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  Developer of NFTs and operator of the Flow Blockchain Dapper Labs has reached an agreement with the NFL.  They plan to create an NBA Top-Shot style marketplace for digital football tokens and collectibles.  This can be found in a report in the  Sports Business Journal  . Sources for the magazine claim the deal makes Dapper Labs the second largest digital licensing partner for the NFL Players Associations.  Number one is EA Sports with the Madden video game franchise. Just like NBA Top-Shot, the new NFT marketplace will run on the Flow blockchain.  The introduction is to take place during the current NFL season.  It ends on January 9th. A central component of the new project should be video content, as is also the case with the cooperation with NBA.  NBA Top-Shot has sold $ 780 million in collectibles so far in 2021. On September 22nd  , Dapper Labs closed  a $ 250 million financing round.  The valuation of the NFT company the...

  As presented at the Cardano Summit, the AI ​​robot "Grace" is now running at Cardano. One day, Grace is supposed to relieve doctors and healthcare workers. Grace will start next year. Then the AI ​​robot will be used in the USA, Hong Kong, mainland China and Korea, among others. Grace guarantees data protection and data security by using the Cardano blockchain. The AI ​​robot should meet the global requirements in the healthcare sector when it is used in different countries. In collaboration with Hanson Robotics and AI specialist SingularityNET, Grace was created to work with the elderly and diagnose patients. We already know Hanson Robotics from the project of the humanoid robot "Sophia". Especially during the Covid 19 crisis, Grace is supposed to relieve the hospital staff. Ben Goertzel, inventor of the AI ​​technology for Grace and CEO of SingularityNET, explains in a press release available to BeInCrypto: Interaction with a robot Above all, Grace should help p...

  Facebook will spend $ 50 million on initiatives and partnerships related to the Metaverse over the next two years. Facebook has a 50-million-dollar fund  announced , which should help the company to develop the Metaverse responsible.  It is officially called the “XR Programs and Research Fund” and, according to the company, will be invested in “programs and external research” over the course of two years. In the announcement, Facebook also announced its definition of the word “metaverse”.  The company describes it as “virtual spaces in which one can create and explore something together with other people” that are not physically present and that span a variety of products and services.  Facebook says the fund's goal is to ensure that it builds its part of the metaverse in terms of compatibility with other services, as well as inclusivity, privacy, security, and "economic opportunity". While the company stresses that it takes privacy and human rights seriously...

  The crypto ban is bearing fruit: The Chinese trading giant Alibaba has announced that it will ban the sale of mining equipment from next month. The consequences of the Chinese crypto ban are widening more and more.  Now the e-commerce giant Alibaba has announced that it will stop selling mining equipment from October 8th.  In its announcement , Alibaba cited recent statements by the Chinese central bank and other oversight bodies in the country.  As is well known, these are calling for a  renewed crackdown  on cryptocurrency activities.  However, Alibaba's action is by no means limited to just hardware: Alibaba.com prohibits the sale of virtual currency miners in addition to prohibiting the sale of virtual currencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, BeaoCoin, QuarkCoin, and Ethereum, which include but are not limited to: 1) Hardware and software used to mine virtual currency such as Bitcoin Miners are used;  2) Instructions, strategies and software fo...