Roland Guirdonan
Roland is a Public Relations & Communications guru with an immense passion for the blockchain and crypto industry. A fusion of his expertise and passion led to the dawn of Optimisus in 2020.
Articles by Roland Guirdonan
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SushiSwap’s future non-fungible token (NFT) platform, Shoyu, has now gone live. According to Shoyu, the website for SushiSwap’s forthcoming non-fungible token (NFT) platform, Shoyu, is now live. The team posted on TikTok, saying, “In a desert of NFTs, an oasis is emerging.” Also, the Shoyu noted that “a new oasis is an NFT desert.” In TikTok, desert-themed images are leading to the Shoyu domain name. Moreover, shoyunft.com now showcases a page declaring that “creative commerce reimagined” is coming soon. What is more, Project leader LexV also tweeted a link to the website. Note that 2 months ago, LevX, brought up
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OKEx is expanding its decentralized finance (DeFi) work by starting a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace and DeFi Hub. In a statement, the world’s second-largest crypto derivatives exchange by trading volume, OKEx said it has launched DeFi Hub. It is a platform that allows users to observe and manage decentralized assets across several blockchain networks and DeFi protocols. What is more, OKEx joined the list of crypto exchanges like Binance by launching an NFT marketplace that allows users to mint, sell and trade NFTs. According to the company, its 2 new platforms are designed to enhance each other. OKEx crypto exchange
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ANFT marketplace announced that Mr. Bojangles NFT collection is expected to go on pre-sale tomorrow. According to reports, Mr. Bojangles is 6969 generative 8-Bit Sloths that are created by Sleepy Sloth Finance on the Ethereum Costa Rican Jungle Metaverse. Also, the company stated that every Bojangle is entirely unique with over 200+ hand-drawn features. Thus, by securing their own gamified Mr. Bojangles NFT, users will be able to receive profits from a percentage of sales per month. Secondly, users can also verify their Bojangles NFT to get airdropped on the firm Charity Based Token $SLEEPY. Lastly, Sleepy Sloth Finance said
3 years ago
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Dolce & Gabbana brand enters the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) space. This is a huge move from the company to want to expand its business to the NFT world. As NFTs are booming, many investors and companies are interested in joining the industry in order to expand their businesses. And it seems like the world of fashion is increasingly jumping into digital assets such as CryptoPunks. Looking at this, Dolce & Gabbana said it aims to change the way people wear clothes, but digitally. The firm said they are looking to change that with “Collezione Genesi,” a 9-piece NFT collection in
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Bollywood Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan announced the launch of his own non-fungible tokens (NFT) collection this year. According to reports, the NFTs will be launched on BeyondLife.club, an NFT marketplace. More so, Amitabh Bachchan NFT collection will be rolled out in a joint between Indian film production firm Rhiti Entertainment and Guardian Link, a decentralized legitimacy protocol for NFT exchanges. The auctions will begin in October 2021. Arun Pandey, managing director and chairman of Rhiti Group, said their NFT marketplace is just like OpenSea’s. As he continues, he added, “Our biggest motivation behind this venture is to empower artists, celebs
3 years ago
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Internet Computer (ICP) announced it would release 10,000 free non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in its debut drop. Dfinity’s Internet Computer clown-based collectibles are inspired by musical duo Insane Clown Posse and the early NFT project, Cryptopunks. The firm said that users could claim their free token Wednesday at 8 pm UTC. According to reports, brothers Przemek and Tomasz Chojecki, alongside Adam Stępnik designed the NFTs based acronym comparisons to the 90’s hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse, and the legendary Cryptopunk NFTs. Also, the ICP noted that only 3,000 punks will be available to claim. A user could claim only one when
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Tron CEO Justin Sun is at it again with some crazy expenses on non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Today, the CEO of Tron announced that he just spent $10 million on his first CryptoPunk, a pixelated digital avatar that has been attracting the wealthy since the beginning of the year. Justin Sun bought a CryptoPunk named TPUNK 3442. In addition, this is not the first time the CEO has spent a huge amount to acquire a digital collectible. The first time was on August 22, less than a month ago. On that day, he bought the Ethereum pet rock craze that has
3 years ago
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Chicago Blackhawks, a professional NHL team, announced the launch of the team’s first non-fungible token (NFT) collection. Based on the website, the team makes licensed ERC-721 NFTs, with some being sold at a fixed price and others being auctioned to the highest bidder. According to Chicago Blackhawks NFT, the collection is on the Sweet platform using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Content Delivery Network (CDN) to host the digital collectibles publicly. This is because Sweet lets brands mint NFTs on many chains. Currently, the platform supports Ethereum ERC-721 and Ethereum Mainnet tokens. Moreover, the team said the collection comprises 12
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This year, non-fungible tokens took the art world by storm. NFT is a unit of data stored on a digital ledger, called a blockchain. More so, this blockchain certifies a digital asset to be unique and therefore not interchangeable. The digital asset can be online pictures and videos or even sports trading cards. CryptoPunk number 8348 is put on auction for 60,000 ETH worth $171 million. According to NFT, CryptoPunk #8348 is seen as the rarest of the 10,000 punks due to being the only one with 7 traits. In addition, the firm said that if this punk sells at
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The NBA star Stephen Curry has decided to join the Bored Ape Yacht family, buying one of the NFTs for 55 ETH, worth around $180,000. Stephen Curry bought the Bored Ape Yacht Club, which is one of a collection of 10,000 apes with gloomy expressions. The digital representations of the Bored Apes are featured on the OpenSea NFT marketplace. They feature many properties, ranging from different looks to outfits, hairdos, and even having cheetah coats. However, Curry’s NFT Bored Ape has blue fur, zombie’s eyes, and it wears a tweed outfit. According to reports, the last two are especially rare
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The non-fungible token industry just can’t stop getting any crazier than this. Every day, there is something new in the NFT world. Two days ago, Gary Vaynerchuk announced he is launching the first-ever ‘NFT restaurant.’ The Belarusian-American entrepreneur, author, speaker, and Internet personality announced he is launching the NFT restaurant in New York City in fall 2022. According to Gary Vaynerchuk, the restaurant would provide membership via NFTs that can be owned and transferred. In an interview with CNBC, Gary Vaynerchuk also knows as Gary Vee said, “The punchline is a very modern restaurant where the token is access to
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“NFTs are eating the internet,” says co-founder and CTO of Opensea, the largest NFT marketplace. It’s been wild since the beginning of 2021 for the NFT auction marketplace OpenSea. According to atnft, OpenSea has hit an all-time high of $1.14 billion in weekly trading volume. As a result, OpenSea weekly NFT sales surpassed $1 billion for the first time. It means the NFT marketplace was up 170% from the previous week. Moreover, OpenSea has facilitated $2.49 billion worth of trades in August so far. In short, it is already 667% more than the previous record of $326 million, set last
