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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...
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9 CryptoPunks sell for $17M at Christie’s auction house

Famed New York auction house, Christie’s hosted the sale of nine CryptoPunks NFTs for nearly $17 million.

Despite the recent NFT frenzy starting to cool, prized nonfungible tokens with historical significance are still fetching multi-million dollar prices.

On May 12, famed New York-based auction house, Christie’s, tweeted that an auction for nine tokens from pioneering NFT CryptoPunks had cleared for nearly $17 million combined.

Despite the tokens fetching millions, some Twitter users speculated that the winning bidder scored a bargain.

CryptoPunks were launched by LarvaLabs in 2017, and were limited to 10,000 tokens in total. The NFTs depict randomly generated pixelated portraits with unique features inspired by the London punk movement, such as hair styles, jewellery, and sunglasses.

Ahead of the auction, Christie’s teamed up with non-profit and urban art proponent SaveArtSpace to display CryptoPunks in public spaces in New York. The public exhibition, dubbed Pixelated, is showcasing 193 CryptoPunks from May 10 until June 6, and expands a similar public exhibition of CryptoPunks held in Miami during April.

Adult streaming platform, CamSoda, is also jumping on the CryptoPunk bandwagon, announcing it will host a live no-reserve auction of CryptoPunk #7060 on May 13. Auction attendees must deposit the grand total of at least $1 worth of crypto assets into their CamSoda account to participate. 

CamSoda’s vice president, Daryn Parker, stated: “Right now we are in the midst of a NFT gold rush. NFTs are crypto’s hottest investment space so far in 2021, with millions in trades and rare collectibles like CryptoPunks selling for huge sums.”

“Given how CryptoPunks have captured the mainstream crypto zeitgeist, we wanted to make one easily accessible to our users,” he added.

In February, Christie’s auctioned famed digital artist Beeple’s “Everydays” NFT collection for more than $69 million.

Source: Christie’s / Larva Labs
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