Nifty News: MADworld companions with Xtreme Pong for nonfungible token (NFT) drop, CryptoDragons NFTs promote call at 10 seconds, and Beeple collector buys Rare Pepe meme NFT for 500Okay.

NFT meets ping pong

Animoca-Brands backed NFT builders MADworld has partnered with widespread content material creator Airrack to drop NFTs devoted to his coming Xtreme Pong match.


MADworld companions with Xtreme Pong for NFT drop, CryptoDragons NFTs promote out in 10 seconds and Beeple collector buys Rare Pepe meme NFT for 500Okay

Airrack has round 2.58 million Youtube subscribers and is net hosting a live-streamed ping pong match on Nov. 13 at 1 pm PST that may characteristic different content material creators akin to Zach King, Brent Rivera, ZHC and Bryce Hall.

The match will characteristic on Airrack's Youtube channel, and it'll see a complete of 12 extremely prosperous creators battle it out for a stake of the $120,000 prize pool.

As a part of the occasion, Madworld will function the official NFT growth confederate and create NFTs that give the hodlers vote powers over future Xtreme occasions. In an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Eric Decker (Airrack) stressed that:

"It's important to me to engage my subscribers and give them actual control over the channel's outcome & direction."

MADworld will present three tiers of memorabilia NFTs for the occasion, with the commonest being NFTs representing occasion gear utilised by the opponents. Competing artists will create distinctive digital art NFTs throughout "live art battles" that may happen through the Xtreme Pong occasion.

The agency may also confederate with every creator to public sale a uncommon "apex" NFT tied to their bodily paddle used through the occasion.

"The Xtreme Pong format is an example of how the right utility can drive demand for any NFT. It will be one of the most innovative live-stream events of 2021 and will set new industry standards," mentioned Jordan Heathfield, MADworld's Head of Marketing as a part of the announcement.

RAREPEPE sells for $500Okay in public sale

MetaKovan, the NFT collector who splendidly purchased Beeple's First 5000 Days NFT for $69 million earlier this 12 months, snapped up a RAREPEPE NFT for $500,000 by way of public sale final week.

On day three of the NFY.NYC. occasion on Friday, MetaKovan bought the Series 1 "RAREPEPE, RAREPEPE NAKAMOTO Card 1" token that depicts a mix of the beloved Pepe the Frog meme and a photograph Satoshi Nakamoto, a Japanese man who was mistaken for the onymous Bitcoin creator who bears the identical identify.

The public sale was hosted by Mint Gold, who was celebrating the launch of its 24/7 artist market and artistic studio for NFT creators on the identical day.

Mint Gold mentioned the NFT was valued at $25,000 earlier this 12 months all the same has full-grown in reputation amid the booming progress of the NFT sector.

"During the last NFT.NYC in early 2021, 99% of the people that I mentioned RAREPEPE or other time of origin NFTs to, did not know what they were," mentioned Theo Goodman, an auction on the occasion.

"This year, every individual that I asked knew what it was. The striking visual contrast between these time of origin arts and collectible modern mass-produced NFTs is something most people see right away, and this auction was evidence of that," he added.

Final Fantasy creators ramping up NFT foray

Square Enix, the Japanese agency behind the extensively widespread Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider online game sequence, has distinct that it's going to transition to a "full commercialisation stage" towards NFTs quickly.

In March, the agency jumped into NFTs by way of a partnership with blockchain agency Double Jump Tokyo to drop a sequence of collectible playacting card game portrayal content material from the Million Arthur play and Anime franchise.

The NFT assortment was launched on Oct. 14 and promptly offered out.

During a latest six-month medium of exchange outcomes presentation, Square Enix mentioned that its first NFT drop served as "a proof of construct for establishing what synergies" it could derive from combining NFTs with its "business assets."

Square Enix added that it's now aiming to work on a "full commercialisation stage" for tokenizing its licenced content material, which additionally features a "robust entry" into blockchain-based play.

"Games are further expanding from centralized into decentralized formats," the report reads. "In addition to the rather content creation we have traditionally engaged in, we will center on blockchain games premised on token economies as a form of decentralized content."

CryptoDragons promote call at 10 seconds

The newest NFT drop from the NFT collectible and play challenge dubbed "CryptoDragons" offered call at 10 seconds.

The drop consisted of 1 legendary egg NFT, 1 Epic Egg NFT and 498 haphazardly thin Egg NFTs that had been priced at 35 Ether (ETH), 7 ETH and 0.2 ETH respectively.

Owners of the assorted EGG NFTs can hatch or unlock a brand new Dragon NFT, which could be used inside the challenge's metaverse and "Battle on Blockchain" sport mode, which affords the gamers an chance to win new NFTs or ETH.

There are a complete of 10,000 EGG NFTs, and the eggs could be hatched ranging from Dec. 25 to be used on the platform.

Other Nifty News

On Nov. 8, Identity check tech agency Civic Technologies launched a free device to fight botting exercise in Solana (SOL)-based NFT drops noted as the "Ignite Pass." The device filters out bots by requiring patrons to finish a animateness check earlier than being authorized to make NFT purchases.

Cointelegraph reported earlier at this time that Zynga, the builders of the extensively widespread sport FarmVille, appointed advertising veteran Matt Wolf as its vice chairman to supervise the corporate's blockchain play efforts.