Popular NFT app VeVe has sensationally announced a new partnership with comic-book royalty Marvel.

VeVe CEO Dan Crothers took to the internet to announce to his 200,000 app userbase that they are delighted to sign this historic deal.

VeVe already has the licence to sell NFTs for the the likes of DC, Back to the Future and Ghostbusters, grossing a cool 40 million in revenue in the first six months of this year.

They will now be adding the likes of Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Wolverine, Thor and Hulk to their NFT inventory.

Marvel entertainment president Dan Buckley said VeVe was chosen as a partner because it understands collecting is about the experience “just as much as the product”. Soon fans will be able to purchase and interact with official Marvel NFT digital collectibles, 3D statues, and digital comic books through mixed reality on VeVe’s groundbreaking app platform.

The brains behind VeVe is Alfred Kahn – licensing hall of famer responsible for more than $25 Billion in retail revenue including Pokemon. An expert in licensing, branding, digital media and marketing, Alfred plays an integral role in securing licenses for the VeVe platform, as well as developing and implementing marketing and branding strategies to an international audience. He has been busy trying to secure this deal for VeVe since March, when he told collectors on the platform he was working on a “game-changing NFT Licence.”

Each series sold on the app has four characters that includes a Ultra Rare, Rare, Uncommon and Common.

Once you own an NFT you can display them in augmented reality on your phone and create and customise virtual showrooms to showcase your digital collectibles and share this experience with other collectors around the world.

Іn 2009, Marvel was purchased by Тhе Wаlt Dіѕnеу Соmраnу’ fоr $4.24 bіllіоn. Ѕо, рrеѕеntlу іt іѕ knоwn аѕ thе ѕubѕіdіаrу оf Тhе Wаlt Dіѕnеу Соmраnу. Іt hаѕ аlmоѕt 15 ѕubѕіdіаrу соmраnіеѕ thаt рrоduсе muѕіс, hоmе vіdео, fіlmѕ, vіdео gаmеѕ, соmісѕ, bооkѕ, аnіmаtіоnѕ, аnd tеlеvіѕіоn.

The top five highest-grossing superhero films of all time have all been produced by Marvel Studios, within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and includes the four Avengers films (The Avengers, Age of Ultron, Infinity War, and Endgame) and Black Panther.

There is no doubt that the announcement of Marvel NFTs will excite the collector purists and with a solid tried-and-tested base like VeVe delivering the products, we cannot wait!

Beeple has announced his return with a new 2021 Spring Collection that will be dropping exclusively on Nifty Gateway over the coming weekend (April 30th to May 2nd).

If you have just $1 – you could possibly own one of the most valuable pieces of artwork to drop this year.

Beeple took to Twitter to let his fans know one drop would be a raffle and quiz system.

However more raffle dates has now been added!

SPRING COLLECTION 2021 _$1 raffle @niftygateway _ 4/30

** we’ll be doing something a bit different for this one, you’ll have to answer questions about the everydays before you are able to enter the raffle :) ** ?‍? pic.twitter.com/MNPKLWnDGZ

— beeple (@beeple) April 26, 2021

The date / time for Beeple raffles are as follows….

Raffle confirmed 30th of April, 7pm EST (includes quiz)

Raffle confirmed 30th of April, 8pm EST

Raffle confirmed May 1st 6pm EST (includes quiz)

Raffle confirmed May 2nd 4pm EST

Nifty Gateway accounts will be limited to buy just one ticket as part of the drawing and you will require a validated account.

Spring Collection Schedule

The full Spring Collection schedule can be seen below.

About Beeple

Mike Winkelmann is a 39 year old digital artist with a wife and two children living in South Carolina.

his visionary and digital pictures have propelled him to the top of the digital art world, winning him over two million followers on Instagram and high-profile collaborations with global brands ranging from Louis Vuitton to Nike, as well as performing artists such as Katy Perry and Childish Gambino.

His outspoken take on the hot topics that dominate mainstream media seem to resonate with young and new art collectors. His opinionated pieces have proven that he’s got his finger firmly on the pulse of not just the digital art world, but current world events.

His NFT Artwork ‘Everydays: The First 5000 Days‘ was the first digital collectible to be auctioned at Christies and fetched a jaw dropping 69 million dollars in the process.

With so many editions up for grabs and a $1 dollar lottery buy in, more records will be smashed in what is going to be a Beeple-Fest weekend in the NFT space.

Very exciting and we wish all our readers massive amounts of GOOD LUCK ?

NFT Investments, a UK PLC that is purpose-built to invest directly into Non-Fungible Tokens, has announced a £35m listing on the Aquis Stock Exchange Growth Market in London.

