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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...

Smells like NFT spirit? Look Labs launches first digital fragrance

An NFT version of Cyber Eau De Parfume is now available for auction on Rarible. The NFT was designed in collaboration with Montreal-based artist Sean Caruso.

Look Labs, a contemporary beauty and lifestyle studio founded in Berlin, Germany, has launched the first digital fragrance encoded into a non-fungible token, or NFT, offering further evidence that the digital art craze continues to grow. 

The fragrance is a digital version of the unisex Cyber Eau de Perfume, which was launched in October 2020 with a strong focus on environmental sustainability. The NFT collectible was designed in collaboration with Montreal-based artist Sean Caruso.

The scent of physical Cyber Eau de Perfume was “extracted using near-infrared spectroscopy and is represented in the art piece itself in the form of spectrum data,” Look Labs explained.

Regarding the NFT design, Caruso said he was inspired by the original packaging of the physical perfume bottle. He explained: 

“For the NFT, I was inspired by the original packaging and bottle of the Cyber Eau de Parfum. I wanted a photorealistic render of the bottle with the illuminated label and the NIR data represented as a colorful spectrogram, contrast to the Gigeresque styled platter.”

Only ten NFTs are available for auction on Rarible. Each of the ten minted assets comes with a physical collector’s edition of Cyber Eau De Perfume with a printed OLED label that lights up in red when pressed.

Nonfungible tokens have taken the market by storm in recent months, with digital collectibles growing in popularity among not just crypto enthusiasts, but mainstream audiences as well. Some analysts have commented that the market is getting too frothy as billions of dollars flow into NFT platforms.

For example, the fully diluted market capitalization of Dapper Labs’ FLOW token crossed $41 billion earlier this month. Dapper Labs is the NFT platform behind Cryptokitties and NBA Top Shot.

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