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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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Alex Saunders again under fire after virtual HQ in Decentraland fails to launch

Controversial crypto influencer Alex Saunders is making headlines again, with followers claiming he raised $57,000 in NFT from them to launch a virtual community headquarters that hasn’t materialized.

Australian crypto influencer and Nuggets News founder Alex Saunders is facing backlash over his non-fungible token (NFT) sale from late last year.

Nuggets News is a paid group providing technical analysis and crypto tips to subscribers that was founded by Saunders in 2017. As of Aug.17, Nuggets News had roughly 146,000 subscribers on YouTube.

In November 2020, Saunders minted 100 NFTs comprising tokenized tickets he said would grant holders access to an exclusive Nuggets News community headquarters being developed in the crypto-powered virtual metaverse, Decentraland.

Saunders priced the NFTs at 1 ETH each, worth around $570 at the time. Saunders reportedly sold all NFTs within weeks of the drop, accumulating $57,000 from his supporters in total. At today’s prices, 100 ETH is worth roughly $315,000.

In a post to Saunders’ subscription-based Facebook group, the influencer touted the virtual headquarters as “an educational, collaborative workspace in virtual reality” fitted out with “professional offices” and even a function center.

According to an Aug.16 report from the Australian Financial Review (AFR), Saunders has so far failed to pay blockchain development studio, Polygonal Mind, for building the virtual headquarters.

Despite Saunders taking in $57,000 from his supporters, Polygonal Mind reportedly quoted the influencer less than 10,000 Australian dollars ($7,300) to complete the project.

Polygonal Mind CEO, Daniel Garcia, claims that Saunders pushed back the project’s launch date multiple times despite the virtual headquarters having been fully built. After learning about Saunders' alleged financial mishaps, Garcia told AFR he decided to write the project off:

“When we learned of all these other problems Alex has been having, we have drawn a line under this one and let it go. We don’t want to be associated with this kind of activity.”

“I believe he could have made a lot of money running this legitimate business, so why all this shady stuff?” Garcia added.

An anonymous investor told AFR they are considering taking legal action against Saunders over the metaverse project. They also emphasized their dismay with the NFT’s design, which ensures that 50% of secondary sales will be pocketed by Saunders.

“So not only did Alex Saunders get my money when I bought this NFT, he gets 50 percent of the price if I on-sell it,” they said.

Related: Alex Saunders sued for $350K by Nuggets News follower

On July 28, Cointelegraph reported that Saunders had become embroiled in controversy after Saunders’ friends, followers and associates went public about large sums of money owed to them by Saunders.

Saunders reportedly borrowed 5 BTC from popular YouTuber Bitboy Crypto, and 30 ETH from supporter Ziv Himmelfarb. He reportedly requested to borrow 50 BTC from the controversial HEX founder, Richard Heart who went public with screenshots of private messages purporting to show Saunders requesting the loan.

Saunders also promoted his “Decentral Bank” stablecoin project to his followers, reportedly raising $11 million from his supporters since April. However, investors claim that transaction data for Saunders’ wallets show that the influencer diverted roughly $1.2 million of the funds raised for Decentral Bank to his personal wallets, with some of the funds then being sent to crypto derivatives exchange, FTX.

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