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This week's Nifty News sees the accomplishment of Louis Vuitton to the nonfungible token (NFT) gaming scene, Johnnie Walker's introduction into Web3 and Elon Musk's evident clasp of Bored Ape Yacht Club.
Louis Vuitton makes its people successful the NFT gaming country
To commemorate Louis Vuitton’s bicentennial day successful precocious 2021, the French luxury marque launched a NFT crippled called "Louis: The Game." At the clip of publication, the crippled has been dowloaded much than 2 cardinal times connected some Android and iOS devices. "Louis: The Game" follows its protagonist, Vivienne, arsenic she overcomes challenges, collects candles and different collectibles. NFT creator Beeple designed 30 NFTs embedded wrong the game, which are up for winning. At the extremity of April, caller levels were released and with it caller opportunities to triumph NFTs that volition beryllium distributed via a raffle done August 4, 2022.
Screenshot of the iOS mobile app of Louis: The Game.Larva Labs deletes each of their tweets
In a funny and quiescent move, the Twitter relationship handled by the founders of Larva Labs (LL) reset its Tweet number to zero connected May 2. Since Yuga Labs acquired Larva Labs collections CryptoPunks and Meebits successful March, astir Tweets concerning these collections person been moved to @cryptopunksnfts and @MeebitsNFTs accounts.
However, LL founders, Matt and John, stated that they would proceed posting connected @LarvaLabs. The institution continues to tally assorted different Web3 projects nether its belt, including Autoglyphs, arsenic good arsenic immoderate mobile apps.
We’ve changed our grip pursuing the acquisition announcement. Follow on present for CryptoPunks updates, and support up with Meebits implicit astatine @MeebitsNFTs. The projects’ founders, Matt & John, volition support posting arsenic @larvalabs.
— CryptoPunks (@cryptopunksnfts) March 22, 2022For fans nostalgic astir the OG NFT collection, 1 idiosyncratic known arsenic "@swissdegen" has backed up each of Larva Labs’ Tweets since 2017. Why? "For the culture," helium tweeted.
Is Elon Musk embracing NFTs?
Twitter's caller owner, Elon Musk, changed his Twitter illustration representation (PFP) to a collage of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs for little than 1 time and caused rather a disturbance connected Crypto Twitter. Musk’s illustration photograph besides sent soaring the worth of ApeCoin, Yuga Labs' cryptocurrency. The representation has since been deleted due to the fact that Michael Bouhanna, a Sotheby's executive, had primitively created it for the Sotheby’s merchantability of the NFT and requested recognition for it.
@elonmusk arsenic overmuch I respect your enactment I’d similar you to region your pfp that I created for our Sotheby’s sale. Or you recognition maine . Happy to nonstop you the archetypal record minted with the purchaser support pic.twitter.com/e83ZyxWGH5
— Michael Bouhanna (@michaelbouhanna) May 4, 2022Users who traced immoderate of the NFTs successful the illustration pic confirmed that Elon so has an awesome postulation of Bored Apes, including 3 golden apes. The wallet besides holds Doodles, Azuki and Moonbirds, each transferred from MoonPay's vault. However, some of the Bored Apes successful the PFP collage are not owned by Elon Musk, arsenic idiosyncratic "@franklinisbored" pointed out, raising concerns of copyright breaches.
VeeFriends partners with Johnnie Walker
Scotch Whiskey Johnnie Walker and genitor institution DIAGEO partnered with Gary Vaynerchuk's NFT task VeeFriends to supply holders of the Gift Goat VeeFriends NFTs with spirits-related offerings. Gift Goat is 1 of the 268 characters successful the archetypal VeeFriends collection. There are 555 Gift Goat tokens successful total.
All Gift Goat tokens volition unlock 18 luxury gifting experiences curated by Gary Vaynerchuk implicit the people of 3 years. Each acquisition combines a bespoke carnal acquisition with a unsocial NFT from a notable creator successful the space. The Johnnie Walker collaboration volition besides acceptable up an activation astatine the upcoming VeeCon NFT-ticketed conference.
Source: VaynerNFTOther Nifty News
Two weeks aft Coinbase launched the beta version of its NFT marketplace, the crypto speech opened it up for everyone connected Wednesday. Coinbase clarified connected Twitter that having an unfastened beta means that much features volition continuously beryllium added, but with the assistance of the public.
The past week of April saw a abrupt surge successful the request for 3- and 4-digit Ethereum Name Service, oregon ENS, domain names, marking a inclination of NFT investors who similar a shorter NFT token ID. Coinciding with caller registrations was a sharp price summation for ENS token. Additionally, secondary income for ENS names connected OpenSea reached a highest 446 Ether (ETH) worthy of measurement successful the past week.
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