Nifty News: Find love in Paris Hilton’s metaverse, BTC CryptoPunks soar and more

Swiping close successful the metaverse

Famous New York socialite, Paris Hilton thinks the Metaverse whitethorn beryllium the cleanable spot to find one’s existent love.

In a Feb. 9 tweet, the personage and world TV prima said she volition beryllium moving with The Sandbox (SAND) to bring “Parisland” to life.

The thought is fundamentally a Virtual Reality (VR) dating acquisition crossed with a world dating amusement and is slated for a Feb. 13 merchandise successful clip for Valentine’s Day.

According to a Feb. 9 statement, players volition enactment successful an “in-game dating world show” hosted by Hilton, wherever they volition virtually conscionable with 5 imaginable lovers.

The acquisition volition tally until Mar. 13 and players volition besides implicit quests to triumph nonfungible tokens (NFTs) oregon SAND prizes and memorabilia.

Such quests see choosing a wedding outfit and ringing on with “rescuing a castaway, and flirting with different contestants.”

Nothing shows existent emotion to idiosyncratic you conscionable met online similar NFT “interlaced emotion rings.” Image: Parisland

Once players implicit each the quests and find the emotion of their beingness they’ll person a virtual wedding and Hilton herself volition rotation the decks for their archetypal creation together.

The lawsuit is hosted successful conjunction with the Hilton-founded amusement steadfast 11:11 Media. The company’s Web3 and metaverse strategy lead, Cynthia Miller, said it was connected “a ngo to assistance radical find love” with the experience.

Ordinals CryptoPunk knockoffs marque bank

Bitcoin (BTC) NFTs enabled by the Ordinals protocol person caused rather a disturbance successful the community, but that hasn't been capable to halt immoderate from paying thousands of dollars for prime collections.

A knockoff of the Ethereum-based CryptoPunks NFT postulation has made its mode onto BTC called Ordinal Punks which presently has a full proviso of 100 according to the project's website.

According to a terms provender successful the projects Discord, connected Feb. 8 Punk 94 sold for 9.5 BTC oregon astir $215,000 astatine the time.

So far, its the astir idiosyncratic has paid for a BTC-clone Punk from the postulation and it’s astir treble the terms of the past sold CryptoPunk from the archetypal Ethereum postulation — which sold for 70 Ether (ETH), oregon $110,000 according to OpenSea data.

Screenshot from the Ordinal Punks Discord showing income from betwixt 9.5 to 4 BTC successful the past 48 hours.

Other income from the past 48 hours amusement 1 Ordinal Punk selling for 6 BTC, astir $130,000 and others selling for astir 4.5 BTC, oregon astir $100,000.

It’s a important terms leap from the extremity of past week, wherever immoderate Ordinal Punks sold for arsenic debased arsenic 0.07 BTC ($2,200) connected Feb. 2 according to merchantability data.

RhiRhi’s royalties merchantability retired done NFTs

Royalty rights from Rhianna’s deed 2015 opus Bitch Better Have My Money has conscionable been enactment up for connection arsenic portion of a postulation of 300 NFTs.

Jamil “Deputy” Pierre was 1 of the song's producers who has present sold astir 1% of his involvement successful streaming royalties done 300 NFTs that springiness the holder a 0.0033% beingness stock successful royalties for the grounds erstwhile it’s streamed digitally connected platforms similar Spotify.

The collection, sold by Deputy successful concern with euphony royalty NFT level anotherblock, was enactment up connected Feb. 9 for 0.128 ETH each, oregon astir $210.

The aforesaid day, anotherblock tweeted the postulation had sold retired “in a fewer minutes.”

anotherblock predicts 1 NFT to springiness a “probable” first-year instrumentality of 6.5%, which would output $13.65 a year. At that rate, it would instrumentality a holder astir 15 years to interruption adjacent connected their investment.

It’s unclear however overmuch royalty stock successful the opus Deputy has retained aft the NFT sale.

Def Jam launches virtual set with Solana NFT collection

Def Jam Recordings, a subsidiary grounds statement of Universal Music Group is trying its manus astatine gathering a Web3-native set done a concern with the Solana (SOL) NFT collection, The Catalina Whale Mixer.

Announced done a Feb. 8 Billboard report, the band, called “The Whales” volition beryllium comprised of the cartoon whale characters that marque up the postulation akin to the virtual set the Gorillaz.

Catalina Whales aboriginal revealed successful a tweet that the set would beryllium a “gamified euphony group” and holders of an NFT successful the postulation could “land a relation for [their] whale.”

The musicians down the task are yet to beryllium confirmed by Def Jam but it reportedly said it volition impact a “who’s who” of endowment and The Whales volition merchandise a full-length medium but did not disclose a timeline.

Def Jam boasts signed artists specified arsenic Justin Beiber, LL Cool J, Rihanna and Nas.

In 2021 different cosmopolitan subsidiary label, 10:22PM, signed a akin NFT-backed virtual band called KINGSHIP made up of 4 apes from the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection.

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Luxury manner marque Hermès won a trademark infringement case against NFT creator Mason Rothschild implicit his usage of the Birkin trademark for his MetaBirkins NFT collection. The steadfast was awarded $133,000 successful damages

YouTuber Stephen Findeisen, amended known arsenic Coffeezilla, baited mixed martial artist, Dillon Danis, into promoting a fake NFT collection which according to Findeisen “literally spells retired S.C.A.M.”