Cointelegraph has had a lot of nonfungible token (NFT) related news this calendar week from pop culture to sports and gaming. Below is a roundup of stories you don't want to miss.

Pepsi and VaynerNFT team up

Pepsi launched their Mic Drop genesis NFT collection made up of i,893 generative style NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. The number commemorates the year Pepsi was born. Consumers volition simply have to pay gas fees, and to ensure more manageable fees, Pepsi implemented a waitlist process from now until Dec. xiv.

In homage to the brand'southward history, the blueprint of the NFTs are grounded in variations of a microphone visual and inspired by iconic Pepsi flavors including archetype blue Pepsi, silver Diet Pepsi, red Pepsi Wild Cherry, black Pepsi Zero Sugar and more.

The Pepsi Mic Drop NFT collection was designed by and created with VaynerNFT, a consultancy nether the umbrella of the VaynerX belongings company. Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerNFT told Cointelegraph, "NFTs will modify the civilization of value creation forever This is an exciting moment for the brand to build loyalty and bring immense value to its community and fans."

Additionally, Pepsi is implementing a carbon offset program for the launch of the Pepsi Mic Drib NFT to ensure a net carbon footprint of zero.

1inch and Parts of Four drop Mystery Box

A joint drove of magic and industry by 1inch and Parts of Four will debut as a Mystery Box driblet on the Binance NFT Marketplace on Dec. 13. In full, 22,000 NFTs with 31 versions will exist minted across seven levels of composure and offered at 25 Binance USD (BUSD) each.

Based on the Parts of Iv itemize, the NFT collection of digital jewelry employs an alchemy-based NFT approach. The collection volition besides exist role of a game focused on acquiring and forging rare wearables across P4's upcoming Greater Metaverse.

The P4 metaverse expansion will begin with an ERC-20 community token, P4C and so toward an NFT platform running on the Binance Smart Chain, or BSC. The Parts of Four ecosystem plans to promote interaction with the physical world via embedded tech, AR and bi-directional swaps via the P4 platform.

Tom Brady drops Origins NFT drove for the holidays

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady released a 16,000 collectible set on his Autograph NFT platform chosen "Live Forever: The Tom Brady Origins Collection."

This collection that represents memories from the beginning of his football game career includes a resume he created prior to his 2000 typhoon option, a stopwatch, cleats, a jersey from the NFL combine and more.

The catch, however, is that the NFTs volition be a mystery at the fourth dimension of purchase until Dec. fourteen, when token owners tin can unlock them to reveal a collectible in 1 of 5 possible styles and tiers of rarity.

Tezos ten Pantone Color of the Year initiative

Pantone, the global color authorisation, has called the free energy-efficient Tezos blockchain to release the Color of the Year 2022 through a digital collection as NFTs.

PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri, is the Pantone Color of the Year pick for 2022. This year marks the first time a color has been created specifically for Pantone's color of the twelvemonth designation. Paris-based multidisciplinary artist, Polygon1993, will create artworks inspired by this periwinkle shade to develop a digital representation of the colour.

Tezos, with over fifty 1000000 transactions in 2022, had an average carbon footprint of just 17 individuals.

Other Swell News

French gaming giant Ubisoft Entertainment SA is facing backlash from the gaming community later on launching its new NFT platform Ubisoft Quartz. Ubisoft's YouTube video introducing its NFTs got a 96% dislike ratio.

Virtual country sales in the metaverse have been dominated past NFT sales since the beginning of Dec, reaching over $300 million. Of that total, virtually a quarter has been for digital land in The Sandbox metaverse, outpacing all other items, fine art and collections.