BREAKING: Amazon Reportedly Launching NFT Initiative This Spring

Amazon may soon become the latest Fortune 500 company to venture into NFTs. As reported today by Blockworks, the e-commerce giant is planning to launch a “digital assets enterprise” — an NFT initiative, in other words — this spring. According to one anonymous source the publication spoke with, the company’s focus will center on blockchain-based gaming...

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Dookey Dash: Six Tips and Tricks to Land a High Score

The Bored Ape Yacht Club is once again injecting the NFT ecosystem with some much-needed vitality. Leading up to and following the release of the Sewer Pass — an access token that enables BAYC holders to take part in an interactive minting experience — BAYC-related assets accounted for nearly half of the total ETH NFT volume from January 16 to 23. Driving...

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NFT Sales Are up 43%, but Are We Really in for a Bull Run?

The 2022 bear market left many in the NFT ecosystem bruised and battered. Sales plummeted, prominent figures left, and consumer brands began to grimace at the thought of launching their own non-fungible offerings. But it seems the new year might’ve brought about some change. As the new year rolled around, the NFT market is starting to trend...

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Exclusive: Nifty Gateway Co-founders Reveal Why They’re Stepping Down

The Alpha Brothers and Nifty Gateway Co-Foudners Duncan and Griffin Cock Foster announced they would be stepping down from their leadership roles at the company.The news comes after (but not in response to) Gemini, Nifty Gateway’s parent company, announcing it will cut 10 percent of its workforce.The Cock Foster brothers have no concrete plans...

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Exclusive: Doodles Unveils Doodles 2 Details and Flow Expansion

If there were to be an influential NFT moment fit for a drumroll, the long-awaited announcement of Doodles 2 would surely be it. An ecosystem expansion that has been in development for about a year now, the anticipated next iteration of the beloved Doodles project is finally on the horizon. But surprise: it won’t be taking place on Ethereum. While...

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Expert Opinion: Here’s How to Make the Metaverse More Inclusive

Marginalized people often suffer the most harm from unintended consequences of new technologies. For example, the algorithms that automatically make decisions about who gets to see what content or how images are interpreted suffer from racial and gender biases. People who have multiple marginalized identities, such as being Black and disabled, are even...

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A Guide to The Memes by 6529: Building an Open Metaverse Through Humor

Over their lifetime, memes have come to be understood as more than just cat pictures and fail videos that solicit the occasional laugh. In contrast to the often flippant nature of internet culture, memes have taken on great significance in mainstream and popular culture, achieving staying power as somewhat of a universal language. This also rings...

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How Jack Butcher’s Checks Challenges the Way People View NFTs

When Elon Musk bought Twitter in October 2022, the internet collectively braced itself. The world’s richest human’s new toy was now a social media platform with an active user base of 368 million accounts — what could go wrong? One of the billionaire’s first changes to Twitter was to upend its “lords and peasants” system of deciding who gets a blue...

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Reality vs Hype: Why Experts Say Blockchain Is The Future of Card Games

What’s the best kind of blockchain game? The answer is obviously subjective, as it depends on your taste. Do you prefer testing your skill on runner-style games, or would you rather explore a virtual open world? It can be hard to decide which is truly best. That said, one game format has stood out as perhaps the most compelling case for blockchain integration:...

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Upcoming Drops: January 23-29

Let’s face it: The NFT space moves really fast. Considering how quickly things can change in the metaverse, a week in NFTs might as well be a month IRL. Don’t get us wrong — the more people onboarded into the space, the merrier. But because of the constant influx of great art and ideas, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with all...

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