Fast food giant McDonald’s has launched a new metaverse experience using the virtual world blockchain The Sandbox (SAND). According to a statement from Animoca Brands, the company behind The Sandbox, McDonald’s Hong Kong has built a new metaverse game experience called “McNuggets Land” for the 40th anniversary of Chicken McNuggets. Animoca says that users can […]
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The Sandbox added a new major IP to its virtual world, a portfolio management startup raised $3.6 million and The Flash is getting NFTs.
Warner Bros.’ nonfungible token (NFT) unit has unveiled a new Web3 experience for the recently released DC Comics superhero movie, The Flash, which reportedly flopped at the box office.
According to an announcement from Warner Bros. Digital Collectibles, The Flash Web3 Movie Experience will launch on July 18 and include NFT collections, augmented reality experiences, access to behind-the-scenes content and the entire film in 4K ultra HD, to name a few.
The project will be hosted on the Eluvio blockchain, which Warner Bros. has used in the past for similar Superman and The Lord of the Rings Web3 experiences.
The experience is being packaged as part of two different mystery bag editions, Mystery and Premium.
The Mystery edition will cost $35 and the Premium edition will cost $100, with the latter containing greater benefits and a shot at getting seemingly better NFTs.
Over on Twitter, the community reaction wasn’t overly enthusiastic.
It’s official, The Flash is the first new release movie to hit the blockchain! pic.twitter.com/sScukkA6Fw
— Warner Bros. Digital Collectibles (@WarnerBrosNFT) July 14, 2023
The top comment from user Satvik Sethi has 1,649 likes at the time of writing and simply states: “Pay your writers, and stop cash-grabbing Web3.”
Another user sarcastically wrote: “Wow, the Flash traveled back to 2021,” in reference to the manic NFT bull market of that year, while Twitter user Simon suggested that Warner Bros. needs to “fire” whoever is running their Web3 department.
With the floor price of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs tanking in 2023, Yuga Labs CEO Daniel Alegre has emphasized that the firm is working hard to build out its Otherside metaverse project.
Speaking at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference on July 13, Alegre kept his cards close to his chest but outlined that Yuga’s plans for Otherside are “audacious” and, as such, will “take time” to come to fruition.
So far, Otherside has only been available for a couple of early access trips for the BAYC community, and it remains to be seen when the project will officially launch.
Providing a little more information, Alegre said that Otherside will “bring communities together” and “bring new and innovative Web3-based experiences starting with gaming.”
“As an NFT holder, you will be able to participate in drawing what we’re building, which is this Otherside metaverse,” he said.
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On July 13, investment application startup Roi announced a $3.6 million funding round to develop its portfolio manager app.
The funding round was led by Spark Capital and included participation from NBA and Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant’s venture capital firm, 35 Ventures, and Google’s Gradient Ventures, to name a few.
The Roi app enables users to track their stock, crypto and NFT holdings all in one place, as it can compile balances from a host of crypto/Web3 wallets to give the user a clear picture of their net worth.
It also allows users to trade across its list of supported brokerages and crypto wallets.
The startup plans to use the capital to help increase its headcount from the current five team members, expand product offerings, and hire legal and security experts.
A widely popular Turkish TV series called Magnificent Century has partnered with The Sandbox to bring its intellectual property (IP) to the metaverse.
According to a July 14 article from Variety, the partnership was announced via a global launch event in Paris earlier in the week.
Turkish Hit Series 'Magnificent Century' Set For Launch on The Sandbox Metaverse https://t.co/wAwSFiID0l
— Variety (@Variety) July 14, 2023
As part of the partnership, The Sandbox users will be able to get their hands on 3D avatars depicting Magnificent Century characters by late 2023.
The TV series has reportedly had over 500 million viewers globally, and it marked the second major TV show IP to enter The Sandbox after The Walking Dead in 2021.
“We’re excited to welcome such a globally acclaimed Turkish series as ‘Magnificent Century’ at The Sandbox and further strengthen our growing presence in this important region,” said The Sandbox chief operating officer and co-founder Sebastien Borget at the event.
The Google Play store now allows video game publishers to sell NFT games in its store, according to a July 12 blog post from the store’s group product manager, Joseph Mills.
Blockchain gaming startup Spielworks recently partnered with the Web3 platform Mycelium Network to launch a program that allows full refunds for NFT purchases.
