NFTs In A Nutshell: A Weekly Review
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NFTs In A Nutshell: A Weekly Review

THELOGICALINDIAN - NFTs are absolutely in Snoop Doggs cant OpenSea is aperture the flood gates to a abeyant new admirers accepting acclaim cards and Apple Pay And Binances CEO thinks that those of you affairs NFTs accept absent your mind

It’s all in a week’s account of action in the mural of NFTs. Let’s analysis the aftermost seven canicule of action in the space.

This Week’s Non-Fungible Token News

Legendary hip-hop artisan Snoop Dogg has had his fair allotment of mentions in the crypto-world in the accomplished year or so. This week, the adept music avant-garde alien his latest endeavor, teaming up with Cardano for his latest absolution of NFTs. Cardano isn’t a name generally mentioned in the Nutshell, but is absolutely a alternation that has fabricated it’s name in crypto – with polarizing perspectives. Snoop hasn’t been abashed to advance into new territories, and has alike featured clips from his acreage in The Sandbox in a contempo music video for his song, “House I Built.”

In February, Snoop’s accretion of Death Row Records came with the news that the characterization would be an “NFT label.”

In an account with Fortune from beforehand in the month, appear beforehand this week, Binance architect and CEO Changpeng Zhao said about NFTs: “people may accept absent their mind.” Zhao added that he is still acknowledging the accurate abeyant of NFTs, abacus that they action the adeptness for artists to “reach a abundant added audience.”

Ex-OpenSea agent Nate Chastain was captivated in aerial attention in the NFT association above-mentioned to his cabal trading allegations. The adventure beatific after-effects beyond the NFT community, as Chastain was captivated in aerial attention as the platform’s arch of product, and the allegations larboard differing opinions about the conduct that should’ve been handed to him. His public-facing channels accept been abruptly quiet aback the OpenSea debacle, and of course, OpenSea and Chastain beggared ways; now he is aback in the NFT amplitude architecture a belvedere alleged Oval. Oval is reportedly attractive for a $3M berry annular of funding.

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OpenSea has opened the aperture to acceptable payments this week, bond with Moonpay to advertise their ambition to abutment acclaim agenda and ApplePay payments. Visa and Mastercard cards will be supported, but exact timing about abutment for these acquittal methods has yet to be disclosed.

The arch NFT barter didn’t stop there, either. Also in the account this anniversary was an adapted timeline for Solana abutment on the platform; letters accept emerged that OpenSea will abutment Solana NFTs ancient this month. To date, Solana belvedere Magic Eden has been the arch NFT bazaar for the blockchain.

Discord is acutely a constant point of accountability for NFT projects. This week, Bored Ape Yacht Club, Doodles, and abounding added arch NFT projects were afraid – admitting with poor execution. The BAYC Discord acquainted victim to reportedly aloof one Mutant Ape, but phishing sites are more a botheration in NFTs and shouldn’t be discounted.

Visa has launched a affairs focused on allowance creators body their businesses through NFTs. Visa will baddest entrepreneurs in fashion, music, film, art and added to advice absorb NFTs into their business models. The move is the rolling out of a affairs first announced aback in October of 2021. The “creator economy” is a above talking point in Web3 chat and discussions lately, and Visa is assuming that they’re absorbed in architecture a accumulated foundation at the forefront.

Visa has been accession itself as one of the added bullish fintech firms in crypto, purchasing a CryptoPunk aftermost year, and describing crypto as accepting the abeyant to become “extremely popular” over the abutting bristles years.

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