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Amazon's MMO Covers Up New Hero To Make Her Less Risqué
3.1.2023
On December 22, the popular 2019 Korean MMORPG, Lost Ark, announced an update to a hero class months before her official release in the U.S. and Europe in April. The update isn’t a gameplay one, but rather, a cosmetic one that will tone down any perceived lewdness by adding some length...
NFT Market Will Bounce Back With Lower Interest Rates, Digital Artist Says
30.12.2022
NFT artist Ovie Faruq, also known as OSF, says the hybrid asset will bounce back in time but the Federal Reserve will need to lower interest rates
Report: R&B Artist Akon Denies Claims His Crypto City Dream Is Crumbling
27.12.2022
Senegalese-American artist, Akon, reportedly reassured participants in his so-called token of appreciation (TOA) that they will be reimbursed for donations. To back this promise, the singer reportedly claimed he is even willing to do “a world tour just to pay them all back.” Akon...
Artist Turns Down $3,000 Fortnite Job Offer, Calls It 'Hilarious'
6.12.2022
While Epic Games continues to position itself as a pro-game developer company, the same can’t be said for how it treats artists and their copyrights. The Fortnite developer recently offered $3,000 to an artist for an illustration and the copyright—which meant that they wouldn’t be able to sell...
Most Influential Artist: Adam Levine
5.12.2022
The artist made a portrait of crypto critic Molly White, and went down the Web3 rabbit hole she opened up
Most Influential Artist: Osinachi
5.12.2022
The Nigerian artist creates one-of-a-kind images using Microsoft Word. For this season, he depicted Mikhaylo Federov, the Ukrainian official who raised about $200 million in crypto for that country's war effort
Most Influential Artist: Ravi Vora
5.12.2022
Most Influential Artist: Sarah Script
5.12.2022
Most Influential Artist: Federico Solmi
5.12.2022
The Italian artist, a resident of New York City, created a 3D image of Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum developers for their role orchestrating The Merge, the most consequential upgrade in blockchain history
Most Influential Artist: Federico Solmi
5.12.2022
The Italian artist, a resident of New York City, created a 3D image of Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum developers for their role orchestrating The Merge, the most consequential upgrade in blockchain history
The Artist and Technology Behind 36 AI Portraits
5.12.2022
How to generate three dozen portraits for the Most Influential 2022 in about a week? Meet Will Ess and Pixelmind.ai, the app that saved this CoinDesk feature from visual ennui
Most Influential Artist: Dave Krugman
5.12.2022
The photographer captured his portrait of Erick Calderon at a Bright Moments NFT art event in Mexico City
Most Influential Artist: Bryan Brinkman
5.12.2022
The Dubai animator tries to display the mystery of Razzlekhan and Lichtenstein, the beginning of this year’s decent into fraud and deception
Most Influential Artist: Trevor and Violet Jones
5.12.2022
The artist couple collaborated for the first time ever on their painting of Alexey Pertsev, the developer arrested for his role in creating Tornado Cash
Most Influential Artist: Alex Headlam (Aleqth)
5.12.2022
The artist sought inspiration from Andy Warhol and Tim Burton to create his portrait of Binance’s CEO Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ
Most Influential Artist: Fesq
5.12.2022
The previous programmer creates an image called “The Maestro,” which ties Yat Siu’s music background to his position as a leader in the gaming and blockchain industry
Most Influential Artist: Yosnier
5.12.2022
A 23-year-old artist doesn’t want to come across as sympathizing with Sam Bankman-Fried, who lost numerous people’s life savings in FTX's collapse
Most Influential Artist: Norman Harman
5.12.2022
The Edinburgh-based artist use a combination of technologies and brick-and-mortar traditional values to draw Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs for this year’s Most Influential list
Most Influential Artist: Oveck
5.12.2022
The New York-based artist depicted one of the year's NFT success stories – Yuga Labs, the company behind the Bored Ape phenom – for CoinDesk's Most Influential series
Most Influential Artist: Ovie Faruq
5.12.2022
The NFT artist sought to depict the "carelessness and neglect" of the "Four Horsemen of the Cryptocalypse" in his NFT art for CoinDesk's Most Influential 2022