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Nifty News: Kraft Foods files for NFT and Metaverse patents, Seth Green gets his ape back, and more…
American food manufacturing and processing giant Kraft Foods Group has filed NFT and Metaverse patents for several of its popular brands. The firm joins a host of mainstream companies such as Gatorade, Nike, Adidas, and Coca-Cola that have moved to secure their products and branding in the crypto/virtual sphere. According to a June 13 Tweet from United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) licensed trademark attorney Mike Kondoudis, Kraft Foods has locked in trademarks for Jell-O, Kool-Aid, Velveeta, Lunchables, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, and of course the Kraft brand. The firm’s NFT and Metaverse trademarks cover a long range of potential services and products including a virtual restaurant where users can earn rewards and virtual assets, virtual food and drinks, NFTs and NFT-b...
Moonbirds fly into NFT top spot with $290M sold in four days
The freshly launched Ethereum-based Moonbirds NFT project is soaring to the top of the trade volume charts after generating $290 million worth of sales in just four days. There are 10,000 computer-generated pixel owl avatar NFTs in total, which were promptly sold out on April 16 for a mint price of 2.5 Ether (ETH) per NFT, or $7,700 at current prices. The floor price (minimum average sale) has since exploded on secondary markets, with OpenSea currently showing a hefty sum of 18.45 ETH ($56,800). BLOOD MOON RISING #moonbirds pic.twitter.com/Jm6bqBVuVF — beeple (@beeple) April 16, 2022 According to data from CryptoSlam, the project has generated more than $289.9 million worth of secondary sales (figure also includes mint sales). The figure places the project as the top-selling NFT collection...
Monthly NFT buyers dip below 800K as searches ‘fall off a cliff’
The unique number of NFT buyers in February dipped below 800,000 for the first time since October, and search volume for nonfungibles also dropped significantly. According to data from CryptoSlam, there were 796,009 NFT buyers on secondary markets in Feb. (down 12% compared to Jan.) that accounted for roughly $2.6 billion worth of sales (down 40% on the month before). A caveat to that however, is that January was a massive month for NFTs which may suggest the decreases in February are simply part of a relatively healthy pullback. January saw a record number of unique secondary NFT buyers at 904,13 and OpenSea also posted record sales volume in January totaling around $5 billion before pulling back to around $3 billion last month. Looking at Google Trends, however, it appears that global ke...
