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| Sep 26, 2024 | Zero Gravity Names Sacramento Kings Owner Chris Kelly to Board of Directors | Zero Gravity Corporation Logo
Zero Gravity Corp has named Chris Kelly to its Board of Directors. As an investor in Silicon Valley, Chris Kelly has been a prolific angel and later-stage backer of innovative technology, media, and finance sta... |
| Jun 26, 2024 | NFTs Are Dead (But They’re Changing Everything) | Two years ago, Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) captivated the world with skyrocketing prices and mainstream attention, but then the market snapped back and many said that NFTs were “dead.”
They spoke too soon. This technology continues to prolif... |
| Jun 26, 2023 | The Top 10 NFT Pioneers | Every new realm needs brave explorers. It needs bold individuals willing to ignore naysayers, gird up their loins, and journey to undiscovered regions where there may be monsters. (Or, the bureaucrats of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Com... |
| Mar 31, 2023 | Ультимативный гайд по NFT. Как создать свой первый токен и начать зарабатывать | С чего началась волна хайпа вокруг NFT, для чего они нужны и с какими проблемами сталкивается NFT-рынок
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Поклонники НБА могут покупать и продавать NFT, однако авторские права принадлежат НБА, и воспроизведение ... |
| Mar 1, 2023 | Объяснение NFT простыми словами на примере NFT платформ и печенек Oreo | Сегодня я хочу рассказать вам о том, что же такое NFT простыми словами на примерах с печеньками (давайте возьмём Oreo для наглядности). Такой подход я практиковал для новых ребят на проекте. Все слышали об NFT, но никто не мог до конца объя... |
| Feb 23, 2023 | NBA Top Shot creator to face lawsuit around securities status | Dapper Labs, the company behind many popular NFT collectible projects, will face a lawsuit accusing it of selling unregistered securities. In particular, the company has developed the popular NFT game NBA Top Shot and one of the original NF... |
| Dec 21, 2022 | Mark Cuban-backed Blocto is advancing blockchain adoption with solutions to bring the next billion users to Web3 | Despite the bear market that we are experiencing in the market, the crypto industry is seeing record turnouts in Asian countries, as seen by the turnout across various events during Taipei Blockchain Week in Taiwan. The event comes just a m... |
| Nov 19, 2022 | 3 ways communications teams can simplify Web3 UX for mass adoption | Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. Watch now.
Right now, blockchain and cryptocurrency have a two-minu... |
| Sep 7, 2022 | Sorare teams up with NBA for a new NFT fantasy basketball game | French startup Sorare originally launched a fantasy football (soccer) game. This year, the company is expanding to new sports. After partnering with Major League Baseball earlier this year, the company is announcing a new partnership with t... |
| Aug 31, 2022 | Ticketmaster taps the Flow blockchain to let event organizers issue NFTs tied to tickets | Ticketmaster will now let event organizers issue NFTs (non-fungible tokens) tied to tickets on Flow, a blockchain operated by a16z-backed Dapper Labs. The Live Nation subsidiary said that event organizers can make these NFTs available befor... |
| Aug 25, 2022 | NFT marketplaces you should know about | Image source: Bloomberg
NFTs (or non-fungible tokens) appear to be everywhere at the moment. According to Forbes, these digital goods are selling like 17th-century exotic Dutch tulips and sales generate millions of dollars in nft marketplac... |
| Aug 2, 2022 | What Are NFTs And How Will They Impact Global Industries? | futuristic word cloud about NFT, non fungible token, crypto art (3d render)getty |
| May 10, 2022 | Dapper Labs Debuts $725M Ecosystem Fund for Flow Blockchain Development | Flow, the blockchain best known for non-fungible token (NFT) hit NBA Top Shot, is making a $725 million push to attract more projects, Dapper Labs, the network’s creator, announced Tuesday.
The fund is backed by investors with large holding... |
| Apr 22, 2022 | NBA Top Shot Whale Launches NFT Lending Platform With $4.5M in Funding | Flowty, a peer-to-peer non-fungible token (NFT) lending marketplace on the Flow blockchain, has raised $4.5 million in its first funding round, which was co-led by crypto investment firms Greenfield One and Lattice Capital.
