Retired professional skate icon Tony Hawk is the latest celebrity in the NFT boom, announcing the imminent release of a tokenized video depicting his latest 540-degree ollie via Ethernity Chain. This will be the last time that fans will see Hawk do the trick, after hitting his first trick 32 years ago in 1989.
Now 52, Hawk became one of the best skaters in the world at age 16 and is known for completing the first 900-degree turn at the 1999 X-Games. He also holds a place in the hearts of many people through the Tony video game series Hawk’s Pro-Skater.
He revealed that NFTs will fall in the coming weeks and shared a video showing him practicing the feat that left tears in his eyes after completion. The ex-professional noted that, at his age, the 540 ollie “has gotten scarier in recent years” and his “willingness to hit unexpectedly” on the bottom of the half pipe “has declined in the past decade”.
However, there is no shame in retiring a feat that most 20-year-olds fail to accomplish and potentially profit from the process.
New York man sells tokenized farts for $ 85
With the power of blockchain technology, you can now fart for money. A Brooklyn-based artist and his friends have just sold an NFT representing a year of farts for $ 85 on the NFT OpenSea market.
The project started last year during the quarantine, with no goal of making it symbolic until the group saw the ridiculous prices being launched for online NFTs. The main responsible for farts, Alex Ramírez-Mallis, told the New York Post: “” The NFT craze is absurd – this idea of attaching value to something inherently intangible. “
Ramírez-Mallis’ ability to profit from the light wind may actually be possible in OpenSea, as they do not charge gas fees in advance to coin chips.
“I hope that these NFT farts will be able to criticize at once [the absurdity], make people laugh and make me rich, ”he said.
The artist will burn Star Wars and Marvel NFTs for you, literally
Mogul Productions, a decentralized film financing platform, will launch a series of NFTs in collaboration with Marvel and DC comic artist Rob Prior. The first release will include three pieces inspired by Star Wars, Marvel and Wolf of Wall Street, which will be auctioned on the Mogul platform in late spring.
As part of the NFT auction, buyers have the option of receiving the original work of art or watching it be set on fire by the artist through video. NFT depicting an imprisoned painting by British street artist Banksy raised nearly $ 400,000 at auction.
Ripple looking for ways to incorporate NFT into the XRP ledger
Ripple’s CTO, David Schwartz, said he is looking for potential ways to incorporate non-fungible tokens into the XRP ledger. In an interview with Thinking Crypto released on YouTube on March 17, Schwartz noted that he is intrigued by NFTs, especially with the “impulse that people have to collect things”:
“If you look at NBA Top Shot, which is a great NFT project – they have a fantastic user experience, but the important thing is that I have a relationship with something that means something to me that no one else has.”
Schwartz also sees the potential of NFTs to reform digital rights and property, and notes that consumers on platforms like Hulu, Netflix and Apple don’t own any music or movies, leaving them victims of fluctuations in subscription prices and losing their content. if platforms close the doors.
NFL Star Patrick Mahomes NFT is going for over $ 80,000
NFL star Patrick Mahomes of Kansas City Chiefs followed Rob Gronkowski with an NFT auction at MakersPlace due to close on March 20.
The “Museum of Mahomes'” NFT drop depicts the greatest sporting moments of the player’s career, such as GIFs of the most valuable player’s trophies and action shot illustrations in the game. The launch has six open editions and a single that is expected to close tomorrow with a current bid of more than $ 80,000.
