NFT & Crypto Updates

🖼 Alien CryptoPunk sells for $12.5m as rare NFT trading heats up One of nine alien CryptoPunks sold on Thursday for 4,000 Ether, around $12.5 million, in a trade facilitated by Fountain, a broker for high-value NFTs. CryptoPunks is a collection of 10,000 unique, pixelated profile pictures created by the development studio Larva Labs. Each image is linked to a non-fungible token, or NFT. NFTs are a type of digital collectible that use cryptography to verify their ownership and authenticity, serving as a digital proof of ownership. Source NFTs | OpenSea | News

🖼 Ethereum NFT Magazine ‘Redlion Gazette’ Closes Its Chapters The Redlion Gazette—the world’s first weekly NFT magazine on Ethereum—ceased its operations at the beginning of the week, signaling the departure of an OG player in the blockchain art and media scene. “Yesterday marked the first Monday since 2020 without a Gazette release. As expected, it went unnoticed, confirming it was the right decision to end it. Still hurts though,” declared the mastermind behind the project, Redlioneye.eth, on X. Source NFTs | OpenSea | News

📣 FC Barcelona exhibits its first two NFTs at Moco Museum with the exhibition 'Masterpiece FC Barcelona is exhibiting its first two NFTs, In a Way, Immortal (starring Johan Cruyff) and Empowerment (dedicated to Alexia Putellas), at the Moco Museum. They form part of the ‘Masterpiece’ collection consisting of ten artworks, which is being presented piece by piece. Source NFTs | OpenSea | News

🖼 Ex-President Trump Mulls NFT Comeback Amidst Legal Costs Former President Donald Trump is facing mounting legal costs as his legal battles continue to escalate. With the commencement of the first of four criminal trials in Manhattan, Trump’s legal bills have soared to a staggering $86 million since the inception of his presidential campaign. Known for his entrepreneurial endeavors, Trump has a history of branding consumer products as a means to generate revenue. Source NFTs | OpenSea | News

🖼 Trust Wallet Partners with GoMining to Introduce the NFT Collection Trust Box Trust Wallet, a well-known web3 gateway and crypto wallet, has announced an exclusive partnership. The company says that it is integrating with GoMining (a prominent NFT platform) to introduce an exclusive NFT collection named Trust Box. On its official X account, the company revealed the latest announcement of the partnership. Source NFTs | OpenSea | News

🖼 'Final Fantasy' Maker Square Enix Teams With Animoca for Ethereum NFT Game Square Enix, the video game giant behind the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts franchises, announced Monday that it has signed a collaboration agreement with prominent metaverse investment firm and crypto game publisher Animoca Brands. The firms will work together to expand the game publisher’s Ethereum NFT game Symbiogenesis to a broader global audience. Specifically, Animoca’s newly established subsidiary, Animoca Brands Japan, will work with Square Enix on combined marketing efforts, including collaborations with some of the 400+ projects in Animoca’s portfolio. Source NFTs | OpenSea | News

💰 Polygon NFT Activity Rebounds in April, Driven by Dew NFT activity on Polygon has gained traction in April. CryptoSlam data shows that the number of unique buyers of Polygon-based NFTs surged on April 18 to the highest level since June 2023. Over 36,000 NFT purchases were recorded on that day. Polygon ranks fourth among blockchain networks by NFT trading volume after Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. As we reported via X, Dune data compiled by Sealaunch shows that Polygon NFT sales maintained above $1 million for seven consecutive days to April 18. Source NFTs | OpenSea | News

🖼 NFT scam in India sees 71-year-old digital artist losing money in bogus platform fees According to a local report, Shivaprasad R (name changed), a practicing chartered accountant (CA), lost INR 1.58 lakhs (approximately $1895) in fees to the scammers who promised to buy out his art. Shivaprasad is a professional artist whose work has been featured in several local exhibitions and posted on Instagram and Facebook. In October 2023, the scammers, claiming to be an “NFT art dealer,” introduced the artist to a platform dubbed nfttradeplace.com. Source NFTs | OpenSea | News

🖼 Damien Hirst Launches Chainlink Price Index for NFT Project Damien Hirst’s first non-fungible token (NFT) collection is getting a dedicated price index courtesy of Chainlink, a crypto network and data provider. When Hirst – the British artist best known for wildly expensive works involving taxidermied sharks and diamond-studded skulls – released “The Currency” last year, the project took most of its cues from other popular NFT collections. Like CryptoPunks or the Bored Ape Yacht Club, “The Currency” consists of 10,000 images with slight variations. Source NFTs | OpenSea | News

🖼 Telegram Plans to Transform Stickers and Emojis as NFTs on TON Telegram, the popular instant-messaging platform, announces its plan to tokenize stickers and emojis, transforming them into NFTs on the TON blockchain. This move follows Telegram’s recent tokenization of usernames and anonymous numbers, which allowed users to claim up to 95% of sales revenue. By extending tokenization to stickers and emojis, Telegram aims to further integrate the app with the TON blockchain, leveraging its scalability and further provide communication solutions to its expansive user base. Source NFTs | OpenSea | News