Tennis: Australian Open, the 1st Grand Slam in the metaverse creates NFTs linked to live match data

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The Australian Open, which will be the first Grand Slam tournament to enter the metaverse via the virtual reality platform Decentraland, will also release 6,776 "AO Art Ball NFTs" (tennis balls) "linked to live match data," according to the organisers of the tournament on 11/01/2022.

"Each AO Art Ball's metadata will be linked to a 19cm x 19cm...

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