NBA Top Shot leads NFT explosion with $230M in sales

The NFT craze has reached the NBA, with digital collectibles grossing $230 million in sales, according to Dapper Labs.

Flow NFTs Are Coming to OpenSea

PRESS RELEASE. February 23, 2021 – OpenSea, the largest marketplace for blockchain-enabled non-fungible tokens (NFTs), is in the process of building support for Flow, a blockchain built for mainstream consumer scale originally created by Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot, which has recently reached over $150 million in sales volume, becoming […]

NBA Top Shot, CryptoKitties Firm Dapper Labs Raising $250M+ at $2B Valuation: Report

The firm has generated almost $100 million in NFT sales, according to the report.

Ultra-rare alien CryptoPunk NFT sells for 605 ETH, or $750,000

The NFT market is getting molten hot as a rare "alien" CryptoPunk sells for over $750,000 Amid a wild market-wide bullrun for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), an ultra-rare “alien” CryptoPunk has sold today for 605 Ether, worth over $750,000 at today’s prices.  CryptoPunks are widely considered to be the original NFT project, released even before Cryptokitties, the blockchain-based collectibles project that propelled NFTs to mainstream consciousness.

T-Systems and Validation Capital Partner With Flow Blockchain

PRESS RELEASE. January 13, 2021 – T-Systems MMS, a subsidiary of the largest telecommunications provider in Europe, Deutsche Telekom, announces today a partnership with Flow blockchain developed by Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot.

ELI5: Teaching a 5-Year-Old to ‘Play’ CryptoKitties

The experience somehow confirmed that life is meaningless and/or suffering.

Dapper Labs’ Flow blockchain takes major step towards mainnet

The hotly anticipated layer-1 chain looks to be getting its ducks in a row. In a move that may signal that a mainnet launch is just around the corner, Flow — the blockchain from Cryptokitties and NBA Topshot developers Dapper Labs — has launched the Flow Port: a tool for token holders to manage, stake, and delegate their Flow cryptoassets.  The announcement focused heavily on how users can stake their FLOW tokens through custody providers such as Kraken and Coinlist, as well as delegate their tokens to currently-existing node operators.

Finoa and Dapper Labs Announce Exclusive Partnership To Bring Institutional-Grade Custody To Flow Ecosystem Investors

Berlin, October 20, 2020: Finoa, one of the leading digital asset custody and financial servicing platforms in Europe, and Dapper Labs, the company known for creating CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot, announces that Finoa has been exclusively selected as one of top custody providers for FLOW and the main one that offers institutional-grade custody.

CryptoKitties Team Raise $18 Million in Flow Crypto Token Sale

The creators of CryptoKitties are creating a new place to store crypto collectibles.

What are CryptoKitties?

CryptoKitties was the first game built on the Ethereum network.

Coincheck exchange to help CryptoKitties go mainstream in Japan

CryptoKitties will be part of the NFT marketplace on a major Japanese crypto exchange. Coincheck, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in Japan, is expanding its push into non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, with a new partnership with the developer of CryptoKitties. According to an Oct.

Dapper Labs' Flow token auction closes at 4X the price of 'community sale'

Dapper Labs, the team behind Cryptokitties, has completed a Dutch auction for the native token of their ‘Flow’ blockchain, selling 2% of its entire supply at $0.38 each Dapper Labs, the team behind pioneering non-fungible token (NFT)-powered collectibles Cryptokitties and NBA Top Shot, has completed a dutch auction for the native token of their blockchain, Flow. Dutch auctions allow investors to place bids at which they are willing to purchase tokens prior to the commencement of the sale, with the price moving down from the opening price until all of the tokens are sold.

NBA TopShot opens to public after closed beta drives $2M in NFT sales

NBA Top Shot, the officially licensed crypto collectibles from the team behind CryptoKitties, has opened its beta version to the public. NBA TopShot, the flagship non-fungible token (NFT)-powered game built by Dapper Labs on their Flow blockchain, has launched in open beta. The transition to public beta came on October 1, alongside Top Shot’s launch on the Samsung Galaxy Store.

CryptoKitties’ Dapper Labs Launches NBA Top Shot Public Beta on Flow Blockchain

Dapper Labs, creators of the popular CryptoKitties game and the Flow Blockchain has announced the beta release of its much-anticipated NBA Top Shot.

Investment Potential of NFTs Continues to Divide Opinion

Many are pushing non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as the next big thing in cryptocurrency.

Dapper Labs and Blockparty Join Forces to Bring A New Breadth of Digital Collectibles onto Flow

VANCOUVER / SEPTEMBER 25, 2020 — Blockparty—the New York-based rare digital collectibles marketplace that launched last month to foster more meaningful fan engagement for artists, musicians, and sports teams—today announced a partnership with Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot, who will bring Blockparty onto Flow, their user-centric blockchain built for mainstream […] The post Dapper Labs and Blockparty Join Forces to Bring A New Breadth of Digital Collectibles onto Flow appeared first on Bitcoin News.

