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MoMA’s Madeleine Pierpont: NFTs Are Already a Part of Art History
7.5.2024
NFT art pioneer wants to upload her brain so she can live forever: Josie Bellini, NFT Creator
3.5.2023
NFT art pioneer Josie Bellini has already ensure her on-chain art can live forever — and she wants to upload her brain to the Metaverse too
FTX Debtors’ List of Assets Omits Mention of Large Stash of NFTs and ENS Names Owned by Alameda
20.1.2023
This week, FTX debtors issued a press release and a 20-page document noting that bankruptcy administrators had located $5.5 billion in liquid assets. The document details that investigators discovered fiat currencies, crypto assets, and securities as part of FTX’s and Alameda...
Italy to create the crypto art Renaissance: NFT market report
26.12.2022
Research and Market’s latest NFT market report for Italy predicts a 47.6% growth in the country’s NFT market by the end of 2022
Profile Pic NFTs Are Suffocating Crypto Art
10.3.2022
Ubisoft Devs Don’t Understand Company’s NFT Push, Either
14.12.2021
Last week Ubisoft revealed its new NFT tech platform, called Quartz, and it didn’t go well. The announcement that Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint would be the first game to implement cryptocurrency-backed items was downvoted on YouTube over 40,000 times. Now it turns out even many developers...
Ubisoft Is Getting Into The Blockchain Grift
28.10.2021
At this point, we’re all just holding out hope that our favorite video game franchises aren’t getting into weird crypto shit. Sometimes, it’s a vain hope. In today’s second quarterly earnings report, Ubisoft said it is exploring blockchain for games. Read more
British Auction House Christie’s to Auction Cryptopunks, Meebits, Bored Apes NFTs
7.8.2021
The well known luxury auction house Christie’s has announced the company’s first non-fungible token (NFT) art sale in Asia on September 17. According to the announcement, the NFTs will feature Cryptopunks by Larva Labs, Meebits, and Bored Apes. Christie’s Reveals First NFT Auction...
The NFT Market Has Collapsed, Oh No
3.6.2021
Does anyone remember March 2021, when some techbros and artists were convinced that NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) were going to change the world? Well hi, it’s now June 2021 and the ass has fallen out of that market. I know, I am surprised as you are.Read more
Museum of Crypto Art to launch MOCA token, plans acquisition spree
26.5.2021
The community-governed museum is toying with new economic models amid a period of uncertainty for art institutions
African NFT Art Exhibition Featuring Portraits of Two African Royals Launched
22.5.2021
The Museum of Modern African Art Gallery & Lifestyle (MOOMA), a platform that promotes African artworks, recently kickstarted a 30-day non-fungible token (NFT) Modern African Art Exhibition. The exhibition, which will be MOOMA’s first NFT showcase, is set to feature the works of Goran...
Carbon Offsets for NFTs Don't Address the Deeper Problem
25.3.2021
The NFT space has a ballooning carbon problem. But rather than address emissions head-on, platforms may be turning to at best, self-deception and at worst, greenwashing by relying on carbon offsets.Read more
Going to pieces: Fractionalized NFT projects gather steam
18.3.2021
Two new projects aim to bring NFTs to the masses by breaking them apart
Crypto Art Belongs In The Trash
11.3.2021
The blockchain, at best a scam and at worst an impending environmental disaster, has lately been upending everything from currency exchange to basketball collectibles. But one area it’s had a particularly sudden—and divisive—impact is the world of art.Read more
How to Fix Crypto Art NFTs' Carbon Pollution Problem
10.3.2021
The “crypto-” carbon crisis is evolving. And after years of low-key use, art and collectibles tied to what are known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have exploded into the global discourse as the Next Big Thing. Embedded with it, though, is an existential tension.Read more
Blockchain Losers Are Spending Millions On What Are Basically Useless Loot Boxes
4.3.2021
While gamers rail against loot boxes and governments around the world edge ever closer to regulating them, connoisseurs of blockchain bullshit are falling over themselves trying to buy digital highlights of basketball players from a platform called “NBA Top Shot”, in effect spending their money...
How much is too much? Crypto art market brings together deep pockets and big artists
31.1.2021
In the future, owning unique art won’t be restricted to the elites, but will everyone have digital art on their walls?
Rick and Morty Creator Sells NFT Art Collection for Over $1 Million in Ether
22.1.2021
Justin Roiland, the co-creator of the Adult Swim cartoon series Rick and Morty has joined the growing trend of celebrity artists creating non-fungible token (NFT) artwork. After the animator released the collection called “The Best I Could Do” on the NFT auction house Nifty Gateway,...
Rick and Morty crypto art sells for $150,000 on Gemini-owned platform
20.1.2021
Justin Roiland's piece was listed on a non-fungible token art exchange owned by Gemini
'Traditional' Art vs. Crypto Art: How to Value It
5.12.2020
EthBoy, by Trevor, Alotta Money. Sold for ETH 260. Updates once a day to reflect ETH/USD, BTC/USD, and Ethereum network gas prices. While the crypto art space seems to be growing at an increasingly fast pace, critics challenge its ability to rival the traditional art market in function...