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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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Chinese artist showcases NFT real estate at Alibaba-sponsored innovation festival

NFT artworks depicting “socialist cyberpunk” housing are being showcased at the Taobao Maker Festival in Shanghai.

This year’s Taobao Maker Festival — an annual event celebrating Chinese art and entrepreneurship hosted by the Alibaba-owned e-commerce platform Taobao — will showcase nonfungible tokens (NFTs) for the first time.

This year’s event will see decentralized application platform Near Protocol team up with blockchain gaming firm Web3Games and Chinese artist Huang Heshan to sell NFT-based real estate created by Huang.

Heshan’s virtual “Bu Tu Garden” will be available for purchase during the event, with the garden comprising more than 1,000 virtual structures, including ten “luxury single-family villas,” 300 high-end units, and 1,000 “umbrella” parasols.

Bu Tu Garden forms part of Heshan’s first NFT collection, “Toorich City Series” — which is built around a fictional real-estate tycoon, Mr. Toorich, who is dedicated to building up-market housing for the economically disadvantaged.

The Bu Tu Garden NFTs can be purchased using Chinese renminbi via Taobao’s website. The tokens must be claimed with a Near wallet.

The Taobao Maker Festival was first held in 2016, with this year’s event taking place in Shanghai’s National Exhibition and Convention Center from July 17 through July 25.

Speaking to Blockcast, Heshan recounted his surprised with the ease of working with nonfungible tokens, stating: "I originally thought that the concepts of blockchain and NFT would be very complicated.”

The self-described “socialist cyberpunk” also emphasized the reduced costs of minting NFTs on Near when compared to Ethereum, stating: “The cost of casting an NFT on Ethereum is hundreds or thousands of dollars too expensive. NEAR only costs a few cents and is very suitable.”

Related: Virtual land can be worth more than the real thing after plot sells for record $1.5M

While Heshan’s digital real estate NFTs are purely artistic works, crypto-powered virtual real estate has seen significant growth over roughly the past year, with a digital land plot within blockchain game Decentraland selling for more than $900,000 last month.

Last week, Cointelegraph reported that Illuvium co-founder Kieran Warwick had flipped a virtual land plot he purchased last year in Axie Infinity for a profit of more than 9,000%.

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