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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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PleasrDAO adds $4M 'OG NFT’ Wu-Tang Clan album to its collection

‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ has been dubbed the OG NFT and now PleasrDAO has turned the title deed to the work into a real NFT.

PleasrDAO has revealed itself to be the new owners of Wu-Tang Clan's one-of-a-kind, unreleased album ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’.

The 74 members of the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) now share collective ownership of the album. The group purchased the sole copy of the album from the US federal government for $4 million at the end of July this year, collected it in September and moved it to a vault at an undisclosed location in New York. The DAO has minted the ownership deed as an NFT with the help of crypto savvy attorney Peter Scoolidge.

A collective of DeFi leaders, early NFT collectors and digital artists, PleasrDAO is well known for tokenizing the original Doge meme and purchasing Edward Snowden’s ‘Stay Free’ artwork for 2,224 ETH.

The government came to possess the album in 2018 after seizing the assets of former owner ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli on fraud charges. Shkreli, who was widely reviled for jacking up the prices of life-saving drugs by up to 5000%, had anonymously purchased the album in 2015 for $2 million, making it the most expensive piece of music ever sold at the time.

The lead of the Wu-Tang Clan RZA and album producer Cilvaringz originally created the album in response to their concerns that piracy and digital streaming cheapens the value of music.

Cilvaringz says they hoped that the album would “return music to the value of fine art— a mission finally possible in today’s environment, nearly a decade later with NFT technology and the ability to mint this album as a unique 1:1 original.”

For this reason, PleasrDAO’s interest in the album is self-explanatory, wrote ‘Chief Pleasing Officer’ Jamis Johnson in a blog post.

"Once Upon a Time in Shaolin in many ways is the OG NFT before NFT technology had made its way into the zeitgeist".

Related: Original $4M Doge NFT meme auctioned off in 17 billion pieces

As for the future of the album, Johnson says PleasrDAO believes the “next chapter of the incredible story of this album should be Web 3.0 native”.

The DAO is still bound by a legal agreement underpinning the album which prevents it from being commercially released until 2103, although listening parties are allowed. Despite this, the group insists they “firmly believe there are ways to share this musical masterpiece with the world.”

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