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Never fear the truth
July 9, 2022
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Johnny Depp makes a donation of NFT profits to a children’s hospital

The original collection gathers 11,100 Johnny Depp “Never Fear Truth” NFTs which have been handmade by the famed artist himself. The fact that has attracted many people to this collection apart from the fact that they are made by the pirate jack sparrow himself is the holder of these tokens, that can have both the “non-physical” and the “non-physical” option to purchase each painting for sale. Both of which are kept within the marketplace. However, only 10,000 NFTs are available for sale, while the other 1,100 NFTs are held in the hands of the performer. Depp’s art is portraits of his loved ones, such as close friends, people who have inspired him throughout his life, and even himself. This art is made in a Pop Art style that is full of strong and appealing colors, consonants, and triggers when it comes to expressing something. The Never Fear Truth community has grown quite a lot, they already have more than 2K owners of the art. Another attraction to this art is that it comes with a cause since the actor decided to donate 25% of the proceeds from the sale of his collection within the Rarible platform, to several specialized and recognized foundations. So currently Johnny Depp has already donated almost $800,000 dls to charities from the sale of NFT, dividing the money between: La Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation La Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity The Footprint Coalition El Children’s Hospital of Los Ángeles. It’s nice to see what NFT collections can accomplish beyond being a money-making goal. Many times the characteristics that can make a project stand out the most are the background they have and when they are made for a charitable cause thus using blockchain as the means for anyone in the world to participate and own a piece of it all.

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Tectum
July 8, 2022
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Tectum: the fastest Blockchain in the world

During the rise of NFTs, one of the big problems was the deficiency of some blockchains with lack of scalability, which proved to be detrimental to any further development. So many projects have been working to solve these problems and scale their networks without sacrificing security and decentralization. One example of this is Tectum. Tectum’s Blockchain? Tectum is a platform that uses a proprietary record change signature management algorithm and its blockchain is capable of handling more than one million transactions per second calls which are referred to as “Events”. This handling achieves rapid delivery of event status, as well as network-wide property updates, along with distributed levels of access to the system’s functional modules. But one of the most striking features of the Tectum blockchain is the ability to store hashes assigned to the original data that is stored at a lower level rather than directly on the blockchain. Which manages to more effectively isolate transaction information and validation using hashes along with signing and encrypting packets at the transaction end. The main purpose of this is to make the event-related information instantly verifiable and also accessible to the public. So Tectum has become a suitable choice for applications such as: Geopositioning recording Internet of Things (IoT) Billing records Logistics Municipal or legal records storage In essence, the network processes packets, blocks, and virtually everything while keeping it at the top level of its blockchain. This is the main reason why Tectum can achieve such substantial transaction throughput without sacrificing security procedures. Blockchain is something that as technology advances and the use of cryptocurrencies is increasingly adopted, it is going to evolve until we can see better applications in different fields is a unique process that every company will want to have.

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NFT influencers IG
July 8, 2022
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How to Find NFT Influencers

