NFT Library Issue - #23

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Dec 22, 2021

Weekly NFT News

Melania Trump announced that she is selling an NFT called "Melania's Vision" and the proceeds from the sales will benefit the "Be Best" campaign. She also plans to release new NFTs at regular intervals from January 2022.(Source: cryptonews.com)
The Weeknd is releasing an NFT series to celebrate that his hit song "Blinding Lights" spent 90 weeks on the Top 100 chart. The NFTs will be put up for sale on Opensea via the Autograph platform and will consist of 7 parts. (Source: decrypt.co)
Keanu Reeves stated that the concept of Metaverse is much older and that the Matrix is a dystopia that offers us an example. (Source: news.bitcoin.com)
Basketball legend Michael Jordan and his son Jeffrey Jordan have announced their plans to launch a fan engagement platform called HEIR, built around Solana (SOL). They also aim to create a token called "HEIR" on the Solana blockchain. (Source: news.bitcoin.com)
Crypto lending service Nexo is teaming up with Three Arrows Capital to launch a new crypto lending service powered by valuable NFT assets. As with Nexo's existing products, customers will be able to use their NFTs as collateral to borrow Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies.(Source: decrypt.co)
NFT game Legacy, which is not expected to be released until 2023, earned more than $55 million from in-game land sales. The cheapest homes in the game cost around $3,300, while a plot of land was sold for around $1 million. (Source: businessinsider.com)
Famous artist Refik Anadol's NFT painting 'Machine Hallucinations – Nature Dreams: AI Data Sculpture 2021 1/1' published in OpenSea was purchased by a collector named 'mabu' for approximately 1.2 million dollars. (Source: hurriyetdailynews.com)
The first article of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was translated into an NFT format and sold for $750,000 in an auction called "The Birth of Wikipedia", which took place between December 3 and 15. (Source: qz.com)
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri said in a weekly question-and-answer event on Instagram that the company is researching NFT technology and wants to "make it accessible to more people." (Source: decrypt.co)
Coca-Cola is another company that stepped into the NFT world with its VeVe drops, which will include snow globe NFTs to celebrate Christmas. Coca-Cola previously held NFT auctions for charity in July - August. (Source: nftevening.com )
Known as the world's first fast-food hamburger chain, White Castle is preparing to celebrate its 100th anniversary with a collection of 5,000 NFTs. The company will work with digital artist Che-Yu Wu and Doodle Labs for the NFT collection. (Source: mashed.com )
RadioShack, which turns 100 this year and is one of the oldest electronics stores in the world, announced that it will launch a DeFi protocol and NFT collection to celebrate its longevity. (Source: cryptopotato.com)

Collection Corner

The guest of the collection corner of this issue was the NFT collection of Adidas Originals.

Launched by Adidas Originals, this collection became one of the NFT collections that sold out almost instantly. Titled Metaverse, the initiative was created with Bored Ape Yacht Club, gmoney, and PUNK comics. According to Cryptobriefing, the sale, which includes 30,000 NFTs worth 0.2 ETH each, has reached numbers over 6,000 ETH.

Each NFT purchased will provide access to physical items, virtual wearables, and virtual event on Metaverse, including a hoodie, sweatpants and more. A roadmap including these has also been created for 2022. For more detailed information, you can access the collection's website here.

Unique NFT Dictionary

PFP (Profile Picture):

It stands for Profile Picture, a term that refers to avatar NFTs that can often be used as profile pictures. Various avatar NFTs such as punks, apes, cats, bulls and dogs are great examples.

Platform Review: MegaCryptoPolis

Released in early 2018, MegaCryptoPolis is the first NFT-based city-building strategy game. Players can own lands, houses, offices and factories in NFT format within the game. Citizens get jobs, and those who have jobs can hire employees and employ them.

Land and resource limitations are fundamental to economics in MegaCryptoPolis as in the real world. It is in the game's codes that when a player buys a plot, the owner of the plots nearby as well as the person selling the land get a share of the payment and all nearby plots become more expensive. All in-game assets are distributed among players. Developers receive a small percentage of in-game transactions as part of their sustainable revenue model.

For now, the company is on the verge of extending its existing MegaCryptoPolis model into a metadata, called Mega World, with a data-driven economy where players can create any asset, run business inside buildings, use NTFs and trade.

For more detailed information, you can visit the game's website here.