Warner Music Group partners with OpenSea: Nifty Newsletter, Sept 28–Oct 4
In this week’s newsletter, read about how Warner Music Group partnered with OpenSea to give artists a way to engage with their audiences. Find out how Tennis legend Maria Sharapova is exploring her growing interest in nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and check out how blockchain game Illuvium is trying to create an interoperable game. In other news, Meta enabled cross-posting for NFTs on Instagram and Facebook. And, don’t forget this week’s Nifty News featuring the Build-A-Bear Workshop entering Web3 and a CryptoPunk selling for 3,300 Ether (ETH) amid the bear market.
Entertainment company Warner Music Group (WMG) partnered with the NFT marketplace OpenSea to let musicians engage with their fans using Web3. Through the partnership, some artists will be given early access to the platform’s new customizable drop pages feature.
WMG executive Oana Ruxandra said that the collaboration will allow artists to create deeper engagement with their communities. The executive recognized that community engagement where artists and fans come together is fundamental to music.
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Tennis superstar Maria Sharapova made an appearance at the Binance Blockchain Week held in Paris, France. The tennis legend shared her interest in NFTs in an interview with Cointelegraph’s senior reporter Rachel Wolfson.
Sharapova shared that she is curious about crypto and is in the process of figuring out how to engage with her fans using Web3. According to the athlete, she is thinking about a long-term project in the space.
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Kieran Warwick, the co-founder of Illuvium — a blockchain game that integrates various Web3 elements like NFTs and digital assets — spoke with Cointelegraph at the Token2049 event in Singapore. According to Warwick,
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