Nifty News: Nike unveils NFT platform, Steve Jobs' sandals sell for $200K and more

Nike's "Dot Swoosh" level lands

Footwear and apparel elephantine Nike has unveiled its latest foray into the non-fungible token (NFT) and Metaverse abstraction with the motorboat of an NFT marketplace named “.Swoosh”

While .Swoosh is inactive successful the beta phase, Nike announced that its “first integer collection” is acceptable to motorboat connected the eb3 level successful 2023, with the remainder of 2022 devoted to increasing the level and idiosyncratic base.

— ycxc RTFKT (@ycxcRTFKT) November 14, 2022

Among the “virtual creations” to go disposable adjacent twelvemonth are integer sneakers, apparel, accessories and different collectibles. In addition, immoderate volition unlock benefits specified arsenic entree to real-life products and events.

Following the archetypal postulation drop, members tin participate a assemblage situation to triumph the accidental to co-create a virtual merchandise with Nike.

According to Nike, the winners of the situation tin gain an undisclosed magnitude of royalties connected the virtual merchandise they assistance co-create.

Ron Faris, wide manager of Nike Virtual Studios, said .Swoosh offers a “gateway into a caller integer arena," portion the Twitter station from Nike said the level would assistance "onboard the adjacent millions" into the "wonderful satellite of web3 and integer assets."

“We are shaping a marketplace of the aboriginal with an accessible level for the web3-curious,” helium added.

In 2021, Nike entered the Metaverse crippled done the acquisition of virtual sneakers and collectibles marque RTFKT. It besides launched the virtual satellite Nikeland.

.SWOOSH uses akin tools and technologies but each 3 are antithetic projects for the company.

Steve Jobs NFT sandals spell nether the hammer

A one-of-a-kind non-fungible token (NFT) of the Birkenstocks sandals worn by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs astatine assorted times during his beingness has sold for $218,750 astatine an auction.

Steve Jobs sandals, implicit with imprints of his feet. Source: Julien's Auctions

Julien's Auctions ran the auction from Nov. 11 to Nov. 13, with 19 radical wide trying to assertion the footwear with offers ranging from $15,000 to $175,000.

Included successful the woody was an NFT featuring a 360° integer practice of Steve Jobs sandals and was minted connected the Polygon blockchain.

The NFT is simply a 1-of-1 Edition and included the carnal sandals, with the “imprint of Steve Jobs' feet.” It besides came with a hard lawsuit for retention and transport and a Jean Pigozzi publication titled "The 213 Most Important Men successful My Life."

Initially, the sandals and NFT were projected to fetch betwixt $60,000 and $80,000, but aft 19 bids, the sandals ended up going for $218,750. The caller proprietor of the sandal NFT has not been publically disclosed.

Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple successful 1976. Jobs died of pancreatic crab successful 2011.

First airdrome metaverse takes formation successful India 

Bangalore International Airport has launched Metaport, a metaverse airdrome built connected the Polygon blockchain. 

— Polygon - MATIC (@0xPolygon) November 12, 2022

Inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Nov. 11, the metaverse features a virtual reproduction of Terminal 2 at Bangalore International Airport and allows users to web with different travelers, entree amusement and spell buying successful the integer space.

Arpit Sharma, Vice President of Enterprises astatine Polygon, posted a Nov. 12 video of Metaport successful action.

— Arpit (@Arp_it1) November 12, 2022

In the video a idiosyncratic logs into the Metaverse airport, customizes their avatar's quality and clothing, and past wanders astir the virtual space.

The avatar interacts with respective different users done a text-based chat, goes connected an creation tour, and gets the accidental to acquisition integer items earlier a boarding telephone prompts the idiosyncratic to permission the metaverse. 

The task is the effect of a associated task betwixt Bangalore International Airport, Polygon, Intel and Amazon Web Services and is being called the archetypal metaverse airdrome successful the satellite by its creators.

2022 FIFA World Cup NFTs kicking off 

The 2022 FIFA World Cup is rapidly approaching its Nov. 20 kickoff successful Qatar and successful the leadup, respective companies person been releasing NFT collections and announcing Web3 games for the event. 

Sportswear shaper Adidas posted a Nov. 14 promotional trailer for the World Cup featuring its Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) quality Indigo Herz alongside Lionel Messi and different players. 

catch our household reunion each World Cup agelong #ImpossibleIsNothing pic.twitter.com/UCNG2WBnLg

— adidas (@adidas) November 14, 2022

Herz was connected a cereal container of "Indigoooooals."

The footwear elephantine purchased Indigo Herz, oregon BAYC #8774, connected Sept. 17, 2021 for 46 Ethereum — worth astir $58,500 astatine the time.

Yuga Labs grants holders afloat intelligence spot rights to usage the characters for commercialized endeavors.

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Earlier this month, large recognition paper institution Visa released 5 soccer-themed NFTs for auction connected Nov. 1 featuring World Cup goals of celebrated players. The auction lasted until Nov. 8, with each proceeds donated to a U.K.-based charity.

The payments institution is besides giving fans a accidental to make their ain NFTs connected a integer transportation astatine the FIFA Fan Festival, which volition motorboat during the World Cup.

On Oct. 14, Budweiser partnered with FIFA to merchandise a unrecorded scoreboard NFT postulation called Budverse X World Cup.

According to the OpenSea description, erstwhile users mint their satellite cupful team, the NFT volition travel and way the advancement passim the FIFA World Cup.

Meanwhile, FIFA announced on Nov. 9 they volition person astatine slightest 4 web 3.0 games that fans tin play portion astatine the World Cup.

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