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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...

Virtual land in the Metaverse dominated NFT sales over past week

Based on NFT and Metaverse sales over the past week, the demand for digital land outpaced all other items, art, and collections.

Digital land is in high demand in what is already a highly lucrative market as the past week’s NFT and Metaverse sales figures revealed.

Data from the industry metrics platform, NonFungible, indicates that over the past week there have been more than $300 million in NFT sales. Of that total, almost a quarter have been for digital land in the Sandbox Metaverse. 

Over the past week, each one of the top ten NFT Metaverse sales across the top five collections were for in-game digital land.

The Sandbox traded a total volume of $70.5 million for 4,433 assets over the past week — making it the Metaverse collection that raked in the most cash.

Although Decentraland ranked in second place for the total volume traded, the top ten most expensive metaverse NFT sales during the past week, ranging from 225,000 MANA ($758,250) to 50,000 MANA ($220,000), were all on the Ethereum-based virtual world. Decentraland traded $6.6 million in volume for 399 assets over the past week.

Meanwhile, over the past seven days CryptoVoxels traded around $650,000 in volume for 81 assets, Somnium Space traded $492,000 for 40 assets, and SuperWorld traded $227,600 for 506 assets — all of their top trades were also for virtual land.

The Metaverse is an immersive virtual reality experience of the internet that uses blockchain technology and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to pay and own items online. For example, when you make an in-game purchase you actually own the item, and are free to hold, trade or sell it.

According to DappRadar, $106 million worth of Metaverse land was sold among more than 6,000 traders in the week ending Dec. 2. “Undoubtedly, Metaverse land is the next big hit in the NFT space. Outputting record sales numbers and constantly increasing NFT prices, virtual worlds are the new top commodity in the crypto space,” stated DappRadar in a blog post at the time.

Related: Flying Hot Off the Shelves — Virtual Land Based on Blockchain

In June, a virtual real estate investment firm broke Decentraland’s record for the most expensive digital land plot ever sold after spending $913,000 on 259 parcels.

On NFT marketplace Opensea, Sandbox and Dentraland held their spots as the top two collections traded on the platform over the past week. 

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