Instead of unwrapping a present, some will be opening up a wallet. Source: PlatyPunks.comThis Christmasâs unexpected stocking stuffer might be an NFT. People who are both new and experienced in the nascent world ofnon-fungible tokens say theyâre planning on distributing the digital gifts...
Sydney, Australia--(Newsfile Corp. - December 8, 2021) - Prime Apes is excited to announce the launch of their NFT collection on Ethereum. Prime Apes are positioned right in the middle of a historical time in the cryptocurrency and non-fungible token (NFT) space. They have recently commenced...
HTC Vive is getting into VR NFTs. But donât pick up the pitchforks yet; maybe the idea of a VR NFTs works?Maybe? Ablog post today announcedthe launch of the Vive Arts NFT store. Itâs essentially abrowser-based sales galleryâ the platform will reportedly offer a chance for artists to sell...
OpenSeaâs new chief financial officer, Brian Roberts, faced a firestorm of complaints from the NFT community based on what he said was âinaccurately reportedâ comments. OpenSeaâs new chief financial officer, Brian Roberts, faced a firestorm of complaints from the NFT community based on...
Crypto fans are scrambling to buy and monetize metaverse land plots as Snoop Dogg, Adidas, and other brands start building virtual worlds Snoop Dogg of hip-hop supergroup Mt. Westmore performs at Rupp Arena on November 20, 2021 in Lexington, Kentucky. Stephen J. Cohen/Getty Images Want to...
And some Wikipedians are pissed. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation andValengilda/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Welcome toSource Notes, a Future Tense column about the internetâs information ecosystem. Back in January 2001,...
Visualization of the decentralized data cloud.Cere FreeportThree years ago, Fred Jin and Kenzi Wang had an ambitious idea: What if they created one of the worldâs first decentralized data clouds? âIt was obvious that a consumer-focused data ecosystem was needed,â Jin said. âWe...
Warning: here be dragons (fees and moral dilemmas) Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeNFTs have been a cultural phenomenon throughout 2021, constantly making headlines as celebrities dabble in the space and asshenanigans,scams, andlegal fightsensue. With some creatorsmaking millions off NFTs,...
Tezos nabbed Ubisoft yesterday, now Pantone. How will XTZ react? While Tezos is billing itself as the âgreenâ blockchain due to its proof-of-stake bona fides, today itâs embracing a different color â âVery Peri blue.â The periwinkle vibe is the winner of Pantoneâs...
Los Angeles CA, Dec. 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --CurrencyWorks Inc. (âCurrencyWorksâ or the âCompanyâ), (CSE: CWRK and OTCQB: CWRK), an award-winning, full service blockchain platform provider, today announced further details of the first NFTs being released through...
NFTs are coming to Ubisoftâs Ghost ReconBreakpointas unique, collectible, in-world cosmetics, the publisher announced Tuesday. Ubisoft described the implementation of NFTs in its game as a âexperiment,â heading off concern about the environmental impact of the technology by calling its new...
The company has opened a waiting list for the new platform, which will allow users to buy, sell and store NFTs. Blockchain.com CEO Peter Smith (CoinDesk Archives) Jamie Crawley is a CoinDesk news reporter based in London. Crypto exchange and digital wallet providerBlockchain.comis...
Deadmau5 and Portugal. The Man are debuting NFTs of their new single at Miamiâs Art Basel festival. The artists rolled into Miami with a wrapped bus touting their new NFT project. (Eli Tan/CoinDesk) MIAMI â Electronic music producerdeadmau5and rock bandPortugal. The Manare looking to...
The impresario behind superstars BTOB and (G)I-DLE tells Forkast.News thereâs âno upper limitâ to how much Cube will invest in NFTs and a metaverse for concerts. BTOB and (G)I-DLE. Images: Instagram account of BTOB and Twitter account of Universe Music K-pop fans may soon have more official...
In the third part of a series, we go to an auction of Rare Pepes. Throughout theNFT.NYCconference, I will hear many sincere testimonials about how NFTs saved someoneâs life. People speak about searching for meaning or direction, and finding it in the NFT scene. The vibe during the event can...
Hip-hop legend Snoop Dogg has debuted his first nonfungible token (NFT) collaboration with artist Coldie in the final release of the Decentral Eyes Portrait Series. The âDecentralized Doggâ NFT wasmintedon SuperRare on Monday at 7:15 pm UTC and will be on auction until Friday. SuperRare is...
