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Robinhood recently revealed that it would discontinue support for Cardano ($ADA), Polygon ($MATIC), and Solana ($SOL), effective June 27.

This decision came in the wake of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) deeming a considerable quantity of tokens listed on significant exchanges such as Binance and Coinbase as securities.

After support stops on June 27, tokens left in a user’s account will be automatically sold for market value.

Nevertheless, Robinhood maintains its offer of various cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Shiba Inu.
​❕ Clay Nation: The First Cardano-Based Project To Join The Sandbox Metaverse

Clay
Nation partners with The Sandbox as the first Cardano-based project, welcoming web3 participants to the metaverse. Cross-chain PFP-avatar collection interoperability allows Clay Nation Cardano NFT holders to integrate their avatars into The Sandbox, offering unique in-game experiences. The collaboration brings Sonic Sands, an immersive world of music, collectibles, and creativity, with mini-games and vibrant social spaces for players to explore.  The partnership between The Sandbox and Clay Nation introduces a pioneering concept – cross-chain PFP-avatar collection interoperability. Holders of original Clay Nation Cardano NFTs have the remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate their avatars into The Sandbox. This means merging two captivating worlds. Imagine crafting unique wearables and sought-after items using in-game resources or browsing the vibrant in-game merch store for exciting additions. The collaboration between Clay Nation and the imaginative minds at Smobler brings forth the enchanting Sonic Sands experience. Spanning a vast 2×2 LAND within The Sandbox, Sonic Sands offers players an immersive journey into a world.
AliExpress’ 5,555 NFT Launch Could Shake Up the NFT Market

Chinese e-commerce giant AliExpress has announced plans to launch its own line of non-fungible tokens. The company has partnered with The Moment3, a leading NFT platform, to create a marketplace for users to buy, sell, and trade NFTs. The AliExpress NFTs will be based on a variety of popular Chinese IPs, including anime, games, and movies. The company has also said that it will be working with artists and creators to develop new and original NFTs.

The company has a massive user base of over 1 billion people, and its entry into the market is sure to bring a lot of new attention to NFTs. It is still too early to say how successful the AliExpress NFT marketplace will be. However, the company’s size and reach give it a good chance of success. The launch of the marketplace is also a sign that NFTs are becoming more mainstream.
​🖼 Art NFT Marketplace and Community HeartX Announced its Open Beta Launch

HeartX
, a Web3 art NFT marketplace and community, is excited to announce the Open Beta launch of its app product. This marks a significant milestone in the development of the platform, bringing the power of blockchain technology and a vibrant art community together. HeartX has been deployed on zkSync Era, an Ethereum Layer-2 network, and kicked off its Closed Beta Test in April. Its Vote-to-Earn system commits to redefining the value of art. Decent Arts focuses on the physical and digital art market and have created an online art community for trading and communication. It has launched digital art collections and incubates a richer metaverse and Web3 products to allow more people to connect, understand, and finally fall in love with art. The team currently has 30 members who are responsible for product planning, artist cooperation, technology development, platform operations, etc. Most of the members come from successful Internet companies in diverse fields including gaming, live broadcast, social networking, e-commerce, art, blockchain, digital collections, and more.
ApeCoin DAO has come under fire for paying out exorbitant salaries to its leadership board and being out of touch with its own community.

On June 10, the ApeCoin DAO secretary, an individual who goes by the pseudonym Vulkan, posted an organizational chart on Twitter detailing the salaries of the DAO’s governance board.

Some positions, like the DAO’s facilitators who moderate the group’s community forum space, are being criticized as being particularly egregious in their role-to-remuneration ratio.

