Nifty News: Porsche 911 NFTs, BMW files Web3 trademarks, Baby Shark’s NFT game and more...

Porsche to motorboat 7,500 NFTs for usage successful a ‘virtual world’

German luxury car shaper Porsche has suggested it volition beryllium importantly ramping up its Web3 efforts aft unveiling an upcoming NFT task consisting of 7,500 customizable tokenized vehicles.

In a Nov. 29 announcement, Porsche stated that the NFTs volition beryllium launched successful January, and users volition beryllium capable to customize assorted aspects of the cars successful narration to show and appearance.

The NFT creation itself is being designed by decorator and 3D creator Patrick Vogel, with each pieces revolving astir the celebrated Porsche 911 model.

Notably these virtual assets volition beryllium designed successful Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5, suggesting that gaming integrations are afoot.

NFT car designs: Porsche

The institution gave a sneak peek into the task astatine the Art Basel league successful Miami connected Nov. 30. While circumstantial details person not been mentioned, the institution noted that owners volition beryllium capable to usage the cars successful the “virtual world,” astir apt meaning immoderate benignant of Metaverse.

More broadly, Porsche suggested that it is looking to importantly ramp up its vulnerability to Web3 moving forward, with the announcement noting that:

“Digital creation is conscionable 1 facet of Porsche’s Web3 strategy. The sports car shaper is moving to integrate the imaginable of blockchain exertion into existing and aboriginal processes and solutions.”

Porsche antecedently had a manus successful launching soccer-themed NFT collectibles successful June 2021 arsenic portion of a task called Fanzone, but present appears to beryllium taking the tokenization of its cars much seriously.

BMW to get Web3 trademarks

Speaking of German luxury car manufacturers, BMW has reportedly applied to trademark its logo successful narration to a big of Web3 products and services.

The determination was highlighted by USPTO licensed trademark lawyer Mike Kondoudis, who often shares quality regarding Web3 trademark applications successful the U.S. from large companies.

BMW outlined intentions for its logo to span crossed collectibles specified arsenic virtual clothing, footwear, headwear and vehicles, portion besides indicating plans for downloadable virtual goods specified arsenic online environments and games.

— Mike Kondoudis (@KondoudisLaw) November 30, 2022

Baby Shark’s Web3 arc

Content from Pinkfong’s massively fashionable children’s song/music video Baby Shark is acceptable to beryllium tokenized arsenic portion of a family-focused blockchain game.

Pinkfong reportedly penned a licensing statement with Toekenz Collectibles to make and contented Baby Shark characters successful a kid harmless integer environment.

Baby Shark NFT partnership: Toekenz

Toekenz Collectibles is an NFT level targeted astatine children aged 12 and under, and the absorption of the crippled is to educate kids aged 5 to 9 “about the trading system of integer collectibles.”

The kids volition besides beryllium capable to customize the NFT creation to their ain liking, and adjacent enactment successful a Tokenz DAO wherever they “can workout antiauthoritarian decision-making.”

This is not Pinkfong’s archetypal dip into NFTs, Cointelegraph antecedently reported that the South Korea-based institution launched a bid of constricted editions Baby Shark NFTs successful December past year.

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Deadmau5 rolling retired euphony metaverse

A Web3 startup co-founded by fashionable crypto-friendly DJ Deadmau5 (Joel Zimmerman) is gearing up for the motorboat of a euphony and gaming focused Metaverse platform.

Announced astatine the Art Basel lawsuit connected Nov. 29, the start-up known arsenic Pixelynx stated that the Polygon-based level volition motorboat this week, and footwear things disconnected with an Augmented Reality (AR) scavenger hunt acceptable connected Miami Beach.

The firm’s CEO and co-founder Inder Phull described the AR scavenger hunt arsenic a “Rock Band meets Pokémon Go experience,” successful which virtual gaming features are merged with existent locations connected maps via astute devices.

Users who clasp Deadmau5’s Droplet NFTs volition summation aboriginal entree to Pixelynx’s metaverse with the level aiming to supply a big of virtual experiences for fans of peculiar musicians and artists.

More Nifty News

NFTs depicting the ongoing protests successful China against the country’s pugnacious zero-tolerance COVID-19 argumentation person recovered their mode to the NFT marketplace OpenSea astatine the process extremity of November.

On Nov. 30, decentralized speech (DEX) Uniswap announced that users tin present commercialized NFTs connected its autochthonal protocol. The relation volition initially diagnostic NFT collections for merchantability connected platforms including OpenSea, X2Y2, LooksRare, Sudoswap, Larva Labs, X2Y2, Foundation, NFT20, and NFTX.