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A selection of NBA Top Shot NFT "Moments." The licensed collection experienced a huge price bubble in its early days - one that still leaves a bad taste in some collectors' mouths. (nbatopshot.com)

If you ask what is the most exciting upcoming event this winter, the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar is definitely the top one on the list. As one of the most anticipated global sport events, if not the most anticipated, this world cup would potentially attract more than 5 billion viewers, according to history data.

US ticket sales and distribution company Ticketmaster has announced a team-up with Flow (FLOW), one of the leading NFT-focused blockchains in the crypto sector. The collaboration will enable Ticketmaster event organizers to issue non-fungible tokens (NFTs) tied to live events, according to a press release.

Magic Johnson unveiled a new NFT line this week. Sport and NFTs continue to challenge the limits of technology, with American franchises at the forefront of the trend into the virtual domain. The legendary basketball player is the most recent athlete to enter the digital art market with the release of "The anthology: Magic Johnson" NFT collection on NBA Top Shot. The NFT...

Quick take: Earvin Magic Johnson is set to release his very first NFTs in partnership with NBA Top Spot. The NFTs with be in the form of an Anthology set reserved for iconic plays from NBA legends. Magic Johnson's NFTs will be available on June 7th and contain rare and spectacular moments of his career. The NFTs will be in 1,600 packs, each...

Stuart Levi, co-head of the Technology Transaction and Intellectual Property Group at Skadden Arps, and Marta Belcher, general counsel and Head of Policy at Protocol Labs, break down the legal issues surrounding NFTs specifically in the context of Yuga Labs’ recent purchase of CryptoPunks and Meebits IP rights. Show highlights: the...

The blockchain most known for NBA Top Shot when it comes to NFTs, Flow, is coming back to life. Over the last 30 days, BloctoBay on the Flow blockchain has quickly risen up the NFT marketplace rankings. 92,045 active traders and almost $200 million in volume puts this marketplace behind only OpenSea in terms of popularity. For those that say LooksRare is...

Circle announced the launch of its USD Coin (USDC) on Flow, one of the most widely used Web3 platforms. The expansion to Flow comes roughly two months after USDC launched on one of the leading decentralized finance (DeFi) networks, Avalanche (AVAX).

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The sports industry has been one of...

Google, the largest search engine in the world, has partnered with NBA Top Shot marketplace developer, Dapper Labs, to help support and scale its blockchain, Flow. According to the announcement, the Cloud arm of the tech giant would function as the network operator of the Flow blockchain whilst also offering its Cloud infrastructure in order to help the NFT marketplace developer’s...

Fans can now purchase NBA top shot non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in person at the upcoming Summer League Games in Vegas. Summer League Games Attendees Can Now Buy NBA Top Shots As per an announcement on the NBA Top Shot blog, these digital collectibles will...

PLUS: Is Thodex the next Quadriga? This week was full of fun headlines, with two exchanges and two cryptocurrencies taking up the top spots in the recap. A former Coinbase executive, who recently served as the Acting Comptroller of Currency, will be joining Binance.US as its CEO. Coinbase also made headlines after reports came out documenting just how much stock its executive team...

PLUS: Goldman Sachs to offer clients bitcoin! With Bitcoin hovering just below $60k and Ethereum sitting just under $2k, it looks like April could be another bullish month in the crypto industry. In lieu of a typical introduction summarizing the week’s news, I am going to embed a tweet from the @Unchained_pod, the new Twitter handle for all Unchained content. Click the link...

Olta Andoni, fintech and IP Attorney at Zlatkin Wong and adjunct professor at Chicago Kent College of Law, Tonya Evans, visiting Full Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law School and host of the podcast Tech Intersect, and Stuart Levi, co-head of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice at Skadden Arps and coordinator of the firm's Blockchain and Digital Asset practice, break...

A day after Beeple's digital artwork sold for a record $69 million, America's...

NBA NFTs are one of the most active intersections between the cryptocurrency digital asset and collectible ecosystems, and the closest NFTs have come to the mainstream (so far.) Created by Dapper Labs, the NFT token standard makes the act of collecting, storing, and trading digital assets a much...