Muse To Release NFT Album, Lens Protocol Talks NFTs

The Web3 world this week noticed a collaboration between luxurious jeweler Tiffany & Co. and the CryptoPunks assortment, whereas Solana-focused NFT market Magic Eden added help for Ethereum tokens hours earlier than a serious Solana scorching pockets hack.

Blockworks recaps different notable tales that caught the eyes of the Web3 Watch.

Muse music goes on-chain

British rock band Muse’s upcoming new album will probably be launched as a limited-edition NFT (non-fungible token) on the Polygon-powered platform Serenade, as reported by The Guardian. “Will of the Folks” is Muse’s ninth studio album, scheduled to be launched on Aug. 26.

Serenade permits music followers to make use of their Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets to commerce and accumulate NFTs tied to restricted version digital collectibles and digital pressings. Digital pressings, Serenade founder Max Shand defined, “present full size audio and distinctive art work, paired with unlockable rewards and a listing of first house owners that publicly tie followers to the artists and releases they love.” 

“It’s premium vinyl for the online,” he tweeted.

Again in 2020, Muse additionally labored with Dapper Lab’s CryptoKitties undertaking to create digital collectibles.

Muse’s NFT-bundled album is the primary new format to be added to the UK’s Official Charts Firm (OCC) charts within the UK and Australia. And it’s the primary launch on the OCC the place the seller, on this case Serenade, is accepted as a chart return digital retailer, which means gross sales on the platform contribute to official numbers.

NFT Worlds takes the ‘N,’ ‘F,’ ‘T’ out of Minecraft

Microsoft-owned Mojang, the sport studio behind the massively fashionable Minecraft, just lately determined to ban blockchain know-how and NFTs on the title.

The transfer disrupted NFT and token integrations constructed by Web3 based mostly sport platforms akin to NFT Worlds. The crew’s related token, WRLD, instantly tanked about 65%.

NFT Worlds responded by creating its personal sport and platform based mostly on most of the core mechanics of Minecraft, they usually named it Miecra — having eliminated the letters that make up “NFT” from the title of its inspiration.

“This isn’t a rewrite of some open supply Minecraft clone, which seemingly would violate the EULA [end-user license agreement] or nonetheless danger authorized motion, that is completely from the bottom up. This transition will moreover include a public dealing with model id change that’s extra participant pleasant,” tweeted the corporate, including, “it is a web2 vs web3 battle.” 

The up to date WRLD tokenomics white paper outlines how the startup will incentivize members to maintain enjoying, whereas growing the utility worth of their digital belongings as they construct up reputations as gamers, creators or builders within the sport world.

KuCoin launches an NFT ETF 

Seychelles-based cryptocurrency alternate KuCoin launched an ETF tied to blue-chip NFTs akin to Bored Ape Yacht Membership (BAYC).

KuCoin’s new ETF is a tether-dominated product that buys into derivatives of sure digital belongings. Its portfolio will first cowl fractionalized tokens representing partial possession of BAYC, CryptoPunks, Koda NFTs, The Sandbox deeds and Ethereum Title Service domains.

The fractionalized tokens are issued by Fracton Protocol’s meta-swap NFT fraction alternate aggregator. KuCoin’s ETF gained’t commerce on conventional inventory exchanges, nevertheless — the alternate has as an alternative launched a specialised “Buying and selling Zone” on which its customers can commerce the fund.

The NFT ETF Buying and selling Zone, in accordance with an announcement, goals to “enhance the liquidity of NFT belongings and decrease the funding threshold of blue-chip NFTs for over 20 million customers.” It additionally intends to remove considerations related to crypto wallets, good contracts and NFT marketplaces.

Q&A with Web3 social networking platform Lens Protocol

Lens Protocol is an open-source tech stack on Polygon for constructing decentralized social networking functions. 

Not like Web2 social networks akin to Fb and Instagram, builders can construct crypto-powered social media apps, marketplaces, advice algorithms and extra on high of the Lens Protocol. And it’s powered by NFTs.

One contributor, for instance: Pussy Riot, the Russian feminist protest and efficiency artwork collective, created the “Proof of Protest” NFT assortment to lift funds for seven US-based organizations that help girls’s reproductive rights.

The gathering, powered by UnicornDAO and the general public charity basis Endaoment, raised greater than $110,000 in lower than 72 hours after its July 7 launch. Inside that point, the gathering minted 13,201 NFTs despatched to greater than 9,700 distinctive pockets addresses.

Blockworks reached out to Lens Protocol, operated by Aave, to study extra from Christina Beltramini, head of development and partnerships at Aave Firms.

Blockworks: How are Lens Protocol customers interacting with its functions?

Beltramini: At present, Lenster, a brand new decentralized and censorship resistant microblogging and social networking service is one among over 100 functions constructed on the Lens Protocol leveraging NFT know-how, permitting customers to totally personal their information and unlocking new methods for creators to monetize their digital content material and personal their relationships with their communities  

With Lens, every person’s followers, group, and content material are linked to their NFT profile and will be ported into any new app powered by the protocol, giving creators the power to be really multi-platform and go direct-to-community. 

The protocol additionally supplies a person and creator-first basis for any utility to plug into, and provides individuals full possession over their profile, content material and relationships with their group with no overhead energy with regard to how they management their content material or their information.

Blockworks: How did Pussy Riot’s “Proof of Protest” NFT assortment play out?

Beltramini: The NFTs had been out there to be collected instantly on Lenster, which makes use of Lens’ accumulate module. As quickly as they had been collected, the posts turned NFTs by being minted as publications on Lens. Particularly for this drop, Lenster ensured that creators, like Pussy Riot, had been in a position to specific their views safely with out the danger of being suspended or shadow banned. 

Creators are at present experimenting with creator monetization instruments on Lens utilizing the “accumulate module.” The newest instance of this software getting used to generate a revenue (or on this case a donation) is Pussy Riot. 

They raised greater than 150,000 MATIC ($138,000) throughout three days by way of three completely different drops. Moreover, engagement for the open and restricted editions has rivaled blue-chip NFT tasks. They had been additionally within the high 20 most lively NFT contracts on Polygon — even in comparison with high-usage NFTs for gaming akin to Aavegotchi and Cometh.

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