Over the last decade with the increased use of social media the word “Influencer” has become a common word to hear in our day-to-day lives. What is an influencer? We can say in a simple and summarized way that an influencer is a person who stands out in some media, by which he/she expresses opinions on some topic, which is transmitted and generates a great influence through his/her audience Cryptocurrency influencers are now a diverse group. Some earn money by promoting products, while others have no financial motive other than they are interested in the topic and want to promote the cause of cryptocurrencies. Given the breadth of their objectives we can talk about some types of crypto influencers: People involved in the development of cryptocurrencies or services involving the crypto world. · Influencers who invest in one or more innovative projects in the crypto world. Researchers who write about what’s new in cryptocurrencies Analysts who are more focused on price analysis and who publish investment advice. Finally, the job of a crypto influencer is to implant an idea in the minds of their community. And we’ll leave you with some of the advantages they can give us: Information International news ·Scenario analysis, Price forecasts. Now we will go to what we have to look for in the most used social networks in the world of cryptocurrencies such as: Twitter: Twitter is undoubtedly one of the main social networks when it comes to the dissemination of a cryptocurrency, here the influencers we will look for are those who have a good engagement. Many times we can find verified accounts with millions of followers but their publications barely reach 5 likes. So it is always the first thing we have to visualize in the accounts of these influencers. One of the best tactics is to make collaborations with them, use Rt, Qt and giveaways. Discord: In discord is where the community moves, here the influencers are not so present since it is not only one person, in discord, it is better to move through the servers with many people that are active. In them, you can talk to moderators to give better visibility to your project through collaborations and activities within their server. Instagram: On Instagram, we can find specific users that can help us to promote our project through stories or publications. But one of the advantages that we can find in this more visual network is the cryptocurrency and NFT news account Telegram: Telegram is somewhat similar to Discord since we are not looking for a single person but a group dedicated to the dissemination of crypto projects, which can help us with the pinned message and more organic and direct dissemination through the users present in the group. While we have left some tips to make the search for influencers in the most used social networks for crypto and NFT projects. Our main recommendation is to turn to a marketing agency focused on this world for a better diffusion. Here at The Blue Manakin we have contact and agreements with influencers, groups, and servers which we put at your disposal for your crypto project, and best of all is that you do not put yourself at risk of being a victim of a scam because it is not the first time we work with them and we taste that they are the best of the best.

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NFT-whitelisting
July 7, 2022
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What is an NFT whitelist?

More and more new NFT projects keep appearing in the market and one way to get a secured space in the mint of these is through the Whitelist. The Whitelist is a way in which both users and creators of the collection can win, as users are given the opportunity to get the NFT at a low cost while for the creators, it serves as a list to get an idea of how the sale will go, even with this first exclusive mint you can get an initial fund to start moving the project further on the roadmap. How to join a Whitelist? Here we will share some recommendations for finding and joining Whitelist projects: Get to the project before the mint date All NFT projects in their early stages will have a Whitelist with a limited amount of slots, so if we get to the project on time we can see what activities the creators are doing to give away a spot on their WL. Join the social networks and the NFT project discord Every good NFT project has social networks mainly Twitter and much more important, they must have a discord server. Many times on their networks and discord there are competitions or invitational activities where the prize is a spot on the whitelist. In these accounts is where we will find the most updated information about the collection. Follow the instructions to join an NFT whitelist Each project manages its whitelist differently so it is important to always check what are the requirements to join a whitelist. Normally in the collection’s discord server, we can find a channel usually called #Whitelist-info. The whitelist is important because they give us an opportunity to join collections for lower prices, it is a way to get even closer as a user to a project. What is important to mention is that many times by DM both in discord and Twitter we can receive messages offering us places in a whitelist or telling us that we have been selected, many times these messages can be a scam. Remember that no moderator or project founder will send you a DM.

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Whitepaper NFT
July 6, 2022
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How to write a White Paper for Cryptocurrencies

Every crypto project that you want to rely on must have a white paper which is a document that includes all the detailed information about what you want to achieve with your project, its architecture, and the interaction with the users. A whitepaper should contain these points: Introduction: Write an introduction that hooks people to continue reading the rest of the whitepaper, you can start by giving the objective you hope to accomplish to talk about it later, explain the benefits and give an overview of the content that we will find in the whitepaper. The team: Introducing the team is an essential and fundamental part of the white paper, it is the human part inside a document full of technical specifications, you can include photos and small descriptions of the team such as what is their role in the project and their experience within the crypto world. Table of Contents: White Papers are technical documents, so on average they can have from 25 to more pages, so we can place a table with all the contents to touch, so the reader can locate the important topics and even read will the document by the topics that most interest him at the beginning. The objective of the project: This is where we start talking in-depth about the project, so take as many pages as you need to explain what is most important, explaining what the project is and where it is headed. How you are going to achieve it: In this part, you can talk about the prototype data, first users, development strategy, and a bit of the road ahead. Tokens: We will use this part to talk specifically about the tokens that make up the project, the way they work, and what their special features are. In the end, this is the image of the project, it is what people are going to see visually in their wallets so we have to give it a good presentation. How the funds raised will be used: It is necessary to show investor users where their money is going to be going in the early stages of the project so that they have a better notion of the investment they will make for the development of the project. The roadmap: Every good crypto project should present a detailed roadmap for the next 12-24 months, which you can make eye-catching by showing that it has been completed and where along the road the project is going. Legal Notice: Do not forget to place a legal notice or disclaimer, which should contain any important legal restrictions or notices. As certain regulations in countries and in general things help to indicate that in the end we all risk for the project and if it does not go well we all know what we were getting into. Alternate Modalities to White Papers Next, we will show additional documents to the white paper which are intended to complement the information found in the White Paper. One Pager A document that describes the White Paper in a more summarized form, normally with an extension of one or two pages at the most. Yellow Paper When we have complex innovations at a technological level, a yellow paper helps to describe well all these ideas and serves to expose to the investor if the team has the necessary technical capacity to develop the project correctly. Beige Paper It is a less technical and complex Yellow Paper for the understanding of all audiences. As final tips when preparing a White Paper we must use a formal writing style, without spelling mistakes and almost perfect writing is very descriptive and professional. We should review it more than once before publishing it and we also recommend translating it into the most spoken languages so that it can reach more people. At The Blue Manakin, we help you with your white paper to make it as detailed and eye-catching as possible.