The capital will... |
| Apr 17, 2022 | 🏔️ Funding for innovators in the Switzerland of Canada | Good afternoon! For those of you interested in tech news from B.C.’s capital, I invite you to subscribe to the Victoria Tech Journal. It’s exactly what you think it is: home to a similar weekly digest of the best tech and innovation stories... |
| Apr 11, 2022 | Michael Levy: How to Turn Your NFT Into a Loan | Michael Levy is a non-fungible token (NFT) investor and crypto entrepreneur, currently launching a portal for NFT-collateralized loans called Flowty. But Levy is not a diehard “crypto native” – and that’s exactly what makes him significant.... |
| Apr 8, 2022 | Retail investing platform eToro launches $20 million NFT fund to support artists and brands | eToro launched an NFT fund in Miami on Thursday, as part of an initiative to support digital arts.
The $20 million fund will buy non-fungible tokens to help artists and musicians.
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eToro announced a $20 million fund to buy, sup... |
| Mar 4, 2022 | Mickey Mantle Baseball Card NFT Sells for $471K in OpenSea Auction | While the start of the upcoming Major League Baseball (MLB) season remains in jeopardy, trading card company Topps is trekking forward with its baseball-themed non-fungible token (NFT) sales.
The first edition of the company’s “Topps Timele... |
| Mar 1, 2022 | Premier League takes slow road to first NFT deal | Driven by the extraordinary early success of the NBA’s Top Shot digital collectibles, NFTs were the talk of the sports industry when the Premier League dipped its toe into the market last year. |
| Mar 1, 2022 | Axie Infinity tops Google’s most-searched NFTs | Online video game Axie Infinity has been revealed as the most searched for non-fungible token (NFT) collection in the world. |
| Feb 2, 2022 | Uncertainty In The Valuation Of Non-Fungible Tokens | NFT concept, man standing with VR goggles looking for digital art to buy online. getty |
| Jan 19, 2022 | MLB NFTs on Candy Digital Clock $2.7M in Marketplace Debut | Candy Digital, which started selling Major League Baseball (MLB) NFTs in the fall, finally opened its trading venue on Jan. 15.
And the appetite for sales was fairly robust.
The Galaxy Digital-backed non-fungible token marketplace, which an... |
| Jan 12, 2022 | NBA Top Shot Bans User ‘FreeHongKong’ | Dapper Labs’ popular NBA Top Shot non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace froze the account of a user whose handle is a reference to the professional basketball league’s fraught history with China.
After submitting a photo of their passport in... |
| Dec 23, 2021 | Pantera’s Paul Veradittakit’s 2022 Predictions | 2021 has been an extraordinary year for crypto. We saw decentralized finance (DeFi) swell to a $100 billion+ industry, bitcoin (BTC) reach a price peak of $69,000, massive ecosystem growth for companion blockchain networks (layer 2) such as... |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Voodoo bets on play-to-earn crypto mobile games | French startup Voodoo has announced that it plans to make a significant investment in blockchain-powered mobile games. The company estimates that it represents a $200 million investment over the coming years.
2021 has been an important year... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | NAGA : NFT platform🌶 | NAGA's commitment to our community inspires us to leap into the thrilling niche of NFTs. This is why we're launching our NFT platform soon. We want to give power to creators and an opportunity to benefit from their work. We also want to mak... |
| Nov 22, 2021 | Swapping NFTs | We own a fair number of NFTs that I have collected since 2017 when I was buying Rare Pepes and CryptoKitties. We have accumulated a nice collection of Top Shots and a bunch of other NFTs as well.
But I don’t want to sell our NFTs. We also d... |
| Nov 14, 2021 | Katie Haun on a16z’s success so far in crypto: We ‘can’t rest on our laurels’ | It’s no surprise that Katie Haun is a major proponent of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. The former federal prosecutor who today co-leads the powerful crypto practice of Andreessen Horowitz, has been a student of the technology since at least... |
| Oct 18, 2021 | Michael Carter-Williams Wants To Drive You Into A New Dimension | Wilder World is a New Dimension of Reality and Immersive 5D Metaverse built on Ethereum, Unreal ... [+] Engine 5 and ZERO. NBA legend Michael Carter-Williams is helping drive folks into the space. Artwork by Asim A. Steckel (MCW Photo by To... |
| Oct 4, 2021 | Dapper Collectives | Our portfolio company Dapper Labs, creator of CryptoKitties, the Flow Blockchain, and the NBA Top Shot collectible game, is announcing Dapper Collectives today.
