Twitter is testing a blockchain-agnostic feature for displaying NFTs through tweets in partnership with Dapper Labs, Magic Eden, Rarible, and Jump.trade (Andrew Hayward/Decrypt)

Meagan Simpson / BetaKit:
NFT startup Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties, confirms it laid off ~134 employees or 22% of its workforce; Dapper Labs raised $600M to date  —  Vancouver tech startups Dapper and Hootsuite both made layoffs this week.  —  Dapper Labs has laid off around 22 percent of its staff, BetaKit has learned.

Andrew Hayward / Decrypt:
Some NFT marketplaces stop honoring NFT royalties, usually a ~5-10% fee set by the creator and paid by sellers on secondary market sales, rocking the community  —  Creators sound the alarm after the marketplace reveals its plans, which include blacklisting rivals and potentially optional royalties.

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.

Andrew Hayward / Decrypt:
Nova Labs and T-Mobile sign a five-year deal to launch Helium Mobile, a 5G MVNO service for smartphones that combines coverage from the two companies’ networks  —  Helium Mobile will tap both the decentralized 5G network and T-Mobile’s service while also offering crypto rewards to users.  —  In brief

Kate Irwin / Decrypt:
Meta is letting select Instagram US creators test a toolkit for minting NFTs and selling them on and off the platform, and says it won’t charge fees until 2024  —  Instagram will soon have NFT creation and trading tools built in, but in-app purchases will be “subject to applicable app store fees.”

Financial Times:
OnlyFans plans to let creators sell merchandise directly to viewers in partnership with e-commerce platform Spring  —  Social network will allow content creators to sell merchandise directly to their viewers  —  Content creators on OnlyFans will be able to sell merchandise directly to their viewers …