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Hey Waivly Crew! 🌊 The world's first SMS received via the Vodafone network is being auctioned as an NFT tomorrow. Later today, minting opens for Steph Curry’s first NFT collection to celebrate breaking the all-time NBA three-point record.

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Vodafone to auction world's first SMS as NFT

Vodafone is auctioning off the world’s first SMS in the form of a NFT on December 21st.

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The historic text message that read ‘Merry Christmas,’ was sent 29 years ago over the Vodafone network on December 3rd, 1992, and was received by Richard Jarvis, an employee at the time.

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The sale will take place this Tuesday via an online auction where you can place bids using Ethereum. The winner will get exclusive ownership of a detailed and unique replica of the original communication protocol that transmitted the world’s first SMS.

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Vodafone will redirect all earnings from the NFT to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (the UN Refugee Agency,) to help aid and protect refugees.

Tencent Games acquires Turtle Rock Studios

Tencent Games has recently announced in a press release that they will be adding a new video game studio onto their roster by acquiring the developers of Back 4 Blood, Turtle Neck Studios.

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Tencent Games are developers behind the popular MOBA League of Legends, Call of Duty: Mobile, Honor of Kings, and Pokémon Unite. Turtle Neck Studio is among many video game studios in which Tencent has invested and have acquired.

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The studio has acquired the British game studio Sumo as well as bought majority stakes in Klei Entertainment and minority stakes in Playtonic, Bohemia Interactive, Dontnod, and Remedy Entertainment this year. The studio is slowly building up its game-developing studio roster.

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With the recent acquisition of Turtle Neck Studio, Tencent will be letting the studio retain independent operations in California, and their current leadership will still run the studio. In a recent blog post, Turtle Neck explained that the acquisition would allow them to do something that they have not done before, which is to “turn a universe that we created into a true long-standing AAA franchise,” as well as “ensure that the Back 4 Blood franchise would be here to stay.”

The Waves

💰 Adidas brings in $23M from first NFT drop

💯 Goldman Sachs says the metaverse must be run on blockchain tech

📈 CryptoPunk #9953 sold for 400 ETH ($1.58M)

⚽ NFT-based soccer game Cyball raises $1.8M

NFT Special

LED_KID

LED.KID is a series of 1/1 - 50 version only collectibles NFT, about a study of human behaviours. LED_KID features a mix of characters with various types of personalities with an LED device attached to their face. Each version visualizes a type of common human behaviour.

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Joe DiDonato

Joe DiDonato creates NFTs primarily for fun, starting with basic designs and turning them into digital drawings. His characters “whomans” are fun, random characters, or sometimes objects with different emotions attached.

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Omar Vicke

Omar Vicke is a digital artist from Mexico City who has been around music and art his whole life. When the pandemic started, Omar started making renders and quickly fell in love with the process. Each render completely resonates with Omar’s inner feelings.

Steph Curry drops NFT collection

Three-time NBA Champion and Golden State Warrior star Steph Curry is dropping an NFT collection to celebrate breaking the all-time NBA three-point record.

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On Tuesday night at New York's Madison Square Garden, while playing against the Pacers, Steph Curry broke Ray Allen's NBA record for the most three-pointers, scoring the 2,974th three-pointer of his career.

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To celebrate the achievement, Curry is releasing 2,974 NFTs costing $499 each will be available to mint on Monday in honour of the record-breaking number. Each NFT features sketches of Curry that use the “2,974” number to fill in his physical features.

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In the future, Curry will also be surprising NFT holders with gifts and experiences, such as autographed memorabilia, tickets to games, early access to Curry Brand limited-edition items, and more.

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All proceeds from the sale will go to Curry’s foundation, Eat. Learn. Play, that helps unlock the true potential of every child by fighting to end childhood hunger, ensuring students have access to quality education and providing safe places for all children to play.

Own and secure your crypto

If you’re into cryptocurrency and own crypto assets, you need a secure place to store your coins and tokens. You probably already know that you shouldn’t store your crypto on an exchange due to potential hacks, not being solely in control of your crypto’s private keys, and for other reasons, and so a hardware wallet is the way to go and the best option to protect your private keys, therefore, you should make the move to a Ledger wallet.

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Ledger wallets are an extremely secure and premium way to secure, manage, and grow your crypto assets with their Bluetooth-enabled hardware wallets, and easy-to-use app which lets you manage your portfolio on the go. They let you manage multiple assets, buy, sell, grow, and exchange crypto, gain financial freedom by you being in full control and ownership of your private keys, and so much more.

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The wallets are really simple to setup, and to move your crypto over to, so there’s no reason not to secure your assets and take control of your cryptocurrency now and get yourself a Ledger device. You can manage 1800+ coins and tokens directly in the Ledger Live app once you’ve got your device up and running, so you’ll always have your entire portfolio covered.

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