THELOGICALINDIAN - The ecommerce giants aboriginal NFT bead appearance 3D renditions of the Canadian hockey fable Wayne Gretzky hosted on Polygon
eBay has launched its first-ever NFT accumulating in accord with the blooming NFT marketplace, OneOf.
eBay Releases NFTs on Polygon
After Meta, Twitter, Adidas, Visa, and a host of added bunch companies, eBay is accepting into NFTs.
The all-around e-commerce behemothic appear in a Monday columnist release that it had launched its aboriginal NFT accumulating via a cardinal affiliation with the multi-chain NFT exchange OneOf. The collection, dubbed “Genesis,” will affection activated 3D renditions of iconic athletes featured in one of the U.S.’s best accepted sports magazines, Sports Illustrated.
The first drop of the NFT collection is already accessible for acquirement on eBay. It appearance activated Sports Illustrated covers of the above record-breaking Canadian ice hockey amateur Wayne Gretzky. “Forty years ago, I was beholden to be on the awning of Sports Illustrated, it was a awe-inspiring moment in my life,” Gretzky said in the columnist release, abacus that he was “honored” to be featured in the collection. eBay’s aboriginal bead includes 13 bound copy NFT packs in a four-tiered arrangement with altered rarities, including green, gold, platinum, and design tiers, with prices starting from $10.
Unlike best added NFTs, which are about awash in barter for added cryptocurrencies—usually Ethereum—the Genesis NFTs auctioned off on eBay are awash for U.S. dollars. Furthermore, the sales are not conducted on-chain but rather on eBay’s Web2 platform, and the assets will be delivered to their corresponding buyers via a accretion articulation beatific through babble and email.
Commenting on the company’s aboriginal NFT drop, eBay’s carnality admiral of collectibles, electronics, and home, Dawn Block, said:
“NFTs and blockchain technology are revolutionizing the collectibles space, and are added beheld as an advance befalling for enthusiasts. Through our affiliation with OneOf, eBay is now authoritative coveted NFTs added attainable to a new bearing of collectors everywhere. This builds aloft our charge to bear aerial passion, high-value items to the eBay association of buyers and sellers.”
According to eBay’s accumulating description, the NFTs will be hosted on the Ethereum ascent band-aid Polygon and accessible for reselling on the OneOf marketplace. Eight of the 15 diamond-tiered NFTs had been sold at columnist time.
Disclosure: At the time of writing, the columnist of this allotment endemic ETH and several added cryptocurrencies.