In response, a number of Web3 observers took to Twitter to express their frustration with the organization’s administration.
​📣 Celio India enters Metaverse To launch their exclusive collection With Emiway Bantai

Celio
has announced its grand entry into the Metaverse with the iconic Mumbai-based rapper Emiway Bantai, launching an exclusive collection. This partnership combines Celio's expertise in fashion and Emiway Bantai's musical prowess to create an exclusive collection inspired by Emiway's latest album, ‘King Of The Streets’. In this Metaverse by Celio X Emiway Bantai, consumers can experience a dynamic digital universe where one can view the exciting new collection launched. The unique digital experience allows users to become familiar with the Metaverse firsthand, and shop an exclusive collection, all while bringing music and fashion together under one (online) roof.The Celio X Emiway Bantai exclusive collection is a fusion of streetwear and urban fashion, showcasing trendy designs and unique graphics inspired by the brand’s style and Emiway's artistic vision. From stylish tees to shirts and bottomwear that reflect the urban aesthetic, this collaboration presents an opportunity for fans to connect with Emiway's music in a tangible and fashionable way. In anticipation of the launch of his album and the new collection, Emiway Bantai said, “King Of The Streets released recently.
Set to launch on June 22, the pair will release the limited-edition, product-linked Trefoil Flower Mint Pass, offering NFT holders the opportunity to redeem their pass for a complimentary pair of artist-designed Campus 00s sneakers.

The shoes, which feature the recognizable Adidas Originals silhouette, have been reimagined in Fewocious’ signature style, featuring a black and white linework design set against a thick, blue and white cloud pattern lace.

Mint pass holders will be able to redeem the Campus 00s sneakers later this summer.
​📣 Fashion Brands Still ‘Nervous’ to Set IP Loose in Metaverse: BNV CEO

Fashion
houses may be clamoring to launch metaverse and Web3 projects, but not all of them are enthusiastic about the collaboration that comes with the space. Brands are concerned about protecting their intellectual property (IP) in the digital world, BNV founder and CEO Richard Hobbs told Decrypt in an interview at this year's NFC Lisbon, but they need to embrace co-creation with users. Allowing the same thing to happen in the metaverse could be an opportunity for both the original brand and the creator alike, he argued, giving designers free rein to play with existing styles while brands earn royalties from the altered items. The concept is also scalable online in a way it would not be in the real world, he said. “I don’t need to sell one, I can sell 50 or 100 or 1,000.” “Most people have invested a lot of their own personal time and ideation into what [their brand] is,” he said. “When you’re used to designing a collection [...] it becomes very personal.”. But he was confident that by seeing how co-creation could work.
Reddit has 'gone dark,' as thousands of subreddits have closed down in protest of its new API policy changes, which have made popular apps like "Apollo" cease to exist.

Their CEO seems unfazed, sending out an internal memo suggesting it will pass, and that there has been "no significant revenue impact."
​📣 TRUE Ecosystem Introduced NFT Drop in Victoria Wild West Game at 25+ Сasino Operators

TRUE Ecosystem in partnership with the innovative casino game provider TrueLab Game Studios introduced NFT gamification mechanics into their game Victoria Wild West by means of TRUE solution for the online gambling industry. Soft launch showed an increase of player retention by over 70%. A wild-west-themed slot game Victoria Wild West is the first-to-market production release with the seamless integration of NFT gamification mechanics. The team expects their first integration to bring many thousands of new NFT holders to the industry fostering NFT mass adoption on one hand, and to increase engagement and retention level as well as reduce user acquisition costs in online gambling on the other. The NFT collection is embedded directly into the game, with the NFT tokens randomly dropped while playing. The drop contains 15,000 NFTs of different rarity to help the main character achieve her mission. Each of the items has a high-utility rate and complements the storyline of the game. Crafting is one of the noticeable engaging tools implemented in the game.
The largest-ever digital art auction, Sotheby's 'GRAILS: Part II,' took place today, and the highly anticipated headliner, Ringers #879 "Goose," sold for an impressive $5.4 million.

