🇯🇵 Japan Education Ministry Plans to Use Metaverse to Help Foreign Students Find Jobs After Graduating
The government plans to utilize the metaverse in a program to make it easier for exceptional foreign students to stay in Japan and enter the work force after graduating. The government has set a target employment rate of 60% for foreign students in Japan by the end of 2033. The rate rose steadily from 31.9% in fiscal 2013 to 48.0% in fiscal 2018, but has since leveled off, and was 46.5% in the latest available statistics from fiscal 2021.
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🔫 H&R Block Brings Block City to the Minecraft Metaverse
Today H&R Block (NYSE: HRB) announced the launch of a new tax-themed gaming experience in Minecraft that kicks off on Saturday, Feb. 3 with a live-streamed Minecraft Competitive League (MCL) competition at 2 p.m. EST. “Gaming and taxes are an unlikely pairing, which is exactly why we wanted to do this,” said Jill Cress, chief marketing and experience officer, H&R Block.
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🖼 ‘Quantum Cats’ Launch Faces Technical Glitches, Taproot Wizards Postpones NFT Sale
“Quantum Cats” Bitcoin NFTs was marred by technical issues, forcing the company to postpone the sale. Despite an initially successful minting of nearly 1,000 cats, server overload led to an unexpected delay, causing frustration among eager buyers.
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🖼 CoinDesk Brings Back 'Microcosms' NFT Consensus Ticket
CoinDesk has reopened minting of Microcosms, an NFT that rewards holders with tickets to Consensus for three years as well as other perks. Minting opened on Wednesday, Jan. 31, at 1 p.m. ET (18:00 UTC) at the price of 1 ETH and will remain open until Thursday, March 14, at 1 p.m. ET or until the collection sells out, whichever comes first.
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🔫 EA CEO Suggests an EA Sports Metaverse Is in the Works
The latest to discuss these ideas is Electronic Arts, with CEO Andrew Wilson responding to a question during today's earnings call about a potential EA Sports metaverse with what sounds a heck of a lot like a concrete plan to make one in the near future.
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🖼 Pudgy Penguins’ Ambitious NFT Licensing Tool ‘Overpass’
NFT leader Pudgy Penguins introduces a groundbreaking method for intellectual property (IP) licensing via its ‘Overpass’ tool, removing the complexities of traditional Web2 licensing structures. By collaborating with SaaSyLabs — renowned for its work on Yuga Labs’ ‘Made by Apes’ platform — the celebrated NFT project now makes it possible for NFT owners to license their IPs for merchandise hassle-free.
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🔫 Meta urges TRAI to set up regulatory sandboxes for metaverse
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🔫 CEO Pioneers VR Meetings to Revolutionize Remote Work Culture
In an ambitious move to transform remote work culture, Jussi Havu, CEO of Glue Collaborations in Helsinki, has introduced virtual reality (VR) meetings as a regular part of the workweek. The company wants to bring VR into regular offices to help with the challenges of remote work. XR technology is becoming popular for making meetings better, especially for small groups that need focus.
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🖼 FC Barcelona denies rumors of the auction of Alexia Putellas' NFT
FC Barcelona has issued a statement denying information from the newspaper 'Ara', which claimed that the buyer of an Alexia Putellas NFT had a direct connection with the Barça Vision project. This Friday had trascended in the newspaper 'Plough' an information that suggested that the person that bought the digital work (NFT) of Alexia Putellas, captain of the FC Barcelona and twice winning of the Balloon of Gold, was directly related with the project of Barça Vision.
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💰 Polygon NFT trading volume breaks $100 million thanks to Gas Hero
Polygon has broken $100 million in NFT trading volume in January 2024, up more than 50% compared to December 2023 and higher than any month during 2023, when February noted the highest number of NFT sales just above $69 million.
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🖼 Royalty-embedded blockchains can help NFT artists get paid
Blockchains with royalties embedded within their code can guarantee that creator royalties will be respected, according to professionals working in Web3. Nonfungible token (NFT) creators losing out on royalties was one of the most important issues that the space faced in 2023. As marketplaces experimented with the optional royalties model last year, creators lost out on millions of dollars that they could have earned for their NFT collections.
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🖼 CryptoPunk sells for $500K, NFT volume rallies 17%
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🖼 From NFT Punchline to $8 Million Raise, ‘Pixelmon’ Preps for MON Token Launch
Pixelmon began its crypto odyssey as one of the most egregious examples of NFT FOMO, as collectors shelled out $70 million for knockoff Pokémon creatures that were so ugly, even the game’s founder called the artwork a “horrible mistake.” But two years and an ownership change later, between a fundraise and an impending token launch, Pixelmon is gunning to have a big 2024.
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🖼 Starbucks Korea's NFT initiative saves 600,000 disposable cups
Starbucks Korea announced on Thursday that its recent NFT eco-project, designed to promote reusable cup adoption, has led to saving approximately 600,000 disposable cups from use over a two-week period from Jan. 16. With around 600,000 eco-stamps distributed among 260,000 active participants, orders for personal cups surged by 49 percent on the app, while overall usage increased by 32 percent.
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🖼 Starbucks Korea's new NFT service boosts consumers' tumbler use
Starbucks Korea's new non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are boosting its customers' use of tumblers and contributing to the brand's environmental initiative by reducing demand for single-use cups, the coffee franchise said Thursday. The company said it saved around 600,000 single-use cups within two weeks since launching the service on Jan. 16. It saw a 49 percent year-on-year increase in the number of customers using tumblers when placing orders via Siren Order, the company's mobile order system.
