The Edge of NFT Newsletter | Issue #24
Giveaways | Metaverse Digest | Living Tree Spirit Seed Update | NFT LA 2023 Update! | NFT Nuggets, And More!
😍 Listener Love: Learn, Earn, and Build
Ozone Metaverse x Edge of NFT Giveaway
Are you ready for an incredible opportunity?
Ozone Metaverse is giving away 50 FREE land parcels in Di5trikt Zero. Valued at $1,000 $USD each - just for their community!
Be one of the lucky 50 Giveaway winners and own a piece of the Ozone Metaverse!
Note: 10 out of 50 parcels of land will go specifically to Youtube participants.
Build with us!
Build land. Build experiences. Build communities. Build revenues. Ozone Is the only platform designed to power the internet-scale metaverse. Buy land in Ozone with the $OZONE token and design the spaces and worlds you've always dreamed of!
What comes with owning land in Ozone?
Ozone Metaverse's unique, user-friendly approach to world composability lets you add Power-Ups to your land - special Ozone NFTs (built on Flow) will introduce new features such as customizations, tickets & much more. Build new features & utility as you go, the possibilities are endless.
$OZONE has a number of key features including:
For use as a currency within the Ozone ecosystem.
It can be staked in order to receive yield and other rewards and to develop a Land Parcel’s personality.
Users who wish to rent or lease their Land Parcels can receive payments in $OZONE.
Learn more here. Enter using the button below. (Giveaway ends on July 15, 2022, at 11:59 PM PST)
Kindred Hearts X Edge of NFT Giveaway
Kindred Hearts NFT Project Has Partnered With Edge of NFT For An Exciting Giveaway!
5 winners will each receive 1 NFT (Worth 0.05 Ξ)
What is Kindred Hearts?
The Kindred Hearts Art Project is the gateway to forming a community dedicated to making a difference and impact IRL! Kindred Hearts used hearts in their inaugural project because the heart is the universal symbol of love, and the project has “heart” after all. Kindred Hearts will be donating funds to non-profits that directly support the mission.
Favrit is partnering with over 50 artists and contributors on the Kindred Hearts Art Project. Each Kindred Heart Card is composed of 9 layers of which their creators have contributed their unique spirit of love to. The roadmap for the project is shaped by input from the Favrit community. Kindred Hearts believes that by combining community with giving, we can power a better world and they are spreading the love by giving back to the community.
Favrit is driven by their collective desire to affect positive social change through financial inclusion and empowerment. They believe every individual, regardless of age, race, gender, class, ethnicity, citizenship, or social status, deserves to be treated like “the favrit” and given the opportunity to succeed.
Learn more here. Enter using the button below. (Giveaway ends on July 25, 2022, at 11:59 PM PST)
Boba Network X Edge of NFT Giveaway
GET EXCITED!
Boba Network has partnered with Edge of NFT for an exciting Giveaway!
3 WINNERS will EACH receive 1 TUMO NFT - the FIRST NFT on Boba Network using proprietary VRF technology.
What is Boba Network?
Boba offers fast exits backed by community-driven liquidity pools, shrinking the Optimistic Rollup exit period from 7 days to only a few minutes, while giving LPs incentivized yield farming opportunities.
Boba’s extensible smart contracts enable developers across the Ethereum ecosystem to build dApps that invoke code executed on web-scale infrastructure such as AWS Lambda, making it possible to use algorithms that are either too expensive or impossible to execute on-chain.
Boba Network aspires to be the People’s L2 that puts users and developers first. The goal is to build a pragmatic L2 that is the first step toward opening Ethereum to the next Billion users. Boba is an L2 Ethereum scaling & augmenting solution built by the Enya team as core contributors to the OMG Foundation.
Learn more here. Enter using the button below. (Giveaway ends on July 25, 2022, at 11:59 PM PST)
🏝⭐NFT LA: The comeback of an Incredibly Unforgettable NFT Conference in Los Angeles
We are thrilled to announce that NFT LA is returning to Los Angeles on March 20-23, 2023!
Experience the unrivaled web3 gathering in Southern California!
Learn from the finest conversations on the main stage.
