Today's Highlight: New Azuki NFTs

Azuki's 'Elementals', Binance's Cristiano Ronaldo assets, and Lowe's mfers-embedded flags.

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Leah Alger
June 27, 2023

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This Week's Low-Down:

  • 🚀 Azuki Unleashes ‘Elementals’ NFT Drop Today

  • âš½ Binance Highlights Cristiano Ronaldo’s Scoring Prowess via 29K NFTs

  • 🚩 Lowe's Innovates Retail Space with mfers NFT-Embedded Flags

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Azuki Unleashes ‘Elementals’ NFT Drop Today

Chiru Labs, the creative mind behind the successful NFT collections Azuki and Beanz, is launching a new NFT collection today, starting at 9.00 am (PT).

  • Azuki’s 'Elementals' collection consists of 20,000 anime-themed digital collectibles designed by artists Skycrow, Tenn, Timugi, and Njoo, making it Chiru's most ambitious project yet.

  • The assets will feature four unique themes: Fire, Lightning, Earth, and Water.

  • A presale for the Elemental NFTs will occur twenty minutes before the public release. Beanz holders, however, will get an extra ten-minute head start, with first access beginning at 9.00 am (PT).

  • The Elemental NFTs will be sold via a Dutch Auction, with starting bids at 2 ETH. The price will decrease by 0.1 ETH every five minutes until all NFTs are sold, with no new phase to be opened upon sell-out.

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Binance Highlights Cristiano Ronaldo’s Scoring Prowess via 29K NFTs

Binance teams up with Cristiano Ronaldo to launch 29k 'Forever CR7: The GOAT' NFTs, immortalizing 20 of Ronaldo's greatest goal-scoring moments, a personal training session with the football superstar, and signed merch starting July 3.

  • The Forever CR7: The GOAT collection is divided into four tiers of rarity: Super Super Rare, Super Rare, Rare, and Normal.

  • The top-tier SSR NFTs include a personal training session with Ronaldo and will be auctioned starting from $15,000, with one earmarked for a future giveaway.

  • Binance will distribute 120 SR and 1,200 R NFTs through a subscription mechanism for $300 and $30 each.

  • The remaining N-grade collectibles can be obtained through a ForeverCR7 box containing 7 NFTs for only $10.

  • Holders of the digital assets will gain access to various perks, including printable signed posters, personal messages, physical merchandise, future drops, giveaways, and more, based on the NFTs they possess.

  • Participants of the inaugural drop will receive complimentary mystery boxes from the first drop and qualify for high-rarity NFTs from the second drop.

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Lowe's Innovates Retail Space with mfers NFT-Embedded Flags

Lowe's is pioneering a unique fusion of physical and digital assets by introducing 1,000 flags embedded with mfers meme NFTs.

  • Interweaving NFT narratives and real-world products, entrepreneurs Matthew Varnell and Stephen Thompson initiate a new enterprise called 'Total Marketing Web3' (TM3).

  • Through a partnership with Lowe's longstanding ally Evergreen, TM3 has launched 'Evergreen Siezenals' – garden flags ranging from 1 to 1.5 feet.

  • The first edition of the 'seizen #1/edition #1' flags, priced at $39.98, features the words' cc0 summer 2023' above two mfers characters.

  • Each physical product is an entry point into the world of mfers NFTs.

  • The flags enable collectors to use mfers' characters commercially.

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Today's edition was written by Leah Alger.

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