NFTs Return to Minecraft, Coinbase Provides ENS Usernames

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NFTs for healthcare

NFTs are tackling the UN’s sustainable growth objectives. 

The Girls in Innovation Fund (WiN Fund) is utilizing the proceeds from NFTs gross sales to put money into women-led healthcare startups in Africa, addressing the UN’s third such objective — good well being and well-being.

NFTs for good causes is a rising idea, and the advantages of blockchain for healthcare and democracy are being explored in international locations with unstable management. 

Girls are extra attuned to the healthcare wants of their group, in keeping with Corinne Momal-Vanian, the chief director of the Kofi Annan Basis. “Girls entrepreneurs – from what we’ve seen in Africa — can drive innovation, can drive effectivity and may actually have a spot within the healthcare ecosystem that governments can not fill,” she mentioned at a UN-adjacent roundtable dialogue in New York this week.

Representatives from the World Well being Group and the World Financial Discussion board additionally participated.

WiN Fund’s co-founder Pradeep Kakkattil, reminded the viewers of an “unacceptable” statistic: Solely 2% of enterprise capital investments globally go to women-led enterprises, even supposing women-led companies ship 35% increased returns and create 6 instances extra jobs. 

Coinbase companions with ENS 

Coinbase has teamed up with the Ethereum Naming Service (ENS) to create its personal Web3 usernames.

Constructed on prime of ENS infrastructure, Coinbase usernames are ENS subdomains that comprise a ‘.cb.id’ on the finish, reasonably than ‘.eth.’

Customers can then exchange their 42-character handle with a customized pockets handle.

Customers who already personal an .eth area now have the choice to switch the possession of the ENS identify to a Coinbase Pockets and select between a Coinbase username or an present ENS username as the first username for that pockets.

A .cb.id username is just not tied to Ethereum and can be utilized on a number of networks to ship and obtain crypto.

Simplified pockets addresses have lately surged in reputation throughout the previous couple of months of the bear market. Since July, ENS registrations have elevated by 200%, and the entire quantity of NFT gross sales has elevated by 80% up to now three months, as per NFTGo information.

Newest NFT loyalty program: Scotch & Soda

Amsterdam-based life-style model Scotch & Soda is upping its shopper loyalty program by launching NFT-based membership for Membership Soda 3.0.

Holders are granted unique entry to merchandise and occasions, in addition to the flexibility to co-create clothes with Scotch & Soda companions. 

Every NFT acts as a membership card to what’s referred to as the “Free Spirit” group of Scotch & Soda lovers.

Cloud software program firm Salesforce selected Scotch & Soda to debut its pilot NFT Cloud service to assist firms make and handle NFTs.

NFTs again in Minecraft?

Minecraft developer Mojang lately banned NFT help inside Minecraft shopper and server purposes, however MyMetaverse has discovered a approach across the new restriction.

The metaverse firm re-implemented playable NFTs not solely on Minecraft sport servers, but additionally on modified variations of Grand Theft Auto (GTA).

Utilizing NFTs operating on Efinity, a Polkadot parachain developed by gaming platform Enjin, MyMetaverse works with builders who construct third-party servers atop of Minecraft and GTA 5 core video games.

Simon Kertonegoro, CEO of MyMetaverse, informed Blockworks it really works much like how WordPress permits folks to make use of their expertise to create customized web sites. “These servers are self-hosted, modified situations of the sport, operating independently of Mojang or Rockstar,” Kertonegoro mentioned.

Thus, Mojang and GTA parent-company Rockstar don’t have any official affiliation with the NFTs.

“The modified variations enable the sport to attach with crypto wallets and acknowledge NFTs within the sport, which the person can then use as in-game objects,” he added.

GameFi by the numbers

• Blockchain gaming studio Vulcan Solid secured $8 million in a Sequence A funding spherical led by the funding agency SkyBridge Capital, based by former White Home Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci. The spherical consists of the choice to speculate an extra $33 million. Funding will go towards accelerating the expansion of “Metascapes,” a play-to-earn function that permits Vulcan customers to construct their very own land within the metaverse. Vulcan Solid has about energetic 200,000 customers throughout 15 video games and decentralized purposes (dapps).

• Blockchain sport Splinterlands offered out its latest card pack version, Riftwatchers, in lower than 2 minutes, pocketing $5.2 million on the sale of 500,000 packs. Inside hours, members of the group had additionally bought 30,000 earlier card packs, in keeping with the corporate. 25 million SPS — Splinterlands’ native token — was both instantly burned or despatched to the SPS Basis DAO.
• Immortal Sport, the corporate taking the sport of chess into Web3, has closed $15.5 million throughout two rounds, together with a $12 million funding in July. TCG Crypto led the Sequence A spherical — backers Cassius, Greenfield One, Sparkle Ventures, Kevin Durant and Wealthy Kleiman’s 35V, Blockwall, Kraken Ventures and Spice Capital additionally participated. It plans to make use of the funding to construct out its platform, which is at present in beta kind for customers who want to decide in to the sport’s play-and-earn system.