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NFT projects will dominate Web3 in 2023

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This year, the market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) had a rough time, but next year, their popularity is expected to skyrocket. More companies in all kinds of industries will use NFTs to attract, reward, and keep the next generation of shoppers by giving them immersive experiences in the metaverse. Meta and Reddit are expected to be the places where people talk about and sell products in the NFT and Metaverse industries, which both fell this year. Rajagopal Menon, vice president of WazirX crypto exchange, said that a new type of virtual interaction technology based on Web3 will come out in 2023. This will speed up competition in the business world and marketing efforts all over the world. Last week, Bloomberg stated DappRadar to say that the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange caused NFT sales to fall to their lowest level in 16 months. The digital collectibles market, on the other hand, is expected to do very well next year. This is primarily due to the fact that more c

Wojak Finance launches Profile-To-Earn based NFTs

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Wojak Finance, an innovative profile-to-earn solution, puts a unique spin on the Web3 industry’s prevalent play-to-earn trend. They are releasing an NFT collection based on their new profile-to-earn solution. This compilation aims to capitalize on the meme phenomenon and unite the a whole meme and cryptocurrency communities. The purpose of the collection is to reward purchasers with WOJ tokens if they alter their social media profile pictures to Wojakian from the NFT collection. It is an innovative strategy that incorporates play-to-earn concepts and can create revenue through profile-to-earn. Anyone may utilize NFTs to raise profit by just updating their profile picture. The following make up for a solid launch base: • Joined forces with Certik, a main smart contract security evaluation firm • P2E • Strong marketing campaign budget • A skilled improvement and marketing team • Teamwork with well-known influencers Collectors of Wojakians NFTs will have acess to the profile-to-

BMW’s blockchain loyalty program uses Coinweb and BNB chain

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BMW intends to use blockchain technology in its everyday business and build a loyalty program for Thai customers that is based on blockchain. The automaker will get its decentralized architecture from Coinweb, a blockchain infrastructure company. BNB Chain will settle transactions. BMW’s process will be changed in two steps to use blockchain technology. First, the decentralized technology will be built into BMW’s daily operations to automate manual tasks that take a lot of time and make the company’s automotive finance services easier to use. In the second part of the project, Coinweb would build a Web3 application for BMW’s customer loyalty program that was unique to BMW. A blockchain-based rewards system will be used as a way to reward BMW Group customers. The loyalty rewards a customer earns through different actions will determine where they stand in the ecosystem and what level they are on. In the future, owners will be able to buy goods and services from BMW and a connected

BoredApeG, Veratheape & Gerry were elected to the ApeCoin Special Council

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The first election round for the ApeCoin DAO was far from boring. In the last few seconds, a big change happened. After an eight-week election process, the ApeCoin community chose BoredApeG, Veratheape, and Gerry to join Yat Siu and Alexis Ohanian on the Special Council in January 2023. The ApeCoin DAO election came down to the wire as more people with $Ape showed up to vote and others changed their votes in the last few minutes. All of these things had a big effect on how the election turned out. As the Bored Ape Gazette reported before 8:45 p.m. EST, Degentraland, a Metaverse Strategist at Horzien Labs and a member of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, was ahead of the other five candidates for the Special Council with 5.7 million $Ape votes. 15 MINUTES LEFT » The Special Council Election Ends At 9 P.M. EST At this moment the top three vote getters are 1. @Degentraland 2. @BoredApeG And 3. @veratheape Make sure to cast your $Ape here: https://t.co/ILyG37Ljyw pic.twitter.com/

The year fashion faced its effects on society

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Due to reports of clothing worker exploitation, pending legislation to address it, and a heightened awareness of social impact during the pandemic, social sustainability has received priority this year. Sustainability must be all-encompassing; while the environment’s impact is significant, it cannot come at the expense of lives or livelihoods. This fragile balance between people and the environment is highlighted by sustainable growth, one of the major issues of 2022. The “just transition” and degrowth initiatives like circularity and overproduction, according to experts, will be the main issues for 2023. Brands with local supply chains and those aiming to re-shore or near-shore were recognized during the September Venice Sustainable Fashion Forum. Local craft ateliers were funded by Prada’s Kindergarten of the Lagoon ocean conservation project and Fendi’s Hand in Hand project. Lorenzo Bertelli, director of corporate social responsibility for the Prada Group, stated at the time that

