Quick Take Monica Rizzolli’s ‘Fragments of an Infinite Field’ collection sold out in less than an hour. Individual pieces in the set are now selling on OpenSea for as much as 69 ether. A generative artist whose work depicts flowers within a...
In brief Emblem Vault is a tokenized multi-asset wallet. It wraps crypto portfolios into a single NFT token. Several rare early NFTs have resurfaced in Emblem Vaults, including the RarePepe series. NFT project Emblem Vault has blown up over the last month to become...
Delayed tournament gets digital collectibles via partnership with NuArca. New NFTs will celebrate the RLWC’s history and star players England-based tournament set for November 2022 after recent postponement...
Polker.Game has been bringing a constant stream of updates, development, and listings over the last few months – and they are not showing any sign of slowing down. Polker is one of the major sponsors of Polycon 2021, the largest Polygon event of the year – all this less than 10 days...
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- NaftyArt NFT marketplace officially launches on September 16th with Erotic Artists and Adult content creators at last taking centre stage. Erotic Artists and Adult Content creators have been struggling for some time to get their...
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Within just 48 hours of announcing the creation of the KB24 NFT, the team behind the Kobe Bryant inspired project shared via Discord that they already reached 7,000 reservation requests. The site began a rollout...
Artist Sarah Mehoyas. Image courtesy Sarah Mehoyas. Imagine an ambitious series of pieces using NFTs to explore the idea of artist-as-currency. Each NFT is backed by a physical artwork. While the total number of works stretches into the dozens and dozens, each one remains a...
Through the partnership, both companies aim to redefine the automotive experience in the metaverse, merging peerless design with in-game utility for play-to-earn game environments. The R-01 hypercar is nfast’s first design for REVV Racing. Animoca Brands Corporation Ltd has...
The NFT market has exploded in 2021 and today brings news of yet another multi-million dollar funding round for a digital collectables platform. RCRDSHP, an NFT platform for electronic music, has closed its first investment round, which the platform reports to be a “multi-million...
SINGAPORE, Sept. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Newest addition to Zilliqa's non-fungible token (NFT) ecosystem, "The Bear Market", recently broke sales records for the public blockchain in just under 24 hours of going live. The NFT collection — cheekily coined "The Bear Market"...
A smartphone and a screen show the website OpenSea, where digital artworks are sold using NFT. NFTs, non-fungible tokens, are unique cryptographic credentials that are written to the blockchain attached to a file (image, music, video). picture alliance | picture alliance | Getty Images...
Axie Infinity lets you convert game rewards to real money. Image Credit: Yield Guild Games Sky Mavis and its players have generated $2.05 billion in sales to date for Axie Infinity, an nonfungible token (NFT) game, according to measurement...
ZUG, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Metacask (registered as CaskStore AG in Switzerland), a premier marketplace for the sale of whisky cask NFTs, has announced a partnership with renowned artist Trevor Jones to release its first NFT for auction, set for October 18-22: ‘The...
Storytelling platform Lioness is selling an NFT linked to an anonymous account that details allegations against spiritual leader Deepak Chopra. In March, a piece of digital art by graphic designer Beeple sold for $69 million at the auction house Christie’s. The sale was...
NFT NSFW Nafty, a blockchain firm that produces decentralized, “not safe for work” (NSFW) platforms, such as OnlyFans competitor Nafty.tv, launched an erotic-themed nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace dubbed “NaftyArt” on Thursday. NaftyArt aims...
Immutable X's roadmap Immutable has raised $60 million for its platform that uses nonfungible tokens(NFTs) to help monetize games. The Sydney, Australia-based Immutable created a platform on top of Ethereum to monetize NFTs in games, and it is also the creator of...
A Degenerate Ape Academy non-fungible token (NFT) on the Solana blockchain was sold Saturday for 5980 SOL, or about USD $1.11 million, in the largest-ever NFT sale on the rival to the Ethereum blockchain. Apparently not content with having shelled out...
Backed my music legend Quincy Jones, OneOf wants to make buying NFTs as easy as buying regular merch. Amid the fervor around NFTs, two pertinent issues came into focus: whether the process of creating tokens can be sustainable at scale, and whether the hype and inflated price tags often...
Today Japans’s Rakuten announced plans to launch a non-fungible token (NFT) platform. The company might best be described as a digital conglomerate. Its roots are in retail where it operates online shopping sites, runs online rewards and loyalty programs around the...
Apart from creating their own digital collectibles, major brands are also acquiring popular NFTs amid the growing popularity of nonfungible tokens. Apart from creating their own digital collectibles, major brands are also acquiring popular NFTs amid the growing popularity of nonfungible...
Digital media company Vinco Ventures (BBIG) has become the latest meme play as amateur investors pumped up their bets on the stock due to social media hype. However, the stock’s wild gains are not in sync with the company’s bleak fundamentals and financials. Furthermore, considering...