Dapper Collectives comes by way of an acquisition of Brud, a company that has b... |
| Sep 22, 2021 | Cash Infused Dapper Labs Expands Sports Metaverse With Exclusive Soccer Deal Hoping To Unlock Future Of Fandom | Dapper Labs hopes to unlock the future of fandom Dapper Labs x La Liga |
| Sep 22, 2021 | NBA Top Shot creator Dapper Labs raises another $250 million | Dapper Labs, the company behind popular fantasy basketball NFT game NBA Top Shot, has raised another $250 million in funding. Coatue is leading the new investment. According to a source close to the company, today’s funding round values the... |
| Sep 16, 2021 |
NFT Marketplaces: A Beginner’s Guide | Do you keep hearing about people buying digital cats, NBA moments and virtual artwork of Donald Trump, but have no idea where they’re getting these NFTs from? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have quickly becom... |
| Aug 29, 2021 | Welcome to Unicorn County. Population: 9 | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning and welcome to the new subscribers reading this Sunday. I invite you to stay connected with us all week on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. Better yet, join us for coffee (in person) to chat all things Vancouver tech this Tuesd... |
| Aug 25, 2021 | Dapper Labs creates NFT-based WNBA Moments on Top Shot | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
Dapper Labs will brin... |
| Aug 25, 2021 | Dapper Labs creates NFT-based WNBA Moments on Top Shot | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Dapper Labs will bring the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) into the nonfungible token (NFT) phenomenon called Top Shot.
... |
| Aug 6, 2021 | By Turning Tweets Into NFTs, Cent Capitalizes on Digital Currency Movement | Whether Jack Dorsey intended it or not, when the Twitter founder sold his first tweet as a non-fungible token (NFT) for nearly $3 million in March, he helped to bring the blockchain-based financing technology mainstream.
He also gave a the ... |
| Aug 5, 2021 | Crypto analytics firm Messari concludes $21M Series A led by Point72 Ventures
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says proposed crypto tax rule makes no sense
Blockchain embraces gold to provide stability and growth for crypto assets
Swisscom will become a Chainlink node operator
Simplifying Web3 a ... | Cryptocurrency market intelligence provider Messari has concluded a $21 million fundraise that was supported by some of the biggest venture firms in blockchain, once again highlighting growing investor appetite for budding crypto startups.
... |
| Aug 5, 2021 | Non-Fungible Token — новый вид контроля авторских прав | Non-Fungible Token — новый вид контроля авторских прав |
| Aug 5, 2021 | Non-Fungible Token — a new way of controlling copyrights | Non-Fungible Token — a new way of controlling copyrights |
| Aug 4, 2021 | NBA Top Shots creator Dapper Labs will offer NFTs of highlights of this year's Summer League basketball games | NBA Top Shots, the second-biggest NFT marketplace, will sell moments from Summer League basketball games in Las Vegas.
It will be the first time the platform has created NFTs of great plays of games that fans have seen in person.
Sports tea... |
| Jul 20, 2021 | Rolexes in DeFi? NFT Marketplace 4K Raises $3M to Combine NFTs and Luxury Goods | 4K, a novel marketplace that issues non-fungible tokens (NFTs) paired with luxury items held in storage, has raised $3 million in a seed round of funding that was led by Electric Capital, Crosscut Ventures, Collab+Currency, ConsenSys and ID... |
| Jul 1, 2021 | Portland Trail Blazers ink NBA jersey sponsorship deal with Seattle crypto startup StormX | The StormX jersey patch. (Photo courtesy of Bruce Ely / Trail Blazers)
Seattle cryptocurrency startup StormX is making a big marketing splash in the corner of an NBA jersey.