Meet, build and collaborate with the movers and shakers in the space.
Witness mind-blowing art exhibits, demos, and networking.
Be entertained by iconic artists and phenomenal live performances.
Become a part of the finest parties and community-building activities.
Super fans can take advantage of early access specials by registering for the allowlist here:
We want you to be a part of the most significant NFT Conference of the year, where NFTs intertwine with art, music, gaming, technology, finance, and fun!
Ⓜ️Metaverse Digest (by mpost.io)
Welcome to our new featured section presented by our partners at mpost.io! mpost (Metaverse Post) is our go-to resource for everything about the Metaverse in one place. You can count on them to bring you the best analytics, insights, news, interviews, and more. It becomes clearer every day that the metaverse is going to be a huge part of our futures. And NFTs will be seamlessly integrated, so we want everyone in our awesome tribe to be on the cutting edge of everything metaverse. Enjoy!
Chris Brown’s 10,000 NFT project flops
Even though many celebrities have been betting on Web3 and actively launching NFT projects, not all of them saw success. Chris Brown recently released the Breezyverse 3D NFT collection, which marked the singer’s entrance into the metaverse. Two weeks after the launch, there have only been 334 NFTs minted out of 10,000.
Brown’s collection was critiqued for its cheap and comical art and odd utilities, such as 80 free VIP tickets and phone calls with the musician. The starting price for each NFT also seems too high – 0.35 ETH, or approximately $440. Users of Twitter also reminded future buyers of his shady past when he assaulted his ex-girlfriend Rihanna, which won’t help the celebrity sell his digital collectibles.
GameStop launches an NFT marketplace, offers $100 million grant for game developers
After dropping an NFT and crypto wallet, video game giant GameStop launched an NFT marketplace, currently in beta mode. There are 244 NFT collections with more than 53,500 art NFTs available. The further steps for the company are gaming NFTs and Web3 games.
On top of that, GameStop offers a $100 million IMX grant program for developers and creators to help advance NFTs and Web3 gaming.
Is GameStop going to outperform other NFT platforms? Data said it had already beaten Coinbase’s NFT marketplace in sales volume.
United Arab Emirates healthcare company to introduce the first Metaverse hospital
A healthcare company from the United Arab Emirates is creating the first-ever metaverse hospital to provide medical tourism services. The hospital is a part of the Thumbay Group, founded in 1998, and operates in 20 different sectors, including health communication, media, technology, medical tourism, and medical research.
With the help of VR and AR technology, paralyzed patients in hospitals will be able to visit their homes. Through face recognition and avatars, they will also be able to communicate with their doctors.
“This will be a complete virtual hospital where people will come with an avatar and consult with the doctor. To cater to medical tourism, we will allow patients to see what the hospital looks like in the Metaverse if they travel and come to Thumbay healthcare facility,” said the founder of Thumbay Group, Dr. Thumbay Moideen.
Snap to test NFTs as AR filters for Snapchat
Snapchat is an advocate of augmented reality and has now set plans to test NFTs as AR filters for creators to showcase their designs and users to experiment with their pictures. The social media company will start testing NFT at the end of August.
To try the feature, creators need to mint NFTs on an NFT platform outside of Snapchat and then add their creations to the app. NFTs will be free to add on Snapchat, with creators having an opportunity to make money from their designs.
🌱Spirit Seed/Living Tree Update: In AR SoHo Art Walk
Back in June during our visit to NYC, we were able to co-create some incredible AR experiences featuring Living Trees and Spirit Seeds. We developed a partnership with SoHo Technique and We Dream to host an awesome VIP event across 5+ gallery spaces in SoHo. Spirit Seed holders had the privilege of VIP access to the invite-only portions of this exclusive event. We welcomed some of Seed Holders and were happy to even feature Josh Leidloff (TRAN$PARENT) on Episode 162 of the Edge of NFT Podcast. The video is below and the podcast link is too.
We also caught Carl Cleanthes aka “Colorful Carl”, an enthusiastic Spirit Seed holder and community member there. What a wonderful opportunity to connect!