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smart contract
July 5, 2022
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How to write an NFT Smart Contract

Writing an NFT smart contract is something that can be done with programming, if we are not programmers we can hire one to make our own NFTs code, but here we will discuss how to do it with some common platforms for the creation of smart contracts. What is a Smart Contract? A smart contract is a code stored in the blockchain. In the NFT world it is what contains the collection of digital assets that we create and with it we can sell our NFTs on different platforms such as Opensea. What are the advantages of having our own smart contract? Creating your own smart contract, as opposed to having a shared one from platforms such as Opensea, gives you many advantages such as: platform independence You do not run the risk of having your collection limited or undergoing policy changes. You have more courage and confidence in the long run Making Web3 integrations easier Manifold.xyz Manifold.xyz is a completely free and one of the most convenient tools to create smart contracts in Ethereum without programming and allows to set shared royalties for all marketplaces that support this option. To create our own smart contract: Let’s go to the application Click on Start New Contract. Choose whether we want it to be ERC-721 (1/1) or ERC-1155 (1/x) NFTs. We write the name of the collection and the initials The contract goes to an ethereum test blockchain known as Rinkeby where we can request ETH for free in order to minify the contract and verify that everything is correct so we can now launch it to the ethereum mainnet by clicking on “Edit” in the Dashboard and clicking on “Confirm”. In our Dashboard we can also see the smart contracts we have created and manage them to create new NFTs or give access to wallets. Manifold offers other options but for them you must have a little knowledge in programming, but in general as we have explained you can generate smart contracts. Rarible Rarible can create smart contracts on Ethereum, Tezos and Flow blockchains by following these steps: Go to Create We choose the blockchain of our preference. Log in with the corresponding wallet Click on “Create Collection”. We generate our own smart contract. We fill in information such as the name of the collection, the contract and initials The process would be followed in the same way for all blockchains. Studio 721 Studio 721 helps us to generate our smart contract in Ethereum offering us several useful tools, it is somewhat more advanced but the customization possibilities it has are greater. The platform allows us to get a little more into the generated code, thus introducing modifications, and it also allows us to generate a pfp project with its Artkit in the smart contract. Studio 721 You can: Make collaborations with other collections so that users who own your NFT can mine in your smart contract, Generate whitelists Store your NFT metadata wherever you want. You can create an interface to mine NFTs in a specific contract. As we can see, there are platforms that make it easier for us to generate our smart contracts, so there is no excuse not to start creating our collection if we have a good idea. In The Blue Manakin we are always here to guide you with your collection.

