NFL fans in general will now be able to get their hands on digital memories of their favorite football stars after Dapper Labs’ NFL All Day NFT finally opened to the public after a seven-month closed beta.
On August 18, the National Football League (NFL), the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) and Dapper officially launched the project and announced the first public launch of NFT, a pack of four NFTs dubbed “Headliner” consisting of four different new ones. moments players.
Users will have the chance to get their hands on NFTs featuring famous players such as Tom Brady, Trevor Lawrence, Javonte Williams, and Jalen Ramsey. There will be a total of 22,500 packages on sale for $ 59 per piece.
NFTs are available in different levels of rarity: common, rare and legendary, with only 187 packages containing a highly sought after legendary NFT.
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– NFL ALL DAY (@NFLALLDAY) August 18, 2022
Much like Dapper’s first officially licensed NBA Top Shot project, NFL All Day offers tokenized collectibles for players and teams depicting various gameplay video highlights known as “moments.” There are also GameFi elements added to the experience through streets such as collectible challenges to earn rewards in NFT, game tickets, VIP experiences, Jersey etc.
The project has been in closed beta since February and has generated sales worth over $ 37 million to date, according to data from CryptoSlam.
“Last year’s gradual rollout brought a wave of early adopters who have begun collecting NFT video highlights of NFL games, and we expect to significantly increase user numbers with the official launch of the platform,” noted Joe Ruggiero, vice president. senior consumer products industry of the NFL.
The start of NFT signs the Hollywood deal
NFT start-up Boss Beauties has signed a representation agreement with leading Hollywood talent agency WME.
As part of the agreement, WME will represent the company across the entertainment industry as it works to secure Boss Beauties’ intellectual licensing (IP) agreements in film, Wb3, games, events, brand partnerships etc.
The Boss Beauties project consists of 10,000 unique tokenized digital art portraits depicting female avatars with various career choices such as CEOs, pilots, doctors and astronauts. The collection reportedly sold out in 90 minutes after launching in September.
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Boss Beauties signs with world fame @WME to push BB and Super BB into film, TV, digital and gaming. Exclusive story on @Variety https://t.co/VmLf2ydH3O pic.twitter.com/krewii3wDB
– Boss Beauties (@BossBeautiesNFT) August 17, 2022
The project has generated sales worth more than $ 48.3 million to date, with a portion of the proceeds from primary and secondary sales earmarked for empowering women through mentoring and scholarships.
CryptoPunks creators Larva Labs signed a similar deal with rival agency UTA in September.
Metaverse Art Week 2022
Decentraland, one of the largest Metaverse platforms in the blockchain industry, will host the third annual Metaverse Art Week event in its virtual world between August 24th and 28th.
The event will see a wide range of NFT artwork curated by big names like Sotheby’s, OpenSea, Artnet, while there will also be scheduled panel discussions, a virtual outdoor sculpture garden and an interactive 3D art wall.
“The third annual Metaverse Art Week will explore how the human spirit is wired to elicit an emotional response when presented with art inspired by mathematical projects found in nature and how metaverse technology is pushing the boundaries of programmatic art and redefining what. is an immersive experience, ”the Decentraland team wrote in an announcement shared with Cointelegraph.
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From Golden Globes to NFTs: Sir Anthony Hopkins
Famous 84-year-old actor Sir Anthony Hopkins has come aboard the NFT gravy by announcing The Eternal Collection, a set of 10 digitally animated NFT pieces depicting Hopkins as various Jungian psychological archetypes.
The various 1 in 1 NFT artwork features realistic digital renderings of Hopkins’ face as the Hero, Rebel, Wizard, Sage, Ruler, Scout, Lover, Creator, Giver and of the Jester. The auctions will be published on OpenSea on September 16th. The face of each artwork will also be used to create 100 NFT profile images for each of the 10 pieces, for a total of 1,010 NFTs. The project is in collaboration with the media company Web3 Orange Comet.
Other good news:
The Australian Football League (AFL) first limited edition NFT drop sold out in just under 12 hours on Wednesday. The project is called AFL Mint and follows a similar format to NBA Top Shot and NFL All Day. The first launch of “Ripper Skipper 2022” consisted of 3,800 packages that generated more than $ 130,000 in revenue for AFL Mint.
Solana-based wallet provider Phantom launched a new burn feature on Thursday that allows users to remove spam NFTs sent by scammers.