Plus, UCCA Shanghai is expanding to Chengdu, and Cindy Sherman made original art for a new George Jones and Tammy Wynette cover album. Artnet News, August 30, 2021 Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market....
Sporting an NFT of a pixelated man or a cartoon animal as a social media profile picture was once an obscure trend confined to blockchain devotees. But over the past few months, that online trend has been gaining mainstream acceptance... at least among those who can afford one....
The British auction house Christie’s has been immersed in the non-fungible token (NFT) art and collectibles industry for quite some time. Christie’s has auctioned blockchain-backed items like Block 21 of “Portraits of a Mind,” Cryptopunks, and...
With the trading volume and number of NFT projects always on the increase, it’s getting harder and harder to compete for users and bring innovative products to the market. One project is about to shake the NFT gaming and collectibles industry, setting the bar high for all market...
Bitcoin’s bouncing around $50,000. DeFi is seeking to go mainstream. But all anyone in the digital-asset world wants to talk about are NFTs. Non-fungible tokens, which allow holders of art and collectibles to track ownership, are staging a resurgence after fading from the...
Osaka's 1-of-1 NFT from Record-Breaking April Collection Accepting Offers Starting at $200,000 NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The sports memorabilia and NFT markets continue to break trading volume records in 2021, and now a rare non-fungible token...
81 years ago on August 31, 1939, the company Marvel Comics was introduced to the world for the first time and people were presented with a whole universe of superheroes. In celebration of Marvel’s birthday and the firm’s collaboration with Veve Digital...
Denny says his "perverse" gesture is about reinserting wealth into systems outside of which it was made. Kate Brown Simon Denny. Photo: courtesy of the artist/ Calla Henkel and Max Pitegeoff. Artist Simon Denny has created an NFT to benefit the city of...
Bored Ape #7990 sold back in May for 0.68 ETH. Ambrose Leung Stephen Curry has just recently shelled out 55 ETH (~$180,000 USD) for a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT. The Bored Ape Yacht Club is quickly gaining traction as a batch of 10,000 Mutant Apes NFTs sold out in an hour on...
Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week we dove into Bezos’s Blue Origin suing NASA. This week, I’m writing about the unlikely and triumphant resurgence of the NFT market. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch site, you can get this in your...
The agency will represent the crypto-art projects from Larva Labs for film, TV, video games, and publishing projects, becoming some of the first crypto-native IP to seek mainstream content deals. Alex Weprin Many Cryptopunks Courtesy of UTA The CryptoPunks are going Hollywood....
By Joe Tidy Cyber reporter Elliptic The fake Banksy NFT was advertised on the artist's official website A hacker has returned $336,000 to a British collector after he tricked him into buying a fake NFT advertised through the artist's official website. A link to...
An Australian TV show is auctioning off an NFT that will see the winning bidder become part of the show next season, while sporting icons Mike Tyson and Lionel Messi have entered the NFT arena. An Australian TV show is auctioning off an NFT that will see the winning bidder become part of the...
Golden Goals – a football club NFT merchandising platform – has launched on the Tezos network. As part of the announcement, Golden Goals has revealed its latest prominent club partnership is the Ligue 1 side FC Nantes which...
Explore the topics mentioned in this article There has been some exciting news from the biotech, cryptocurrency and corporate sectors that investors may have missed over the weekend. Here is a quick look at the top...
Among all Layer2 solutions, sidechains (Matic, Ronin, xDai), state channels (Efinity, Raiden), Optimistic Rollups (Optimism), ZK-Rollups uses "validity proofs" like SNARKs or STARKs and plenty of complex mathematics to prove the validity of the transactions in the rollup. Using validity proofs...
Cole Petersen I wrote about NFTs last Wednesday and figured I’d take a break from talking about them for at least a couple of weeks, but so much has happened over the past few days that the topic seems unavoidable. So where to start? Well besides multiple 7-digit NFT sales, I think...
Justin Sun, founder of Tron and chief executive officer of BitTorrent Inc., in Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Sun, the 30-year-old crypto entrepreneur who bought $10 million worth of GameStop Corp. at the height of its Reddit-fueled rally, is predicting a paradigm...
Within a year of launching NBA Top Shot, the company behind it, Dapper Labs, is valued at more than $7.5 billion—and pushing NFTs into the mainstream. Last October, NBA fans were greeted by a new online marketplace for basketball collectibles. Called NBA Top Shot, it allows users...
MacKenzie Sigalos Clip art of a rock just sold for 400 ether, or about $1.3 million, late Monday afternoon. The transaction marks the latest sale of EtherRock, a brand of crypto collectible that’s been around since 2017 – making it one of the oldest non-fungible...
Payment giant VISA has made another bet on the Ethereum ecosystem. The company recently announced the purchase of an item from the popular non-fungible token (NFT) collection CryptoPunk. Item 7610, one of 3840 “Female” punks with a Mohawk, Clown Eyes Green, and “Hot”...