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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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Lobby Lobsters NFT drop raises $4 million in one hour to support DeFi lobbying efforts

All revenues from secondary sales will also be disbursed to support DeFi lobbying efforts globally.

Nonfungible tokens (NFT) depicting cartoon lobsters in suits have raised more than $4 million to support lobbying efforts supporting the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector.

On August 5, nonfungible token platform and community Universe sold out if its Lobby Lobster NFTs in less than one hour, raising roughly $4 million.

Each NFT was minted for 0.1 Ether (roughly $390), with all of the 1,000 Ether raised through primary sales set for donation to “a non-profit focused on the policy issues facing cryptocurrencies.” In a blog post, Universe revealed that the beneficiary has been selected, however the name of the organization will be made public soon. 

Proceeds from resales will also be deposited into the Universe DAO’s multi-sig wallet, with monthly communal votes slated to determine which organizations to disburse funds to. 7.5% of secondary sales will be directed to support lobby groups located outside of the United States.

The Lobby Lobsters drop attracted praise and participation from many leading figures from the DeFi and crypto ecosystem, including Foobar, Fiskantes, and Delphi Digital co-founder Tom Shaughnessy.

The idea for Lobby Lobsters emerged from discussions between Uniswap’s Hayden Adams and Synthetix’s Kain Warwick regarding how to fund lobbying efforts supporting the DeFi industry.

Related: DeFi literacy: Universities embrace decentralized finance education

The Lobby Lobsters drop comes amid the backdrop of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigations into Uniswap’s development team, Uniswap Labs.

The broad support shown for Universe’s Lobby Lobster drop stands in contrast to the recent controversy surrounding the allocation of one million UNI tokens (worth roughly $20 million at the time) from the Uniswap treasury to fund lobbying and advocacy efforts of the recently formed DeFi Education Alliance.

In July, the organization came under fire for abruptly dumping half of the UNI allocated to it for cash, despite having indicated tokens would be sold gradually over four to five years.

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