Nifty News: The Lennon Collection, Gucci and Lamborghini NFTs, Atari's 50th anniversary

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Let's commencement disconnected the week with the latest nonfungible token (NFT)-related quality successful today's Nifty News. The pursuing collections are either ongoing oregon launching the archetypal week of February.

The Beatles memorabilia up for auction

Julian Lennon, the lad of The Beatles' instrumentalist John Lennon’s, enactment up NFTs for auction of items from his idiosyncratic postulation of memorabilia connected the YellowHeart marketplace, including the overgarment John Lennon wore successful the Magical Mystery Tour movie and 3 Gibson guitars. 

Lennon, however, has nary volition of selling the carnal items due to the fact that helium "would similar to beryllium capable to walk these items connected for generations to come," helium said successful an interrogation with Yahoo Finance. Each NFT contains an audio component, narrated by the son, recounting his transportation with the item.

The point of the “Lennon Connection” auction with the highest connection astatine the infinitesimal is Paul McCartney's hand-written notes for the opus “Hey Jude.” McCartney primitively wrote the opus to comfortableness a 5-year-old Julian erstwhile his parents divorced, according to the auction site. 

“Hey Jude” Notes 1:1 for Lennon Connection : The NFT Collectionhttps://t.co/6l5nzO1CHJ pic.twitter.com/9RSXpyKwId

— Julian Lennon (@JulianLennon) January 25, 2022

Gucci becomes super

Fashion location Gucci and SUPERPLASTIC, the creator of animated celebrities and integer vinyl toys, person partnered up for a three-part NFT collaboration dubbed SUPERGUCCI. All SUPERGUCCI purchases volition beryllium successful ETH.

The archetypal SUPERGUCCI driblet volition see 10 exclusive NFTs and accompanying ceramic sculptures. The main quality of the postulation is called CryptoJanky, inspired by SUPERPLASTIC's artists Janky & Guggimon. Both the CryptoJanky NFT and the handmade sculpture were co-designed and built successful Italy.

Additionally, Gucci’s Creative Director Alessandro Michele created an online conception store, the Gucci Vault. Prospective customers tin browse the microsite for pre-owned vintage Gucci pieces hand-picked by Michele, and restored and reconditioned for sale.

Lamborghini goes to space

The Italian car shaper announced its archetypal NFT task called "Space Time Memory:" a bid of 5 photographs of a Lamborghini Ultimae going into space.

Swiss creator Fabian Oefner created the images from existent carnal car parts and photographs taken from a upwind balloon. According to the company, the NFTs are accessible via a QR codification engraved successful 5 units of a carnal "Space Key," whose c fibre elements were sent to the International Space Station arsenic a portion of a associated probe task with Lamborghini.

An Aventador LP 780-4 Ultimae rises supra the Earth arsenic a awesome of quality abstraction exploration: it’s called Space Time Memory, and it’s our archetypal NFT acceptable ever. The integer artworks, created by Fabian Oefner successful collaboration with NFT PRO, volition beryllium soon auctioned.​#Lamborghini pic.twitter.com/NPomZsKdE8

— Lamborghini (@Lamborghini) January 27, 2022

Atari celebrates 50 years with NFT GFTs

Atari decided to commemorate its 50th day of video crippled making by creating NFTs and gifting them to fans. Giftable NFTs, oregon GFTs, are astonishment constricted variation NFTs that volition automatically unwrap connected a circumstantial date. According to the company, this postulation honors the Atari 2600 console and games specified arsenic Combat, Swordquest, Asteroids, Centipede, and more.

Atari partnered with Republic Realm, a metaverse real estate concern fun, to make the GFTs, which tin beryllium compared to loot boxes, a video crippled diagnostic that represents virtual treasure chests containing in-game items.

— Atari (@atari) January 27, 2022

Other Nifty News

LooksRare, OpenSea's up-and-coming rival, has sparked immoderate concerns implicit the increased lavation trading enactment connected the NFT marketplace. Despite the speculation, LooksRare was the chosen level for the highest recorded merchantability of a Bored Ape Yacht Club, oregon BAYC, NFT successful presumption of ETH paid, and not dollar worth owed to the existent terms of ETH. On Sunday night, Bored Ape #283 sold for 1080.69 ETH, oregon $2.85 cardinal connected LooksRare. BAYC precocious welcomed Justin Bieber to the club with his 500 ETH, oregon $1.29 cardinal acquisition of Bored Ape #3001.

OpenSea, however, besides faced dense idiosyncratic critique past week after setting a minting limit of 5 NFT collections with 50 items per collection, erstwhile antecedently it was unlimited. Additionally, erstwhile the level called connected its users to cancel immoderate inactive listings, galore ended up losing their NFTs and their wealth owed to confusing email instructions. 

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