Why Top Global Brands Like the NBA and UFC Choose Dapper Labs’ Flow Blockchain

Developed by the team behind some of the most successful crypto applications in the world, Flow is a blockchain re-designed from the ground up to be user- and developer-friendly as well as modular and future-proof.

VIDYA’s Public Sale Marks the Dawn of a New Blockchain Gaming Era

In 2017, the gaming world was revolutionized by the massive success of a simple blockchain game called CryptoKitties.

Flow Blockchain By Dapper Labs of CryptoKitties Fame to Make NFT-DeFi Based Crypto Games Mainstream

Blockchain technology has made a lot of headway since its inception, leading to the development of hundreds of DApps in DeFi, gaming, content management and plenty of other verticals.

Party at Vitalik’s House? For DeFi, it’s Do-or-Die

Ethereum gas prices have set new records, with single DeFi transactions costing over $10 in fees.

Binance USD is coming to Dapper Labs’ Flow blockchain

Dapper Labs has partnered with its second major stablecoin this week, announcing the integration of BUSD for developers building on its Flow blockchain. The US dollar stablecoin of top crypto exchange Binance, BUSD, has become the latest stable token to announce it will launch on Dapper Labs’ Flow blockchain. The news comes just days after the platform added the rival USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin. Dapper Labs, the team behind pioneering non-fungible token (NFT)-powered games CryptoKitties and NBA TopShot, began working on Flow to address the scaling issues with Ethereum (ETH) that CryptoKitties starkly exposed after launching in late 2017. The new partnership will allow developers building on Flow to permissionlessly integrate BUSD into their decentralized applications (DApps), with the firms asserting that BUSD will open the door to developers looking to build stablecoin-powered decentralized finance (DeFi) applications on Flow.

Binance Supporting Flow Blockchain with BUSD Stablecoin

New York, September 17, 2020 — Binance, the global blockchain company behind the world’s largest digital asset exchange by trading volume and users, announced today the agreement to support BUSD stablecoin on Flow, the blockchain developed by Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot.

Dapper Labs–USDC Integration Helps NBA Collectibles Game Clear $2M in Revenue Since June

Gamemaker Dapper Labs is using Circle's dollar-backed stablecoin USDC as a global settlement solution for its non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

English rock band Muse collaborates on CryptoKitties campaign

A new partnership sees English rock band Muse signing its own blockchain-authenticated CryptoKitties collectibles. The famous English rock band Muse is teaming up with Dapper Labs, the company behind the viral blockchain game CryptoKitties. The collaboration, which follows Dapper Labs’ partnership with Warner Music Group, will center on the creation of two blockchain-secured crypto-collectibles, including a limited edition Kitty “signed” by the band.  Projects such as CryptoKitties involve unique but tradeable blockchain assets — known as non-fungible tokens — that can be used to represent all manner of virtual and equally, real-world goods.  Video games, digital art and even memes can be tokenized and monetized, circulating on the blockchain in a peer-to-peer community of online fans. The new edition of collectible Kitties will be designed using elements from the visual world that Muse created in their latest album, “Simulation Theory.”  Two characters featured in the new collection will be “Marty” and “Mibbles” —  the former based on lead singer Matt Bellamy’s incarnation in the “Something Human” video and the latter a mini-monster heralding from the video for “Pressure.”  Speaking of the new project, Dapper Labs’ CEO Roham Charegozlo claimed that blockchain-based collectibles have the power “to transform the artist fan relationship” —- an idea echoed by a Warner Music executive, Tiago Correia, who said: “As our lives become increasingly digitized, people are expressing their fandom in new and fascinating ways.

CryptoKitties Adds Cats Inspired by Rock Band Muse

Dapper Labs finds a new muse in… well, Muse as it flexes its Warner Music partnership for fresh cat content.

Dapper Labs Releases CryptoKitties Based on Rock Band Muse

Dapper Labs, the team behind popular non-fungible token game CryptoKitties, announced it will release two Muse-inspired cat characters, one of which will be signed by the band members.

DeFi Meets CryptoKitties: Axie Infinity to Introduce Governance Token

Axie Infinity is now the 11th-ranked NFT game by lifetime trade volume following a surge in players eager to get their hands on the platform’s governance token. DeFi is converging with non-fungible tokens (NFTs), with the Ethereum-powered game Axie Infinity seeing a spike in users ahead of the expected launch of the project’s governance token. Axie Infinity is a decentralized turn-based strategy game that draws influence from Pokemon and Tamagotchi with players able to breed, battle, and trade NFT-based fantasy creatures dubbed ‘Axie’. Since launching in February 2018, the game has attracted more than 7,000 tokenholders, and more than 4,500 active marketplace participants.