Bored Ape Yacht Club has created an easily mimicked model for mainstream adoption. But that doesnât mean theyâll remain king of the mountain. The tech behind NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, hasnât changed all that much since the development of the ERC-721 standard â the coding framework...
A non-fungible token, or NFT, is distinguished by the fact that it is uniquely indivisible. The cornerstone of anything non-fungible is that it is one-of-a-kind and non-transferable. Furthermore, each NFT can only have one owner, and no two NFTs are alike. Thus to switch it up and make NFTs even...
Non-fungible tokens â unique digital assets, like artwork andsports trading cards, that are verified and stored using blockchain technology â exploded in popularity in 2021. People create, collect and trade NFTsfor millions of dollars, some with the hopes to profit in the future. But experts...
What if we took the beloved children's game Minecraft, and added the concept of private property? Set sail for adventure!(Image credit: Republic Realm) In the latest development of the NFT techno-financial trash fire none of us are allowed to look away from,Hypebeastreports that an NFT yacht...
Gloss An NFT has been created of Banksy's 2006 piece Warning Sign A Banksy-inspired digital artworkis being auctioned and some of the proceeds will go to charity. The artist's 2006 piece 'Warning Sign' has been reimagined asanon-fungible token (NFT) - a unique digital certificate. The...
On paper, it's the most expensive NFT sale of all time. The only problem? The buyer and seller are the same person. CryptoPunk #9998, part of a collection of 10,000 NFTs, "sold" for $530 million on Thursday. OpenSea/User 0xef764bac8a438e7e498c2e5fccf0f174c3e3f8dbWhat's the most expensive NFT...
Virtual land Artur Debat Play-to-earn gaming platform Axie Infinity said a plot of virtual land just sold for $2.3 million. Axie said in a tweet on Wednesday it was the highest-ever price tag for one of its Genesis Land plots. Another plot sold for a record $2.43 million on the Decentraland...
Proceeds will go towards Sostento, a nonprofit that supports frontline public health workers. Sothebyâs, the worldâs oldest art and luxury auction house,announcedits collaboration with the public health care advocate and nonprofit organization Sostento to auction off its latest nonfungible...
The New York Islanders and UBS Arena Partners have announced a multiyear NFT partnership with Los Angeles-based Orange Comet, a producer of blockchain experiences in sports, music, art and entertainment. Orange Comet will produce and sell NFT (non-fungible token) experiences on the Orange Comet...
Houston, Texas, Nov. 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Newly launched just two weeks ago on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Ecchicoin token is a new cryptocurrency project bringing anime to the blockchain. Ecchicoin offers fun, well designed NFTâs, an NFT marketplace, with a future roadmap that...
The fund opened to investors last week and has raised $11.4 million so far. Asset management firm Arca has launched a $30 million fund dedicated to non-fungible tokens (NFT), according to anew regulatory filing. Arca, which had a total of $500 million in assets under management...
PRESS RELEASE.Recently, on the 23rd of November,SpaceSevenlaunched its state-of-the-art NFT marketplace. The SpaceSeven marketplace is the first of its kind â one of the few â if not the only scaled e-commerce, fully regulatory compliant platform. By combining powerful NFT marketplace...
NFT FOR SALE Propy Inc.June 9th: I am in a hotel room in NYC: I am nervously staring at the screen of my small, rose gold colored computer. Thankfully, the WiFi is working well, â which is always an unknown at a hotel. In one hour, an irrevocable auction online will start. Truthfully,...
Big-name players are likely to come to blows over NFTs sooner rather than later, and often there's no clear contractual language to determine rights. 'Pulp Fiction'Miramax/Courtesy Everett Collection Earlier this month Quentin Tarantino announced a planned sale ofNFTâs, or ânon-fungible...
A lot of people have asked me in recent days how they can create and sell NFTs (non-fungible tokens), so I decided to write this tutorial on how you can mint (and hopefully sell) an NFT for free, with absolutely no gas fees or other costs to you. First, a disclaimer. There are many different...
Quick Take Crypto firm MoonPay has helped Jimmy Fallon and Post Malone to purchase NFTs in recent weeks. Its concierge service targets high net worth individuals who want to buy digital collectibles without any hassle. Crypto payments firm MoonPay has quietly launched a new...
