Hip-hop icon Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., too known equally Snoop Dogg, has revealed himself to exist the pseudonymous nonfungible token (NFT) collector "Cozomo de' Medici."

While Snoop has not provided further clarification across a Sept. 21 tweet unveiling his digital identity, Medici's NFT wallet is worth roughly $17.6 meg, co-ordinate to DappRadar.

Snoop'due south collection features a long list of NFTs, including highly sought-after CryptoPunks, Meebits and Art Blocks tokens.

Cozomo de' Medici wallet. Source: DappRadar

Snoop's CryptoPunks represent most of his portfolio's monetary value, with the tokens estimated to be worth $xiii.19 1000000. The collection includes CryptoPunk #3831, which depicts a green conflicting wearing a mask and sunglasses — estimated to be valued at $5 million.

While Snoop's reveal could comprise clever marketing designed to garner some of the limelight being shone on the surging NFT markets, Cozomo's Twitter account posted a thread 5 minutes before Snoop made the reveal claiming that they would presently dox themselves using their personal account.

"Equally my fame is considerable, the tweet will no doubt be discovered," they said.

This isn't Snoop Dogg's commencement foray into the NFT sector, as the cannabinoid enthusiast previously collaborated with the artist behind the Nyan Cat meme to drib "Nyan Dogg" NFTs on 4/20 (a day sacred among marijuana smokers) earlier this year.

NFT collector's clumsy security practices lead to $294,000 worth of stolen NFTs

An NFT collector who goes by the proper noun "Baccredited" on Twitter stated that hackers swiped $375,000 worth of NFTs and tokens from two of their Ethereum wallets.

In a Sept. 21 tweet, the victim tallied their losses, terminal that $294,000 worth of NFTs and $81,000 worth of crypto tokens had been stolen from their accounts.

Baccredited noted that while they don't know exactly how the hackers gained admission to their wallets, their private keys and seed phrases had been stored in .txt files on their calculator, stating:

"I know how stupid I was. $375K worth of stupid. I put private keys and seed phrases in txt files on my mac's filesystem. That is a bad idea. I didn't use a hardware wallet for high-value assets. I know. I know. I KNOW."

The victim claimed to accept NFTs from widely popular collections, such equally Bored Ape Yacht Club, Art Blocks, Meebits and Pudgy Penguins, mark an expensive lesson in private data storage for the collector.

"Wow, compiling this item list did Not feel skillful AT ALL," they added.

Feature moving picture and "Hybrid NFTs"

Blockchain-based metaverse tech firm Marvion is dropping "Hyrbid NFTs" (h-NFTs) in partnership with Phoenix Waters Productions and AMM Global as role of the release of an upcoming feature film named "Lockdown."

Co-ordinate to Marvion, a Hybrid NFT is an integrated "smart contract that can execute a transaction and as well contains the specific legal terms of the intellectual property buying and license."

The first drop will include five limited editions h-NFTs that will be issued a month earlier Lockdown premiers in Nov. The h-NFTs will depict content from the motion picture, while the firm is also touting the driblet of tokenized tickets for viewers who attend live screenings in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.

The plot of Lockdown follows the story of an role player who partakes in an audition where the casting director forces them to pass a series of tests to end someone around him from beingness killed. The cast includes Xander Berkeley, known for his roles in Terminator 2 and The Walking Expressionless,and Hong Kong actress Anita Chui.

The specific details of the h-NFTs will be appear in the coming weeks.

Related: Pundits say crashing floor prices and sell volume signal that 'the NFT market has died'

A tokenized QAnon conspiracy?

Ron Watkins, who is believed to be ane of the original espousers of the QAnon conspiracy theory, has announced he volition launch an NFT collection via sale to fund a "critical project" that he says will "save America."

The drove comprises five tokenized tweets from Watkins that were retweeted by Donald Trump prior to the pair beingness banned from the platform earlier this yr.

"A few weeks ago, I decided to start working on a cloak-and-dagger project that I feel volition help salve America. To help raise funds I'thousand selling a collection of five of my tweets that were retweeted by President Trump as special Non-Fungible-Tokens," Watkins told the 429,000 members of his Telegram group.

The collection is dubbed the "CodeMonkeyZ Freedom Series," with the first of the series' five NFTs currently upward for auction on OpenSea. Details about the "disquisitional project" are yet to exist revealed.

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Cointelegraph reported on Sept. 21 that Sorare, a marketplace for tokenized soccer trading cards, raised $680 million in a Series B funding circular led by Japanese fintech behemothic SoftBank.

Professional wrestler and actor John Cena said fans only purchased seven.four% of his Globe Wrestling Amusement NFTs that were dropped final month. Cena called information technology a "catastrophic failure" as he cited the toll points of the NFTs as being as well high for fans.