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🖼 SBINFT Launches New NFT Marketing Platform to Bring Brands into Web3
SBINFT began as just another marketplace for digital art NFTs, they took a pivotal step in June 2023 with their partnership with the Oasys blockchain. This moved their focus from artwork collecting towards the lucrative world of blockchain gaming NFTs. By rebranding its marketplace and gearing up to onboard top gaming developers, SBINFT positioned itself at the cutting edge of the industry. Clearly, their leadership did their homework and recognized where real value and growth would emerge.
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🖼 Magic Eden debuts ‘Emmy’, a multi-chain wallet for streamlined NFT trading
NFT marketplace Magic Eden has launched its web3 wallet Emmy, featuring multichain compatibility for improved utility. The new wallet broadens the scope of compatibility, functioning seamlessly with Solana, Bitcoin, Polygon, and Ethereum, and is tailored specifically for users active in the NFT marketplace and those engaged in cross-chain collecting.
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🔵 OpenSea Is Down 96% In Sales From ATH
The non-fungible token market downturn experienced in the past two years continues to impact more NFT projects. OpenSea, one of the leading NFT market platforms, is the latest NFT project hinting about selling the project to potential buyers over the poor performance concerns. In an exclusive interview with DL News on Friday, Devin Finzer, the Chief Executive Officer of OpenSea NFT marketplace, revealed that OpenSea has received acquisition intentions and remains open to potential acquisitions.
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🔵 NFT Giant OpenSea Keeps Options Open for Potential Acquisition
The collapse of the non-fungible token (NFT) market last year dealt a blow to OpenSea, raising questions about its once staggering $13.3 billion valuation. Now, the popular NFT marketplace is at the center of acquisition discussions, with CEO and co-founder Devin Finzer expressing an open-minded approach to potential deals, including the possibility of being acquired itself.
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🖼 iSHANG and Earth Exchange Launch Eco-Friendly NFT Staking Initiative
iSHANG, Coinstreet Group’s Web3 branch, in collaboration with Earth Exchange, has launched an innovative NFT Staking Program. This initiative is a response to the 2023 COP28 climate conference in the UAE and represents a significant step towards environmental sustainability. This new token, adhering to UN Climate Standards, establishes a value for each digital carbon unit, ensuring authenticity and preventing fraud.
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🇨🇳 Chinese metaverse tech company Semidux (Cayman) Holding files for a $17 million US IPO
Semidux (Cayman) Holding, a Chinese provider of products and services for metaverse computing infrastructure, filed on Friday with the SEC to raise up to $17 million in an initial public offering. Its offerings encompass chips, customized servers, and cloud gaming terminals, as well as computing resource optimization software, technical and maintenance services, and server rentals, which cater to the evolving needs of the metaverse industry.
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🖼 Ronaldo Plays with His NFT Collection Holders in Binance Event
Cristiano Ronaldo is keeping his promises to nonfungible token (NFT) holders. On January 25, Binance shared a video featuring Ronaldo enjoying a football game with fans and NFT holders, joined by Binance partner Khaby Lame and Croatian footballer Maria Marković. Ronaldo’s participation is part of a long-term NFT partnership established in 2022, resulting in the launch of his initial NFT collection in collaboration with Binance.
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🤟 $7 Million Fee Award Tacked Onto Bored Ape NFT Trademark Win
Two artists must pay Yuga Labs Inc. $7 million in attorneys fees on top of a $1.4 million trademark award for creating look-alike Bored Ape Yacht Club nonfungible tokens, a California federal judge ruled. Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen stipulated to a special master’s recommendation of the fee amount becoming the court’s judgment while reserving the right to appeal, according to an order Judge John F. Walter filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Central District of California.
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💰 Solana’s NFT trading volume sees a 25% weekly rise
Solana’s non-fungible tokens (NFTs) weekly trading volume surpassed $62 million, showing a 25% rise according to on-chain data aggregator CryptoSlam. After a slow January start, Solana (SOL) NFT activity seems to be picking up, with almost $190 million in trading volume this month.
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🍵 tea announces Incentivized Testnet Date of February 21 🍵
tea is a decentralized technology protocol that rewards open-source developers for their software contributions and non developers to participate in the open-source economy.
The tea protocol was co-founded by Max Howell, the creator of Homebrew—the software package manager used by tens of millions of developers worldwide.
🚀 The long awaited Incentivized Testnet will kick off February 21st with weekly challenges for developers and non developers to participate in. The ITN is a critical step to ensure the stability of the tea protocol and the rewarding of OSS developers.
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🖼 'Treeverse' Studio Endless Clouds Picks Immutable zkEVM for Its NFT Games
Game studio Endless Clouds is working with Immutable to launch two of its upcoming games, Treeverse and Capsule Heroes, on Immutable’s anticipated zkEVM blockchain, the firms announced Tuesday. The two titles will offer alpha and beta early access launches and will support the Immutable Passport, Immutable’s single sign-on crypto wallet. Immutable zkEVM is an upcoming Ethereum scaling network based on Polygon's zkEVM technology.
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❕ Unstoppable Domains launches hub in The Sandbox
Web3 domain provider Unstoppable Domains has announced its entry into The Sandbox with a new game titled Unstoppable Meta Cube Experience. Co-developed by Funguy Games-creator Tuschay Studios and BoopGoop, Unstoppable Meta Cube Experience is a live multiplayer game where up to four players claim territory by coloring tiles on a game map.
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