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Kresus Partners With Christie’s for Blockchain-Based Art Ownership Authentication
2.10.2024
Kresus, a crypto wallet service, has partnered with the international art and luxury market provider Christie’s to offer blockchain-based certificates of ownership for an upcoming photography auction. The collaboration marks a new approach to securing and managing art provenance digitally....
Report: Cryptopunks and Blue Chips Power Top NFT Traders to Over $300 Million in Profits
8.8.2023
The top 15 traders in the Ethereum non-fungible token (NFT) market have amassed up to $101.6 million in profits, as revealed in Coingecko’s latest NFT report. These traders lucratively capitalized on early investments in esteemed blue-chip NFT collections such as Cryptopunks, Bored Ape Yacht...
Slow Food: Kenny Schachter reflects on blockchain art’s past, present and future
19.6.2023
NFTs might never boom at quite the same pitch they once did. With his first solo show in 25 years, Kenny Schachter sought to demonstrate how that’s a good thing
NFT Sales Drop 5.4% to $193M, Ethereum Dominates with $107M in Sales: Weekly Recap
25.3.2023
Over the past week, statistics show non-fungible token (NFT) sales totaled $193.08 million, down 5.44% from the previous week. Ethereum dominated NFT sales with more than $107 million or 55% of all sales, while Solana-centric NFT sales recorded $26.3 million or 13% of sales in the same period....
Developer Ambushes NFTs In Public Talk, Makes Crypto Sponsors Real Mad
12.7.2022
During Brazil’s International Games Festival last week, developer Mark Venturelli (Chroma Squad) was scheduled to give a talk called “The Future Of Game Design”. A few seconds in, he flipped and revealed the presentation’s real title—“Why NFTs are a nightmare”—to a room full of applause.Read more
Reddit Avatars Get The NFT Treatment In Cursed Limited-Edition Campaign
8.7.2022
Reddit just announced and opened a “Collectible Avatar” storefront. In this hub you can buy artists’ renditions of the social site’s congenial alien mascot Snoo, except they’re all NFTs. Hold for applause or for a little vomit to come out of your mouth.Read more
Hilarious 'Web 3 Console' Will Never, Ever Happen
4.7.2022
The Polium One is the answer to a question no one has ever, nor will ever, ask. It is a “next-gen console for web3 gaming.” Which is to say, a render on a website for a fictional machine that I believe will absolutely will never get made. I dare them to prove me wrong.Read more
Seth Green Created A TV Show Around His NFT Ape, Then Someone Stole It
24.5.2022
Seth Green is having a bad time after he claims some of his NFT apes were stolen from him using a phishing scam. One very special ape in particular was taken and then sold to another user, which is bad news for him because Green planned and created an entire new TV show starring that digital...
GameStop Jumps Into NFTs Just As The Market Collapses
20.5.2022
The NFT market, and other blockchain-associated grifts like cryptocurrency, are having a very bad month, as their perceived “value” evaporates and whatever actual monetary value they had falls through the floor. To which GameStop says: lol.Read more
Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Fans Lose Millions Trying To Buy Video Game 'Land'
6.5.2022
Something bad is happening over in the Bored Ape Yacht Club, the year-old NFT collection owned by blockchain tech firm Yuga Labs. Bad things seem to happen almost daily in the NFT sphere and the cryptocurrency community at large, which are both unfortunately frequent targets of multimillion-dollar...
NFT Market Collapses Just As Square Enix Sells Tomb Raider To Bet Big On Blockchain
4.5.2022
You know what no one could ever have predicted? That a market based on imaginary ownership of infinitely duplicable jpeg images might not be end-game, long-term sustainable. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the NFT market is “flatlining,” down 92 percent from last September. Which makes it just...
Square Enix President Still Insists Future Of Gaming Features Blockchain Tech
18.4.2022
Remember back in January when Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda published that terrible letter hyping up a future where video games would feature NFTs and blockchain tech? Well, even though a lot of players and devs criticized the letter, Matsuda ain’t backing down. And in a new interview,...
Guy Buys NFT For $2.9 Million, Asks for $48 Million, Is Offered $3600
14.4.2022
Sina Estavi is a “crypto entrepreneur”, who last year bought a digital token representing Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet. He paid $2.9 million for it, and this month sought to make good on his “investment”, putting it up for auction with an expectation it could net him $48 million....
Sega Says 'Future Of Gaming' Includes NFTs And Cloud Streaming
10.4.2022
It seems, like some other big video game publishers, Sega is also interested in adding NFTs into future games as revealed in an interview with various executives and producers. During that same interview, Sega talked more about its “Super Game” projects, confirming that it will be more than...
Report: Facebook Eyes ‘Zuck Bucks’ And NFTs As It Loses Users To TikTok
7.4.2022
Facebook parent company Meta reportedly has plans to launch a new digital currency for the metaverse. Internally, employees at Meta are calling the unannounced currency “Zuck Bucks.” These new digital dollars won’t likely be connected to any kind of blockchain, but don’t worry; Meta, led by...
Official Formula 1 'Ethereum NFT Game' Shuts Down
5.4.2022
F1 Delta Time, an official NFT and crypto-powered racing game that launched back in 2019, closed its doors last month, leaving everyone who had spent money and invested in the project probably wishing they had done something else with their time.Read more
Smash Bros Champion Gets Twitter Hacked By NFT Dipshits
29.3.2022
Earlier today the Twitter account of Leonardo Lopez Perez, aka “MkLeo”, one of if not the best Smash players in the world, was hacked by crypto freaks trying to shill their bogus NFT schemes.Read more
$500,000 NFT Lawsuit Over Pepe The Frog's Butt Is A Very Funny Story
17.3.2022
Late last year, Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie decided to run an NFT auction, selling off an image of the controversial character in which it was waist-deep in a pool, its asscrack peeping over the surface. Everything that has happened since is exactly how you would imagine such an auction in...
Warren Spector Thinks NFTs are 'Ridiculous' And Not A Good Idea
13.3.2022
Remember NFTs? Y’know, those weird digital receipts vaguely attached to terrible-looking images of monkeys and apes that people have spent millions of dollars on over the last year or so. Well, while it seems many have moved on, Warren Spector is here to remind us all that they are still very...
Final Fantasy XIV Producer Promises 'No NFTs' But Does Find The Concept Of Them 'Interesting'
20.2.2022
If you are someone who loves playing Final Fantasy XIV, but who hates the idea of NFTs, then you’ll be happy to hear that it seems unlikely the two will mix. According to the game’s producer and director Naoki Yoshida, NFTs aren’t coming to the popular MMO anytime soon. However, Yoshida did explain...