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MLB to Auction NFT Featuring Lou Gehrig’s ‘Luckiest Man’ Speech

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NBA, MLB, NFL, And NHL Partner Fanatics Launches NFT Company

Popular sports merchandise company Fanatics and its executive chairman Michael Rubin have partnered up with Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz and Gary Vaynerchuck, chairman of communications company VaynerX, to launch a non-fungible token (NFT) company Candy Digital. In the fall, Candy will officially launch an online platform where customers will be able to purchase, collect […]

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MLB, Candy unveil Gehrig NFT; auction July 4

Major League Baseball and Candy Digital, a next-generation digital collectible company, unveiled on Wednesday their first officially licensed NFT, a one-of-one piece of history that commemorates Lou Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech. The digital collectible features video excerpts of the iconic speech and a three-dimensional bust of Gehrig in an iron finish, representing his legacy as baseball’s […]

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How scientists are embracing NFTs

Is a trend of auctioning non-fungible tokens based on scientific data a fascinating art fad, an environmental disaster or the future of monetized genomics? From cat memes and music tracks to all manner of digital art, the bizarre, often quirky market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is booming. And now, science is hopping on the bandwagon […]

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Ethernity Chain Drop #9: The Neil Armstrong Satellite NFT Launch with The U.S. Space Force

Welcome to Ethernity Chain Drop #9: The Official, Licensed aNFT experience with The United States Space Force (USSF) and the Neil Armstrong estate, in partnership with CMG and WorldwideXR, commemorating the launch of a GPS III satellite. On Thursday June 17, 2021 the United States Space Force (USSF) will launch the fifth vehicle of its GPS III constellation of […]

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NFTs Are Experiences, Not Things

The entire story of non-fungible tokens to date has been a kind of Keystone Cops combination of Amazing New Possibility and Dumbest Thing Ever. Opposites attract, apparently. Crypto whales and collectors are paying millions for the tiniest smidgen of the meaning of the word “ownership” we’ve ever known: someone, somewhere, owns a $69 million dollar […]

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