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Open sea data breach
July 5, 2022
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Open Sea, the largest NFT marketplace, has had a massive data breach

OpenSea has had security problems so if you are a user of this platform it is very sure that your email was stolen by third parties, so the company warned that you could be sending messages for possible scams in your inbox or spam for the next few months. The leak is due to an employee of Customer.io, OpenSea’s email delivery partner, who downloaded and shared with a third party the emails of users of the platform. “He improperly used his employee access to download and share email addresses provided by OpenSea users and subscribers to our newsletter with an unauthorized external party,” the firm noted in its blog. Although the leak is not so serious since the users’ keys were not compromised, the users’ privacy was. In the past, users of this platform have already been victims of fraudsters receiving fraudulent links to their emails. We have in fact a blog talking about this news, we leave you the link here. Extortionists will use domains such as: OpenSea.io,  OpenSea.org and OpenSea.xyz. So it is important that before clicking on a link in any Open Sea email we check the domains and keep an eye on social networks to see if more users report the same email. This is not the first time that Open Sea has been attacked, but they are always looking for ways to rebuild trust with their users, so it is to be expected that we will see an upcoming security update.

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NFT vending machine
July 2, 2022
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NFT vending machine on the streets of New York City

Neon, the digital art collecting platform, introduced the first NFT vending machine in New York City, with the simple goal: To make digital art as easy to get as it is to walk into a store and buy a soda or a bar of chocolate. Why the innovation? “It’s the cryptocurrency-curious people who tried to buy cryptocurrencies or were interested in buying an NFT, but ran into too many barriers,” commented Kyle Zappitell, CEO of Neon, talking about the goal of the machine. This vending machine is located in a small storefront in Lower Manhattan’s financial district, with a large sign on the outside that reads “NFT ATM”, on the outside it looks like a normal vending machine but on the inside, it offers QR codes contained in small paper boxes and can be found priced between $5.99 and $420.69. To make it more accessible the machine will not only accept cryptocurrencies as a form of payment. In this way, it will manage to get more and more people to enter fully into the NFT universe. The purchase process is quite simple: The facility will be open 24 hours a day, The moment you buy your asset, the vending machine will eject a box with special codes for the selected NFT that can then be redeemed at Neon. Once the QR code is scanned, you can view your artwork on any smartphone, laptop, or tablet. The codes lead to two categories of digital art pieces, a color or a dove, but the interesting thing is that you have no idea which piece of digital art you will receive until you buy it. With $3 million in the capital, more vending machines are expected to be installed in shopping malls and other public spaces. “One of the most powerful messages of this initiative is that it uses this old-world technology to enable the adoption of new-world technology,” Zappitell said. Our recommendation is that if you are planning a trip to magnificent New York City soon you have one more new stop to add to your itinerary.

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Loco legends player
July 2, 2022
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Loco launches first nft e-sports platform in India

Loco has launched its e-sports token platform “Loco Legends”, heralded as India’s first NFT platform. This platform will allow users to own and trade collectible e-sports items, setting the stage for decentralization in game development. Loco has one of the largest player communities with 52 million users. The company has raised more than $51 million to date. Some of the most popular teams in games such as BGMI, FreeFire Max, and Valorant and with whom Loco will have partnerships include the following: 8bit s0ul  Godlike Revenant Blind XO The first digital asset that Loco Legends will have will be NFT e-sports cards, with these users will be able to buy and sell cards to each other and create communities in free fantasy pools. The platform is currently in beta and is expected to be launched in July 2022 and will have coverage of some of the popular games such as: BGMI  Call of Duty Mobile  Valorant  GTA 5 The company’s main aim is to make it easy for Indian users to buy NFT and jump into the eSports metaverse in the most enjoyable way possible.

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NFT booth
July 1, 2022
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Salvatore Ferragamo opens NFT booth in NYC

