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🚀 Sotheby’s NFT Marketplace Launch
🖼️ DeeKay’s Latest Masterpiece
Dapper Labs finally launched their NBA Topshot mobile app, though just for a short time. After pulling it off the market, they will be fine-tuning it for re-release. (@SteadyBreaks)
Speaking of basketball, Lebron James was seen sporting some RTFKT sneakers before taking game 1 against the Golden State Warriors. Check them out here.
In case you forgot, Amazon is launching their NFT marketplace in 12 days, and here is an epic thread.
Pudgy Penguins has revealed "The Workbench," the next chapter in their lore. This workbench is full of clues, and you can explore it by clicking here.
Auction house Sotheby's launches NFT marketplace for art. (DC)
Sports Illustrated will soon be launching an NFT ticketing program on Polygon ETH. (CD)
It’s reported that the world’s richest man Bernard Arnault holds a collection of NFTs. (CN)
Phantom wallet (usually reserved for SOL) just rolled out support for ETH and Polygon. (@phantom)
Sotheby's Launches On-Chain Secondary NFT Marketplace 🚀
Sotheby's Metaverse, the Web3 arm of the art auction house, is launching a peer-to-peer secondary marketplace for NFT art transactions. The platform will operate fully on-chain via Ethereum and Polygon networks, and users can pay in ETH or MATIC. Artist royalties will continue to be honored through smart contracts on the resale platform.
đź’ˇ Some Sotheby stats:
First started NFT wing in April 2021
$120 million in total NFT sales
Huge NFT sales such as “Covid Alien” CryptoPunk which sold for $11.7 million
"The opportunity to expand Sotheby’s Metaverse with a fully on-chain peer-to-peer market is an important step forward in our evolution within the digital art and collectible space,"
- Michael Bouhanna, Sotheby’s vice president and head of NFTs and digital art in a press release.
It isn’t rocket science. Deekay posts a new art piece we share it.
Who watched Mario movie?!
— DeeKay (@deekaymotion)
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