StormX just inked a deal with the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers tha... |
| Jul 1, 2021 | NFT marketplace Mintable raises $13M in early funding from Ripple and Animoca Brands
Show your support for our mission by joining our Cube Club and Cube Event Community of experts. Join the community that includes Amazon Web Services and soon to be Amazon.com CEO Andy Jassy, Dell Technologies f ... | Mintable, a marketplace for nonfungible tokens that represent unique digital assets on blockchains, today announced that it has raised $13 million in early funding to scale up its operations and boost growth.
Investors joining the Series A ... |
| Jun 27, 2021 | This BC biotech facility will be the first of its kind in Canada | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning and happy weekend. I hope you all have air conditioning. Because friends, our new Instagram account (@vantechjournal) is going to be sooo hot—and you should definitely follow it right now… And yes, it’s also like, a million deg... |
| Jun 21, 2021 | Dapper Labs Hires Former NFL VP as Marketing Chief; NBA Top Shot Gets New GM | Dapper Labs has hired a former National Football League (NFL) social media executive to serve as the senior vice president of its marketing department.
Dave Feldman will join Dapper Labs after seven years at the NFL, where he served as the ... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | What are NFTs? The booming blockchain-based movement, explained | More On: NFT
How I lost $650,000 of crypto in seconds Paige VanZant ‘proud’ of her OnlyFans-style website ‘Mona Lisa of digital world’: NFT sale of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet struggling to find bidders Facebook parent Meta wants to introduce... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | What are NFTs? The booming blockchain-based movement, explained | More On: NFT
Mark Cuban-backed NFT marketplace admits insider trading incident Change of art: Fake Banksy NFT sells for $340K — then returned for full refund 12-year-old whiz kid set to earn $400K from selling NFTs: report Digital mania: NF... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | MLB hops on NFT bandwagon with 1939 Lou Gehrig video clip | Major League Baseball plans to auction off a Lou Gehrig non-fungible token next month, marking the latest professional sports league to dive into the NFT craze.
MLB's first NFT, as the technology is known, will consist of a video clip of Ge... |
| May 14, 2021 | NFTs cheat sheet: Everything you need to know about non-fungible tokens | https://d1rytvr7gmk1sx.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210410-Veronica-Karen.mp4
You’ve probably heard about the latest new digital craze: non-fungible tokens or NFTs. These unique digital codes rely on the same blockchain techn... |
| May 13, 2021 | Animoca Brands raises $88M to allow in-game item ownership with NFTs
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| Apr 24, 2021 | NBA Top Shot is booming, but users report trouble cashing out after sales of the collectable NFTs | Some users are eager to cash out their profits and fed up with long wait times to withdraw. NBA Top Shot
NBA Top Shot has seen around $500 million in sales, but users are having trouble cashing out.
Users eager to withdraw their profits are... |
| Apr 24, 2021 | NBA Top Shot is booming, but users report trouble cashing out after sales of the collectable NFTs | NBA Top Shot has seen around $500 million in sales, but users are having trouble cashing out.
Users eager to withdraw their profits are complaining online about the weeks-long wait times.
The platform, which has seen massive growth in 2021,... |
| Apr 17, 2021 | NBA Top Shot Firm Dapper Labs Raising Funds at $7.5B+ Valuation: Report | Just a few weeks after raising funds at a reported $2.6 billion valuation, Dapper Labs, responsible for the high-flying digital collectibles platform NBA Top Shot, is raising more money but is now being valued at more than $7.5 billion, acc... |
| Apr 16, 2021 | CLOUDFLARE, INC.
Cloudflare : Stream now supports NFTs | Cloudflare Stream has been helping creators publish their videos online without having to think about video quality, device compatibility, storage buckets or digging through FFmpeg documentation. These creators want to be able to claim owne... |
| Apr 15, 2021 | Detroit’s native son, billionaire Dan Gilbert, makes the case for his town | Dan Gilbert loves his hometown of Detroit. He loves it so much that the billionaire founder of what would eventually become the mortgage lender Quicken Loans has poured at least $2.5 billion into rehabilitating buildings in the heart of the... |
| Apr 12, 2021 | There’s a new way to buy and trade official MLB baseball cards. These virtual cards can’t be forged and come with a complete trading history. | Apr 5, 2021; Arlington, Texas, USA; A view of the field and the stands and the fans during the game between the Texas Rangers and the Toronto Blue Jays at Globe Life Field. Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports
MLB trading cards will now be availab... |
| Apr 12, 2021 | There's a new way to buy and trade official MLB baseball cards. These virtual cards can't be forged and come with a complete trading history. | MLB trading cards will now be available as NFTs, in partnership with card maker Topps and blockchain marketplace WAX.