Luxury fashion brand Salvatore Ferragamo, built in a store that will debut in New York City’s Soho district, an NFT booth where visitors to its store will be able to generate their own NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain from a menu of attributes. Users will be able to take away NFTs made at the Ferragamo booth for free but on a limited basis as only 256 will be available. The features and aspects of the NFTs that users can select were created in collaboration with artist Shxpir who has a psychedelic 3D digital art style with glitches and surreal themes. He also has a limited-edition capsule collection of stuff with Ferragamo that includes 200 t-shirts and 150 hoodies. Shxpir is no stranger to the world of NFTs as he previously collaborated with Coach to create holographic glowing NFTs depicting Coach handbags. Ferragamo North America CEO Daniella Vitale commented about the collaboration; “Shxpir symbolizes the spirit of New York City and Soho.” Ferragamo describes its booth as an experience that brings Web3 and retail together in person. Dubbed a “multi-sensory piece of furniture”. The booth operates like this: Guests can enter a room with mirrors. select from Shxpir’s designs and other features for their NFT, while a video camera records the action. The whole thing is finished as an independent NFT, as well as a video of themselves with the artwork they chose behind them. As we like to comment, we like to see how brands generate new ideas for using NFTs to get people’s attention. So for some, Ferragamo’s custom NFTs is a nifty idea, but even if you’re not an NFT enthusiast this experience can feel like a next-generation photo booth, where face-to-face moments are documented and shared on the blockchain.

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BAYC y rolling stone
June 30, 2022
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BAYC and Rolling Stone team up for a NFT Drop

Bored Ape Yacht Club one of the most popular NFT blockchain collections, announced that they had teamed up again with Rolling Stone for a 1/1 NFT drop (one BAYC and one MAYC). The auction lasted four hours and they were only accepting payments of their currency the ApeCoin with a starting price equivalent to $100. Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) is a collection of 10,000 unique digital collectible Bored Ape NFTs that live on the Ethereum blockchain. The past collaboration with Rolling Stone was a digital NFT magazine cover alongside BAYC in November 2021. The magazine featured 20 pages of never-before-seen BAYC illustrations and unique designs from a range of contributors including Claire Salvo and TimpersHD. The new digital collectibles went up for auction on OpenSea on June 22, at 9:00 a.m. ET. In addition to the NFTs, there were collectible art prints of each design for a four-hour U.S. sale period. What was equally cool was that the winners of the two NFTs will likewise receive related physical prints, each signed by Yuga Labs founders, the artist, and Rolling Stone’s CEO. “We are thrilled to continue partnering with Bored Ape’s Yacht Club,” said Gus Wenner, CEO of Rolling Stone, adding that “our collaboration was born out of a shared passion for music and counterculture, and we are excited to release a new set of artwork that captures the spirit of Bored Ape’s and Rolling Stone.” MAYC Rolling Stone’s artwork depicts a daredevil ape escaping a mutant slime volcano on his motorcycle. “We love Rolling Stone and with our second collaboration we wanted to create an awesome NFT moment and prints that were more widely accessible,” said Nicole Muniz, CEO of Yuga Labs. It’s good to see the different collaborations that can come to exist in the NFT world, we hope to see more and more famous personalities come to this world and bring all those people who still don’t take this step.

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Shopify logo with NFT
June 30, 2022
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Shopify is going to allow adding utility to NFTs

Shopify is leaning toward NFTs as the future of e-commerce so it announced last Wednesday that it is going to allow brands to make their stores more unique with these non-fungible tokens. Shopify is a company that allows you to create smaller business’s custom e-commerce stores and is now allowing you to launch these digital marketplaces with NFTs as a new feature. In a video made by the brand for this new functionality they comment as follows: “Invite your community into a world that recognizes and rewards loyalty, token owners connect a cryptocurrency wallet to unlock exclusive shopping experiences, from early access to drops and limited collections to unique experiences and other surprises.” This Shopify store is currently in beta and will be known as “gm”. As such only those with existing NFT collections can apply for early access. For the time being Shopify has partnered with NFT collections to create tokenized stores: Adam Bomb Squad Doodles World of Women Invisible Friends Superplastic Stapleverse  Cool Cats  In addition, Shopify will add a similar system for its physical stores, this system will be known as “IRL” with which only NFT owners can purchase certain products at that physical location. Why is this important? The implementation of Web3 in the future of stores goes through exclusivity. And it gives more value to NFTs, giving a new perspective to people who see NFTs as digital art or “jpg” when they are the owner of an asset which gives rise to being used as membership passes, event tickets, and “keys” that unlock perks. Shopify was already into the world of NFTs as last year it announced the launch of selling NFTs through its platform. However, it’s good to see companies continuing to step up and look for new ways to implement NFTs and Web3 into their services.

