1. Crypto Exchange Released NFT Dress at Australian Fashion Week

BTC Launched NFT dress in collaboration with designer Daniel Avakian.

The dress will be shown physically during the week-long fashion show in Sydney, as well as virtually. The dress will be available for purchase both as an NFT and as real clothing.

BTC Director Caroline Bowler said the annual fashion event provided an opportunity to connect with the growing community of women savvy about cryptocurrencies.

“Because crypto has traditionally been male-dominated on both the industry and investor side, we realized that as a crypto company led by a female director, we must break new ground. The event provided us with the right opportunity to do so,” she elaborated.

Women have a different style of investing than men, often with larger deposits and fewer transactions. It would be interesting to look at NFT trading analytics and which collections women like the most.

2. $0.0003 cents was the cost of sending 2.69 billion DOGE tokens

We recently wrote that Elon Musk's cryptocurrency (unofficially) began to be sent without an Internet connection. Now RadioDoge has reported a new record.
The fee for sending 2.69 billion DOGE ($357) was only 926 tokens, or 0.00226 $cents.

The DOGE Foundation stated that their goal is to make the token the main global currency for the exchange of products and services. DOGE has hinted that it is working on projects to increase demand in emerging markets. Doge is targeting an audience of 1.7 billion people who do not use any banking services.

For comparison, a transaction for transferring funds in the Ethereum network is $5-15.
For the majority of the world's population, such a commission for money transfers is too high. ETH is inconvenient to use in everyday life, sometimes it takes up to 20 minutes to process a transaction.
ETH competitors like Solana or MATIC often glitch and don't work. Perhaps DOGE could indeed become the first truly mainstream cryptocurrency.

3. The Vatican will open an official NFT gallery in the metaverse

The Vatican government is partnering with the VR metaverse Sensorium and Humanity 2.0 to create an NFT gallery.
The smallest state in the world is visited by 6 million tourists annually. On its territory there are masterpieces of world architecture, such as the Cathedral of St. Peter and the Sistine Chapel. The Vatican Museum has over 70 works. Among the authors: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

With the support of the holy state, the collaboration parties promise to show this great art to a wide audience. Release dates are still unknown.

Sensorium Galaxy is a new generation social VR metaverse. The project creates digital meditations and immersive games.

humanity 2.0 is an intermediary company between public, private and religious institutions. Their goal is to identify barriers to human prosperity and remove them through scaling and innovative solutions.

Similar decisions have a positive impact on the legalization of the crypto industry in the eyes of the general public. Having similar cases in the arsenal, one can more confidently appeal to the widespread adoption of the blockchain culture.

4.Christie's and Refik Anadol presented an installation based on the work of Antonio Gaudí

A huge screen with breathtaking animation of the Barcelona facade of Casa Batlló was placed near the Rockefeller Plaza skyscraper in New York. Like this it looks. The installation is shown from April 30 to May 13. The streamed NFT will be available for purchase May 10 at Christie's. Now the lot is estimated at $1-2 million, but the final price will be known after the end of the auction. 10% of the amount will be sent to the Catalan center for children with autism "Associació Aprenem Autisme" and the support and service for the disabled "Adana Fundació".

The token is constantly changing and its movements are subject to climate change in Barcelona (data is collected in real time).

Casa Batlló is a residential building at 43 Paseo de Gracia in the Eixample district of Barcelona, ​​built in the early 20th century by the great Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí. The building is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Gaudí's style is very memorable, largely with fairy-tale motifs. In Catalan Barcelona, ​​there are 14 buildings of his authorship, including the famous Sagrada Familia Cathedral.

Refik Anadol is an internationally renowned Turkish-American artist and new media designer. His projects consist of data-driven machine learning algorithms that create abstract, dream-like environments.

NFT provides incredible opportunities for collaborations. Contemporary artists can collaborate with well-known deceased colleagues, and their heirs continue to develop the legacy digitally.
The days of animated photographs from the Harry Potter books have already come.

5. Financial institution Nexo approved a $3.3 million loan secured by 2 rare "Cryptopunks"

Nexo issued this money at a rate of 21% per annum to an anonymous owner of several NFTs. Both tokens have a unique feature - "Zombies". DeFi platform Arcade and an investment manager from Meta4Capital also took part in the deal.

“With this multi-stakeholder partnership, we are demonstrating the fusion of traditional financial models and cryptoassets,” said Nexo employee Kirill Nikolov.

The deal clearly demonstrates how complex the NFT financing market has become. Lending rates on an annualized basis range from 10% to 25%, but depend on market conditions and the NFT offered, not your credit history.

NFT lending is a riskier financial transaction than traditional lending due to the volatility of NFTs compared to regular money. NFT loans can also be used to buy other NFTs, such DAOs already exist.

Interest in NFT lending is growing. For example, NFTfi, a South African loan company, recently lent $8 million to the owner of hundreds of Cryptopunks, who pulled them off a Sotheby's auction in February this year.

6 Americana Technologies Startup Uses Chips To Turn Physical Objects Into NFTs

Americana Technologies plans to create a chip that could save art in NFT format The startup has already been invested by the founder of Reddit Alexis Ohanian, rapper Future and NFT marketplace OpenSea.
Thanks to such a chip, the proof of the authenticity of the art object cannot be lost or confused. It could also help fight those who create fakes. Perhaps such a chip can even stop the circulation of fakes.
“For the first time, institutions small and large can put their authenticated works on the blockchain and receive royalties every time they are resold,” said Alexis Ohanian, who invested in the startup through his Seven Seven Six fund.

So far, the chip only works with the Ethereum blockchain. The company is also exploring other blockchains, such as Solana.

Minimum token price now 0.228 ETH or $620

7.Formula 1 launches NFT collection based on speed and car sounds

Crypto exchange team Crypto.com to develop 57 tokens based on Miami Grand Prix Formula 1 data. The tokens will take into account the kinetic energy released from each lap of the race (there are 57 in total). Data from sensors placed along the track will be mixed with other race data to create unique generative art. Here is the teaser the project.

The resulting artworks will be exhibited in the temporary NFT gallery "Kinetica: The Crypto.com" today. Visitors to the competition will be able to win tokens as a result of the draw. To do this, you need to create an account on Crypto.com and register for crypto.com/miami. Those who are unlucky will still receive a commemorative NFT of the event to their wallet.

Crypto.com is the fastest growing cryptocurrency platform in the world, founded in 2016 in Singapore. It now serves over 10 million customers worldwide. She recently launched her NFT marketplace.

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