The move comes after the success of the NBA's Top Shot online collectible marketplace.
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| Apr 3, 2021 | People are buying and selling crypto collectibles in a $250 million market - check out the sites where you can browse and bid on NFTs | NFTs account for a rapidly growing market that is valued at $250 million.
NFTs have sold for millions, while those who flip NFTs have made nearly 1,000% profit in some cases.
NFT marketplaces encompass anything from digital art to trading c... |
| Apr 2, 2021 | People are buying and selling crypto collectibles in a $250 million market – check out the sites where you can browse and bid on NFTs | allows people to sell their holograms as NFTs Looking Glass Factory
NFTs account for a rapidly growing market that is valued at $250 million.
NFTs have sold for millions, while those who flip NFTs have made nearly 1,000% profit in some case... |
| Mar 31, 2021 | 'NBA Top Shot' Data Site Raises $1.6M to Bring Visibility to Your NFT Bags | Evaluate.market, the scrappy non-fungible token (NFT) calculator popular among NBA Top Shot users, has raised $1.6 million in a move that presages the one-month-old company’s foray beyond Dapper Labs’ well-funded basketball hit.
The startup... |
| Mar 30, 2021 | CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot maker Dapper Labs raises $305 million | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Dapper Labs, the maker of blockchain-based digital collectibles CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot, has raised $305 million in a new round ... |
| Mar 30, 2021 | CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot maker Dapper Labs raises $305 million | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
Dapper Labs, the make... |
| Mar 30, 2021 | Maker of NBA Top Shot Scores $305 Million in New Funding | Michael Jordan and Kevin Durant are among those betting that the company behind NBA Top Shot is poised to build on the craze over digital collectibles.
Dapper Labs Inc. said Tuesday it raised $305 million from investors including the NBA le... |
| Mar 30, 2021 | NBA Top Shot maker Dapper Labs just nabbed another $305 million investment from the likes of Michael Jordan and Will Smith | Dapper Labs has a $US2.6 ($3) billion valuation after the round, a source close to the company said. NBA Top Shot
Dapper Labs, the startup behind NBA Top Shot, announced $US305 ($401) million in new funding Tuesday.
The round comes from mor... |
| Mar 30, 2021 | Dapper Labs, the Vancouver B.C. startup behind NBA Top Shot NFT craze, raises $305M | (Dapper Labs Photo)
New funding: Dapper Labs raised $305 million at a reported $2.6 billion valuation. The Vancouver, B.C., startup powers NBA Top Shot, a popular NFT-based digital trading card game that has generated more than $467 million... |
| Mar 30, 2021 | NBA Top Shot maker Dapper Labs just nabbed another $305 million investment from the likes of Michael Jordan and Will Smith | Dapper Labs, the startup behind NBA Top Shot, announced $305 million in new funding Tuesday.
The round comes from more than 30 pro athletes and venture capitalists, including Michael Jordan.
With the investment, Dapper Labs plans to expand ... |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Basketball highlight clips are selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now, Australia’s NBL is considering its own NFT marketplace. | Anthony Au-Yeung/Getty Images
Australia’s National Basketball League “certainly wouldn’t rule out” creating its own NFT marketplace, said Commissioner Jeremy Loeliger.
NBA Top Shot, an NFT trading platform for officially-licensed highlight ... |
| Mar 24, 2021 | As more artists and musicians turn their attention to NFTs, so, likely, do money launderers | Outlets that follow the crypto industry have been observing a trend, which is that according to Google search data, the rise in interest in non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, now almost matches the level of interest in 2017 in initial coin offer... |
| Mar 17, 2021 | NFTs Can Bring the Real World On-Chain | Non-fungible tokens (NFT) have generated an unprecedented level of mainstream interest in cryptocurrency technology. Believers claim NFTs represent a “paradigm shift” whereas detractors compare NFTs to the “Tulip Mania” and the initial coin... |
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| Mar 12, 2021 | EXPLAINER: What's this craze for 'NFTs' all about, anyway? | LONDON (AP) — A digital art piece, tweaked using cryptocurrency technology to make it one-of-a-kind, sold at auction this week for nearly $70 million. That transaction made global headlines and buoyed already-mushrooming interest in these k... |
| Mar 9, 2021 | State of Crypto: It's Time to Talk About NFTs and Intellectual Property Law | NFTs are everywhere now. But how do they fit into the existing legal and regulatory structures?