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June 28, 2022
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Mark Zuckerberg Launches its Meta Pay Payment System

Mark Zuckerberg recently unveiled the metaverse’s new digital wallet, Meta Pay, which arrives to replace Facebook Pay. This payment method was used in meta apps such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram or Messenger without leaving them. In May the company’s head of Commerce and Financial Technologies, Stephane Kasriel announced that its current payment service would be renamed Meta Pay, without giving further details about this new platform. This new enhancement comes to make Facebook Pay payment experiences better, as it intends to improve the quality of the countries where this service could already be used, rather than expanding to others. Zuckerberg, through his personal Facebook account, confirmed that this will continue to offer the same functions of its predecessor but that this will be a wallet that will allow secure management of identity, money and how you pay with it. With this, the executive shows us that Meta is committed to working on several new developments focused on the metaverse. Just as we are seeing now with blockchain and NFTs, in the future there will be all kinds of digital objects that you will want to create or buy: digital clothing, art, videos, music, experiences, virtual events and much more. Meta expects to offer better experiences to users, as well as greater opportunities for creators. The more there are to use all your digital products, the more you will value them, which generates a bigger market for creators, and likewise the easier the transaction, the greater the opportunities for creators. There was also a hint that Meta might introduce non fungible tokens (NFT). We finally know that Meta is working on developing this, although it has not indicated how this process is going.

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June 28, 2022
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You can now use your NFTs as the face of your Apple watch

The future of NFT despite this bear market, continues to evolve and look for ways to fit into everyday life as we now have new updates where you can display our NFTs as a watch face. Zelf company has developed new software that allows Apple Watch owners to display their NFTs as a screensaver on their watch. The company Zelf, author of this new NFT feature on the Apple watch is an American fintech company which is focused on the younger market. They have the US and EU as their hubs, offering banking services within social platforms such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber, Facebook Messenger and Discord. Zelf says that 100 million Apple Watch users worldwide “will soon be able to attach their collections of non-fungible digital art tokens to their watch faces.” It’s good to see updates to everyday wearable systems moving deeper into the world of NFT; we’ve seen these types of features before with the announcement Tag Heuer in which its Connected Caliber smartwatch also allows owners to display their NFT. Another example is the company Zerion which announced in 2021 the launch of a new Apple Watch feature for the use of NFT users. The way this feature operated was as follows: Open Zerion app on your iPhone and tap the NFT section on the Overview screen. Open the NFT that you would like to display on your Apple Watch and tap “…” in the upper right corner of the screen Select “Create watch face” and you’re done. We can’t wait to see how Zelf will do with the technological advancement that has been had after a year and definitely look forward to seeing what new ways companies will come up with for people to show off these valuable digital assets.

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June 28, 2022
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One of the biggest signings, The popular Binance exchange and Cristiano Ronaldo are teaming up in a collaboration. NFT

Binance exchange and soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo announced Thursday a multi-year collaboration to offer fans an introduction to Web3 via the world of NFTs with exclusive products. Together they will create a series of NFT collections that will be available on Binance’s platform, with the first collection expected to launch later this year. “Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the best footballers in the world and has transcended sport to become an icon in multiple industries. He has built one of the world’s most dedicated fan bases through his authenticity, talent, and caring work,” commented Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao. “We are delighted to provide his fans with exclusive engagement opportunities to connect with Ronaldo and own a piece of iconic sports history.” It has been rumored that Ronaldo could be earning more than $5 million from this collaboration, which may attract the eye of other major sports stars to look to collaborate with companies in the crypto world However, this is not the first time we have seen cryptocurrency companies resorting to creating sports collaborations in order to reach a wider audience. One example is last year when the popular site Crypto.com signed a $700 million deal to convert the Staples Center in Los Angeles to the Crypto.com Arena. Although cryptocurrencies have been affected by the lack of trust and the high risk seen to rely on projects, they have had an impact on NFTs, whose popularity skyrocketed last year. Hopefully, these types of partnerships will lift this confidence again as NFTs from this collaboration are sure to dry up.

