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By Fernanda De La Torre With the new wave of utility-focused NFTs, more practical use cases have been emerging across sports, music and entertainment where verifiable ownership, transparency, and fan engagement offer additional value. Ticket NFTs are a great example of this and are starting to be leveraged to replace or complement tickets. Here are […]Continue Reading

Raise funds and fan engagement with redeemable perks and rewards By Anastasia Samaras Upstream’s Redeemable NFTs enable your brand to integrate a digital rewards program for your audience to unlock digital merchandise, physical merchandise, rewards, or experiences while still being able to hold or trade the underlying digital collectible. Upon redemption, the NFT unlocking the […]Continue Reading

World-renowned computer scientist Charlie Lee joins Horizon’s advisory board as Upstream’s digital securities and NFT exchange prepares to scale By Fernanda De La Torre This week we announced that Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin and Director at the Litecoin Foundation, joined Horizon’s Advisory Board to focus on Upstream! Charlie Lee will work with Horizon […]Continue Reading

Ahead of U.S. midterm elections, a recent Grayscale national survey points to the bipartisan consensus that crypto is the future of finance By Anastasia Samaras A new national survey from Grayscale, conducted by The Harris Poll on its behalf, presented interesting findings about public perception surrounding the crypto market ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. 53% of […]Continue Reading

The community-oriented, relationship bank makes history by being the first traditional bank to integrate Web3 strategies and offer digital membership and NFT perks to members. By Fernanda De La Torre This week UBank, the community-oriented relationship bank joined Upstream and made history as the first traditional bank to integrate a Web3 community-building strategy for members to trade […]Continue Reading

Upstream has taken a proactive approach to navigate any regulatory changes on the horizon By Anastasia Samaras Upstream, a MERJ Exchange Market, has always taken a proactive, compliance-first approach to our NFT market. We believe regulation is a “when,” not an “if,” and regulator’s latest probes point to why. Yuga Labs Inc., the entity behind […]Continue Reading

NCAA D1 college athlete, Robert Cowherd Joins Upstream and launches his first NFT by Fernanda De La Torre Upstream works with college athletes to monetize their personal brands using digital collectibles. This week Robert Cowherd became the first NCAA D1 player to launch a limited edition NFT trading card on Upstream. 250 trading card NFTs […]Continue Reading

Penny to join other athletes and public figures in offering NFTs as digital collectibles to their fans. By Anastasia Samaras This week we announced that Memphis Tigers Coach and Former NBA All-Star Penny Hardaway joined Upstream as a strategic brand ambassador. Penny, like many forward-thinking athletes, college teams, and brands, has begun generating new fan engagement […]Continue Reading

Jupiter Wellness applies to dual list on Upstream to tap into global audience who can invest using digital currency & traditional payments By Fernanda De La Torre A second NASDAQ-listed company, Jupiter Wellness (NASDAQ: JUPW), has applied to dual list on Upstream. The planned dual listing on Upstream is designed to provide Jupiter Wellness the opportunity […]Continue Reading

Upstream announces the release of its new dApp By Anastasia Samaras Upstream, a MERJ Exchange Market, is proud to announce the release of our new browser client. Now, in addition to giving traders direct access to our exchange through Upstream’s user-friendly trading app, we are now giving traders expanded access to quality NFTs and IPOs […]Continue Reading