The render of Fame Lady Squad

The Fame Lady Squad (FLS), a nonfungible token (NFT) avatar project purporting to have been created past an all-female team, is set to relaunch today with a new team after it was uncovered that three Russian men were behind the project before this month.

The projection'due south NFTs draw cartoon female avatars, with the tokens having generated $one.9 million worth of full sales since launching on OpenSea Marketplace in mid-July.

The FLS website previously listed three team members named Cindy, Kelda and Andrea who all had female person avatars.

On Aug. x, Fedor Linnik, a co-creator of NFT project Neural Pepe, tweeted that he had collected "enough proof" to connect three men to the project, specifically outing the pseudonymous developer "D Mefi" as ane of FLS' creators.

Following the accusations, Russian developer Max Rand also confessed to working on the projection via Twitter on the same day. The FLS Twitter business relationship besides confirmed the news just failed to proper noun the third member of the squad.

Subsequently facing public backfire, the FLS founders reportedly conducted a poll on Twitter asking the community if they should hand over the projection's smart contract to a new owner — to which more than three-quarters of respondents voted in favor.

FLS stated they take handed the smart contract over to well-known NFT proponent Digitalartchick. Digitalartchick has since passed the projection onto a team of women, including NFT collector Ashley Smith and NFT advisor Daniel Davis.

The FLS website is offline at the fourth dimension of writing.

MLB to hit NFTs out of the park?

As part of its partnership with NFT sports collectible platform Candy Digital, Major League Baseball is issuing NFTs dedicated to 30 MLB stadiums.

The latest drop went live on Monday and depicts a digital illustration of PNC Stadium, which is home to the Pittsburgh Pirates. The collection includes an open edition upwardly for sale until Sabbatum, Aug. 28, and a one-of-one up for auction that is prepare to close on the same day.

MLB'southward PNC Park NFTs. Source: Candy Digital

The one-of-ane currently has a height bid of $3,050, and the highest bidder will receive two tickets to an MLB game at the stadium, a player run across-and-greet, the first pitch at a game, a framed print, and the stadium NFT.

The MLB partnered with Galaxy Digital-backed Candy Digital in June, and this is the third drib of the MLB stadium series and then far. The duo has also launched collections dedicated to baseball legend Lou Gehrig and 2022 MLB champions the LA Dodgers.

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Kobe Bryant NFTs

An NFT auction defended to the late NBA legend Kobe Bryant is prepare to go live on the marketplace Cryptograph on Wednesday.

The collection spans 8 ane-of-1 NFTs depicting pictures of Bryant captured by Hollywood photographer Davis Factor in the 1990s. According to Cryptograph, all the revenues from the sales will go toward the Mamba & Mambacita Sports Foundation.

The foundation is a nonprofit that is dedicated to helping "underserved athletes and young women in sports." The organization was founded in honor of Byrant and his daughter Gigi after they passed away in January terminal year.

Kobe Bryant x Davis Factor NFT. Source: Cryptograph

AI-generated avatars fetch large prices

The developers behind EtherRocks — tokenized pet rocks that have fetched equally much as $610,000 each amid the recent NFT craze — take launched a new nonfungible avatar project featuring synthetic human faces that take been generated using artificial intelligence.

Nftsprites comprises a series of 100 unique synthetic faces, with holders seeking prices of between sixteen.5 Ether (ETH) ($55,100) and 100 Ether ($334,000) for secondary sales. The NFT features uncanny animations, in which the synthetic faces move and announced to mouth speech communication.

Twitter user Larry0x, a smart contract developer at Delphi Digital, dismissively described the Nftsprites as "the lowest-effort NFT project" he has encountered, asserting that the synthetic faces were freely taken from some other website.

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Cointelegraph reported on Fri that in response to the electric current crisis in Afghanistan, consulting business firm Visualize Value launched a serial of NFT "care packages," which are aimed at being sold at the estimated cost of covering a single family's emergency needs for a calendar month.

Credit card giant Visa also made headlines this week after it purchased a CryptoPunk for $150,000.