You're reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for fu... |
| Mar 4, 2021 | Why did Jack Dorsey buy Jay-Z’s failed music service? | Here is the straight news headline: Square, the financial services company run by Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, is buying Tidal, the streaming music service founded by Jay-Z.
And here is the question you, a normal person, may have... |
| Mar 4, 2021 | Five Things Brands Need To Know About NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) | Brands need to start thinking about how they can enter the NFT space. THE DEMATERIALISED |
| Mar 3, 2021 | ‘The fastest growing marketplace in history’: Vancouver’s Dapper Labs at the center of NFT craze | (Dapper Labs Photo)
NFTs go viral: Digital collectibles, also known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), are suddenly the talk of the tech world. They’ve been around for a few years, but gained steam in recent weeks. Music star Grimes just sold a... |
| Mar 3, 2021 | Burned Banksy NFT Sets Art And Crypto Worlds Alight | LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 09, 2020: A Christie's staff member poses with 'Morons (Sepia)', ... [+] screenprint in colours, 2007, by Banksy (estimated sale price £20,000-30,000) during a press preview at Christie's on September 09, ... |
| Mar 2, 2021 | The explosive (and inclusive) potential of NFTs in the creative world | Digital collectibles are having a very large moment. Just last month, a piece of digital art by Beeple sold for $6.6 million on online art marketplace Nifty Gateway. Meanwhile, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda recently sold clips of a song via on... |
| Feb 27, 2021 | Where Value Is Going in Blockchain Networks | When predicting how the cryptocurrency economy will evolve, many people have looked to the start of the internet itself. They imagine certain standards or protocols becoming dominant, with value accruing in the application layers.
But crypt... |
| Feb 26, 2021 | What the NFT? VC David Pakman dumbs down the intensifying digital collectibles frenzy | Non-fungible tokens have been around for two years, but these NFTs, one-of-one digital items on the Ethereum and other blockchains, are suddenly becoming a more popular way to collect visual art primarily, whether it’s an animated cat or an... |
| Feb 25, 2021 | Collectors are spending millions of dollars every day on virtual NBA highlights. Here’s what to know about NBA Top Shot. | . NBA Top Shot
NBA Top Shot is taking the internet by storm.
The blockchain-based platform lets users trade virtual collectibles called “moments.”
It has seen over $US100 ($125) million in sales over the last week, with some moments raking ... |
| Feb 25, 2021 | Collectors are spending millions of dollars every day on virtual NBA highlights. Here's what to know about NBA Top Shot. | NBA Top Shot is taking the internet by storm.
The blockchain-based platform lets users trade virtual collectibles called "moments."
It has seen over $100 million in sales over the last week, with some moments raking in over $100,0... |
| Feb 23, 2021 | It's an NFT Boom. Do You Know Where Your Digital Art Lives? | The Takeaway:
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are a way to prove ownership of digital art and collectibles.
The cool image or video the NFT owner owns doesn't actually live on the blockchain. Instead the token refers to a file that sits somewher... |
| Feb 14, 2021 | Sunday Briefing | #125 | Happy Family Day weekend and welcome to our new subscribers. This week, I’m excited to showcase the Vancouver company pioneering the trading card market of the future; a conversation with a CEO who’s learning to be a father throughout the p... |
| Feb 14, 2021 | What is NBA Top Shot, the Dapper Labs built marketplace that did $50 million in sales in 30 days? | NBA Top Shot is a blockchain-based platform and marketplace that allows people to purchase, trade and own exclusive digital NBA collectibles.