The Company’s shares are traded on the Access segment under the symbol: NFT.

Aquis Stock Exchange (AQSE) is a stock market providing primary and secondary markets for equity and debt products.

They plan to simplify investments into NFT’s and focus on building a portfolio of investments into NFT’s, NFT Companies, NFT Artwork and NFT Rights.

NFT Investments were shocked and delighted at the “substantially oversubscribed” share placing which raised £35m (triple what was predicted), with an order book that is already boasting a demand in excess of one hundred million GBP in what the firm said was “unprecedented investor demand”.

This news has valued the Company at a market capitalisation of £50 million.

NFT Investments is a UK PLC that is purpose-built to invest directly into Non-Fungible Tokens, Companies and Rights.

NFT Investments ultimately now gives stock investors the chance to back NFT as an industry, and that has been welcomed with open arms.

Led by management team Jonathan Bixby and Nick Lyth, the company said the money made from its IPO will now be allocated to “identify and carry out due diligence on potential investments” and to provide further capital to support its acquisition and investment strategy. This new NFT powerhouse has proven experience and claim to have unprecedented experience in creating, scaling and financing businesses in both the crypto and fin-tech space.

Here is a snapshot from their website of the dream-team behind the record breaking fundraising on the Aquis Exchange.

What’s astonishing is the company was only thrown together one month ago and their website still looks like a WordPress template! They don’t even have social media accounts, so we haven’t seen the champagne flowing, “we did it” hashtags or rocket emoji’s ? … can we not even get an “NFTs to the moon” guys?

In early deals today, shares in the company were trading at around 8p, a 60% increase on its launched IPO price of 400 million 5p per share.

With NFTs still having its critics, there can be no doubt we are seeing many high-net-worth individuals and crypto whales backing this romantic blockchain technology to be the new way artwork, IP and collectibles are distributed with murmurs of a “metaverse” on the way!

Ready Player One?

This month we reported that the VeVe NFT app might be one of the best investments in the NFT space at the moment and things are really starting to catch fire.

The app was created by Ecomi and allows you to collect digital figurines that you can then display in the real world through augmented reality.

In the past week VeVe has sold out of all collectible figures, including a new UltraMan drop that sold out in five seconds. All of this NFT goodness is underpinned by its own crypto currency called OMI.

Now influencers are starting to speak out about the new phenomenon, including YouTube royalty Logan Paul, who had this to say to his millions of subscribers.

Him and friend Chase Hero got super excited and doubled down on their bromance when realising they are both currently invested in OMI.

Paul gushed – “you have the same weird little coins that no one’s heard of as me?!”

Chase replied with – “Pooookeeemon”

This is in reference to the fact that Alfred Khan works as head of licensing at VeVe, the same guy that previously licensed Pokemon all around the globe. This has sparked wild rumours that Pokemon collectibles could be heading to the VeVe app and that would cause the price of the OMI stock to skyrocket ?

Ecomi also plan to become the first carbon neutral NFT platform, beginning with a commitment to offset 100% of the carbon footprint caused by the minting of NFTs.

With a Back to the Future drop imminent and IP licensing also secured for Batman, Ghostbusters, Cartoon Network and many more, the VeVe app remains one of the most exciting NFT projects to date.

We will continue to watch this space closely while admiring our office Ultraman (yes we secured one within the 5 seconds sell out, his name is Ace).

This just in.

The hotly anticipated drop by BossLogic and Marvel director Zack Snyder has been dramatically cancelled at the last minute by Nifty Gateway.

The only reason being given was – ‘IP Complications.’

We believe in this case that refers to Intellectual Property complications.

See the actual Tweet below ?

Unfortunately today’s @Bosslogic x Zack Snyder’s Justice League drop has been canceled due to IP complications.

We apologize to community members who were excited for this collaboration. We do however have a fantastic line up of artists today dropping some amazing art!

— Nifty Gateway (@niftygateway) March 16, 2021

It sounds like the jostling for rights and intellectual property has begun. Marvel and DC have maybe started to realise how valuable this space is going to become and want to limit the amount of pieces that uses their artwork.

There is no mention of it being rescheduled yet with BossLogic and Zack Snyder being very quiet on social media.

Boss Logic is regularly commissioned by Marvel and DC to create art for their movie franchises. With millions of followers on social media, he is fast becoming one of the early pioneers of NFT artwork.

Zack Snyder has directed or produced a number of comic book and superhero films, including Man of Steel (2013), and its follow-ups, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017).

This drop was also going to tie in nicely with the release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League that hits HBO Max this Thursday on March 18.

With the sudden announcement of this drop and then a retraction in just a small 48 hour window – it’s just another example of the pure chaos sweeping NFT right now.