Some other notable sales:
- Chromie Squiggle #1780 (Perfect Spectrum) $500,000
- Larva Labs Autoglyph #218 $260k
- Fidenza #479 sold for $490k
- Fidenza #216 $480k
​⚡️ Sotheby’s 3AC Bankruptcy Auction Nets $11 Million In What Might Be Final Hurrah for NFTs

After
the founders of a crypto firm called Three Arrows Capital purchased a coveted Dmitri Cherniak NFT for $5.8 million in August 2021, they kept a printed version of the digital artwork in their Singapore offices — behind the billiards table and slightly left of the coffee creamer. That carefree attitude appeared to have extended to the doomed hedge fund’s portfolio, as the world realized last year when Three Arrows Capital declared bankruptcy and its founders. On Thursday evening, some 40 digital artworks were offered in the second part of Sotheby’s “Grails” sale, dedicated to works owned by 3AC. Thursday’s sale ultimately raised just under $11 million with buyers’ fees, more than double the sale’s high estimate of $4.8 million. The centerpiece of the auction was Cherniak’s prized artwork, “Ringers #879 (The Goose),” now displayed on a proper gallery wall instead of a countertop beside the Nespresso machine. The generative artwork, which seems to defy the randomized logic of its algorithm by resembling a bird, sold for $6.2 million after nearly 10 minutes of lively bidding to 6529 NFT fund, which belongs to punk6529, a frequent buyer of blue-chip NFTs who hides his identity behind a Twitter handle.
​📣 Decentraland And Polygon Join Hands To Host An NFT Music Festival In The Metaverse

Decentraland
, the popular 3D virtual world on-chain browser-based platform, has partnered with Polygon Labs, the team behind an Ethereum scaling solution network, to host their annual non-fungible token music festival in the metaverse. In a June 16 site publication, Polygon Labs, a digital asset incubation studio, confirmed ready plans to host its annual music festival this Saturday. Polygon Labs has partnered with Decentraland to host the NFT music event in the mataverse this week. The highly anticipated music festival will bring together more than fifteen music producers and artists in the metaverse and fuse them with more than 5 million meterverse users globally.The metaverse music event will showcase the exceptional talents of renowned musicians, including Green Ring, a digital artist who makes melodic music; Felice LaZae, a boundary-pushing producer, musician, and performer and Lucy Crow, an Italian singer, and songwriter. Other will include Genesis Barrios, a Cuban-American artist, producer, and Software engineer; Shefali, an electronic music producer and vocal artist; Violetta Ziloni, a web3 artist; and Xena Mars, the secretive break core acceleration artist.
​🖼 Nike’s Airphoria NFT Sneaker Hunt Takes Over Fortnite

Nike
, the global footwear and apparel giant, has recently hinted at the possibility of releasing a collection of sneaker non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in the widely popular online game Fortnite. This move would present a potentially massive opportunity for Web3 adoption by traditional gamers, given that Fortnite has had more than 242.9 million active players over the past 30 days, according to Active Player. The announcement was made on June 16 across Nike’s social media channels, stating that the “ultimate Sneakerhunt begins” on June 20. The accompanying video features Fortnite’s logo and Nike’s Air Max logo front and center amidst a backdrop of floating clouds in the sky. Then, the video transitions to reveal the name of the sneaker hunt, “Airphoria,” followed by Nike’s logo for its web3 platform.SWOOSH alongside the logo for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Details are currently scarce, but members of the NFT community speculated that Nike may have built an NFT-related game using Fornite Creative 2.0, which essentially enables users to create their virtual island game maps using Fortnite assets.
Clay Nation: The First Cardano-Based Project To Join The Sandbox Metaverse

Clay Nation partners with The Sandbox as the first Cardano-based project, welcoming web3 participants to the metaverse. Cross-chain PFP-avatar collection interoperability allows Clay Nation Cardano NFT holders to integrate their avatars into The Sandbox, offering unique in-game experiences. The collaboration brings Sonic Sands, an immersive world of music, collectibles, and creativity, with mini-games and vibrant social spaces for players to explore.

