Tony Hawk, one of the most popular skateboarders in the world, plans to build a skateboard park in the Metaverse. The initiative, which will be completed in cooperation with The Sandbox and Autograph, will also include the creation of voxel representations of skateboarders as NFTs that can be used in The Sandbox’s metaverse world.
Tony Hawk brings skateboarding into the Metaverse.
More and more athletes are taking their activities into the Metaverse and allowing their fans to enjoy and connect with them in that virtual world. Tony Hawk, one of the world’s most popular skateboarders, has announced that he is building a digital skateboard park in the Metaverse. The venue will partner with The Sandbox, an Ethereum-based Metaverse experience, to create a park where players can freely skateboard with their NFTs.
Skateboarder will also be working with Autograph, a high-profile NFT company co-founded by Tom Brady, to create NFTs based on his most memorable moments and apparel, which fans can also utilize in The Sandbox metaverse. He has released several NTF collections in the past, some of which have included actual skateboards.
As for his next move, Hawk states.
I have always been a fan of new technology – from the first video games and home computers with CGI capabilities – so I am fascinated by the Metaverse and excited to bring our culture into the virtual landscape of the sandbox.
This skateboarder was an early supporter of cryptocurrency, buying bitcoin in 2012 after hearing about it on the now-defunct Silkroad marketplace.
Metaverse hub for celebrities and brands
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The Sandbox, a metaverse platform based on the Ethereum blockchain, is becoming a hub for celebrities and brands to launch experiences and digital representations of their products and explore the metaverse. It has secured partnerships with Snoop Dogg, Adidas, The Walking Dead, Jamiroquai, and Playboy, among others; companies such as Ubisoft and Square Enix have released some of their IP in The Sandbox’s metaverse and Rabbids and Dungeon Siege into this digital world.
The company is reportedly mulling a new funding round that would bring in $400 million at a $4 billion valuation, according to sources {}. However, since this report, the company has not materialized. The last capital inflow Sandbox received occurred in November, when the company raised $93 million in a Series B funding round.
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