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Hey Waivly Crew! 🌊 Cryptocurrency exchange OKX has secured a multi-year partnership with English Premier League champion Manchester City. The Sandbox has partnered with Cube Entertainment to bring K-Culture to the metaverse.

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Manchester City signs sponsorship deal with Crypto Exchange OKX

Cryptocurrency exchange OKX, formerly OKEx, has signed a multi-year partnership with English Premier League football club Manchester City.

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Announced in a press release, OKX will become the club’s “Official Cryptocurrency Exchange Partner” to collaborate on a range of exclusive experiences for its global customer base, as well as explore additional projects together.

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Rebranded from OKEx in mid-January this year, OKX is currently the world’s second-largest spot exchange in the industry with over 20 million customers, according to data from CoinGecko. The details of the deal have yet to be disclosed, but a source has sold Forbes that it is in the multimillion-dollar range annually.

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“We are delighted to partner with Manchester City, one of the world’s best-loved and most successful teams. Football and crypto share something important; they are for everyone, they create inclusivity within society. For OKX, Manchester City is a Club that represents the effect football has to make a positive difference in people’s lives, to bring people together around a shared love of the beautiful game. We are entering the Premier League for the first time as City’s official crypto partner to celebrate this community spirit in the world of football because it’s something we both share,” said Jay Hao, CEO of OKX. 

The Flower Girls partners with Dolphin Entertainment

The Flower Girls, a female-led collection of 10,000 unique NFTs, has partnered with entertainment marketing and production company Dolphin Entertainment.

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Female artist Varvara Alay designed the collection with each NFT representing a “renaissance-style” portrait of a young woman. 20% of all primary & secondary profits will get donated to a range of Children’s charities, along with 5% primary & secondary profits used to collect Children’s NFT Art.

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As a result of the partnership, Dolphin Entertainment will expand the collection’s community benefits, perks, and charitable opportunities. Notably, Dolphin will use the Flower Girls’ brand to make scripted and unscripted television series, books, games, music, events, and merchandise.

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“We are so excited to further blossom this project alongside Dolphin, who is opening new doors and unleashing a new range of benefits for our community members,” Alay said.

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NFT Special

Pulsing Quartz

This Quartz is one of the gemstone from the "Mineral Admiration" series created in 2010 by Karina Eibatova. This series became viral 10 years ago and now gems are available as NFTs.

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Radial Art Symmetry

Radial'Art is a collection of unique hand-drawn Neon Digital Art. The first part of the collection is about chaotic symmetrical harmony, there will only be 150 unique hand drawn pieces.

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Project Solomon

Project Solomon is a combination of art and puzzle. First step: you can get the video of demons and 3D data of the pillar to seal them. Second step: you can enjoy the puzzle on the bottom of the 3D data of the pillar. Third step: If you reach correct answer you can get new NFT of the demon's 3D data.

The Sandbox partners with Cube Entertainment

The Sandbox, a virtual world built on the Ethereum blockchain, has partnered with Cube Entertainment to spread Korean culture globally through virtual spaces and digital assets.

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According to a press release, the partnership will focus on the collaboration for business expansion, which started after launching ‘Anicube’, a new joint venture behind The Sandox’s parent company, Animoca brands, and Cube Entertainment.

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The Sandbox and Cube Entertainment will bring various outside companies into the metaverse and hold events to introduce users to not just K-POP but K-Culture as well. As a first step, a cultural space dubbed the” K-Culture complex” will be created in virtual land owned by Cube within The Sandbox.

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"Cube is truly embracing the spirit of the open metaverse by moving one step further into The Sandbox via its K-culture hub, where it is actively curating local brands and partners of their main K-POP label and offering them a presence in The Sandbox through its own lands," said The Sandbox chief operating officer and co-founder Sebastien Borget.

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“Thanks to the global K-pop wave, Korean culture known as ‘K-Culture’ itself will have a powerful influence in every sector. We are planning to introduce this K-Culture with great potential to global users in a new space called metaverse.

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