The AR art was inspiring and people had a wonderful time coming together to experience it and enjoy it. It offered us an imaginative digital world that can actually bring us together in the real world. From social hangouts, games, business collaboration, immersive performances, and beyond, @WeDream_World, empowers dreamers with a set of innovative tools & infrastructure to utilize AR however they see fit. Our Spirit Seed and Living Tree NFTs were an integral part of this awesome event and so, our Spirit Seed NFT holders got a FREE VIP ACCESS!
Watch our live demo from NFT NYC via YouTube below:
We also had an amazing live podcast episode recording at one of the galleries on June 22nd. The episode featured Prakash Somosundram, CEO & Co-founder at EnjinStarter, and was our very first live-streamed episode recording! The recording also featured a live appearance from Soho Johnny of SoHo Technique and Peter Calfee of WeDream.
A sneak peek at the very first live-streamed episode recording with EnjinStarter CEO, Prakash Somosundrum (L to R: Prakash Somosundrum, Josh Kriger, Jeff Kelley and Eathan Janney)
About Spirit Seeds: This is an exclusive NFT collection celebrating NFTs as a new currency of growth, created in collaboration between Edge of NFT and NFT Influr Nicole Buffett. The Spirit Seeds represent the vision of an economy where more players can win and wherein our diversity is celebrated and rewarded. Among many great rewards, each NFT offsets an average American's carbon emissions—because we also care deeply about our planet's future and want to make it the freshest kind of future imaginable.
As an insider on this exclusive collab, you gain access to a one-of-one Spirit Seed from only 100 generative NFTs that will EVER be created. Edge's own Eathan Janney has carefully crafted generative digital art that's grown out of our relationship with Nicole Buffett and is inspired by her Spirit Coin NFTs.
📻 Edge of NFT Episode Drops
EP159
In this new age of technology, the digital world has taken to more than just trading tokens. You can now buy land, virtual items, and even experience. And in this episode of the Edge of NFT Podcast, we are joined by the CEO and Co-founder of Enjinstarter, Prakash Somosundram, to talk more about the space and his journey to Web 3.0. Prakash has been active in blockchain and cryptocurrencies since 2016 and has led his team to raise $5.5 million in both private and public sales…
EP160
The crypto space continually evolves, and the advanced use cases for NFTs broaden with it. In this episode, Jeff Kelley, Eathan Janney, and Josh Kriger chat with Alan Chiu of Boba Network about how they contribute to this growth. As the CEO and Founder, he leads the efforts to achieve Boba Network's goal of bringing Ethereum to the next billion users worldwide…
EP161
Today’s guests are bringing in the ultimate metaverse technology aimed at empowering the world at scale. In this episode, Jeff Kelley, Eathan Janney, and Josh Kriger sit down with the Founder and Inventor of Ozone, Jay Ess, and the company’s Chief Strategy Officer, Dom Rodwell. They are bringing in 3D and graphics technology in the metaverse space like never before…
EP162
Jeff Kelley, Eathan Janney, and Josh Kriger are coming to you from New York for NFT NYC Week. In this episode, they share a series of interviews with people doing interesting in the space. Listen to their fun conversation with Josh Leidolf, aka TRAN$PARENT, as he explains he is using his art to promote and advocate for transparency in the financial sector…
EP163
NFTs are taking over space. Coming to you from NFT NYC Week are your hosts Eathan Janney and Jeff Kelley together with special guest Mike Mongo. Mike is an astronaut teacher and author of The Astronaut Instruction Manual. He has been creating NFTs since 2017 and even co-founded CryptoTitties, the 19th oldest NFT and the 1st NFT charity in the world…
🥚 NFT Nuggets
Artsy:
Gucci Invests $25K in DAO of NFT Marketplace SuperRare to Start Digital Art Vault
Gamerville:
Samsung Next invests in move-to-earn NFT game GenoPets
Metaversal:
How NFTs in the metaverse can improve the value of physical assets in the real world
Collectible:
Facebook Testing NFT Collectibles Page With US Creators, Bitcoin Rises
Uncategorical:
METAVERSE: THE NEWLY ADVANCED DIGITAL PLATFORM WITH NFT AND VR TRANSFORMING INDUSTRIES
❓ Edge Question of the Week
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