How Goblintown Broke The NFT Community

This latest market crash has produced one of the most elaborate memes we’ve seen to date: Goblintown. In the span of just a few short days, this unabashedly irreverent NFT project saw all 10,000 of its freely minted pieces enter the NFT market, sporting floor prices of over 2 ETH at the time of writing. Aside from these main facts, there’s not...

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The Nike v. StockX Lawsuit Could Determine What Type of NFTs Can Be Created

Dubbed the “Sneaker Wars,” Nike’s ongoing lawsuit against online shoe retailer StockX will likely end up dictating how intellectual property law is applied to NFTs. The case, which was filed by Nike in February 2022, alleges that StockX engaged in the unauthorized and infringing use of Nike’s famous marks in its Vault NFT collection. Who is...

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The Problem with Anonymity in Web3 and NFTs

With much of the core ethos of Web3 predicated on decentralized ownership and privacy, anonymous and pseudonymous identities are rather common. Following Bitcoin founder(s) anonymous identity Satoshi Nakamoto, many in the crypto community now operate under their own alternative identities. While some do so to stay private or work towards self-sovereignty,...

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3 NFT Projects That Are Eliminating Medical Debt and Funding Cancer Research

NFTs have played a big role in social causes over the last year. We’ve seen projects aimed toward raising funds for the preservation of endangered species, forwarding social justice, and even helping fight climate change. As such, it’s no surprise that NFTs have also been used to raise funds for medical purposes. Here are some of the most notable...

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Niantic’s New Director of Web3 Shares His Thoughts on NFTs

Despite what we saw in Ready Player One and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announcement, exploring the ever-expanding metaverse might not require you to shell out thousands for a virtual reality (VR) headset and high-powered PC. All the tech you need could be right in your pocket. That’s right, the future of the metaverse — and possibly Web3 as a whole — may...

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NFTs Explained: A Must-Read Guide to Everything Non-Fungible

Non-fungible tokens — or NFTs — are causing a paradigm shift across nearly every sector of society.  They’re transforming everything from finance to art, and there’s good reason to suspect that almost no corner of society will be left untouched. If that sounds like a bit of an overstatement, know that it’s really not.   Over the last few...

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The Biggest Takeaways From VeeCon 2022

VeeCon 2022 just wrapped. The three-day conference was held from May 19 – 22 at the US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ultimately, it brought together some of the most notable innovators and artists in the NFT space to discuss where we’ve been and where we’re going. Straight from the main stage During the event, Pharrell Williams...

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Almost Every Social Media Company is Adding NFT Features

2022 seems to be the year that NFTs steadily make their way into the mainstream social media market. In January Twitter introduced NFT profile picture verification and in mid-May, Instagram launched in-app NFT options. Now, just a week later, Linktree has joined the fold. The link-in-bio service is partnering with OpenSea to include several...

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5 Projects That Celebrate Diversity in the NFT Community

It’s no secret that the NFT space is a melting pot of culture. Throughout the vast expanse of the NFT ecosystem lives a wide variety of NFT art, photography, music, and more all created by an even wider array of unique creators. Of course, the NFT space could be doing more to empower underrepresented artists, but that isn’t to say that diversity doesn’t...

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Yuga Labs: The NFT Company Taking Over the Metaverse

If you’re active in the NFT space, you likely know the name “Yuga Labs.” The company launched in 2021 and quickly made a name for itself by launching and acquiring the biggest NFT projects ever — the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and CryptoPunks, respectively. Today, if you took all the NFTs in the collections and sold them, you’d make billions of dollars....

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