BOAX Launches New Brand Identity and Focuses on Fiat-Denominated Only

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BOAX’s name will be changed to BO.AX. It is an award-winning metaverse company that offers full-service solutions to corporate clients and NFT collectors. The new logo will be presented when their BO.AX brand grows. BO.AX has rapidly developed in recent months. To represent its corporate identity and dynamic future, the company has changed its name and changed its logo to reflect its metaverse-friendly direction: compliance, integration with Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN), and a focus on fiat-denominated digital assets industry. The BO.AX team has created Neptunity, a new non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace. It is community-run and situated in the British Virgin Islands (“BVI”). It will allow several chains and will prioritize web3 and NFT projects. The BO.AX team came up with a new logo with the help of many fun brainstorming sessions that shows their new mission and direction for growth in the metaverse era while remaining true to its original goal of democratizing the a

NFT artist files a claim in the Epoch Labs lawsuit

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Epoch Labs, the creators of the popular Bored App Yacht Club NFTs, has been served with counterclaims in an ongoing lawsuit against an artist and his business partner who are accused of creating “copycat” versions of their NFT collection. In June, Era Labs filed a lawsuit against artist Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Kahane, the proprietor of NFT marketplace Not Larva Labs, for allegedly stealing their NFT collection and undervaluing original Bore Ape products. Several of the charges have been rejected by the couple in their response to the complaint. “Each of these NFTs is an entry on a decentralized digital ledger and is unique by design, making them both irreplaceable and impossible to copy,” according to a court document dated December 27. Ripps and Kehn maintain that their BAYC collection, RR/BAYC, does not violate Yuga Labs’ copyright. Additionally, they claim to have “used conceptual art to criticize the disgusting imagery.” Era Labs did not immediately react to a request for comm

4 best Cardano NFT marketplaces to buy unique NFTs

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Cardano is one of the leading blockchains in the world. Due to its transaction speed and environmental friendliness, the blockchain hosts some popular decentralized applications (dAPPs) and NFTs. The blockchain also has some of the biggest NFT marketplaces where users can trade NFTs and other digital assets built on Cardano. This article will take you through a list of Cardano’s top four NFT marketplaces. But before then, what is Cardano?  What is Cardano? Cardano is a decentralized Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain that uses a staking mechanism to validate and confirm transactions. Computers (nodes) that validate these transactions get rewarded in the blockchain’s native token, ADA. This consensus mechanism makes Cardano one of the most environmentally friendly blockchains in the web3 ecosystem.  Cardano was founded in 2017 after two years of development by Charles Hoskinson. Before creating the blockchain, Charles co-founded Ethereum, the second-largest blockchain in the worl

Rolls-Royce Launches Phantom ‘The Six Elements’ Series With NFTs

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Rolls-Royce Motor, a British luxury auto manufacturer, has introduced ‘The Six Elements,’ a limited run of six Phantom Extended Series II autos, each with a unique NFT designed by renowned British artist Sacha Jafri. Humanity, the sixth Phantom in ‘The Six Elements,’ references to Sacha Jafri’s most well-known work, “The Journey of Humanity.” Each vehicle in the “The Six Elements” line of Rolls-Royce Phantom Series II cars is outfitted with a hand-painted Sacha Jafri gallery based on one of the five elements: earth, water, fire, wind, and air; Jafri’s “Humanity” is the “Sixth Element” of this collection. The Guinness Book of World Records lists “The Journey of Humanity” by Sacha Jafri as the largest painting ever created on canvas, which ties into the sixth element of Humanity. The Rolls-Royce Phantom “The Six Elements” was the brainchild of the Bespoke Collective in Goodwood, United Kingdom, and Jafri of the Rolls-Royce Private Office in Dubai. The sixth Phantom 'The Six

Was Bored Ape Yacht Club the best-selling NFT collection of 2022?