Bison Trails Now Supports ‘Flow’ Blockchain From CryptoKitties Maker Dapper Labs

Bison Trails users can now build apps, games and more on Dapper Labs' scalable blockchain.

NBA stars lead $12M investment in CryptoKitties makers Dapper Labs

The CryptoKitties team pulls in big cash ahead of launching NBA Top Shot and Dr Seuss blockchain collectibles.

Dapper Labs Raises $12M From VC Firms and NBA Players, Nets $1.2M in NFT Sales

CryptoKittes’ creator Dapper Labs has secured $12 million in investment from blockchain venture capital notables and pro-NBA players. Dapper Labs, the team behind CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot, has secured $12 million in the latest investment round for its Flow blockchain. New investors include Coinbase Ventures, BlockTower Capital, and NBA players Andre Iguodala of Miami Heat, Spencer Dinwiddie and Garrett Temple of the Brooklyn Nets, JaVale McGee of the Los Angeles Lakers, and Aaron Gordon of the Orlando Magic. Dapper’s chief executive and founder, Roham Gharegozlou, stated that the funding will be used to “ensure that Flow can scale to the size of projects appealing to fan bases as big as the NBA.” Dapper Labs has now raised approximately $38 million in total. NBA Top Shot sees early success Dapper Labs also revealed that it has sold more than $1.2 million worth of crypto-collectibles to hundreds of early adopters on the two-month-old beta version of its NBA Top Shot platform. The game is Dapper’s flagship title built on the Flow blockchain.

NBA Top Shot Launches P2P Marketplace for Collectible Tokens

The marketplace for Dapper Labs’ NBA Top Shop game has gone live, allowing beta users to trade collectible NFTs with their peers. Dapper Labs, the team behind CryptoKitties, has launched a peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplace allowing beta players of its NBA Top Shot game to trade their non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles. The launch of Top Shot’s marketplace will give players the opportunity to own tokens that were limited to the game’s now sold-out first wave of collectibles — allowing players to expand and complete their crypto-collections and unlock unique rewards. The game, which has been built on Dapper Labs’ Flow blockchain, features NFTs representing significant "moments" in basketball history.

The Evolution of Blockchain Games: Three Major Stages

There are certain stages that we need to go through before we are able to challenge and potentially replace the existing and proven gaming systems. When CryptoKitties burst onto the scene back in November 2017, we had our first taste of load-testing a blockchain solution at scale.

Dr Seuss Crypto Collectibles to Feature Cat in the Hat, Lorax, Horton, the Grinch

Dr Seuss’ characters will be crypto collectibles due to a partnership between Dr Seuss Enterprises and Dapper Labs, the company behind Cryptokitties and the upcoming NBA Top Shot.

CryptoKitties Maker Launches Dr Seuss Collectibles on Flow Blockchain

Source: a screenshot, seussville.com The developer of the Ethereum (ETH)-powered crypto-collectibles game CryptoKitties has teamed up with Dr Seuss Enterprises to launch a line of digital collectibles based hit children’s books like The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! on its Flow blockchain network. The CryptoKitties mastermind, Dapper Labs, stated in a blog post that Dr

The Cat in the Hat Is Coming to the Blockchain

Leading NFT collectibles issuer Dapper Labs has announced a deal with Dr Seuss Enterprises to launch tokenized collectibles depicting the firm’s iconic characters. Dapper Labs, the team behind the pioneering non-fungible token (NFT) game CryptoKitties, has partnered with Dr Seuss Enterprises to launch tokenized digital collectibles depicting the company’s most iconic characters. Announced on July 21, the deal will see digital experiences created alongside tokenized representations of Dr Seuss’s most popular characters include Cat in The Hat, The Lorax, and Thing One and Thing Two. Cat In The Hat goes crypto Dapper will sell digital packs of the crypto collectibles, allowing fans to assemble and curate NFT collections.

CryptoKitties meet Cat in the Hat as Dr Seuss collectibles go crypto

CryptoKitties developers Dapper Labs have teamed with Dr Seuss Enterprises to create officially licensed digital decals of the Cat in the Hat and pals.

DApps Need to Nail Usability to Move From Crypto Niche to Mainstream

Yield farming is driving a boom in DApp and DeFi use, but user experience improvements will be key for future adoption in the next five years. From CryptoKitties to Compound, decentralized applications and decentralized finance have become increasingly popular in the blockchain space, but the sector has gone through a fair share of teething problems since DApps first appeared in 2017. DApps were popularized around the same time that Bitcoin (BTC) experienced a monumental surge in value toward the end of 2017.

Billions and Billions: How Brands Take Blockchain From Niche to Normal

“The value we create inside of our virtual worlds will become indistinguishable from the value we’ve historically created outside of them.” Dapper Labs – the company behind CryptoKitties – has a simple mission.

Wright Decision & Paypal Allowing Crypto: Bad Crypto News of the Week

Check out this week’s Bad Crypto podcast. It’s been a relatively calm time for Bitcoin this week.