It was announced in mid-2019 as a partnership between the NBA, NBAPA and Vancouver’s Dapper Labs, ... |
| Feb 13, 2021 | NBA Top Shot, CryptoKitties Firm Dapper Labs Raising $250M+ at $2B Valuation: Report | Dapper Labs, responsible for the high-flying digital collectibles platform NBA Top Shot, is raising funds that should net the firm more than $250 million at a valuation of about $2 billion, according to The Block, which cited sources famili... |
| Feb 11, 2021 | Digital Art | My friend Seth is an entrepreneur and an artist. I have two of his paintings hanging in my office in NYC. His latest work is taking photographs of the sunset every day at Venice Beach and then training an AI model to turn it into a 30 secon... |
| Feb 2, 2021 | Mark Cuban: How selling stamps as a kid helped me see why digital assets are the future of business | Long before Mark Cuban became a self-made billionaire, he was a kid growing up in Pittsburgh selling baseball cards and stamps, trying to make an extra buck.
Now, remembering those days helps him understand the next generation and its inter... |
| Jan 21, 2021 | Trading Cards, NFTs, and Crypto | I have written about our portfolio company Dapper‘s NBA Top Shot game here at AVC a few times now. Think of NBA Top Shot as digital trading cards. It is more than that, but that’s a simple way to think about it.
I tweeted this out today:
I ... |
| Dec 28, 2020 | NBA, NBA Top Shot, and Intangible Market | The NBA is back in business. Our family watched a ton of basketball over the long weekend including the Knicks huge win over the Bucks last night. It’s great to have my favorite sport back in action after a short layoff.
Also back in action... |
| Dec 23, 2020 | Miami Heat’s Tyler Herro Lends Voiceover Chops to Dapper Labs’ NBA Top Shot | When opening Dapper Labs blockchain game NBA Top Shot for the first time, users will hear Miami Heat shooting guard Tyler Herro guiding them through the onboarding process.
Herro is the first professional athlete to provide a voiceover for ... |
| Oct 3, 2020 | NBA Top Shot Public Launch | Our portfolio company Dapper took the ropes off NBA Top Shot this past week and it is now open to anyone who wants to play this super fun NBA collectibles game.
I wrote about NBA Top Shot in early August and provided access codes to AVC rea... |
| Oct 1, 2020 | Dapper’s NBA Top Shot Launches Out of Beta With Samsung Galaxy Store Deal | It’s one game down and as many as six to go in this year’s NBA Finals, and while the unusual season has kept fans outside the arena Dapper Labs is hoping to let them own a piece of on-court action.
Announced Thursday, Dapper Labs is rolling... |
| Aug 6, 2020 | NBA Top Shot | One of the questions I hear on crypto is “what can I do with it besides trade it?” And that’s a good question because truth be told, there have not been great use cases for crypto other than storing value, sending value, and speculating.
Bu... |
| Aug 6, 2020 | CryptoKitties creator Dapper Labs raises $12 million for consumer-focused Flow blockchain | CryptoKitties creator Dapper Labs has raised $12 million in funding from NBA stars and others to build a consumer-focused Flow blockchain that supports digital collectibles. The company aims to enable users to own the digital items they col... |
| Aug 6, 2020 | CryptoKitties creator Dapper Labs raises $12 million for consumer-focused Flow blockchain | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
CryptoKitties creator Dapper Labs has raised $12 million in funding from NBA stars and others to build a consumer-focused Flow blockcha... |
| Aug 6, 2020 | Jogadores da NBA participam de rodada de US$ 11,4 milhões em empresa que desenvolve tecnologia blockchain | A Dapper Labs, empresa que desenvolveu o novo blockchain Flow, anunciou hoje que fechou US$ 11,4 milhões em uma nova rodada de investimento com jogadores profissionais da NBA e empresas de capital de risco.
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| Jun 26, 2020 | Augmented Reality NFTs | Nonfungible Tokens, or NFTs, provide a way to verify that a digital asset is uniquely owned and has specific properties, thus potentially giving the asset value through scarcity. This is a powerful idea for gaming because in many games user... |
| May 27, 2020 | CryptoKitties developer launches NBA TopShot, a new blockchain-based collectible collab with the NBA | When Dapper Labs launched CryptoKitties back in November 2017, the company’s take on Tamagotchi was seen as the first popular use of blockchain-based applications. It was the first popular use case outside of Bitcoin as a speculative invest... |