Plus, London gets a new play about Warhol and Basquiat, and artist Maya Lin's NYC forest installation is being repurposed for boats. Artnet News,November 25, 2021 Beeple,Everydays â The First 5000 Days. Courtesy of the artist and Christie's. Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most...
"NFT," the abbreviation of "non-fungible token," has been namedWord of the Yearby dictionary publisherCollins, beating "crypto" and "cheugy" to the top spot. An NFT is "a unique digital certificate, registered in a blockchain, that is used to record ownership of an asset such as an artwork or a...
Photo by Joshua Bessex/Getty ImagesIt has been less than a year since NBA Top Shot served as an introduction for many sports fans into the world of NFTs, and now the NFL is lining up a similar arrangement. In September, the leagueannounced a partnershipwith the company that runs Top Shot, Dapper...
The market fornon-fungible tokensis booming. In mid-November,a record daily trading volumeof non-fungible tokens was recorded at the level of $3.9 billion. The most popular among users are collectible tokens with a clear usability, that is, applicability in areas other than trading. One of...
The non-fungible token craze has made its way to the annual Turkey Day parade. Macyâs auctioning 10 limited NFTs which will benefit Make-A-Wish Foundation The retail giant will also give away 9,500 NFTâs that whenever theyâre sold, will have 10... Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images, FILE...
An Australian artist and programmer has created a website that claims to let people download "every NFT" on the Ethereum blockchain in one go. NFTs are digital tokens that proponents say can prove ownership of digital items - including artwork. Many have sold for hundreds of thousands of...
But the soccer powerhouse is still scheduled to launch an NFT collection on the Ownix platform next week. FC Barcelona cancelled a marketing deal with non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaceOwnixon Thursday. The decision comes less than five days before the soccer powerhouse is scheduled to...
NFTs have found another month this year where Google searches hit an all-time high. The Macyâs parade will come with a non-fungible friend. And Phil Spencer at Xbox shares his thoughts on NFTs. Itâs just another week of non-fungible news. Every weekend, we take a quick recap at the past...
Amidst rising global wealth, resurging interest in blockchain, and a shift in cultural prominence towards digital experiences, NFTs have become a powerful medium for art. Next Earth, an NFT-based replica of Earth, has seen tremendous growth over the past year. They recently released an update...
Photo Credit: Bored Ape Yacht Club Are NFTs a scam? One man has created a 20TB repository of NFTs called âNFT Bay.â Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are taking the music industry by storm. Several marketplaces have sprung up offering pieces of artwork, golden tickets, and more â all sold as an...
While the global market cap of cryptocurrencies continues to rise, investors are witnessing an unprecedented investment interest in Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). If the crypto sector can be called dynamic, the NFT market can be considered to be on fire. Sales of NFTs surged to $10.7 billion in Q3...
PRESS RELEASE.The Ethereum-based solution will be a premier, bespoke online community, bringing together NFT investors, partners, play-to-earn gamers and developers. While new NFT and PTE gaming sites are being deployed seemingly everyday, few if any have tied together in a seamless,...
Key Takeaways Quantum is an art photography launchpad that helps artists mint their work as NFTs on Ethereum. The platform focuses on accessibility, affordability, and creating a vibrant community around its curated collections. Minting their work as NFTs is allowing artists to reach and engage...
If you follow people like Jimmy Fallon and Steph Curry, you've probably already seen one. Nov. 21, 2021 1:12 p.m. PT There are 10,000 NFTs in the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection. Here are three examples. The middle one is owned by Jimmy Fallon. Yuga LabsWhether you wanted to or not, you've...
The three-time major winner is recovering from a foot injury and hasn't competed since March. Stan Wawrinka has been on the sidelines for much of the 2021 season due to an on-going foot injury. His last match was back in March where he fell to Lloyd Harris in three sets at Doha's ATP 250...
In what may be one of the better pieces of performance art this year, Australian Geoffrey Huntley hascreated a websitethat promises to let you torrent an entire blockchainâs worth of NFTs. Itâs called, appropriately, The NFT Bay, and itâs an almost exact replica of the famous pirating site...
14-year-old Abigail earns $1 million in 10 minutes after creating her own Beluga whale NFT in the US. She sold the NFT on the Alpha Art NFT marketplace. Abigail was inspired by her brother and that propelled her to come up with the NFT. Kids never dreamed that their random arts and drawings in...
