Magic Johnson Unveils NFTs Showcasing The Basketball Legend’s Iconic Moments
Magic Johnson unveiled a new NFT line this week. Sport and NFTs continue to challenge the limits of technology, with American franchises at the forefront of the trend into the virtual domain. The legendary basketball player is the most recent athlete to enter the digital art market with the release of “The anthology: Magic Johnson” […]
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CNN will drop NFTs depicting historic moments such as space travel, technological advancements, and presidential elections. CNN has followed Fox and Time Magazine into the NFT market, announcing the launch of collectible historic moments from the news. CNN’s NFT project is dubbed “Vault by CNN: Moments That Changed Us” and includes a series of tokenized iconic moments from its 41-year history, along with a vault to purchase, store and display the NFTs. Vault by CNN: Moments That Changed UsThe news organization has not revealed which specific historic moments will be tokenized, however, it....
The NFT market, which includes artwork, sports memorabilia, and trading cards, grew to more than $250 million last year. Basketball legend Magic Johnson has a future with the bulls. No, he's not returning to play for the NBA, but joining a major sports licensing company that looks favorably at the rise of the non-fungible token market.In an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box today, Michael Rubin, executive chairman of sports merchandise company Fanatics, said the digital and physical collectible market was "exploding" due in part to many spending more time at home last year. Johnson just....
Three exclusive Top Shot NFTs will be minted to commemorate this weekend’s NBA Summer League games. NBA Top Shot, the popular pro-basketball NFT collectibles from Dapper Labs, will sell exclusive tokens at NBA Summer League games scheduled in Las Vegas for next week.The tokens will be the first Top Shot NFTs, dubbed “moments,” made available for exclusive purchase from a physical location and they mark the first time that moments have been sold at an NBA game.The exclusive NFTs will commemorate a highlight of each game on August 8, 9, and 10 respectively. Each edition will see a minimum of....
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The platform will host the sale of tokens depicting historic moments in sport, politics, and fashion. Pioneering digital artist Mike Winkelmann— better known as Beeple — has helped launch We.new, a platform selling iconic moments in sports, politics, art, and fashion as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The platform is backed by industry giants from the world of journalism, sport, and music including TIME, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Wasserman, and Endeavor.We.new will host auctions and direct sales of Ethereum-powered NFTs. Tokens sold in multiple editions on We.new will use....