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  FIFA Kicks Off Avalanche L1 to Power Soccer NFT Collectibles Platform

  FIFA, the governing body of international soccer, is planning to migrate its FIFA Collect NFT collectibles platform to its own Avalanche Layer-1 blockchain. FIFA Collect, which allows users to purchase and trade NFT-based soccer highlights, was previously launched on Algorand and also issued some collectibles on the Ethereum scaling network Polygon. In April, the platform said it would leave Algorand and migrate assets to a new FIFA-centric blockchain, which is now confirmed to be powered by Ava...

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  Ethereum's 'Ember Sword' Is the Latest in a Growing Wave of Crypto Game Shutdowns

  Four years after attracting $203 million in NFT land sales, Ethereum game Ember Sword has shut down, with developer Bright Star Studios citing a lack of funding required to continue its operations. It's the latest example of a growing trend of crypto games closing up shop. “We were ultimately unable to secure the funding needed to continue,” the game’s official site now reads. “We explored every possible way forward. But in today’s market—where even some of the most promising projects are shutti...

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  'The Walking Dead' Ethereum NFT Game Is About to Be Killed Off

  An officially licensed “The Walking Dead” role-playing game based on the popular TV show will be shut down after July 31, according to blockchain game publisher Gala Games.  The Walking Dead: Empires, a multiplayer survival game that was built around Ethereum NFTs, was playable in open beta for the last year after first being announced in late 2021. “After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to sunset The Walking Dead: Empires, with the last playable date set for July 31,...

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  Nike Hit With $5 Million Lawsuit Over Alleged NFT Securities Violations

  The world’s largest sportswear brand, Nike, was sued on Friday with a $5 million proposed class action, accusing the company of abandoning NFT investors by abruptly shutting down its RTFKT subsidiary and abandoning its sneaker-themed digital assets. In a lawsuit filed Friday in the Eastern District of New York, the plaintiffs allege that Nike used its iconic brand to hype digital collectibles tied to its digital fashion and technology company RTFKT, then executed a "soft rug pull," leaving inves...

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  CryptoPunks Have New Home as Nonprofit Acquires Ethereum NFT IP From Yuga Labs

  The Infinite Node Foundation, a newly established nonprofit endowment, announced Tuesday that it has acquired the IP of influential Ethereum NFT collection CryptoPunks from previous owner and Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs. The Foundation, which announced a $25 million grant in April “to build the future of digital art,” will now steward the 10,000-piece Punks collection first created by Larva Labs in 2017, while Yuga Labs shifts back to its “apeish roots.” CryptoPunks General Manager Na...

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  Ethereum NFT Horse Racing Game 'Zed Run' Reborn on Base as 'Zed Champions'

  After winding down its Zed Run digital horse racing game on Ethereum scaling network Polygon, Virtually Human Studios is relaunching a new, reimagined version called Zed Champions on Base, the Ethereum layer-2 network created by Coinbase.  The platform’s public launch is set to take place Monday evening at 8pm ET. Like the previous version of Zed, users will be able to race and breed digital horses, but with a few twists.  In Zed Champions, horses will race automatically, dynamically matching wi...

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  Ethereum NFT Project Doodles Launches DOOD Solana Token Airdrop

  Doodles took its next major step forward Friday after switching CEOs in January, launching its ecosystem token—DOOD—on Solana with an airdrop for NFT holders. The initiative is the first critical launch since Scott Martin, better known as Burnt Toast, assumed the project’s chief executive role, beginning an era in which he planned to introduce more risk while doing away with its previously “extractive corpo” initiatives.  Martin, who is also the artist behind the Doodles brand, previously spoke...

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  Why RTFKT and Nike’s Ethereum NFT Artwork Disappeared

  The images associated with multiple Ethereum NFT collections from the Nike-acquired RTFKT—which was shuttered late last year—stopped displaying early Thursday due to an alleged issue with cloud hosting service Cloudflare. The company’s flagship Clone X profile picture collection—created in collaboration with noted artist Takashi Murakami—and its Animus collections stopped showing their respective, colorful imagery, and instead all showed the same black background and white text as a result of it...

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  Mattel Hits the Brakes on Hot Wheels Virtual Garage NFTs

  Mattel has hit pause on its flagship Hot Wheels Virtual Garage NFT program, announcing there will be no further releases of new NFT series or feature drops “for the foreseeable future,” as the toy giant reconsiders the long-term future of its digital collectibles. “As we evaluate the changing world of virtual collectibles, we’ve determined the time has come to end our Series and Feature Drops in 2025 and onward,” Mattel said in an official update posted to its website. The decision puts an end,...

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  Square Enix Is Bringing Its NFT Game to Sony’s Ethereum Network

  Gaming giant Square Enix, the firm behind Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, announced this week that it is expanding its blockchain game Symbiogenesis to Sony’s Ethereum layer-2 network, Soneium. Symbiogenesis originally launched on Ethereum scaling network Polygon, and is currently wrapping up what’s slated to be its final season of content. But that imminent conclusion isn’t stopping Square Enix from a further affiliation with Sony on the blockchain. The initiative connects Symbiogenesis with...

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