RTFKT partners with Daz 3D to advance metaverse NFT’s
The digital NFT collective is expected to debut their pfp avatar collection, titled CloneX, later this month. RTFKT Studios, pronounced artifact, has announced a collaborative partnership with software developer Daz 3D to leverage their technology to create immersive, three-dimensional avatars for their upcoming nonfungible token, or NFT, release, CloneX.Founded by Chris Le, Benoit Pagotto and Steven Vasilev, RTKFT has emerged at the forefront of next-generation sneaker culture, intertwining burgeoning technologies of augmented reality, nonfungible tokens and blockchain authentication,....
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The new RTFKT acquisition confirms Nike’s interest in being a prominent contributor to the virtual world of the metaverse. Sportswear manufacturer Nike announced the acquisition of virtual sneakers and collectibles brand RTFKT. Nike becomes the biggest U.S.-based athletic products manufacturer through this partnership to join the metaverse bandwagon. A Cointelegraph report from Nov. 02 highlighted Nike's submission of requests for patenting the words — namesake, swoosh logo and just do it — for use online and in online virtual worlds." The filing was accompanied by two new job postings for....
The secret behind CloneX is Takashi Murakami and the RTFKT team, that’s the short answer. The NFT collection is the result of the once-secret collaboration between the legendary Japanese artist and the experts in creating virtual sneakers. Steven Vasilev, Chris Le, and Benoit Pagotto founded RTFKT, which reads “Artifact,” in 2020. The CloneX public sale took place in the last days of November 2021. These people work fast. The goal of the Ethereum-based CloneX collection is quite simple, to serve as avatars in the metaverse. These NFTs aren’t merely profile pictures. Through the upcoming....
Nike, the American multinational footwear and sports apparel company has announced the acquisition of a startup called RTFKT Studios, a firm that leverages non-fungible token (NFT) assets, blockchain authentication, and augmented reality. Nike says the acquisition will allow the company “to deliver next-generation collectibles that merge culture and gaming.”
Nike Steps Into the Metaverse by Acquiring RTFKT Studios
On December 13, Nike announced the company has purchased the digital collectibles firm RTFKT Studios. The news follows Nike’s initial steps toward....
Cointelegraph spoke to Chris Le, the co-founder of NFT sneaker brand RTFKT Studios for an exclusive insight into the project’s vision and ambitions. A decade ago, Nike took a proverbial leap into the future of sneakers with their launch of Nike Mag — a fictional concept shoe inspired by the movie Back to the Future Part II.The 1,500 limited edition was so revered for its idiosyncratic self-lacing design, that it wrote itself into sneaker folklore as one of the greatest productions of all time.From the moment legendary 80’s hip-hop trio Run-DMC unified the crowd in raising aloft their....
PRESS RELEASE. The world’s largest metaverse on blockchain and NFT platform TCG World announces partnership with a stock giant WallStreetBets.
Since the start of the year, the WallStreetBets movement has been defying traditional finance with a legion of retail investors using decentralized tradable assets on the blockchain to advance the ethos of financial democracy.
Now, the giant online retail investor group that shook the stock markets with the GameStop frenzy is betting big on the metaverse through a partnership with TCG World.
What is TCG....