’s Chinese business arm. As part of the partnership, NBA has launched a mini-app on Alipay – Ant Group’s flagship mobile app and China’s largest third-party payment platform – where fans can watch NBA video content and access services such as a joint membership of NBA and Alipay.…

Leading Web3 collecting and trading ecosystem, Crypto.com, has launched an NFT collection to assist victims of recent earthquakes in Turkey. Dubbed “The Art of Giving II,” this open-edition collection will run from February 21 to March 2, 2023, at 23:59 UTC. Each piece in the collection will go for $50, and all proceeds from the sale will be donated to victims of these natural disasters.To create the collection, Crypto.com partnered with 55 top Web3 artists, who each contributed various art pieces. These works will be sold on Crypto.com’s NFT marketplace. Supporters of this initiative can visit the marketplace and buy…

NFT Artist name: Grant Riven Yun Location: Milwaukee Date minted first NFT: Feb. 3, 2021Which blockchains? Ethereum, Counterparty (Bitcoin) Who is he? Grant Yun has always been an artist at heart with an early aspiration to have his work featured at a major auction house. A curious and motivated individual, Yun is studying medicine while juggling his work as an artist and performing as a breakdancer who has competed all over the United States. Since discovering NFTs a little over two years ago, the Wisconsin resident has propelled his art and personal brand into the stratosphere much quicker than he’d…

Blockchain Network explorer Polygonscan suffered some issues, which led to the blockchain not processing any transactions for a short span of time. Some users even began speculating that the network had faced an outage. The co-founder of Polygon, Sandeep Nailwal, addressed the community on Twitter about Polygonscan having some issues. He also advised the community to use OKLink Explorer while it is being fixed. It seems like Polygonscan is having some issues. You can use OKLink explorer in the meanwhilehttps://t.co/nt6vhGdF62 — Sandeep | Polygon ???? Top 3 by impact (@sandeepnailwal) February 22, 2023 However, the outage of Polygonscan Explorer triggered…

NFT Solana Mobile has unveiled Minty Fresh, a new NFT minting app built in-house. Solana hinted at more updates to follow in the upcoming weeks. Saga, Solana Mobile has unveiled Minty Fresh, a new NFT minting app built in-house. Solana Labs revealed the development of Saga mobile last year, which will be compatible with all the web3 use cases. And the device’s launch is to occur in the first quarters of this year. ????Saga unlocks brand new Web3 use cases.With Saga, anyone can be a creator anywhere, anytime.Today we unveiled Minty Fresh, an NFT minting app built by @SolanaMobile that…

Blockchain The number of daily active addresses and transactions for Canto, a Cosmos-based layer 1 blockchain that launched in Aug. 2022, both show high degrees of volatility in the start of the year, according to data from blockchain analytics firm Artemis.xyz. Canto says it is a permissionless blockchain running the Ethereum Virtual Machine, and in its technical documents it states its three primitives – the Canto decentralized exchange, unit of account and lending market – are “public utility protocols, or Free Public Infrastructure.” Sitting at 244 on Jan. 1, the number of unique wallet addresses that sent at least one…

Blockchain KuCoin Wallet provides users with simple access to all Avalanche native assets. KuCoin Wallet completed the full integration of the Avalanche ecosystem. Avalanche, one of the biggest blockchains for launching decentralized applications, and the KuCoin Wallet that support multi-chain aggregation powered by the KuCoin ecosystem have formally announced their integration partnership. As per a report, KuCoin Wallet provides users with simple access to all Avalanche native assets through the integration. Welcome to #Avalanche https://t.co/vziXQI5q7B — Avalanche ???? (@avalancheavax) February 23, 2023 Jeff Haul, The head of KuCoin wallet stated: The integration of Avalanche into KuCoin Wallet is just a…

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has long taken a cautious approach to Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies. However, there is no need for caution anymore as the “battle has been won” between fiat and crypto, according to BIS.BIS general manager Agustín Carstens, who made the claim, highlighted that “technology doesn’t make for trusted money,” among further criticisms of crypto in an interview with Bloomberg. Crypto has lost the argument that it’s an alternative to fiat currency, the head of the Bank for International Settlements says https://t.co/xZKFHEj3b2— Bloomberg Crypto (@crypto) February 22, 2023 As the central bank for central banks, the…

Blockchain With the addition of Optimism and Arbitrum, two expanding networks in the crypto world, MetaMask Bridges now supports a total of six bridging networks for the popular web wallet (Ethereum, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism). Why settle for one network when you can have six?MetaMask Bridges now supports L2 networks Arbitrum and Optimism, making hopping around the crypto ecosystem easier than ever????https://t.co/pCg6QiEBbP — MetaMask ???????? (@MetaMask) February 22, 2023 The wallet provider is continuing to invest in new products with a focus on usefulness in an effort to become a gathering place for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. The inclusion of…

NFT A collection of prized NFTs purchased by Three Arrows Capital (3AC), the failed crypto hedge fund, will soon be put up for sale. 3AC’s liquidators, Teneo, notified interested parties about the sale on Feb. 22, according to a filing. Christopher Farmer, a senior managing director at Teneo, wrote that the purpose of the sale “is to realize the value of the NFTs for the purposes of the liquidation,” adding that it is expected to commence within 28 days of the notice. The NFTs on sale are separate from the Starry Night Capital portfolio, which was assembled by the pseudonymous…