Swipe right in the metaverse
The famous New York socialite, Paris Hilton, believes that the Metaverse may be the perfect place to find true love.
In a February 9 tweet, the celebrity and reality star said he will be working with The Sandbox (SAND) to bring “Parisland” to life.
The idea is essentially a Virtual Reality (VR) dating experience crossed with a dating reality show and is scheduled to launch on February 13 in time for Valentine’s Day.
Get ready to have some beach fun, collect cute collectibles, and explore my new tropical metaverse of Parisland!
I’m launching a new experience on @TheSandboxGame February 13 https://t.co/roREhkM4LF pic.twitter.com/cdSY5OEC2o
— ParisHilton (@ParisHilton) February 9, 2023
According to a February 9 statementPlayers will take part in an “in-game dating reality show” hosted by Hilton, where they will virtually meet up with five potential lovers.
The experience will last until March 13, and players will also complete missions to earn Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) or SAND prizes and memorabilia.
Such missions include choosing a wedding dress and ring along with “rescuing a castaway and flirting with other contestants.”
Once players complete all the missions and find the love of their life, they’ll have a virtual wedding and Hilton herself will spin the plates for their first dance together.
The event is organized in conjunction with the entertainment firm 11:11 Media, founded by Hilton. Cynthia Miller, the company’s director of metaverse and Web3 strategy, said she was on “a mission to help people find love” with the experience.
Ordinals’ CryptoPunk Knockoffs Make Bank
Bitcoin (BTC) NFTs enabled by the Ordinals protocol have caused quite a stir in the community, but that hasn’t been enough to stop some paying thousands of dollars for select collections.
An Ethereum-based imitation of the CryptoPunks NFT collection has hit BTC called Ordinal Punks, which currently has a total supply of 100 according to the project. website.
According to a price feed on Discord projects, on February 8 Punk 94 sold for 9.5 BTC or around $215,000 at the time.
So far, it’s the most anyone has paid for a BTC clone Punk from the collection and is roughly double the price of the last CryptoPunk sold from the original Ethereum collection, which sold for 70 Ether (ETH), or $110,000. according to OpenSea data.
Other sales from the last 48 hours show one Ordinal Punk selling for 6 BTC, around $130,000, and others selling for around 4.5 BTC, or around $100,000.
It’s a significant price jump from the end of last week, where some Ordinal Punks sold for as little as 0.07 BTC ($2,200) on Feb. 2 according to sales data.
RhiRhi royalties are sold through NFTs
Copyright to Rhianna’s 2015 hit song bitch better have my money It has just been put up for sale as part of a collection of 300 NFTs.
Jamil “Deputy” Pierre was one of the song’s producers who has now sold approximately 1% of his share in streaming royalties via 300 NFTs giving the holder a lifetime 0.0033% share in royalties for the record when streaming digitally on platforms like Spotify.
He collectionSold by Diputado in association with music royalty NFT platform anotherblock, it went on sale on February 9 for 0.128 ETH each, or roughly $210.
On the same day, another block tweeted that the collection had sold out “in a few minutes.”
sold out in a few minutes on the allow list sale
our community is absolutely amazing without you this would never have been possible▪️ our upcoming music release pipeline is absolutely amazing, rest assured
▪️ on February 16 our first holders will receive the first payment pic.twitter.com/pCPSOopvsV
— another block ◼️ (@anotherblock_io) February 9, 2023
anotherblock predicts that an NFT will give a “probable” first year return of 6.5%, which would generate $13.65 per year. At that rate, it would take an incumbent about 15 years to break even on his investment.
It’s unclear how much percentage of royalties on the song the deputy has retained after the NFT sale.
Def Jam Launches Virtual Band With Solana NFT Collection
Def Jam Recordings, a subsidiary record label of Universal Music Group is attempting to build a native Web3 band through a partnership with Solana’s (SOL) NFT collection, The Catalina Whale Mixer.
Announced via a billboard on February 8 reportthe band, called “The Whales” will be comprised of the cartoon whale characters that make up the collection similar to the virtual band Gorillaz.
Catalina Whales then revealed in a tweet that the band would be a “gamified musical group” and that NFT holders in the collection could “get a role for (their) whale.”
We present you The Whales, an avatar music group created with you and for you.
The penetration has begun. @Def jam @AG @solarium
— THE CATALINA WHALE MIXER | POW POW (@catalinawhales) February 8, 2023
The musicians behind the project have yet to be confirmed by Def Jam, but they reportedly said it will involve a “who’s who” of talent and The Whales will release a full-length album, but did not reveal a timeline.
Def Jam features signed artists like Justin Beiber, LL Cool J, Rihanna, and Nas.
In 2021, another Universal subsidiary label, 10:22PM, signed a similar NFT-backed virtual band called KINGSHIP made up of four apes from the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection.
Other nifty news:
Luxury fashion brand Hermès has won a trademark infringement case against NFT artist Mason Rothschild for the use of the Birkin trademark for his MetaBirkins NFT collection. The company received $133,000 in damages.
YouTuber Stephen Findeisen, better known as Coffeezilla, goaded mixed martial artist Dillon Danis into promoting a fake NFT collection that Findeisen says “literally spells out SCAM.”
