Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman's Thirty-Five Ventures to create NFT drops with Coinbase
On Wednesday, Thirty 5 Ventures, a enterprise capital agency co-founded by NBA star Kevin Durant and sports activities supervisor Wealthy Kleiman, announced a enterprise partnership with Coinbase. Beneath the settlement, Thirty 5 Ventures will work collectively with Coinbase to create nonfungible token, or NFT, drops and storytelling content material about NFTs and crypto in addition to showcase Coinbase’s current development within the sector. In accordance with the announcement, there will even be a philanthropic integration with the Kevin Durant Charity Basis.
Coinbase is at present the third-largest centralized cryptocurrency change on the earth by buying and selling quantity. On the time of publication, there’s a waitlist of over 2.6 million customers for Coinbase NFTs. The corporate mentioned it’s at present designing a self-custody pockets for NFT integration. By the tip of this yr, Cointelegraph Consulting estimates that NFT gross sales will surpass $17 billion.
Wealthy Kleiman issued the next the assertion relating to the partnership:
“Traditionally, premium has meant manufacturers which have been round eternally, like Mercedes, Rolex, and American Categorical. However in 5 years, Coinbase has change into consultant of that period and is in keeping with our premium model philosophy. And we’re entering into this formalized settlement with an organization that’s simply scratching the floor on the place it’s going.”
Prepared for the following part @coinbase @35ventures @boardroom https://t.co/j7jMczim9b pic.twitter.com/Jn9LslDqER
— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) December 15, 2021