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June 28, 2022
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Popular online retailer eBay takes its step into blockchain by acquiring knownOrigin a marketplace from NFT

In a recent press release, eBay has announced the acquisition of one of the leading NFT platforms, KnownOrigin as part of the “technology-led reimagination” KnownOrigin was founded in 2018, this is a marketplace that allows you to create, buy and resell NFT. For the online marketplace giant, this is the way to expand into the NFT space following its first step in May 2021 to enable NFT to buy and sell services from its website. eBay CEO Jamie Iannone expects the company to become a leading site for access to digital collectibles and efforts to expand this vision by welcoming innovative NFT artists as they join the eBay community. David Moore, the co-founder of KnownOrigin, commented that this partnership would help the NFT marketplace attract and encourage all the artists out there who haven’t made the leap into this new type of art. eBay last month unveiled its first NFT collection in partnership with OneOf, which will be released throughout 2022, its art is comprised of animations of high-profile athletes who have appeared on the covers of Sports Illustrated. The e-commerce will likewise work on incorporating more cryptocurrency features, and its own digital wallet. The deal was signed yesterday but details of the purchase have not been disclosed. So these days, we expect to have more information about this new step for a recognized company in the blockchain world. We hope that this will motivate more and more companies to do the same and that cryptocurrency transactions will become more and more common, bringing closer to all those who are still afraid of this world.

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June 25, 2022
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Instagram starts testing NFT marketplace

Adam Mosseri CEO of instagram, has shared from his Twitter profile that initially this feature will be available only to a small group of content creators in the United States and will not have any additional cost. For the time being this feature will be available only to a select group of content creators, who are going to be able to share their NFT through messages, stories, and any type of posts on the platform. The ownership details of these NFT will be displayed by clicking on the tag, which will show the data corresponding to the author and/or creator of the NFT. This initial test is an opportunity for Instagram to learn from the community before the social network decides to take a step toward the widespread use of NFT. This is not the first time we have seen this on other social networks, with Twitter being among the first to introduce NFT NFTs by representing them with a hexagon-shaped icon added to users’ profile images which allows them to certify both the authorship and ownership of digital content. This method will be the same one that is going to use instagram According to a report from CoinDesk NFTs will be supported on the Ethereum network, Polygon, Solana, and Flow NFT. Here at The Blue Manakin , we see this as a new opportunity to include NFTs as the assets they are and share them with the community, hopefully calling more and more people into this new world.

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June 24, 2022
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Soulbound tokens: the future of NFT and Ethereum

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin released a 37-page paper in which he explains that the future of Ethereum will be centered on a new ecosystem called Decentralized Society. This new future is going to be known as “soulbound tokens (SBT)” whose name possibly has an assignment to the soulbound items from the “World of Warcraft” video game, which is expected to be available for use later this year. The SBTs are NFT that a person can obtain based on their work and educational history, the main difference with the classic  NFT is that they are not transferable but revocable and they will be stored in a “Soul” wallet forever. The goal of SBTs is that they represent a person’s history and achievements functioning as an extended resume. In addition, the Ethereum document explains that if a Soulbound token is lost, it can be recovered through community recovery, meaning that Soul is the “intersectional vote” of its social network. The idea is to use these tokens as a kind of unique badge which represents people’s social identities being personalized and not interchangeable. These tokens could help with problems such as scams and theft. The STB tokens could encourage Web3 by decreasing reliance on centralized companies and people gaining greater ownership of their digital identities. What new uses would Soulbound tokens have as compared to regular NFTs? An example could be with university degrees since the university could grant them as SBTs which as it is non-transferable, the graduate would not be able to sell, unlike if this degree was given as an NFT. The SBTs could equally serve as tickets for an event or festival since this way the organizers could ensure that a specific person would attend a conference or event since they would have an SBTs to back it up Another technology proposed by these new tokens are Soul drops. These come as typical crypto Airdrops but are based on calculations on SBTs and other tokens within a Soul. It is expected that Soulbound (SBT) to be available for use later this year.

