Nike teases ‘Airphoria’ NFT sneaker on Fortnite: Nifty Newsletter, June 14–20
A project called “Ethscriptions” is bringing Bitcoin Ordinals-inspired inscriptions to the Ethereum blockchain. In this week’s newsletter, read about how a project provided a new way to mint nonfungible tokens (NFTs) on Ethereum. Check out Nike’s new collaboration with the popular online game Fortnite, and how rapper Snoop Dogg plans to use NFTs to bring fans with him on tour. In other news, Dmitri Cherniak’s “The Goose” NFT sold for $6.2 million, and artist Kenny Schachter talks to Cointelegraph about blockchain art. Watch out, Ordinals — 30,000 ‘Ethscriptions’ land on Ethereum Ethscriptions, a project inspired by the Bitcoin Ordinals protocol, is bringing a new way to mint NFTs to Ethereum. Similar to Ordinals, the project lets users “ethscribe” images to the Ethereum blockchain. According to the project’s co-founder Tom Lehman, assets on Ethscriptions use data within a smart contract called “calldata.” The executive claimed this presents a “more decentralized” minting process comp...