The founder of NFT Now on distinguishing between hits and rugpulls. Medved is a speaker at CoinDesk's Consensus festival in June. Keeping a finger on the pulse of the fast-moving non-fungible token world isnât an easy feat. But Matt Medved took on that challenge last year and foundedNFT Now,...
It wasnât immediately clear how the bot traffic overcame network safeguards. Solana stakeholders rushed to right the network Saturday night after what one insider called âinsane amount of dataâ flooded theproof-of-stakechain, knocking validators out of consensus and grinding block...
Snoop Doggsaid he was bringing his music to the metaverse. He wasn't lying. On 4/20, the rapper, songwriter and entrepreneur droppedDeath Row Session: Vol. 2as a non-fungible token, or NFT, on platform Sound.xyz. All 1,000 copies quickly sold out for a total of 100 Ether, or just over $300,000,...
The new frontier of childrenâs entertainment is internet-native cartoon characters selling nonfungible tokens on social-media apps for tots. Saehan Parc When Olympia Ohanian â the daughter of the tennis player Serena Williams and the internet entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian â was an...
The Ethereum Name Services has generated $1.3 million in sales over the last 24 hours, as .eth domain sales surge 2,300%. Source: Ethereum Name Service In the past week,Ethereumdomain name sales on OpenSea are up nearly2,300%, as users rush to buy highly coveted, and scarce, three and...
Latest mass theft of digital art assets is carried out by phishing post on Instagram Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT artworks for sale online.Photograph: OpenSeaYuga Labs, the multibillion-dollar collective behind the infamous Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible tokens, has been targeted by another...
0x co-founders Will Warren and Amir Bandeali 0xSan Francisco-based decentralized exchange infrastructure provider 0x Labs has closed a $70 million Series B financing round led by Greylock Partners at an undisclosed valuation. Revealed exclusively toForbes, the round also included investors such...
The exchangeâs long-awaited NFT platform saw 73 ETH in trade volume in its first week after a small portion of its three million-person waitlist was granted access. (Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN)finally launchedthe beta of its non-fungible token...
The tokens surged and sank as new features in the Bored Ape Yacht Club ecosystem went live. Futures tracking ApeCoinâs APE tokens lost about $36 million in liquidations during a volatile 24 hours,data show. Liquidations in the crypto market occur when a trader has insufficient funds...
A fraudulent "mint" link was sent to followers. Some appear to have taken the bait. Bored Ape Yacht Club's Instagram account and Discord server were both hacked on Monday, with an unofficial "mint" link being sent out to followers. "There is no mint going on today. It looks like BAYC...
NFTs have already had a deep impact on the art, brand promotions and gaming industries, but the next best use case could come from the ticketing world. NFTs have already had a deep impact on the art, brand promotions and gaming industries, but the next best use case could come from the ticketing...
The buyer gets this special Aventador LP 780-4 Ultimae, a digital replica of the car, and all kinds of VIP benefits. Christopher Smith Friends, the end of an automotive era is upon us. Or rather, it'salmostupon us. The car you see here is the final Lamborghini Aventador coupe to come...
After a successful debut in San Francisco, a first-of-its-kind NFT art exhibition, which will allow visitors to view digital art through an augmented reality headset, is coming to Denver. Photo courtesy of Enklu, VERSE DenverWhen visitors first arrive at the Denver Pavilionsâ new pop-up...
As web3 products become more popular among mainstream audiences, brands like Deadfellaz have found new ways to provide their users with a better experience. For example, this brand recently signed an exclusive representation deal which includes things such as merchandise and gaming...
It seems that almost half of the NFT buyers have vanished from NFT marketplaces. Tech Desk The emergence ofnon-fungible-tokens (NFTs)have made it easier for blockchain artists and digital creators to gain recognition and make quick profits from selling their artwork. However, a new data by...
Anna Levytska, artist working in high-contrast black and white. Dark, surreal visions are created mostly with ink on paper but also sometimes in digital techniques. Where are you from? I am from Ukraine, ancient and mystical city Kyiv. Currently live in Netherlands because of war. Can you...
The 18,000 NBA NFTs have traits that will change based on athlete performance. Basketball. Image: Shutterstock The National Basketball Association will beginmintingits upcoming Ethereum NFT collection of 18,000 assets calledThe Associationon Wednesday. NFTsare unique blockchain tokens that...
Reese Witherspoon, Lionel Richie, Steve Aoki, Dillon Francis and Alexis Ohanian all hold NFTs from the collection. Deadfellaz NFT project.Courtesy of UTAnoneUTAhas signed Deadfellaz â anNFTproject with holders that include Reese Witherspoon, Lionel Richie, Steve Aoki, Dillon Francis and...
