Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has teamed up with mythical digital dance tune (EDM) DJ Paul Oakenfold to release a tokenized album on Cardano.

Oakenfold is a 3-time Grammy Award nominee and his profession withinside the tune enterprise spans returned to the early 1980s. His upcoming album dubbed “Zombie Lobster” changed into introduced at some stage in the Cardano summit on Sept. 27.

Every component of the album can be tokenized at the Cardano blockchain, inclusive of cowl art, tracks, sleeve notes and remixes. The album is a part of a launch from an NFT mission named “Starship Universe”, that’s operated through tune entrepreneur Alon Shulman, who manages DJ’s together with Carl Cox.

Starship Universe will reportedly launch lots of NFTs on Cardano, as a part of the collaborative partnership. “I’m excited to welcome Starship Universe because it lands on Cardano and we open up new frontiers together,” Hoskinson stated.

While a launch date for the tokenized album hasn’t been set, Hoskinson teased on Tuesday that it’s far coming soon, after he modified his Twitter profile photo to a image of himself running a DJ turn-table.
DJ Chaz the Hosk-Cat (Twitter)
Become a Stoner Cats star

Mila Kunis’s Stoner Cats — the NFT mission tied to an lively cool animated film collection that clogged the Ethereum community at some stage in its first drop — is presenting participants of the network a threat to function as visitor stars for the second one episode.

The audition changed into introduced on Oct. 1 and is asking for humans to examine traces for 2 visitor characters named “Employee” and “Delivery Guy.” The selected voice actors may also get hold of a loose NFT from a destiny Stoner Cats drop, and get hold of an performing credit score on IMDb.

Wannabe voice actors have till nighttime on Saturday (PST) to publish their line reads and need to report 3 one of a kind variations of every line.

The Stoner Cats display is voiced through an extended listing of celebs together with Kunis, her husband Ashton Kutcher, Jane Fonda, Seth MacFarlane, Chris Rock or even Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. The first series of 10,420 NFTs changed into dropped in July, and bought out inside 35 minutes.
NFL confirms partnership with Dapper Labs

The NFL and Dapper Labs have showed rumors they may be parnering to release tokenized collectibles.

According to a Sept. 29 announcement, the partnership will see the introduction of virtual spotlight NFTs in a comparable style to the broadly famous NBA Top Shot marketplace.

“The irreplaceable nature of the NFT captures what’s unique approximately sports activities fandom,” stated Steve Scebelo the President of NFL Players Inc. “Our gamers are immensely excited for the NFLPA […] to make this considerable push into the virtual collectibles marketplace.”

Henry Lowenfels, the leader product officer at OneTeam Partners, who handles virtual licensing for the NFL Players Association, stated in an interview with GamesBeat they may be hoping to duplicate the “provenance” of NBA Top Shot with the NFL’s collectibles.

“The video games are performed quite plenty each Sunday at some stage in the season, and those moments may be delivered to the identical time and be the subject of communique for the week,” he stated.

“I view this because the early innings of blockchain-primarily based totally merchandise withinside the identical manner that humans have been the usage of the net in 1993. It changed into basically technologists and early adopters of the technology. People need to spend at the matters they love,” he added.

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DC enters the NFT sector

WarnerMedia’s superhero comedian massive DC is giving freely loose NFTs as a part of its upcoming DC FanDome occasion on Oct. 16.

According to a Sept. 29 file from Variety, DC has partnered with Palm NFT Studio to launch tokenized comedian ee-e book covers depicting superheroes together with Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and Harley Quinn.
Comic Book NFTs (DC Comics)

“This drop will pay homage to our 87-yr records whilst visualizing a destiny wherein NFTs play a foundational position in novel approaches of interacting with DC content material and unlocking new experiences,” stated Jim Lee, DC’s writer and leader innovative officer.

The NFT drop will cross stay on Oct. 5, and the tokens can be issued to customers who check in for the loose digital FanDome occasion with a view to be hosted on a couple of systems this month inclusive of Twitch and YouTube.

Palm NFT Studio leader content material officer Matt Mason, informed Variety that various rarity levels “will make the less-not unusualplace NFTs extra valuable, and the complete series will develop in significance to lovers because it will become clearer that this drop represents the begin of a completely new bankruptcy for DC Comics, and the usage of blockchain as a medium for fan engagement and storytelling.”
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Social media platform TikTok has introduced its first foray into the NFT marketplace with a brand new series stimulated through its main trendsetters together with Lil Nas X, Bella Poarch, Brittany Broski and Curtis Roach.

Cointelegraph suggested on Sept. 30 that Twitter unveiled an in-improvement device with a view to allow customers to show a proven NFT as their profile photo.