Harmony launches Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Passport
On Friday, blockchain platform Concord — whose mainnet is Ethereum Digital Machine appropriate, claiming to have two-second transaction finality and charges 1,000 occasions decrease than Ethereum — introduced the launch of its Bored Ape Yacht Membership Passport. The Passport allows customers to import proof of their apes into DeFi Kingdoms, a play-to-earn recreation constructed on the Concord blockchain with over 120,000 month-to-month lively customers. Throughout its preliminary phases, Ape holders will be capable of validate and show their belongings within the recreation throughout a number of blockchains after they join their MetaMask pockets to DeFi Kingdoms.
The infancy of cross-chain know-how implies that funds might be in danger when bridging throughout chains, as the most important decentralized finance hack to this point this 12 months confirmed. Nonetheless, as acknowledged by its builders, Concord’s Passport doesn’t transfer belongings; as an alternative, it proves asset possession throughout a number of blockchains, guaranteeing their authenticity all through. Its cross-chain bridge, Horizon, at the moment helps interoperability between Concord, Ethereum, BNB Chain and three different blockchains.
Leo Chen, a workforce member at Concord, defined:
“We wished to provide all NFT holders extra utility and choices to show their NFTs and take part within the Metaverse. Bored Ape Yacht Membership holders are the primary decisions. The cross-chain identification creates a safe and simple approach to take action with out placing their belongings in danger.”
In the same gesture, final month, Twitter kicked off its nonfungible token marketing campaign, permitting its paid subscribers to point out off their NFT possessions as profile footage. Nonetheless, the technical functionalities of the function are within the testing section, with solely Ethereum-based NFTs eligible and no help for cross-chain functionalities.
