As of Friday, Feb. 10, 2023, the Bitcoin blockchain had seen the addition of more than 50,000 Ordinal inscriptions as the trend has continued to increase daily. People are inscribing text, images, videos, audio, and software applications onto the blockchain, with some inscriptions fetching high...
Music producer Deputy, who helped produce Rihanna's hit 2015 single "B**** Better Have My Money," is granting a portion of his streaming royalties to collectors through anotherblock. A popular song released by music artist Rihanna was offered as a non-fungible token (NFT) through Web3...
Luxury retailer and creator of Birkin bag says Mason Rothschildâs MetaBirkin project has simply ripped it off and reaped the profits Hermès claims the artist is simply âa digital speculator who is seeking to get rich quick by appropriatingâ its brand.Photograph: Christian Vierig/Getty...
Coffeezilla, a YouTuber and crypto investigator, revealed that American mixed martial artist Dillon Danis promoted a fake NFT project without disclosing that he received $1,000 for the advertisement. While the support from numerous A-list celebrities expedited thenonfungible token (NFT)boom of...
Luxor Mining collaborated with independent developer Udi Wertheimer to mint the NFT advertising âMagic Internet JPEGsâ in âthe largest Bitcoin block ever mined.â Independent developer Udi Wertheimer claims he minted a giant image of what appears to be a bald, bearded wizard donning...
The Defiance Digital Revolution ETF will cease activity by the end of February. The Defiance Digital Revolution ETF will close. Image: Defiance ETFs NFTZ, widely touted as the worldâs first exchange-traded fund for NFTs, is shutting down. Defiance ETFsannouncedthat it will âclose and...
Amazon is launching a digital assets enterprise, according to four sources familiar with the matter, who said that an NFT initiative is expected in the spring. Amazon has been shopping the digital collectibles effort to no shortage of power players in the industry, per multiple sources. Said to...
With tight regulations already in place that helped insulate FTX Japan and its investors from heavy losses, Japan is working on policy and guidelines for stablecoins, NFTs and DAOs as it welcomes a crypto future. âWhile many other countries are standing still and shrugging their shoulders in...
Polygon Labs will also be making a "strategic investment" in Fractal, which aims to "build the future of gaming." Fractal, the platform for game-related non-fungible tokens (NFT)developed by Twitch co-founder Justin Kan, is expanding into thePolygonnetwork to boost accessibility....
NFT markets on Aptos are seeing growth among Crypto Twitter community users. An Aptos-branded hat. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk) Layer 1 blockchain Aptosâ APT tokens is up 250% in just 14 days even as the broader crypto market grapples with bankruptcies, lawsuits and a decline in overall...
The platform, which targets pro NFT traders, said it would launch its BLUR governance token on Feb. 14 after months of incentivized airdrops. Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaceBlurannounced that it is delaying the launch of its native BLUR token to Feb. 14 after pledging a January...
NatGeoâs NFT primer, featuring the Bored Ape Yacht Club, has angered a lot of fans. Image: JuliusKielaitis / Shutterstock.com National Geographichaslaunched its first NFTson Polygon and posted a detailed explainer of the technology on social mediaâprompting outright rage from hundreds of...
A sponsored advertising link on Google hid malware that siphoned thousands of dollars worth of crypto and NFTs from an influencerâs wallet. An NFT influencer claims to have lost âa life-changing amountâ of their net worth in nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and crypto after accidentally...
Yugaâs upcoming mint is free to holders of Bored Apes or Mutant Apes, pushing both collections to top spots on OpenSea on Thursday. Mutant Ape Yacht Club #3850 (Yuga Labs) Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) and Bored Ape Kennel Club (BAKC) collections jumped to top...