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June 24, 2022
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The best Discord Bots for your NFT server

Currently, when talking about NFT we know that one of the best tactics to create a community is through Discordbecause in this space we can create a server with different channels to keep people interested in our project informed with the latest updates and at the same time generate a space where we create the most important thing, community. That is why today we bring Discord Bots that we consider essential to have a Discord server as enjoyable and organized as possible, we list them below: MEE6 It is one of the most popular bots on Discord since it is present on more than 12 million servers according to its creators. It is a moderation bot that automatically analyzes the chats on your server to detect violations of its rules, such as inappropriate language, spam, spoilers, external links, or whatever you want. In addition, it has a series of commands to mute or expels the users you determine. One of its most used features is levelling up. When users level up, they will be able to access different roles within the server. Invite Tracker This is a simple bot, used to keep a leaderboard and to know the people who have more invitations on your server and even somehow reward them, it is often used for competitions and the person with more invitations in a certain period receives a prize such as an NFT or a WL spot. Collab land It helps us to verify that users have a specific token that is required to enter a channel, usually, these are people who come from another NFT collection with which you are making a collaboration. Apollo This bot allows us to schedule events and messages on the server. The plus of this bot is that users can press a button to say that they are coming to the event or to say that they are not sure. Arcane It is designed to help moderate channels and can warn users, expel them or directly ban them so that they can not re-enter for a certain time if their behavior is not correct. Dank Memer It is one of the most popular and veteran Discord bots, which has a wide variety of commands to find perfect memes for any conversation. In addition, it also allows you to generate your own memes. Friend Time This bot is only for time conversions. Usually, in an NFT server, you have users from several countries or different time zones, when someone mentions a time in the chat, the bot will automatically convert it to the time you have in your country. This works well when announcing events as people will taste exactly what time it is in their country. Hangman It’s good to have a space for games on your server, sometimes you can even create tournaments of those games to give away spaces on your WL or an NFT. This is a bot to play Hangman, it can be used for single-player games or multiplayer games. ServerStats The perfect bot to show you at all times the statistics of your server in a very visual and aesthetic way. You can taste how many people are registered, how many are connected, or how many bots you have, among other data. Xenon This discord can generate a backup of your server, it works when you want to try to put other bots, generate a channel or make changes in your server. If something goes wrong, you can go back to the way your server was before you made the changes. These backups are saved forever if you pay for their premium model. In The Blue Manakin we can create your discord server for NFT with the best bots that exist since we have in our ranks expert people in them and we can configure them the way you like.

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June 23, 2022
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OpenSea introduces new security features in its NFT marketplace

Lately, the NFT market has been affected by the crashes we have suffered this month, the ones that are most affected in this case, are Ethereum and Solana, which are the main blockchains in which we can find NFT. For the same reason, scammers are the order of the day and to combat it OpenSea has updated its security measures. With NFT scams becoming more common, OpenSea has created a new feature that will automatically hide suspicious NFT transfers in its Marketplace to address key trust and security issues in OpenSea. How will this improve security? It has been detected that the modus operandi of fraudsters is to send NFT transactions via OpenSea which contain links to malicious third-party sites. So by hiding them, it is less likely that more people will continue to fall into this trap. On last week Thursday, OpenSea’s CEO tweeted that it is possible to receive NFT transfers from people you don’t know, as well as receive spam so people will start to watch out: In 2021, with the rise of NFTs, the activity of OpenSea, the most famous marketplace at the time, increased significantly. However many investors are always dissatisfied with the platform’s efforts to compensate victims and combat theft. OpenSea has recently focused on improving trust and security on the platform. With the growing drop in trust for “trusted” cryptocurrency projects such as Luna and the Celsius platform, today it is up to the NFT market to make substantial investments in a variety of important areas such as trust and security, including theft prevention, intellectual property infringement, scale review and moderation, and time reduction in critical responses. We hope these measures will build confidence in future NFT projects, at The Blue Manakin we are always committed to the security of the NFT space, so we only accept projects with real foundations and that we truly believe in.

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