Author: Jeremy Ryan

It’s an exciting week for the NFT fashion industry as the Web3 fashion house The Fabricant announced a new collection with Sevdaliza! Their new NFT drop titled XXories (to read “Accessories”) features digital items you can wear via AR. In fact, this is the first time a renowned artist has become the face of a digital-only NFT wearable drop. You can buy an NFT wearable starting February 16th, but before that, let’s get an insight: Sevdaliza and The Fabricant join forces for a new AR-compatible NFT drop, XXories, which aims to celebrate the freedom of expression. The Fabricant x Sevdaliza…

Fans of Continuum World have been waiting quite a while for some sort of demo or alpha preview. At long last, that time has come. On Monday, February 6th, the First Explorers feature will be opened and free to play for everyone! Continuum World launches the first preview of their game on February 6th with the opening of First Explorers. Free to play, and featuring potential prizes for everyone, this event is a chance for Continuum World to show players what they have been building. And, joining on the the Lunar New Year celebrations, the Continuum World marketplace will offer…

NFT Shilly, the Bored Ape Yacht Club recording artist’s non-fungible token (NFT) collection Shilly: The Access Passes sold out on marketplace OpenSea in minutes Friday morning. However, it wasn’t supposed to go that way, leaving many fans empty-handed and angry at the collection and marketplace for its failure to smoothly execute the mint. According to drop details from OpenSea, the collection of “general admission” and “backstage” access passes to co-create music with the artist was set to open its allowlist at 11 a.m. ET. In minutes it sold out, making its public mint at 12 p.m. ET unavailable. “We’re over-allocated…

NFT While still far from the kind of dizzying bull run that characterized 2021, NFTs have been enjoying an optimistic start to the year. There’s no froth, at the moment, and the atmosphere is relaxed, but there’s plenty of development, trades are happening, and some collections have seen their prices buoyant and rising. Underlying all this, there are a couple of prevalent sentiments. First, is that creativity is flowing cleanly, as developers build, artists provide color, and founders seek out more efficient ways of utilizing the tools at hand to produce lasting value. Second, there is a sense that because…

Fashion enthusiasts, prepare your crypto wallets because Prada will launch its 9th Timecapsule NFT collection on February 2nd! The limited-edition luxury drop brings colorful patterns, a new vision, and one NFT representing each physical item purchased. What’s more, those who own a physical product from the previous Timecapsule collections (released before June 2022) can now claim an NFT too! Prada returns to the NFT market thanks to its new Timecapsule drop set to launch on February 2nd. Credit: Prada What is Prada’s 9th Timecapsule NFT Drop About? In February, Prada again enters the NFT scene’s spotlight with its new Timecapsule…

Blockchain A group of Polkadot Ambassadors decided to launch the first Polkadot Hub to raise awareness of the ecosystem benefits. Bali was selected because it is a well-known destination for digital nomads and provided Polkadot with a fantastic opportunity to enter the area and begin developing the network. With the weekly hackathons generating a dynamic NFT system to assess the contribution and reward individuals, The Polkadot Sanctuary in Bali is a brand-new event venue and co-working centre to boost the Polkadot ecosystem’s footprint in the Asia/Pacific area. What’s in it? They want to host networking events, hackathons, and weekly gatherings…

Blockchain The initiative begins with a VeChain-based loyalty program that businesses can adopt to boost customer-brand relationships. World of V, a notable zero-free green NFT marketplace on VeChain, has launched an initiative that will help introduce Web 3.0 to mainstream businesses. The initiative, which leverages the VeChain network to develop an NFT loyalty program for businesses, is the first of a series of programs that World of V plans to deploy in its goal to bring Web3 to mainstream brands. The program aims to give businesses an opportunity to offer valuable and unique experiences to their customers, according to a…

Blockchain OpenZeppelin, a provider of smart-contract security solutions, has released the results of its latest security audits on zkSync, a zero-knowledge, proof-based scaling solution developed by Matter Labs. The audits reportedly uncovered a number of issues, most of which have been fixed. Of the 45 issues found in OpenZeppelin’s two previous audits, 40 have been resolved by the Matter Labs team, including two critical and two medium-severity issues, OpenZeppelin said in a statement shared with The Block. The most recent audit, which concluded in December, focused on zkSync’s system called “bootloader” as well as three more Layer 2 system smart…

Authorities in the United States might have discovered yet another possible component of Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency empire.U.S. federal prosecutors have alleged that Bankman-Fried has used money from FTX exchange to invest in the venture capital (VC) firm Modulo Capital, according to The New York Times.As previously reported, SBF’s hedge fund and FTX’s sister firm, Alameda Research, invested a total of $400 million in Modulo in 2022, which became one of the most significant investments by SBF. The funding has drawn particular attention from regulators due to Modulo — a relatively unknown firm — raising substantial capital during challenging times for the…

Web3 and the metaverse were handed a seat at the table of the World Economic Forum in 2023 as the ecosystem continues to drive innovation across industries.As Cointelegraph continues to explore, the presence of the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem was mainly found outside the walls of the WEF. Blockchain Hub Davos and GBBC’s Blockchain Central were two central events in town that brought together the wider crypto community that has been somewhat left out of the WEF’s discourse on the sector.The metaverse is a notable exception to this trend. Although some metaverse applications do not operate on decentralized blockchain systems,…