NFT Wars: NBA Top Shot vs. Topps MLB, and Why it Matters for NFTs — The Drop with Max Minsker
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English - April 15, 2021 06:15 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsBasketball Sports Technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On April 14, 2021, Dapper Labs CEO and NBA Top Shot founder Roham Gharegozlou tweeted: "I'm deeply disappointed in @Topps. Their product announcement with the @MLB is low quality and bad for NFTs. I feel the same about every other WAX project I've seen."
This came on the back of William Quigley, co-founder of WAX, saying WAX is the NFT standard during an interview in March, and dismantling Flow blockchain for their structural differences.
The result? A public battle has bubbled up between the two companies coming on the heels of WAX announcing that Topps — the legacy sports memorabilia company — and MLB will launch their own NFTs on the WAX blockchain on April 20. The MLB x Topps project will essentially digitize the static images on Topps baseball cards and make them into NFTs.
In this episode of The Drop, hosted by Max Minsker (@MaxMinsker), we discuss the implications of the companies' differences, the problems with the Topps MLB project, and why the quality of the project matters for the budding NFT ecosystem (especially for Roham Gharegozlou).
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Topics in this episode:
— Why does Dapper Labs CEO Roham Gharegozlou care about Topps x MLB NFTs?
— The important distinctions between Dapper Labs and Topps
— Why the Topps MLB project looks bad on the surface level
— Community discussion playing out about Topps vs Dapper
— Everything that’s wrong with the Topps x MLB Release
— Topps’ “responsibility” to release a good product for the good of the NFT ecosystem
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Find the "landing page" that Max discusses here: https://on.wax.io/toppsmlb/
See Roham's Tweet here: https://twitter.com/rohamg/status/1382350062685093897?s=20
Follow Max Minsker on Twitter: @MaxMinsker
Follow MomentRanks on Twitter: @MomentRanks
Edited by Christian Hardy.
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