Luxury auction house Christie’s launches Christie’s 3.0, an Ethereum-based platform for NFT art in partnership with Chainalysis, Manifold, and Spatial (Cameron Thompson/CoinDesk)

Kate Park / TechCrunch:
LG launches LG Art Lab which lets US users buy, sell, and trade NFTs on its smart TVs, partners with Hedera to enable purchases via LG’s crypto wallet, Wallypto  —  LG Electronics said today it has released its non-fungible token (NFT) platform LG Art Lab, which lets users discover, buy, sell and trade NFTs on LG’s smart TVs.

Yaling Jiang / South China Morning Post:
Tiffany, Pomellato, and other luxury brands are creating and marketing NFTs to reach young potential consumers in China, despite the country banning NFT trading  —  As in the rest of the world, the metaverse is generating marketing buzz in China.  Unlike the rest of the world …

Matthew Gault / VICE:
An artist using Midjourney to create AI-generated art won first place at Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition, leading to criticism by other artists  —  Jason Allen’s AI-generated work “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial” took first place in the digital category at the Colorado State Fair.

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
A New York-based artist received copyright registration on a comic featuring artwork by Midjourney, the first known US copyright for latent diffusion AI art  —  Registration of AI-assisted comic comes amid fierce online debate about AI art ethics.  —  In what might be a first …

Callan Quinn / The Block:
Telegram will launch auctions for its usernames via TON blockchain, following a TON auction for wallet usernames, some of which sold for $200K+  —  – The Telegram messaging app is soon to launch a username auction platform.  — Other elements of the Telegram ecosystem, including channels …

Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk:
GameStop officially launches its NFT marketplace on ImmutableX blockchain, allowing users to access Web3 games currently being built on ImmutableX  —  The marketplace’s official release on the layer 2 blockchain platform is the result of a partnership that’s been months in the making.