Featured US Web3 News: OpenSea Pro/Ralph Lauren/Longevity Research | coindesk JAPAN

OpenSea Pro, Start

OpenSea, an NFT marketplace, is competing for market share with Blur, which is gaining popularity due to its fee-free offering, but has launched “OpenSea Pro” for newly skilled NFT traders to strengthen its competitive edge. I am planning.

OpenSea has attracted collectors and artists for its simplicity and ease of use, while Blur’s no commissions and incentives have made it especially popular with seasoned traders. The two companies have spent the last few months copying each other’s strategies, shifting course and engaging in a tense wits.

• Inside OpenSea Pro: OpenSea Pro is the renamed “Gem” acquired in April. It gathers information from approximately 170 marketplaces and provides traders with real-time data tracking, inventory management, transaction fee optimization and more.
• vague line drawing: Whether or not OpenSea Pro can outperform Blur remains to be seen, but the reaction has been positive on Twitter. It is worth noting that with OpenSea Pro, OpenSea caters to expert traders, while the main platform also caters to general traders as before. In the future, it will be interesting to see if users will use it differently.

Ralph Lauren Accepts Crypto Payments

Fashion brand Ralph Lauren has opened its first store in Miami that accepts cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and Polygon (MATIC) payments are now possible with the help of cryptocurrency service provider BitPay.

• Entry into NFT: The company has also partnered with Web3 community’s Poolsuite to release a co-branded NFT. NFT holders will be able to access “special events” and dress their avatars in Ralph Lauren digital wearables.

VitaDao established company

VitaDAO, a longevity science-themed DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) backed by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, has voted to form a company to raise research funding. “VitaTech” plans to license longevity technology from American universities and research institutes, continue to develop it, and “close the gap between research and commercialization.” The implementation phase is scheduled for 10 weeks.

• The connection between longevity and crypto assets: The DAO previously told CoinDesk that it has a strong interest in funding research that will extend the lifespans of crypto insiders such as Vitalik Buterin. It closed a $4.1 million funding round in January.
• Democratizing healthcare research: According to the proposal passed on April 6, “There are many exciting longevity-related research projects underway at American universities and national laboratories, but most of the projects will reach the stage where they can be commercialized or invested. There is no. This effort has the potential to democratize and speed up the funding process for such research, changing the way medical projects are funded.

｜Translation: coindesk JAPAN
｜Editing: Takayuki Masuda
｜Image: OpenSea Pro
｜Original: OpenSea Goes Pro, Ralph Lauren Takes Crypto