The powerhouse entertainment company that produced the film has its own NFT plans and says the sale isnât covered by Tarantinoâs republishing rights. Famed director Quentin Tarantino is being sued by Miramax for copyright infringement after Tarantino announced that he would be auctioning...
SINGAPORE,Nov. 15, 2021/PRNewswire/ -- The9 Limited (Nasdaq: NCTY) ("The9"), an established internet company, today announced that its new NFT community and trading platform NFTSTAR has signed an exclusive license agreement with the American Football star, CHRISTIAN McCAFFREY. NFTSTAR will...
While it might be a stretch to say that the world is getting brighter and better, we can definitively argue that it just keeps getting more... interesting.Today, in yet another turn of events, the bike world has outdone evenHenry Quinneyin coming up with the farfetched and fantastical. A...
Yes, thatâs really a thing now. Jacob Loewenstein startedoff his talk at the Augmented World Expo by apologizing. It was a small crowdâfewer than a hundred people, masked and spaced apart in Ballroom B of the Santa Clara Convention Center in the heart of Californiaâs Silicon Valley,...
Slated to be auctioned off on SM-ARTâs platform. Dylan Kelly A private watch collector in the Middle East has made headlines by creating the first-everPatek PhillippeNFT with no less than the now-discontinuedNautilus timepiece. Working with SM-ART, the NFT is is scheduled to be auctioned off on...
Quick Take The total number of art and collectibles NFT sales recorded last week was just 86,870, three times less than weekly totals in October. Yet the average price of these works has never been higher, topping $127,000 per sale a few weeks ago. The second week of November was one...
The charity sale is currently valued at 32.6 ETH / $150,000. Shawn Ghassemitari The charity sale is currently valued at 32.6 ETH / $150,000. Back in 2016, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, visitedPope Francisat the Vatican to further strengthen religious and diplomatic...
âBabylonâ is the first solo M.I.A. track in over a year. As a musician and video artist, M.I.A. has always made expressly political work. Throughout a bracing, eclectic catalogue sheâs tackled colonialism, immigration crises and other forms of systemic oppression head-on. Even when the...
As many studios express interest in crypto games, being against them can come at a price Image:Kotaku / Gorodenkoff(Shutterstock) In the wake ofUbisoft,EA,Square Enix,Sega, andZyngaannouncing their interest in or direct support of blockchain tech and NFTs, things are looking pretty...
HUMAN ONE is a physical sculpture that comes with an NFT. It's not quite $69 million. But, hey, $29 million isn't too shabby. Beeple, the digital artist whose tokenized artwork "EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 500 DAYs" sold for a record $69.3 million at a Christie's auction this March, has followed it...
A cool strategy to avoid this is to simply not buy any. It could hardly get more poetic. In the same week thatgaming companies have been jumping on the bandwagon, NFTs are now getting regulated. President Joe Biden's infrastructure bill has finally passed, and among the many areas it covers,...
Former Boston Red Sox player David âBig Papiâ Ortiz is the newest ambassador of crypto exchange FTX. The Major League Baseball legend, who hit more than 500 home runs in his career and won three World Series titles with the Red Sox, has agreed to a multiyear deal with the exchange. As...
Jim Cramer, host of Mad Money on CNBC, said he recently bought Ethereum (ETH) as a play on the NFT... [+] KMR Images Watch this: in April, CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer said people buying non-fungible tokens (NFT) are buying things that donât exist. âWe have people trying to put prices on...
An NFT bearing the likeness of popular Twitch streamer Amouranth is selling for a ridiculous amount of money at auction. For years, Amouranth has been one of the most popularTwitchstreamers on the entire platform, and it doesn't look like her popularity is going to wane anytime soon. Amouranth...
The Dreamverse gallery.New York City has been filled with NFTs this week. Since Monday, hundreds, if not thousands, of people have darted between talks, galleries, hangouts, parties, and other events assembled for and by the usually all-onlineNFT communityto talk about the future of art, hype...
Illustration by Pete Ryan Two days after Halloween, there were more costumes than usual in New Yorkâs Times Square. Outside Jimmy Buffettâs Margaritaville restaurant, one man wore a mirrored face shield and knit beanie to resemble a CryptoPunk pixelated character. A vehicle transformed...