🖼 Empire State Building Unveils NFT-Powered Ambassador Program

The globally renowned Empire State Building has introduced a groundbreaking NFT-powered Ambassador Program in collaboration with web3 loyalty platform Uptop and web3 wallet provider Magic. The program is centered around the Empire State Building Observatory Experience, owned and operated by the Empire State Realty Trust. It aims to seamlessly offer members complimentary experiences and digital collectibles in a visitor-friendly manner without the need for prior web3 expertise.

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🔫 National Basketball Players Association unveils metaverse experience with MeetKai

MeetKai and National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) are launching their metaverse experience ahead of the NBA All-Star Weekend. Los Angeles-based MeetKai joined forces with Think450, an innovation partner for the NBPA, to build the metaverse experience for fans engage with their favorite NBA teams and players. Starting today, guests can enter the virtual space created with MeetKai’s metaverse platform on their mobile and desktop devices.

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🖼 NFT-themed Cuban restaurant opens

Miami's newest Cuban restaurant has an unlikely mascot: a cartoon-ape NFT from Hialeah. Bored Cuban opened yesterday on South Le Jeune Road, offering fast-casual snacks like flatbreads and "Cuban-style" Pop-Tarts. The name is inspired by the Bored Apes Yacht Club collection of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, digital works of art featuring drawings of apes.

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🖼 Animoca Brands’ Yat Siu sees NFTs as a way to protect ownership in the age of AI

NFTs don’t always get taken very seriously, particularly now that AI and content creators are hogging the spotlight, but not everyone is so quick to discount crypto’s oft-derided younger sibling. According to Animoca Brands’ chairman and co-founder, Yat Siu, the growing influence of artificial intelligence and content is exactly why there is a growing need for NFTs in the world.

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🖼 Pudgy Penguins Outpace Bored Ape Yacht Club in NFT Market Shakeup

The recent data from Parsec Finance revealed that the floor price of Pudgy Penguins soared to 22.2 ETH, surpassing BAYC’s floor price, which dipped to 22.1 ETH. Although the lead was brief, this shift is significant in the NFT community, marking a shift in collector interest and market trends. NFT space, celebrated this milestone on social media, attributing Pudgy Penguins’ success to strategic leadership and active community engagement.

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💰 SHIBA INU TEAM ALERTS COMMUNITY ON UPCOMING NFT LAUNCH

The Shiba Inu ecosystem team recently issued an important alert to its community members as anticipation builds for introducing a new project. In a statement made by Lucie, the marketing specialist for Shiba Inu, it was clarified that the much-anticipated project known as “The SHEboshis,” a collection of ERC-404 tokens and NFTs, has not yet been launched.

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🔫 Roblox builds real-time AI translation tool for metaverse platform

Gaming platform Roblox is developing a multilingual translation model to support real chat conversations on the metaverse platform using artificial intelligence (AI). The company shared in a blog post that it achieved the feature by deploying a large language model (LLM) with advanced functionalities to support 16 languages on Roblox. The AI-based translation feature allows Roblox’s 70 million daily users to communicate with each other in real time without lag.

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🔫 L’Occitane celebrates Ramadan with metaverse shop

L’Occitane en Provence, which opened a holiday virtual store based on the Emperia metaverse platform in November 2023 and launched an immersive, interactive metaverse shopping experience based on Emperia in July 2023, is now partnering with Emperia to open a metaverse store in honor of the Islamic holiday of Ramadan.

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🖼 Arcade Unveils 3M ARCD Token Airdrop for NFT Collectors

Arcade recently announced its “Clash of Claims” airdrop plan on Medium, to disperse ARCD tokens to 4,000 wallets. Each of these wallets will have the opportunity to claim 750 ARCD tokens. The snapshot for this initiative will be taken on February 19 at 8:00 pm UTC. Distribution of tokens will occur in two stages: whitelist and public claim. In the whitelist stage, Arcade intends to randomly pick 2,000 wallets during the snapshot.

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🖼 A trader just made $13m selling an early Ethereum NFT collection

A high-value NFT trader has just realised a $13 million profit after selling 10 early Ethereum NFTs they bought three years prior. The pseudonymous trader, who goes by the name OldSchoolCollection on NFT marketplace OpenSea, bought 10 NFTs from the Autoglyphs collection for a combined $1.4 million in February 2021. Today, OldSchoolCollection sold the same 10 Autoglyphs for 5,000 Ether — worth around $14.5 million — to a private collector via NFT brokerage platform Fountain.

