FTX and Wildcats’ basketball NFTs, WeMeta’s $1.1M investment, Zed Run’s Netflix tie-in
FTX’s newest sports activities sponsorship
The University of Kentucky has entered right into a sponsorship settlement with FTX.US for the lads’s Wildcats basketball workforce to behave as emblem ambassadors.
Players will obtain a per month USD stipend from FTX.US paid in FTX debit playing cards and also will be capable of create their very own NFTs at the FTX NFT platform and stay a portion of the income.
University of Kentucky Men’s Basketball workforce. (ukathletics.com)
A up to date resolution through the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) to permit athletes to monetize their likenesses and names made the NFT deal imaginable.
It’s the most recent in a chain of partnerships between FTX and American sports activities manufacturers together with the NBA’s Miami Heat and MLB.
Activist fights the facility with NFTs
New York artist and activist Drue Kataoka has introduced an NFT public sale for her audio-visual NFT paintings with all proceeds to be donated to civil rights activist teams The King Center and stopaapihate.org.
A partnership with Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB, “Will Your Heart Pass the Test” is a multimedia NFT that includes symbolism from the Egyptian Book of the Dead and taking inspiration from a fantasy by which an individual’s middle is weighed towards a feather to figure out if the soul is able to transfer directly to the afterlife. Each body took 20 mins to render, leading to a complete of 23 days to render the total NFT.
5 Influential Women Team Up To Bring Soul To #NFTs & Fight Racism
So excited 2 announce my collab w/ #LucasFilm’s @ILMxLAB
100% Proceeds Benefit @TheKingCenter & @StopAAPIHate@phillipsauction
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— Drue Kataoka (@DrueKataoka) November 3, 2021
According to the respectable announcement, the NFT used to be made according to the “ignored alternatives to confront an exhausted, struggling global plagued through the social ills of racism and sexism” on the web and inside the NFT ecosystem. Kataoka is an artist-technologist-activist who serves one of the most global’s best artwork creditors throughout 30 other nations.
Traditional public sale space Phillips will take care of the public sale beginning on December eighth, and finishing on December fifteenth.
WeMeta closes first investment spherical value $1.1M
NFT land market WeMeta introduced that it has raised $1.1 million in its first investment spherical with strengthen from seven strategic companions and 6 angel traders.
All in for the Metaverse! We’re stoked to announce the last of our 1st investment spherical: https://t.co/NgzkFk1tne
— WeMeta (@WeMetaTweets) November 3, 2021
WeMeta will use the funding to proceed development out its multi-chain NFT land market that gives clear pricing for Metaverse land on The Sandbox, Decentraland, Cryptovoxels, and Somnium Space.
Participants on this investment spherical integrated Delphi Digital, DeFi Alliance, Digital Currency Group, Galaxy Interactive, Hashed, SkyVision Capital and Tribe Capital with angel strengthen from Andy Chorlian (Fractional), Darren Lau (The Daily Ape), John Fiorelli (Kenetic), and Navi Singh (Antler).
Tom Shaughnessy from Delphi Digital commented:
“WeMeta is positioning to grow to be the dominant virtual genuine property aggregator and analytics platform for the Metaverse.”
NFT horse racing sport Zed Run’s tie in with Netflix movie
Digital horse racing and breeding platform Zed Run has introduced a partnership with the newly-released Netflix movie The Harder They Fall on Netflix, which used to be made in collaboration with Virtually Human Studio (VHS).
Zed Run offers customers the facility to shop for, promote, breed, and race virtual racehorse NFTs on-line. Users too can wager at the consequence of races, which they are able to view in real-time by way of the reside movement at the Zed Run website online or on Twitch.
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The Harder They Fall is a brand new form of western about rival gun-slinging, horse-riding outlaw gangs. The movie options scenes on the Redwood City Classic race. It is a tale of revenge with a couple of twists and turns alongside the best way starring Idris Elba, Regina King and Damon Wayans Jr.
The partnership will carry “The Redwood City Classic” to Zed Run. This new match will see Zed Run’s best 12 NFT racehorses race towards every different in a themed, unmarried high-stakes race on November 14th.
Other NFT News
Popular NFT Metaverse The Sandbox introduced on November 2d that it had finished a $93 million Series B investment spherical led through SoftBank Vision Fund 2. The finances shall be used to support scalability through including new video games and studies to the ecosystem.
Crypto buying and selling platform Crypto.com debuted its UFC NFT sequence. These NFT are the primary to be licensed through UFC. The sequence will characteristic collectible moments from struggle nights, match posters, championship belts, and fighter avatars.
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