Swipe right in the metaverse
Famous New York socialite Paris Hilton believes the Metaverse is the perfect place to find true love.
In a Feb. 9 tweet, the celebrity and reality TV star said she will be collaborating with The Sandbox (SAND) to bring “Parisland” to life.
The idea is essentially a virtual reality (VR) dating experience crossed with a reality dating show and is set to release on February 13th in time for Valentine’s Day.
According to a Feb. 9 statement, players 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 runs through March 13 and players will also complete quests to win non-fungible tokens (NFTs) or SAND prizes and memorabilia.
These quests include choosing a wedding outfit and a ring, as well as “rescuing a shipwrecked man and flirting with other contestants”.
Nothing shows true love for someone you just met online like NFT’s interlaced love rings. Image: Parisland
Once players have completed all quests and found the love of their life, they will have a virtual wedding and Hilton herself will spin the decks for their first dance together.
The event is being hosted in partnership with entertainment company 11:11 Media, founded by Hilton. The company’s Web3 and Metaverse strategy lead, Cynthia Miller, said it’s on “a mission to help people find love” with the experience.
Ordinal numbers CryptoPunk fakes make bank
Bitcoin (BTC) NFTs enabled by the Ordinals protocol have caused a stir in the community, but that hasn’t stopped some from paying thousands of dollars for select collections.
A knockoff of the Ethereum-based CryptoPunks NFT collection has found its way onto BTC called Ordinal Punks, which currently has a total holding of 100 according to the project’s website.
According to a price feed on the Discord project, Punk 94 was sold on Feb. 8 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 it’s roughly double the price of the most recently sold CryptoPunk from the original Ethereum collection — priced at 70 Ether (ETH) according to OpenSea data. or was sold for $110,000.
Screenshot of Ordinal Punk’s Discord showing sales between 9.5 and 4 BTC in the last 48 hours.
Other sales over the past 48 hours show one ordinal punk sold for 6 BTC, around $130,000, and others for around 4.5 BTC, or around $100,000.
It’s a notable jump in price since late last week, when some Ordinal Punks sold for as little as 0.07 BTC ($2,200), according to sales data on Feb. 2.
RhiRhi’s royalties are sold out via NFTs
The licensing rights to Rhianna’s 2015 hit Bitch Better Have My Money have just been offered as part of a collection of 300 NFTs.
Jamil “Deputy” Pierre was one of the song’s producers, who has now sold about 1% of his share of streaming royalties through 300 NFTs, giving the holder a 0.0033% lifetime share of the royalties for the record if they streamed digitally on platforms like Spotify.
The collection, sold by Deputy in partnership with music licensing NFT platform anotherblock, launched on February 9 for 0.128 ETH each, or about $210.
That same day, another block tweeted that the collection sold out “within minutes.”
anotherblock predicts that a first-year NFT will have a “probable” return of 6.5%, which would yield $13.65 per year. At that rate, it would take a holder about 15 years to breakeven on their investment.
It’s unclear how much of the royalty interest in the song Deputy retained after the NFT sale.
Def Jam Launches Virtual Band With Solana NFT Collection
Def Jam Recordings, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group, is attempting to build a Web3-native band through a partnership with the Solana (SOL) NFT collection, The Catalina Whale Mixer.
As announced in a Feb. 8 Billboard report, the band, dubbed “The Whales,” will consist of the cartoon whale characters that make up the collection similar to the virtual band Gorillaz.
Catalina Whales later revealed in a tweet that the band would be a “gamified music group” and holders of an NFT in the collection could “land a role for.” [their] Whale.”
The musicians behind the project are yet to be confirmed by Def Jam, but reports say there’s a ‘who’s who’ of talent and The Whales will be releasing a full-length album, but haven’t announced 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 monkeys from the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection.
Other nice news:
Luxury fashion brand Hermès won a trademark infringement case against NFT artist Mason Rothschild over his use of the Birkin brand for his MetaBirkins NFT collection. The company was awarded $133,000 in damages.
YouTuber Stephen Findeisen, better known as Coffeezilla, has tricked mixed martial artist Dillon Danis into promoting a fake NFT collection, which Findeisen says means “literally cheating.”
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