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A widely followed crypto trader thinks Litecoin (LTC), Cosmos (ATOM) and the Sandbox (SAND) are all gearing up for moves to the upside. The pseudonymous analyst Rekt Capital tells his 347,200 Twitter followers that the peer-to-peer payments network Litecoin is setting itself up for a new price phase. According to the trader, Litecoin could soon […]
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The CEO and co-founder of the popular blockchain-based metaverse platform The Sandbox (SAND) just fell victim to bad actors who breached his Twitter account. The Sandbox chief executive Arthur Madrid tells his followers that his Twitter account was recently hacked. He also says that people should be cautious when clicking links, particularly those that do not […]
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The executive appears to have now recovered his account.
Arthur Madrid, co-founder and CEO of metaverse project The Sandbox, was the victim of a Twitter account hack on May 26, according to a post from Madrid that was apparently made after he recovered the account. The attacker allegedly used Madrid’s account to promote a fake “airdrop” phishing scam.
In Madrid’s post, he warned Sandbox users that they should “never click on any link that promote Airdrop or URL and look SCAMMY - and not 100% using our proper and unique URL/domain name : http://sandbox.game.”
My Twitter was hacked today. and now is back. Please never click on any link that promote Airdrop or URL and look SCAMMY - and not 100% using our proper and unique URL/domain name : https://t.co/X3rXN9z8z7
— Arthur Madrid (@arthurmadrid) May 26, 2023
Four hours before Madrid’s post, The Sandbox’s official Twitter account also warned that a scammer had taken control of the account and was promoting “a scam / phishing link for a fake airdrop of SAND tokens.”
The post included a screenshot of the alleged scam post, which advertised a SAND token airdrop and encouraged users to “check eligibility and claim on the site,” referring users to a website with a different URL than the official one.
The Sandbox team stated that they were “working on getting the site down and fix it ASAP.”
⚠️ Our CEO & Co-Founder Arthur Madrid's Twitter account has been hacked ⚠️
— The Sandbox (@TheSandboxGame) May 26, 2023
The hacker is posting a scam / phishing link for a fake airdrop of SAND tokens.
⛔️Do NOT click on the link and instead report the post so it is blocked.
We're working on getting the site down and fix… pic.twitter.com/sOqzAV5OUT
As of 8:26 pm UTC, the alleged scam site appears to have been taken down, as it now produces a 404 error.
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Phishing attacks have become a frequent problem in the crypto community. On May 19, a scam-as-a-service called “Inferno Drainer” was reportedly discovered to be operating on Telegram, recruiting website builders to create hundreds of these phishing scam sites. By the time it was discovered, it had reportedly stolen nearly $6 million from users.
On April 15, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky reported that these types of attacks increased by 40% in 2022 compared to the previous year.
Around 5 billion people are online and digitally-bound assets should get the same treatment as any other type of property, says Sandbox co-founder Sebastien Borget.
Digital assets such as cryptocurrencies and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) should be recognized as legitimate property, especially as more of the world’s population goes digital, argues the co-founder of The Sandbox.
Speaking to Cointelegraph’s editor-in-chief, Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr, during Blockchain Week Rome last week, Sebastien Borget said thso-called “digital natives” — those who grew up with and subsequently have an increased confidence with digital devices — are growing.
“More than half of the world's population is now a digital native,” said Borget. The United Nations reported in December 2021 that almost two-thirds of the world's population, nearly 5 billion people, were online.
“We have to build a future for them where if they spend more time and more money on digital assets, those should have value and should be recognized as proper property.”
He added the metaverse may give a new way for digital natives to connect and governments should “value the work [and] recognize the jobs” that happen in the space and start to treat “the digital economy as a real economy.”
Borget said while there are world events posing challenges to global stability such as the Russo-Ukrainian war and ever-increasing inflation, he believes the metaverse can be “a driving force for positive impact, social impact, more awareness and inclusivity.”
Hi from @wistaverse LAND in @TheSandboxGame.
— Sebastien (@borgetsebastien) May 13, 2023
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Borget believes lowering the barrier to creating digital content opens new opportunities for many and cryptocurrencies can provide access to payments in countries where “the banking system is maybe not as developed.”
Artificial intelligence is one of the “driving forces” that can empower creators and accelerate the idea-generating process, according to Borget.
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“Everything that you have in mind now is a text prompt you can render and visualize. Before, it used to take days,” he said.
It’s not, however, at a level where it can produce content without “some human work” to get it up to scratch, Borget cautioned.
Borget said he hopes to create a platform where people can best reflect their inner talents and skills, which may best blossom in “the virtual world” such as helping in mental health.
“Being a platform that offers this possibility for people to find their own reason is great,” he added.
“You create a world where you see new experiences, new content, new ideas and the sum of that is always more positive than negative.”
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