Ghostface Killah, a founding member of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan, is launching a collection of music-themed Ordinal Inscriptions on the Bitcoin blockchain, the hip-hop icon announced on Twitter on Monday. Born as Dennis David Coles in New York City, Ghostface Killah partnered with Nakamotos on BTC—creators of the NakaPepes Collection—Rare Scrilla, and Ordinals inscription platform OrdinalsBot to add the tracks to the Bitcoin network. Salaam! I partnered w/ @NakamotosOnBTC @ScrillaVentura & @or...
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Bitcoin Ordinals project NodeMonkes flipped Bored Ape Yacht Club earlier Monday with a market capitalization of 7,300 BTC, around $490 million, according to cross-chain NFT marketplace Magic Eden. By comparison, Bored Ape Yacht Club’s market capitalization at the time was 136,500 ETH, or around $483 million, according to the NFT analytics site NFT Price Floor. The Ethereum-based Apes are back on top, as of this writing, but the collections remain close—there's less than $30 million worth of cryp...
An Ethereum NFT photo of the original Dogwifhat meme—which inspired one of the hottest Solana meme coins of the moment, WIF—was sold for a whopping $4.3 million worth of ETH early Monday, narrowly surpassing the previous record held for most expensive meme NFT ever sold. The on-chain image of a Shiba Inu puppy in a knit beanie sold for 1,210.759 ETH early Monday, a sum worth $4,311,234 at the time of the transaction. The NFT sold to GCR, a prominent pseudonymous crypto trader, via an auction on...
Known for adorable memes, its own cutesy language, and massive monuments to beloved pets, the multi-billion dollar ecosystem of Shiba Inu-themed meme coins is generally a place of cuddly cohabitation. But recent tensions between users in the Solana ecosystem—home to the exploding Dogwifhat (WIF) meme coin—and owners of the real-life South Korean dog who inspired the token may have created some trouble in pet paradise. On Thursday, a South Korean Instagram user announced that the Shiba Inu featur...
Coffee giant Starbucks announced Friday that it is shutting down its Starbucks Odyssey Beta platform, which provided NFT-based rewards minted on Ethereum scaling network Polygon. Starbucks will close the Odyssey Beta platform on March 31, with platform quests available until March 25. The Starbucks Odyssey Discord server will shut down sooner on March 18. There's no clear indication of a planned return for Starbucks' NFT foray. "The Starbucks Odyssey Beta must come to an end to prepare for what...
It’s raining Runestone. The highly anticipated Runestones airdrop took place late Thursday, sending Ordinal inscriptions to over 112,000 Bitcoin wallets. “Something is happening!” NFT historian and Runestone spokesperson Leonidas said on Twitter. “112,383 Runestones are approaching Earth’s atmosphere. Brace yourselves for impact.” According to the Inscription marketplace Ordi, collectors hoping to receive a Runestone in the airdrop must go to its Bitcoin Ordinals platform and enter their wallet...
Ethereum NFT collectibles platform Veve has launched its new VeVe Comics platform and digital comic book reader, the company said on Thursday. The first batch of comic books hails from industry juggernaut Marvel Comics. With Marvel as its launch partner, VeVe said fans now have access to over 300 new Marvel digital issues, including those based on heroes like Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain Marvel, and Black Panther. New comic books will be added the same day they are available in print and will incl...
Ethereum NFT marketplace SuperRare is making the jump to Bitcoin with the launch of a new collection of Ordinals inscriptions by the artist Killer Acid, the platform announced Thursday. San Diego-based SuperRare is a platform for art creators and collectors backed by the Ethereum blockchain. It specializes in single-edition, 1-of-1 digital works and is one of the longest-running platforms in the NFT world. SuperRare partnered with Bitcoin Ordinals marketplace Gamma to bring inscriptions to the p...
Reactor Motors—the Ethereum NFT collection featuring 8,888 images of high-end racing cars—is being turned into a movie, the company behind the digital announced late Thursday. The Reactor Motors film will be helmed by veteran director Pierre Morel, who also directed Taken and Transporter 2. The Reactor Motors film will tell the story of Geophysicist Eva Mason, who discovers Reykium in a Volcano in Iceland, leading to clean energy race cars. Mason’s discovery attracts the attention of an energy c...
The Tensor Foundation, a new organization supporting the eponymous Solana NFT marketplace, laid out its plans for the TNSR token in a Twitter thread on Tuesday. The brand-new account was retweeted by the official Twitter account for Tensor. Launched in 2022, Tensor has been competing furiously with NFT mega site Magic Eden and others to be the go-to destination for Solana NFTs. According to data by NFT explorer Tiexo, Tensor currently holds 33.49% of the NFT market share, compared to Solana’s 62...