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🖼 Sports Illustrated moves NFT ticketing platform to Avalanche

The ticketing arm of the United States-based sports magazine Sports Illustrated announced it is moving its nonfungible token (NFT) ticketing platform called “Box Office” from the Polygon blockchain to Avalanche almost 10 months after its launch. On Feb. 20, SI Tickets announced a collaboration with Ava Labs, the developers of the Avalanche network. The partnership will allow the NFT ticketing platform to mint their NFT tickets using the Avalanche blockchain.

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💰 Shiba Inu Exploits DN-404 Standard for Latest NFT Endeavour

Shiba Inu has launched its latest NFT endeavor, SHEboshis, presenting an exciting opportunity for both Shib fans and the broader blockchain community. Harnessing the power of the DN-404 standard, SHEboshis masterfully combine the strengths of ERC-20 and ERC-721, weaving together the worlds of fungible and non-fungible tokens. Such a pioneering approach opens up unprecedented avenues for possession and trading, enriching the landscape with enhanced liquidity and potential for fractional ownership.

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💰 Solana NFT sales volume drop, NuggetRush crosses $2.3m in presale

In the latest news from the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the Solana network recently experienced a shutdown. Still, it is now back up and running. The team behind Solana is currently investigating the cause of the problem. This downtime negatively impacted the value of Solana’s own currency, SOL, and the trading volume of trending NFTs on Solana.

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🔫 Forbes Sets New Standard for Metaverse Experiences

Forbes has made its entry into the metaverse by launching a virtual space within The Sandbox Game, a platform allowing users to experience virtual worlds and games. This space is not accessed via a headset but through a computer, resembling games like Minecraft or Second Life. Forbes’ virtual world features a luxurious clubhouse, complete with an outdoor dancefloor and a yacht modelled after Malcolm Forbes’ Highlander party boat.

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💰 NFT Platform Launches Nintendo Emulator on Bitcoin

The introduction of this N64 emulator marks a significant stride in leveraging blockchain technology for gaming enthusiasts. Emulators, a crucial component, enable gamers to experience video game consoles on alternative devices without the need to possess or operate the original console. Pizza Ninjas emphasizes the pivotal role played by Google’s Brotli Compression method in enabling the encoding of progressively larger items.

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💰 Solana NFTs hit $5B in all-time sales volume

Solana-based nonfungible tokens (NFTs) recorded an all-time sales volume of over $5 billion after an uptick in NFT trading activity on the blockchain in the last four months. On Feb. 23, data aggregator CryptoSlam showed that the all-time sales volume for NFTs based on the Solana network is already at $5,013,847,972. The data also shows that the blockchain has over 2.2 million buyers and 1.6 million sellers.

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🖼 Audi Announces NFT Release on xNFT Protocol

Audi has announced that it will release limited-edition non-fungible tokens (NFTs) through cooperation with xNFT. Chinese media outlets reported the news. German automobile manufacturer Audi has joined the NFT market and is set to release an NFT collection on Aug 10 with the aid of xNFT. The latter announced on Aug 8 that it would mint Audi NFTs on the xNFT protocol. Audi teased a 15-second video with text in Mandarin as a part of the release.

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🔫 Kingdom launches heritage metaverse initiative

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture has launched an initiative in the Metaverse, supported by an artificial intelligence system for Generative Media Intelligence, according to the Saudi Press Agency. The dynamic digital environment allows users to discover the Kingdom’s heritage by taking part in simulated activities. The collaboration with droppGroup utilizes Hyperledger Fabric 2.5 blockchain technology.

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💰 Solana NFT Sales Reached Massive Milestone as SOL Price Stalls at $100

Solana NFT sales shifted in Nov following stagnation pre-Nov 2023, with ongoing momentum leading to surge in volume. Solana-based nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have reached a significant milestone, surpassing an all-time sales volume of $5 billion, according to data from CryptoSlam. This surge in activity marks a turnaround for the Solana blockchain, which struggled to gain traction in the NFT space just a few months ago.

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