Darya Pourshasb,Spotifyâs Director, Premium Content Strategy, since 2018, has joinedblockchain-based music investment platform,Royal. Pourshasb joins Royal as Head of Global Artist & Label Partnerships, and will oversee artist relations and music partnerships at the company. Royal tells...
Ajax coach Erik ten Hag studiously avoided questions about hisimpending move to Manchester Unitedbefore the Dutch Cup final last weekend, but that was not the only controversial topic he swerved in the build-up to the showpiece game. Ajax players Davy Klaassen and Daley Blind, both Holland...
After two days on the market, a collection of 10,000 pixelated-bird non-fungible tokens has become the top NFT collection withover $281 millionin sales volume, according to data aggregator CryptoSlam. The collection, called Moonbirds, already ranks among hugely successful collections like Azuki,...
The ERC-721R standard guarantees refunds for non-fungible tokens, offering greater security for buyers and legitimacy for creators. But risks remain for both sides of the trade. (Alex Belomlinsky/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk) âScamsâ has become a synonym forNFTslately. With...
Non-fungible tokens belong to a nascent industry that could be developed and used widely NFTs have gained in popularity in ways that could be compared to the early days of the cryptocurrency frenzy. The mainstream media is abuzz with success stories of artists going from rags to...
Leveraging the Largest and Most Trusted NFT Marketplace FORT LAUDERDALE, FL / ACCESSWIRE / April 21, 2022 /Baller Mixed Reality, an American Leisure Holdings (OTC PINK:AMLH) portfolio company, announces it is releasing, first-of-their-kind NFTs on OpenSea.io - the largest and most trusted...
Image: Coinbasenone Coinbase announced on Wednesday that its NFT marketplace is now in beta and accessible to âa small set of beta testers whoâll be invited based on their positionâ on its waitlist. The company is looking to take on established players in the space by adding social...
getty In my lastarticle, we reviewed the ways in which the meteoric rise of NFTs over the past few years has changed not only who can own art, but the definition of art itself. In this article, we are going to review how certain market participants are erroneously offering NFTs with securities...
Plus, Hans Ulrich Obrist hosts an early morning club in Venice and Tracey Emin gets personal on Instagram. Images of CryptoPunks displayed on a digital billboard in Times Square on May 12, 2021 in New York City. Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images. Art Industry News is a daily digest of the...
The beta iteration of the exchangeâs marketplace is putting a social-media spin on NFT trading. Crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) launched thebeta versionof its long-awaitednon-fungible token(NFT) marketplace on Wednesday, allowing a small group of users from a wait-list of 3 million...
Another high-profile hack has raised more questions about the vulnerabilities of the blockchain Late last month, hackers made off with what was then worth more than $500m from the systems of cryptocurrency network Ronin, in what is believed to be the second-largest cryptocurrency theft on...
Photo:Romilly Lockyer / Kotaku(Getty Images)Sina Estavi is a âcrypto entrepreneur,âwho last year bought a digital token representing Twitter founder Jack Dorseyâs first ever tweet. He paid $2.9 million for it, and this month sought to make good on his âinvestment,âputting it up for...
The NFT market was worth $41 billion at the end of last year â nearly as large as the conventional art marketby some estimatesâ and itâs expected to nearly double in size by the end of 2022, according to a report released this week byblockchain analytics firm Nansen. As the space becomes...
Ghana's viral 'Coffin Dance' meme sells as NFT for $1.04 million The viral 'Coffin Dance' meme has been auctioned as an NFT (non-fungible token) for 327 Ethereum worth $1.04 million. The video, which shows Ghanian pallbearers dancing while carrying a coffin, went viral during COVID-19. The...
Quentin Tarantino, another filmmaker, released his âPulp Fictionâ NFTs on the same Cosmos-based blockchain in November. Kevin Smith (Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images) Kevin Smith, the filmmaker responsible for cult classics like âClerks,â âChasing Amyâ and âJay and Silent Bob Strike...
ESPNhas clambered aboard the NFT bandwagon: The sports giant is going into business with Tom Brady, angling to sell fans on the idea of owning a digital piece of the famed NFL quarterbackâs legacy. ESPN inked a multiyear deal withAutograph, the NFT startup co-founded by Brady, to release...
KuCoin, a leading global cryptocurrency trading platform, is excited to announce the launch of its NFT launch platform â KuCoin IGO on April 8th. The first project coming to KuCoin IGO is Pikaster. Participation details for the NFT sale will be announced on April 8th, and the first-round sale...