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FC Barcelona launches "In a Way, Immortal", the first NFT in the Club's history, that will be auctioned at Sotheby's New York

In a Way, Immortal?is the first NFT in a collection of ten works that will be presented piece-by-piece over the coming months, with each featuring iconic FC Barcelona moments and characters amplifying the Club’s legacy and historical heritage. The collection is part of the Club’s clear strategic commitment to adopting technology and innovation, and in turn, create unforgettable cultural moments -from the past and present- with the aim of both educating and inspiring its millennial, xennial and generation Z supporters, among others.

In addition to fostering loyalty among a younger audience, one of the project's goals is to redefine NFTs by creating a?premium?experiential product into a cinematic experience. The future owner of this NFT, who will be called?Bar?a Digital Ambassador, will also be able to enjoy unique Club-based benefits and experiences such as access to training sessions.?

Heavy NFT regulations in China lead to Tencent closing its marketplace a year after launch

China's government has fought a running battle against cryptocurrency for years, cracking down on?mining businesses ?and declaring all crypto transactions?illegal ?last year. It has an equally dim view towards NFTs, which have several rules in the country: they must be purchased with yuan, and reselling them for profit—pretty much the main reason why most people own NFTs—is not allowed.

The restrictions placed on the reselling market are crushing the business potential of Tencent's Huanhe platform that mints and issues blockchain-based digital collectibles, reports?SCMP . As such, the company plans to close it down as soon as today, just a year after launch.

Ripple Remittance Technology Launches on Shopify via Airwallex's New Online App

If approved by the XRPL community, Ripple's proposed NFT protocol, known as XLS-20, would enable NFT transactions on XRPL to close in split seconds and would be cheaper to mint, buy and sell. Earlier this year, NFT-Devnet was launched to test a recently proposed standard for native, on-ledger NFTs, which makes XRPL development and usage simpler and more publicly available for developers.

Read more of the latest news here!

• LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman Turns DALL-E AI Art Into Solana NFTs
• Uniswap Will Offer “Full Sudoswap Support”
• Final Fantasy NFTs Coming to Polkadot in Square Enix, Enjin Alliance
• Blue chip NFT holders join VERTIKAL - the new Metaverse dedicated to NFT art and culture

A Meta Talkz with the Founder & CEO of Topia.io, Daniel Liebeskind

What was your journey like to get where you are?

Daniel’s journey with technology and entrepreneurship began at an early age and took him from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, and now, Los Angeles. Born in White Plains, NY, he watched and learned from his dad, who commuted to the city every day, where he ran a financial services firm and invented technology platforms for the insurance industry.

He attended Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, one of the top business and accounting schools in the nation. There, he started and led the real estate investment club, which propelled him to win one of the few coveted internships for Lehman Brothers Investment Banking in 2008. When the crash hit, Daniel was fortunate to be hired full-time at Barclays Capital and their newly established investment banking division, where he specialized in healthcare technology companies. He made his way west in 2011, working as a technology investor for Summit Partners, specializing in SaaS and healthcare.

During his time in venture and investment banking, Daniel was an enthusiastic networker, even building a personal CRM, a macro-enhanced spreadsheet of over 3000 personal contacts that he would update in real-time. Daniel commuted an hour each way from San Francisco to Menlo Park, and he started coding again on his train rides. In 2013, Daniel attended Hack Reactor, where he rediscovered his passion for coding, creating, and building companies.

Over the next five years, Daniel would create approximately 30 apps and companies: mobile games, a mobile drink ordering app for bars, a motion-activated drone interface, security software, blockchain-based crowdfunding technology, and more. In 2015, he founded a startup called BODY, which was a webRTC-based platform for fitness professionals to create their own virtual studios and teach interactive classes where the instructor could see the participants and participants could see one another.

By 2018, Daniel became Chief Product Officer for Everipedia, working to provide economic incentives for knowledge. Here he nurtured his interest in human connection and reimagined and rebuilt Everipedia to be a social platform. Daniel began creating a vision of building an immersive platform for customized experiences built around microtransactions and AI. He saw a need for a community-based immersive event space, one that was spatial, where groups could connect from around the world in a way that felt like being together in real life but enhanced in ways that could only exist virtually. A service that wasn’t focused on a one-to-many or few-to-many and could evolve the way we socialize and come together online. Then the pandemic hit.

By April 2020, Daniel thought he might have missed the boat on his idea. But in just three weeks, he and his team built a prototype of a spatial experience where users could wander in and out of conversations with people just as they would in a real-world setting. The result was the first iteration of Topia, and their first event was for a festival celebrating life through the recognition of death and grief.

By August 2020, Topia had become a co-sponsor and hosted over 25,000 attendees of Burning Man, one of the largest community arts-based festivals in the world. Next, they would host a global corporate event for Asana for their IPO. Today, Topia is leading disruption in the virtual meeting and events space by focusing on community and engagement rather than meetings.

In a simpler phrases, what is your company exactly doing?

Topia is a free-to-use social experience platform using spatial video chat in customized virtual worlds right in your browser.

What about Metaverse are you most excited for in the future?

The Metaverse is going to solve many of the problems we see with the current use of the internet. A network of interoperable companies and features will see the end of our attention-based internet economy and give rise to relationship and community-based economies focused on creators and influencers.

Why should we be paying attention to the Metaverse?

Every big tech firm is betting heavily on the Metaverse, and in many ways, it is already here. As broadband continues to expand the ability to communicate in real-time within virtual worlds will become the new normal!

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