Nifty News: NBA star snaps up Bored Apes and what is Loot playing at?
NBA star Stephen Curry snapped up a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT worth $206,000, while Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann unintentionally created an NFT craze. Three time NBA champion Stephen Curry has snapped up a Bored Ape Yacht Club nonfungible token (NFT) for 55 Ether worth around $206,000 at the time of publication. The Golden State Warriors star purchased an NFT depicting an ape with blue fur wearing a plaid suit on Aug. 28. Curry’s wallet on OpenSea shows a collection of 20 NFTs, including a 5.69 ETH ($21,000) purchase of Bored Ape Kennel Club NFT on Aug. 28. To the surprise of other....
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Learn more about a Bored Ape Yacht Club animated series, The Weeknd's Blinding Lights NFT drop, the Mini Royale: Nations game's popularity and RadioShack's foray into DeFi. Catch up on nonfungible token (NFT)-related news this week as Cointelegraph rounds up the stories you don't want to miss. Bored Apes gets cast in an TV seriesThe Red Ape Family (TRAF) is a new animated comedy series centered on Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs. Episodes are sold as individual NFTs and run between 5 to 10 minutes long. The plot is about a family of Bored Apes that escape Earth to live on Mars.OpenSea is....
Bored Ape Yacht Club owners can take advantage of IP rights by auditioning for a BAYC movie trilogy, while other popular NFT characters now make up the cast of iHeartMedia's latest podcast venture. Bored Apes take on the restaurant and movie businessThe Bored Ape Yacht Club, or BAYC, NFT holders own the intellectual property rights to their specific apes and can use the likeness of their ape(s) for commercial purposes. One such BAYC member, Andy Nguyen, decided to open a Bored Ape-themed restaurant aptly named Bored & Hungry in Long Beach, California. Nguyen is a food entrepreneur who has....
From carrying medical data to streamlining royalty payments, NFTs serve a variety of important technological purposes. Bored Apes are a demeaning distraction. It’s time to move on from the Bored Ape Yacht Club. They’re bad for nonfungible tokens (NFTs). They give critics ammo and distract from the technology, which is where the real value lies. For those on the outside looking in, NFTs are nothing more than overpriced monkey JPEGs. Or whichever choice of animated animal profile picture is in the firing line.NFTs, of course, are much more than that. But, because of Bored Apes, and the....
A large number of Bored Apes Yacht Club NFTs are approaching liquidation on the lending platform BendDAO, can this cascade into a crash of the entire non-fungible token market? Bored Apes NFTs At Risk Of Liquidation As Floor Prices Drop More Than 50% Since All-Time High BendDAO is a platform that lends out Ethereum loans […]
The development has caused a stir in the NFT community, with some saying Elon Musk made a collage of bored apes on his avatar to troll NFT owners. Fresh from bidding to Purchase Twitter, Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO and founder of Tesla, sparked a stir on the social media this morning when he changed his profile photo to a collage picture featuring multiple Bored Apes nonfungible tokens (NFTs).Musk's Twitter avatar as of Wednesday shows a picture featuring a collection of Bored Apes with Ape 5809 stacked in the middle. The NFTs are all from different artists, each with a unique design....