Rarible Protocol updates - Week of Feb 28
Latest Protocol updates, fresh news, articles and tweets of the week
⚙️ Protocol Updates
General bug fixes, including wrapping up work for the OpenSea contracts.
Added support for 3D NFT’s. Their content type is handled correctly and there’s also support for 3D NFT audio content.
On the contract side, we are currently focused on completing the auctions feature.
We are working towards optimizing the exchange and auction contracts.
Work on optimizing the way we handle metadata is underway. As a result of this task, API calls will be much faster.
When it comes to Solana, we’ve finished our first release of the indexer. We will soon have information about how it behaves on mainnet.
Polygon has passed our QA tests successfully.
💡 If you have any further questions, feel free to drop us a message on Discord!
🗞️ Fresh NFT News
400 Salesforce staff object to its NFT plans - Last week, Salesforce announced plans to launch an NFT Cloud offering. On Friday, 400 employees signed a letter objecting to the initiative over environmental and scam concerns.
OpenSea users were victims of a phishing hack - 32 users have signed a malicious payload from an attacker, and some of their NFTs were stolen.
Mintable recovers three NFTs stolen from OpenSea users -Three NFTs stolen from users of NFT marketplace OpenSea are to be returned to their owners, after rival platform Mintable tracked them down.
OpenSea NFT heist likely triggers drop in activity - Trading in NFTs plummeted in recent days, according to data provider DappRadar. OpenSea’s seven-day trading volume was down 37 per cent as of Tuesday.
Crypto exchange FTX US is launching a new gaming business - Dubbed FTX Gaming, the new unit aims to help gaming studios integrate blockchain technology and NFTs into their games.
London Stock Exchange Group buys fintech firm TORA for $325M - The deal opens the door for LSEG to offer crypto or NFT trading in the future.
Sotheby’s withdraws lot of 104 CryptoPunks minutes before expected auction - The sale was expected to draw up to $30 million before it was abruptly canceled by the seller.
An artist blew up a Lamborghini. Now, they’re selling the pieces as NFTs. - 999 fragments of the car were meticulously categorized, documented, and filmed in rotating videos. These videos were subsequently transformed into NFT art pieces.
Investors can now buy home equity slices via fractionalized NFTs - Vesta Equity tapped the Algorand blockchain for its NFT marketplace, which is the first peer-to-peer exchange that allows homeowners to leverage and sell a slice of equity with digital collectibles.
Zynga exec sees huge opportunity’ for NFT Integration into traditional gaming - “If you’re in the gaming business, and you’re not seriously looking at blockchain integration, you might be missing a huge opportunity,” he told Blockworks.
E-commerce giant Rakuten launches its own NFT marketplace - The Rakuten NFT marketplace will offer users digital collectibles of sports and entertainment — such as music and anime.
📚 Interesting reads
Art Museums Leverage NFT Tech to Bring Masterpieces to the Blockchain - by NFT Plaza
How NFTs Are Creating Social Value - by Forbes
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