Nifty News: Damien Hirst airdrops NFTs, AMC teams up with Spider-Man, 3D NFTs on ICP
AMC Entertainment and renowned NFT artist Damien Hirst are airdropping NFTs to fans and collectors.
To commemorate opening day of the Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: No Way Home at cinemas across the United States, AMC Theatres plans to have an NFT promotion.
There will be 86,000 Spiderman NFTs for members of its “AMC Stubs Premiere & A-List” and “AMC Investor Connect” subscriptions.
More than 100 NFT designs will be available created by Cub Studios, a BAFTA award-winning animation studio. The tokens will be redeemable on the WAX platform, a carbon-neutral blockchain running on proof-of-stake consensus.
The hotly anticipated movie is the third in the Spider-Man Hero franchise and the sequel to Spider-Man: Far From Home which grossed $1.13 billion globally.
Damien Hirst Airdrop
Renowned British NFT artist Damien Hirst has airdropped 10,000 NFTs to those who had previously purchased artwork from his “The Currency” collection.
In other news:
3D NFTs will be features on Dfinity’s Internet Computer($ICP). ICP is set to launch a NFT Studio, and interactive NFT platform. It will allow creators to have the ability to design, mint and stake regular and interactive 3D NFTs. Dfinity’s NFT studio includes a 3D voxel engine and a pixel engine which allows users to create 3D models that can be converted into NFTs and used in video games.
Lukas Merville, founder and team lead at NFT Studio, said that 3D creators are often limited on networks such as Ethereum or Solana which cannot handle large files sizes, before adding “3D NFTs sounded like fiction — well beyond the current state of blockchain technology. But we have made them possible on-chain thanks to the Internet Computer.”