This means merging two captivating worlds. Imagine crafting unique wearables and sought-after items using in-game resources or browsing the vibrant in-game merch store for exciting additions.
​📣 India's metaverse platform Bharatmeta receives global recognition at VivaTech in Paris

India
is poised to become a major player in the metaverse technology landscape, as showcased by Kiya.ai, an India-based company specializing in Artificial Intelligence and emerging technology solutions. At the prestigious VivaTech event held in Paris 2023, Kiya.ai unveiled its version of the metaverse called Bharatmeta, making it the first of its kind from India. The demonstration took place at the India Pavilion during the event ‘VivaTech’ , which is recognized as Europe's largest annual technology and startup gathering. With a presence in 12 global offices, Kiya.ai serves more than 550 enterprises across 56 countries, including South-East Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and North America. While talking to ANI, Rajesh Mirjankar, the Managing Director and CEO of Kiya.ai, explained that while existing global platforms primarily focus on gaming and virtual goods, his company's emphasis is on enabling the commerce of both physical and virtual products. This unique approach allows real businesses to embrace metaverse technology and leverage its potential. The metaverse refers to a multi-dimensional digital space that employs virtual reality and augmented reality to provide lifelike experiences to users online.
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Basic terms and terminologies in NFT|Metaverse

OS

OS is shorthand for OpenSea, the leading NFT marketplace on Ethereum.
​📣 Transcosmos launches a Metaverse Fan Community with QON

transcosmos
inc. is delighted to announce that the company launched MINNA-NO Metaverse Community with QON Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director & CEO: Takashi Takeda), on June 1, 2023. As the name indicates, a metaverse fan community, MINNA-NO Metaverse Community, welcomes everyone including those who enjoy the metaverse experience every day as well as those who know nothing about the metaverse. MINNA-NO Metaverse Community opened in KIZUNA-NO Community, or community built on strong Bonds. KIZUNA-NO Community is an online fan community platform launched in January 2020, and is operated by QON. Today, more than 40 companies and local governments and over two million consumers come together on the platform, interacting on various events and activities on the theme of KIZUNA – Bonds. Members can not only enjoy collaborative plans between member companies and organizations, but also events planned based on the voice of consumers gathered through two-way communication for co-creating value.
Metaverse to help tackle global warming: Study

A recent study suggests that the metaverse, a virtual 3D environment where the physical and digital worlds merge, has the potential to contribute to the reduction of global surface temperatures by up to 0.02 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. Published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, the study highlights the metaverse's ability to lower greenhouse gas emissions, decrease atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration.

The study emphasizes the potential benefits of metaverse-based remote working, distance learning, and virtual tourism in improving air quality. By reducing transportation and commercial energy usage, the metaverse can also contribute to transforming energy distribution, with a greater energy supply directed towards the residential sector.
​🖼 OVAL3 Fantasy NFT Rugby Collection launches on Binance NFT Marketplace

As
the Rugby World Cup approaches in September, OVAL3, which holds the official licenses for LNR and MLR, is launching its NFT collection on Binance's NFT marketplace. After the NFT frenzy in the fields of football and basketball, OVAL3 has come to fulfill the rugby fans' desires by quickly becoming the global leader in digital entertainment for this sport. OVAL3 is the web3 fantasy game dedicated to rugby and is now on the verge of launching a portion of its unique NFT collection. OVAL3 aims to bring all professional rugby clubs to the heart of Web 3.0. They want to offer supporters and players an immersive fantasy league game that combines this magical sport with NFTs. To achieve this, the company has already signed several exclusive partnerships with the french Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) and the american Major League Rugby (MLR). With the official license from the Ligue Nationale de Rugby for a duration of 9 years, which covers the prestigious TOP14 and its second division PROD2, OVAL3 has associated more than 1500 players and 30 professional clubs with the project. The platform quickly gained global prominence through its partnership with the rapidly growing Major League Rugby (MLR).