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In 2022, bears dominated the field of programmed apes and other appealing creatures. This year’s NFT market could not endure the general economic downturn. As a result, the slide was followed by the bulk of the leading collections. However, not all hope is lost. A recent Coinbase research indicates that the 2022 NFT decline is healthy. It further asserted that the use of NFTs is still in its “infancy” The Bored Ape Yacht Club collection accounted for three of the top five NFT sales in the previous day. Additionally, an NFT from the Azuki collection was put on the list. Users were required to spend between $304k and $152k to get these digital tokens. This Year’s Trend in NFT As indicated in the table below, the most frequently mentioned NFT phrases this year included ‘bayc,’ ‘boredapeyc,’ ‘bayc,’ ‘eth,”mayc,’ ‘floor,’ ‘twitter cryptopunks,”moonbirds,’ ‘nftcommunity,’ etc. Top #NFT mentions of 2022 including words, emojis, and hashtags. pic.twitter.com/TUp9ZOLcKV — LunarCrush

Taiwan temple offers local sea goddess NFTs

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Using the blockchain could increase interest in the Chinese sea goddess Mazu, which is already a profitable business in Taiwan. The Mazu deity is well-known in Chinese cultures all over the world. In Taiwan, it has long been seen as a protector of sailors. From Taichung City’s Dajia Jenn Lann Temple, hundreds of thousands of worshippers make the 300-kilometer, 9-day trip carrying a statue of the goddess. As a result of these pilgrimages and celebrations, a “Mazu economy” has grown up, with people giving money to charity and spending money on goods and services with a Mazu theme. The Dajia Jenn Lann Temple, which was built in the 1700s during the Qing Dynasty, has decided to use Web 3 .0 methods in the way it runs. In this process, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that are dedicated to the sea goddess are made and sold. These tokens can be used as a kind of fast-track entry pass for the annual Spring pilgrimage. The MazuDAO NFTs went on sale in August for NT$18,880 (US$615) at the temple

Italy to create the crypto art Renaissance

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The latest NFT market report for Italy from Research and Markets says that the market will grow by 47.6% by the end of 2022. With centuries of history, art, and culture, Italy is one of Europe’s cultural centers. Now, a new report says that its nonfungible token (NFT) market could help start the crypto art Renaissance. The NFT market in Italy is expected to grow by 47.6% by the end of 2022, according to the “Italy NFT Market Intelligence and Future Growth Dynamics Databook” from Research and Markets. This would put the value of the Italian NFT market around $671 million. Also, over the next five years, the NFT industry in Italy is expected to grow at a steady rate of 34.6% per year. By 2028, NFTs are expected to be worth $3.6 billion in terms of how much they are spent. According to the report, the country’s success with NFTs is partly due to its strong arts and culture scene. Luxury fashion brands from Italy, like Gucci and Dolce & Gabbana, have been some of the first to use

Beeple believes the future of art will rely on NFTs

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Beeple, whose real name is Michael Winkelmann, is a digital artist with a significant level of success. He believes that at some point in the future, all physical works of art will be accompanied by an NFT. Beeple stated in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on December 23, that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) will be of great help to the art business since they will provide superior methods for tracking provenance and storing data that can be verified as being authentic. It’s a better system than simply handing you a piece of paper, he said, adding, “I think all paintings will eventually have NFTs attached just because again, it’s a better system than just handing you a piece of paper.”  “If you had a standardization around ‘this is a painting,’ you could have all the provenance in the metadata of that NFT. You could have [that data on] where that painting was shown. So it’s all there and it’s searchable in a database.” As a result, he believes that non-fungible tokens will eve

Square Enix paid Gumi $52.7 million to create NFTs and metaverse project

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Japanese gaming giant Square Enix, which supports NFTs, has funded gaming company Gumi 7 billion yen ($52.7 million) to fund the creation of “high-quality” mobile games, blockchain games, and a Metaverse project. A translation of the press release indicates that as a result of the partnership, Gumi will have access to some intellectual property owned by Square Enix, and the two companies may work together to create an NFT marketplace with a focus on games. The company has announced its intention to develop a variety of NFT games that will have integration with the Metaverse. The Japanese company has coined the enigmatic term “Wow and Earn” to describe games based on well-known IP that feature Play-to-Earn (P2E) components facilitated by blockchain technology. As the article wrote it, “In the future, while considering the use of powerful content that everyone recognizes, we will break away from the highly speculative blockchain games of the past and create value while enjoying fun