Eminem cambió su imagen en Twitter por la de un Bored Ape mientras Paris Hilton celebró un evento de Año Nuevo en su propio metaverso en Roblox.

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In 2021 we saw hundreds of prominent figures and celebrities around the world venture into the space of digital assets.In the midst of the explosion of non -fungible tokens (NFT) and the boom in metovers, many celebrities rushed to enter the growing market.

A few days after starting the new year, everything seems to indicate that the trend will continue to expand this 2022 now that celebrities build their own virtual worlds and invest to inflate their digital collectible portfolios.

Eminem Buy another NFT for USD $ 469.000

The rapper and producer of American music, Marshall Bruce Mathers III, artistically known as Eminem or as Slim Shady, has joined the universe of the “Bored Ape Yacht Club” (Bayc) after buying a series of the collection for just over 450.000 dollars.According to several news media, the musician acquired the NFT of BORED AP #9055 for 123.45 Ether (USD $ 469.100, for the time of editing) on Thursday.

The hip hop star shared her new acquisition with her followers on Twitter, after changing her profile image for that of the ape.The NFT design shows a boring ape using a gold necklace and a military green cap, whose appearance remembers the artist.Nicknamed "Eminape", the NFT inspired by Eminem's image was created by Geegazza in collaboration with the Borled team bare.

In fact, Geegazza had already proposed the artist to buy the piece in July, and then predicted the acquisition.To his surprise, his dream and prognosis was finally fulfilled on New Year's Eve when Eminem decided to acquire the NFT.

It is worth noting that Bored Ape Yacht Club is a successful NFT collection that became very popular for 2021.The series registered a meteoric growth generating a commercial volume of more than USD $ 1 billion worldwide, according to defillma data.

This is not Eminem's first NFT acquisition.As revealed, the rapper born in Missouri is a voracious collector under the pseudonym the name "Shady Holdings" in the Opensa market.Its portfolio comprises non -fungible tokens of more than 30 collections, including designs by Lil Baby Doodles X, with Ditaggdogg #1, the work of the rapper template, and Superlative Apes #3880 is one of them.

Paris Hilton celebrated New Year on his metoverso island

Meanwhile, multimillion -dollar model and businesswoman Paris Hilton, who for 2021 expressed great enthusiasm for the NFT space, recently announced the construction of her own metovers..She even celebrated the closing of the year at a party in the virtual world.

The reality show star created an island in the virtual world of Roblox called "Paris World", where visitors can explore digital replicas of their property in Beverly Hills and its dog mansion, according to Reuters.Users can also walk through a virtual beach stage inspired by Hilton's wedding with Carter Reum, as well as buy virtual fashion items designed by the model and fly in a virtual version of their private jet.

"For me, metaverso is a place where you can do everything you want to do in real life, but in the digital world," said Hilton, said that media."Not everyone experiences that, so we have been working together during the past year, giving them all my inspirations of what I want in that world".

The artist then went to Twitter to invite her followers to go to a virtual end of the year party on her island-method, where her avatar served as DJ."We'll have a metoverso party!", He wrote on a tweet.

Celebrities go for NFT and metaversus

The heiress of the creator of the Hilton hotels chain began to vent.Then, last year, he launched his first digital collection in collaboration with designer Blake Kathryn, which was sold for several million dollars.

On several occasions, Hilton has expressed great enthusiasm for the potential of the block chain, as well as by Bitcoin, cryptocurrency that he maintains in his personal investment portfolio, according to herself revealed.

Meanwhile, a large number of renowned brands, brands and companies are also making similar movements.The Tommy Hilfiger clothing brand launched a digital fashion line ready to wear for Roblox avatars;And Nike opened a virtual world called Nikeland last year while Adidas announced his first NFT collection.

Meanwhile, artists such as Ozzy Osbourne, Snoop Dogg, Lil Nas X and Travis Scott, among others, have also taken advantage of the NFT space and have even performed virtual concerts.Everything indicates that the adoption trend between celebrities seen in 2021 was just the beginning and that we will see many more celebrities explore the collectible sector for 2022.

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Fuentes: Cointegraph, Reuters, Business Insider, Archive

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