Nifty News: FLUF World and Snoop Dogg fundraise, Adidas and Prada NFTs, WAX gifts 10M NFTs

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There was truthful overmuch Nifty News this week that a 2nd round-up was indispensable to drawback up connected the latest nonfungible token (NFT)-related news.

FLUF World and Snoop Dog spouse for charity 

FLUF World, Beyond VR workplace and Snoop Dogg teamed up to raised implicit $1 cardinal via a one-day foundation NFT auction connected behalf of the Kiwi nonprofit enactment Auckland City Mission.

Seven FLUF World NFTs were paired with 7 limited-edition Snoop Dogg-themed Burrows designed by Beyond and sold connected OpenSea. The concern with the rapper included a 500 Snoop Dogg workplace driblet announced this past week. 

— FLUF (@FLUF_World) January 20, 2022

Non-Fungible Labs, who ain FLUF World, archetypal made a Christmas donation of $100,000 to Auckland City Mission past month. Just arsenic Fluf avatars tin find a location successful Burrows successful the Metaverse, Aukland City Mission helps locals successful request of housing.

Adidas Originals

Adidas Originals launches the Adidas for Prada Re-source project in collaboration with integer creator Zach Lieberman connected SuperRare. A bulk of the proceeds from the NFT income volition beryllium donated to Slow Factory, a non-profit enactment and institute dedicated to improving sustainability and biology literacy.

Adidas and Prada invitation their communities to stock anonymized photographs to the open-Metaverse NFT project. 3,000 community-sourced artworks volition beryllium chosen and minted arsenic NFTs. Digital creator Zach Lieberman volition past compile the images arsenic tiles successful a azygous mass-patchwork NFT design. Contributors volition support afloat ownership rights implicit their idiosyncratic NFT tiles.

— adidas Originals (@adidasoriginals) January 20, 2022

UNICEF celebrates 75 years with NFT collection 

On the eve of UNICEF’s 75th anniversary, the UN children’s bureau launched its largest 1,000 data-driven NFT postulation successful enactment of net connectivity astatine schools. So acold $740,000 has been raised.

The archetypal 1,000 NFT pieces raised $550,000, and the pre-sale for a limited-edition portion and 4 others past week astatine a St. Moritz auction raised $140,000. UNICEF besides secured an statement with secondary auction platforms to person 20% royalty of each aboriginal sales, which brought successful the further $50,000 successful 1 week, according to the organization. This royalty operation whitethorn let UNICEF to proceed raising funds for its Giga school-connectivity inaugural via re-sales for years to come. 

Source: Patchwork Kingdoms

WAX to airdrop 10M NFTs

WAX precocious reached 11 cardinal full wallets accounts connected the WAX platform and decided to observe by airdropping a full of 10 cardinal escaped NFT collectibles to the archetypal 10 cardinal wallet holders. This is the largest azygous NFT driblet to date, according to the company, and volition allegedly emit zero c emissions.

The escaped NFTs span 10 antithetic integer pins, each marking a antithetic infinitesimal successful WAX‘s history: From its motorboat connected Mainnet successful 2019 to its WAX Cloud Wallet launches and its collaboration with AMC and Spiderman.

Source: WAX

Other Nifty News

Social media networks made NFT headlines this week arsenic well. Meta reportedly plans to integrate NFTs connected Facebook and Instagram profiles to let their users to show their NFTs. Meta whitethorn besides beryllium successful treatment astir launching an NFT marketplace.

Twitter, connected the different hand, announced its rollout of NFT hexagonal avatars. For now, lone paid subscribers of Twitter Blue utilizing iOS, which costs $2.99 per month, person access. Twitter users were speedy to constituent out, however, that anybody tin simply right-click-save immoderate NFT from a Twitter profile, mint it and past usage it arsenic their avatar.

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