Nifty News: Olympic Games Beijing 2022 edition

Today's Nifty News rounds up NFT projects centered astir the Winter Olympics, which began Friday successful Beijing, China. The pursuing are initiatives taken by the International Olympic Committee, oregon IOC, The British Olympic Association, and an autarkic creator starring up the 2022 games.

IOC celebrates Olympic history 

Since June 2021, the IOC has collaborated with nWayPlay, an NFT marketplace and blockchain crippled workplace that is simply a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, to motorboat the Olympic Heritage Collection of Olympic NFT Pins. Essentially integer versions of the carnal collectible and tradeable Olympic pins, these NFTs observe the past Olympic Games by depicting posters, emblems, pictograms and mascots from the past 125 years. Monthly drops of assorted boxes were disposable for fans to purchase, starring up to February 2022. 

Timo Lumme, Managing Director of IOC Television and Marketing Services, said successful a connection that the committee's anticipation is for fans to "connect with the excitement of the Games successful a full caller mode and ain a portion of Olympic history.”

The week of the Opening Ceremony, the IOC officially released a play-to-earn multiplayer mobile video crippled developed by nWay, that they had been teasing since past year. Available connected Android and iOS, the app called Olympic Games Jam: Beijing 2022, will fto players vie successful a bid of wintertime sports to gain Olympic NFT integer pins that tin beryllium traded connected the nWayPlay marketplace. The in-game inferior of the Olympic NFT integer Pins volition widen to quality power-ups, peculiar avatar skins and sporting instrumentality exclusive to circumstantial NFTs.

It is important to enactment that the app is not disposable successful China, wherever contempt being the big city, the authorities has strict regulations connected games and moved to prohibition each crypto-related activities last year.

Related: COVID restrictions stymie integer yuan rollout astatine Beijing Winter Olympics: Report

Team GB enters the Metaverse

Team GB, the marque sanction utilized by the British Olympic Association that represents Great Britain and Northern Ireland, created the Gold Lion Club NFT community. The collaboration with commerce supplier Tokns to developed a instrumentality engagement programme archetypal started successful the tally up to the Tokyo Games past summer. Now, Team GB fans tin acquisition Gold Lion Tokns to summation entree to signed merchandise, jock experiences and yet an immersive clubhouse successful the Metaverse. 

— Team GB (@TeamGB) August 4, 2021

There is 1 postulation of animated NFTs celebrating the athletes' successes and different featuring a constricted fig of integer collectible pins. The 3rd postulation is an NFT driblet by Team GB azygous supplier, Ben Sherman, showcasing the Opening Ceremony uniforms arsenic wearables for the Metaverse. Ben Sherman partnered with the Humanz NFT task to make exclusive Humanz quality NFTs for Team GB fans.

Protest NFT postulation criticizes Chinese government

Badiucao is an exiled Chinese dissident artist, present based successful Australia, who developed an NFT poster run that brings attraction to China's quality rights violations. According to the NFT site, the 5 creation works "depict the Chinese government’s oppression of the Tibetan people, the Uyghur genocide, the dismantling of ideology successful Hong Kong, the regime’s omnipresent surveillance systems, and deficiency of transparency surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic."

The Beijing 2022 Collection was first connected carnal show astatine the December 2021 Oslo Freedom Forum successful Miami and is presently connected accumulation astatine the Museo di Santa Giulia successful Italy. Now released arsenic a integer postulation this week, Badiucao states connected the NFT site: 

"NFTs and blockchain technologies not lone supply a harmless mode to connection captious fiscal enactment to dissident artists, but service arsenic an important immutable nationalist grounds extracurricular of authoritarian tampering and control.”— 巴丢草 Badiucao (@badiucao) December 26, 2021

Collectors tin constitute their ain messages onto the blockchain arsenic portion of the minting process. 10% of the proceeds volition spell towards the Art successful Residency Program that Badiucao is simply a portion of successful  collaboration betwixt the San Francisco-based Gray Area Foundation for the Arts and the Human Rights Foundation successful New York.