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Bored Apes take over the Louvre. Spatial and Immutable make moves

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Ty Smith & Leah Alger
March 23, 2023

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  • 🖼️ The Louvre Showcases Several Bored Apes

  • 👾 Spatial Debuts Easy-to-Use Toolkit for Web3 Creators

  • 🕹️ Immutable Partners with Polygon to Scale On-Chain Gaming

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The Louvre Showcases Several Bored Apes

Despite recent dramas over not showcasing Claire Silver's NFTs, the Louvre's walls were finally graced by NFTs — featuring several Bored Apes and Mutant Apes.

Here's What We Know:

  • The Louvre museum showcased an exhibit of Bored Apes (BAYC) and Mutant Apes (MAYC), created by Yuga Labs yesterday.

  • The display at the world's most famous museum was a creative way to recognize the impact of Yuga Labs' NFTs regarding Web3 culture and digital art getting the recognition it rightly deserves.

  • The eight Bored Apes and two Mutant Apes put on display were owned by notable BAYC and MAYC members including Snoop Dogg and Adidas' Indigo Herz.

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Spatial Debuts Easy-to-Use Toolkit for Web3 Creators

Spatial, the 3D social platform for creators, has launched its 'Creator Toolkit' powered by Unity, enabling gamification and interactive exhibitions.

Here's What We Know:

  • Spatial's Creator Toolkit powered by Unity is now in beta, supporting gamification and interactive exhibitions on-chain.

  • Creators can design, build, and publish their own games or stories across Web, VR, and mobile using the toolkit, featuring visual scripting, custom avatars, and a world-linking system.

  • Spatial has made designing and distribution easy, allowing anyone to become a Unity developer with zero infrastructure approach, opening up capabilities to major brands including Vogue and McDonald's.

  • The toolkit allows developers and artists to benefit from enhanced visual quality through real-time lighting, triggers, animations, shaders, and textures, with no downloads needed.

  • Consequently, it will be used at the Metaverse Fashion Week to support artists, collections, and live digital brand events.

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NFT MADNESS: Vote for Your Favorite NFT Project

Who has the strongest NFT community?

NFT Lately is letting you decide with NFT MADNESS!

Here’s our NFT Bracket consisting of some of our favorite projects. The NFT world is reliant on community. So, to emphasize that, YOU can decide who you want to be crowned winner.

Voting is open here!

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  • First round: March 14-17

  • Second round: 18-21

  • Third round: March 23-26

  • Fourth round : March 25-28

  • Fifth round: March 29-April 1

  • Final round: April 1-3

  • Winner announced: April 4

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Immutable Partners with Polygon to Scale On-Chain Gaming

Polygon Labs and Immutable join forces to promote the use of Web3 gaming. Together, they will leverage their vast experience in gaming to support developers in bringing new visions to the Web3 space.

Here's What We Know:

  • Immutable and Polygon Labs partner to scale adoption of Web3 gaming.

  • Partnership aims to make it easier for gaming developers to bring their vision to the Web3 space.

  • Immutable adopts Polygon's zkEVM technology to reduce transaction fees, compatible with Ethereum.

  • Polygon simplifies technological aspects of Web3 gaming while Immutable offers user-friendly platform products.

  • This partnership aims to bring digital ownership to millions and take Web3 gaming mainstream.

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Today's edition was written by Leah Alger and edited by Ty Smith.