Ja Rule’s Fyre Fest NFT, Trump’s tweet auction, Tezos’s muscles in

Ja Rule’s Fyre Fest NFT, Trump’s tweet auction, Tezos’s muscles in

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The latest celebrity to suddenly realize the immense artistic significance of symbolic art (or ‘profit from’ depending on your perspective) is the rapper and co-founder of the Fyre Festival Ja Rule – who is auctioning off a, oil painting of the corporate logo Fyre Fest with NFT. The auction, which has a reserve price of $ 600,000, starts today at Flipkick.

The Fyre Festival was a much-anticipated luxury festival in the Bahamas in 2017, with $ 100,000 ticket packages that turned into a legendary disaster. Co-founder Billy McFarland was jailed for six years for $ 28 million fraud, but Ja Rule was cleared of any wrongdoing. He clearly still has bad feelings. “Fuck this painting,” he writes in his notes on NFT and painting.

Rule’s long history with NFTs goes back at least “a few weeks” – when he discovered the concept. “I was not very polite about them and I am still learning a lot about it,” he said, according to Forbes.

“I think people got a little tired of the normal way of investing in stocks and bonds.”

Tokenized dance moves

Performing arts company Beauty in the Streets has partnered with Enjin blockchain to allow dancers to tokenize their characteristic movements as “emotes” based on non-fungible tokens. Tokenized collectibles represent particularly complicated movements – like Michael Jackson’s moonwalk – which are then sold to players for use as animated emojis in the participating games.

The first tokenized move, Snap Boogie’s ‘Speedy Walkovers’ is up for auction today and can be used in the AlterVerse game with Enjin.

Tezos talks about green NFTs

After last week’s reaction from the art community against ArtStation on the environmental costs of creating NFTs, a new NFT market in Tezos is talking about its energy efficiency. Tezos’ blockchain uses Liquid Proof of Stake (LPoS), which is considerably more energy efficient than Ethereum’s Proof of Work (PoW) – at least until Eth2 starts working.

Hic et Nunc, an NFT market designed by Brazilian developer Rafael Lima, has been on the air for about two weeks. Digital art luminary Mike Tyka has now minted his Portraits of imaginary people collection as NFTs, comprising works previously shown at Christies. He said:

“Minting NFTs using Ethereum would eliminate years of trying to reduce my personal climate footprint at the click of a button. After discovering some recommended alternatives, I felt that if I’m going to enter this space, I want to support what I see as the only practical and ethical future. of the NFTs. “

Popular anti-Trump tweet on sale

Following in Jack Dorsey’s footsteps by auctioning an autographed NFT from the world’s first valuables tweet (bid is up to $ 2.5 million), the political news site The Recount is selling a 1: 1 edition of a tweet viral sharing a video that compares President Trump’s eccentric coronavirus statements from March 2020.

Called the ‘Trump Coronavirus Calendar’, the tweet was seen by almost nine million people at the time. The auction starts today on the NFT Zora market.

Cristiano Ronaldo collectibles sell for a record $ 290,000

A rare football collector with Juventus striker Cristiano Ronaldo was sold for $ 289,920 over the weekend. It is the highest price ever seen for an officially licensed commercial sports card (even exceeding the NBA Top Shot).

The collectible was part of the fantasy football game Sorare, officially licensed by 126 of the best teams in the world.