DNP3, a streamer and founding father of a number of crypto tasks comparable to The Charity-focused Crypto CluCoin, The Goobers Nonfungible Token (NFT) and Metaverse platform Gridcraft Community, has admitted shedding investor funds to playing.
In a tweet, the founding father of the NFT challenge spoke about his playing habit and publicly apologized.
I am sorry.
Learn: https://t.co/RKM1wYggnC
— DNP3 (@DNPthree) January 3, 2023
The Twitch streamer mentioned he has change into “extremely addicted” to playing over the previous yr. Lastly, the Twitch streamer claimed that he misplaced every part. He wrote:
“Along with my very own life financial savings, I additionally irresponsibly used investor funds to attempt to get my a reimbursement from the on line casino, which was unsuitable for thus many causes.”
The streamer added that he’s now financially and mentally broke. He additionally confused that his confidence has been affected. “I am working with a help group to start the highway to restoration,” he added.
Nike’s RTFKT Chief Working Officer loses NFTs to hacking
Nikhil Gopalani, the chief working officer of NFT challenge RTFKT, mentioned on Twitter that his NFT assortment was stolen in a phishing assault. Gopalani described the attacker as a “sensible phisher” and mentioned the scammer offered his Clone X NFTs.
Hey Clone X Neighborhood – I acquired hacked by a artful phisher (identical telephone quantity as Apple ID) and offered all my Clone X / another NFTs… Clearly fairly upset and harm about it and I could not actually transfer all day. Hope individuals who purchased my clones love them (be constructive)
— Nikhil Gopalani (@Nikgopalani) January 3, 2023
OpenSea information exhibits that the attacker used two wallets to steal round $173,000 value of Gopalani’s NFTs. These embody 19 CloneX NFTs, 18 RTFKT Area Pods, 17 Loot Pods and 11 CryptoKicks. Information from Etherscan additionally exhibits that solely $0.11 in ether (ETH) stays within the Gopalani-connected pockets.
Though the phishing technique will not be but identified, a tweet from RTFKT’s Chief Know-how Officer, Samuel Cardillo, means that Gopalani might have offered entry codes to some scammers.
Avid gamers bully NFTs from mainstream video games
The web’s anti-NFT narrative seems to have efficiently separated mainstream recreation growth corporations from NFTs. All through 2022, recreation builders comparable to Stalker Studio GSC Sport World, Ubisoft, and Worms developer Team17 have withdrawn their intent to combine NFTs into video games as a result of adverse suggestions from the gaming neighborhood.
After implementing NFT integration by its Quartz challenge, recreation developer Ubisoft took a step again to NFTs. The reversal got here after the gaming firm acquired adverse suggestions about Quartz on-line in 2021.
That is still the stupidest and most pointless factor within the goddamn world.
If anybody needs to cease working for corporations that do silly issues like this, we’re hiring and will probably be hiring extra within the new yr. Particularly if you’re actually there, get in contact with us. https://t.co/Hb2Fq5xZ55
— Nels Anderson (@nelsormensch) December 7, 2021
Amid the pushback, many nonetheless imagine NFTs and video games can mesh. Talking at an earnings convention on November 4th, Digital Arts (EA) CEO Andrew Wilson emphasised that NFTs and play-to-earn are the way forward for gaming. Nevertheless, the EA CEO additionally famous that it was nonetheless early days to see how it could work.
Except for EA, Remaining Fantasy creators Sq. Enix have additionally championed the combination of NFTs and blockchain into video games. The corporate lately invested in an NFT playing firm.
Solana NFT trading quantity is exhibiting indicators of energy
Following an enormous loss for the Solana (SOL) token, which misplaced over 90% of its value in 2021, NFT trading volumes throughout the Solana blockchain are exhibiting indicators of energy, with Christmas Day seeing probably the most exercise.
In keeping with NFT information tracker CryptoSlam, Solana had over $80 million in NFT gross sales within the final 30 days. The blockchain had over 800,000 transactions in that span, surpassing Polygon and ImmutableX.
Supply: CryptoSlam
Regardless of its nice month, it’s unsure if the energy proven will proceed as a lot of the quantity got here from DeGods and y00ts, each of that are bridging to Polygon and Ethereum to pursue additional launch.