NFT company Dapper Labs has issued warnings to users who have “connections” to Russia that funds held in their account-based crypto wallets have been frozen as part of a set of fresh EU sanctions against Russia.  Dapper has been forced to prohibit clients with Russian ties from accessing what funds they have held in their wallet “irrespective of the amount,”...

Sir Anthony Hopkins is launching an NFT collection on Thursday which promises randomly selected holders Zoom meetings with the two-time Oscar winning actor. Perhaps best known for his role as Hannibal Lecter in the film Silence of the Lambs, 84-year-old Hopkins’ collection, The Eternal, is currently emblazoned on the homepage of OpenSea ahead of its mint later today. The 1,000-strong...

Beer giant Budweiser’s latest NFT collection will feature live scoreboards for the upcoming FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Minting 10 a.m. ET today, the Budverse x FIFAWorldCup Live Scoreboard NFT Collection allows buyers to select the country they wish to follow and mint a scoreboard that will track its progress throughout the competition. Minters can also claim a World Cup starter kit, access...

Sudoswap is enabling NFT arbitrage between marketplaces since it provides immediate liquidity for NFT sales.  While this isn’t strictly new, an NFT trader known by the pseudonym Lorem documented, on Oct. 20, their path to arbitraging NFTs, and how it has become a crowded trade. They also provided details of the challenges of fighting against sandwich attacks to carry out these types...

From a distance, the only thing you could see of NFT.London was a yellow and orange fast food truck parked outside in the rain. It was a collaboration between frozen potato product corporation McCain’s — which recently launched a Roblox game where children can farm metaverse potatoes — and Bored and Hungry, a Bored Ape Yacht Club-themed restaurant in California....

Art Blocks founder Erick Calderon has announced a new generative art project — his first since the launch of the multi-million dollar collection called Chromie Squiggles.  The new project, Friendship Bracelets, will be available to anyone who owns a piece on the Ethereum-powered Art Blocks platform within a specific time snapshot. Those eligible will be able to claim two mints. Then,...

Hollywood juggernaut Warner Bros. Discovery is diving even deeper into the world of crypto behind another iconic brand: Game of Thrones. The media conglomerate, which owns the premium cable channel HBO and streaming service HBO Max, announced it will be releasing a collection of NFT avatars christened “Game of Thrones: Build Your Realm.” The move is the latest in a flurry of other...

Async Art, a platform for creating and trading non-fungible tokens (NFTs), has raised over $2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Lemniscap, with participation from Galaxy Interactive, Signum Growth Capital, Semantic, Placeholder, and others. With fresh capital at hand, San Francisco-based Async Art looks to expand its team and scale the platform, co-founder Lisa Liang told...

Marketplace giant OpenSea laid out the first of a suite of tools for its users this weekend, allowing creators of new NFT collections to enforce royalties on-chain.  Debuting on Nov. 8, the company said it wants to "take a thoughtful, principled approach to this topic," following a protracted debate among players in the market about the correct course of action on enforcing payments to...

Powerhouse Hollywood talent agency WME is once again showing its faith in web3’s future potential by adding contemporary artist Ilse Valfré to its roster, The Block learned exclusively. Valfré, who has 897,000 Instagram followers, was recently selected to participate in the social media company’s trial program which allows creators to showcase, mint and sell...