Cardano'southward daggy dad turns DJ

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has teamed up with legendary electronic trip the light fantastic music (EDM) DJ Paul Oakenfold to launch a tokenized album on Cardano.

Oakenfold is a three-fourth dimension Grammy Award nominee and his career in the music industry spans back to the early on 1980s. His upcoming anthology dubbed "Zombie Lobster" was announced during the Cardano elevation on Wed.

Every aspect of the album will be tokenized on the Cardano blockchain, including cover art, tracks, sleeve notes and remixes. The anthology is role of a release from an NFT project named "Starship Universe," which is operated by music entrepreneur Alon Shulman, who manages DJs such as Carl Cox.

Starship Universe volition reportedly release thousands of NFTs on Cardano as function of the collaborative partnership. "I'm excited to welcome Starship Universe equally it lands on Cardano and we open up up new frontiers together," Hoskinson said.

A release date for the tokenized anthology hasn't been set. But afterward he inverse his Twitter profile picture show to a photo of himself working a DJ plow-table, Hoskinson teased on Tuesday that it is coming shortly.

DJ Chaz the Hosk-True cat (Twitter)

Get a Stoner Cats star

Mila Kunis'southward Stoner Cats — the NFT project tied to an animated drawing series that clogged the Ethereum network during its starting time driblet — is offering two members of the community a chance to feature equally invitee stars for the second episode.

The audition was announced on Friday and is calling for people to read lines for 2 guest characters named "Employee" and "Delivery Guy." The called voice actors will as well receive a free NFT from a future Stoner Cats drop, and receive an acting credit on IMDb.

Wannabe voice actors have until midnight on Sat (PST) to submit their line reads and must record three dissimilar variants of each line.

The Stoner Cats show is voiced by a long list of celebs such as Kunis, her husband Ashton Kutcher, Jane Fonda, Seth MacFarlane, Chris Stone and even Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. The first collection of x,420 NFTs was dropped in July, and sold out within 35 minutes.

NFL confirms partnership with Dapper Labs

The NFL and Dapper Labs have confirmed rumors they are partnering to launch tokenized collectibles.

Co-ordinate to a Thursday declaration, the partnership will encounter the creation of digital highlight NFTs in a similar fashion to the widely popular NBA Top Shot marketplace.

"The irreplaceable nature of the NFT captures what is special about sports fandom," said Steve Scebelo the President of NFL Players Inc. "Our players are immensely excited for the NFLPA [...] to brand this significant button into the digital collectibles market."

Henry Lowenfels, the chief production officeholder at OneTeam Partners, who handles digital licensing for the NFL Players Association, said in an interview with GamesBeat they are hoping to replicate the "provenance" of NBA Meridian Shot with the NFL's collectibles.

"The games are played pretty much every Dominicus during the flavour, and these moments tin can be dropped at the same time and be the topic of chat for the week," he said.

"I view this as the early innings of blockchain-based products in the aforementioned mode that people were using the internet in 1993. Information technology was mostly technologists and early on adopters of the technology. People desire to spend on the things they love," he added.

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DC enters the NFT sector

WarnerMedia's superhero comic giant DC is giving away gratuitous NFTs as part of its upcoming DC FanDome upshot on October. 16.

Co-ordinate to a Thursday report from Diverseness, DC has partnered with Palm NFT Studio to release tokenized comic book covers depicting superheroes such as Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and Harley Quinn.

Comic Book NFTs (DC Comics)

"This drop pays homage to our 87-year history while visualizing a future in which NFTs play a foundational part in novel ways of interacting with DC content and unlocking new experiences," said Jim Lee, DC's publisher and primary artistic officer.

The NFT drop volition go live this coming Tuesday, and the tokens will be issued to users who register for the free virtual FanDome event that will be hosted on multiple platforms, including Twitch and YouTube, this month.

Palm NFT Studio chief content officer Matt Stonemason, told Diversity that varying rarity levels "will make the less-mutual NFTs more than valuable, and the unabridged collection will grow in importance to fans as information technology becomes clearer that this driblet represents the start of an entirely new affiliate for DC Comics, and the use of blockchain as a medium for fan engagement and storytelling."

Roundup

Social media platform TikTok has announced its first foray into the NFT market with a new drove inspired past its leading trendsetters such as Lil Nas X, Bella Poarch, Brittany Broski and Curtis Roach.

Cointelegraph reported on Thursday that Twitter unveiled an in-development tool that will enable users to display a verified NFT as their profile picture.