“GameStop Corp. GME -6.81% is launching a division to develop a marketplace for nonfungible tokens and establish cryptocurrency partnerships, according to people familiar with its plans, pushing the company into much-hyped areas as it tries to turn around its core videogame business.” Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/gamestop-entering-nft-and-cryptocurrency-markets-as-part-of-turnaround-plan-11641504417
“Binance NFT, the NFT marketplace of Binance, the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider, has today announced the launch of the Subscription Mechanism feature. With this new feature, all participating users stand a fair and equal chance of successfully purchasing an NFT during NFT primary sales.” Read more: https://nftnewstoday.com/2022/01/10/binance-nft-marketplace-introduces-subscription-mechanism/
“An online marketplace OpenSea says it is now worth $13.3bn (£9.8bn) following a new investment of $300m. The platform enables trade in NFTs (non-fungible tokens), unique pieces of digital code that can be associated with a digital asset such as a work of digital art. Some NFTs have sold for millions of dollars.” Read…
“The electronics behemoth Samsung has taken its second major step into the world of the metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in the space of a week, unveiling a new temporary store in the virtual world of Decentraland (MANA).” Read more: https://cryptonews.com/news/samsung-opens-limited-time-store-decentraland-lures-metaverse-visitors-with-rewards.htm
The Metaverse is currently on the lips of tech entrepreneurs, media and Internet corporations. But what exactly is behind the Metaverse? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has renamed Facebook into Meta and talks about it as if it’s the future of the Internet. Currently, there’s also a lot of marketing hype around the idea of the…