Web3 • February 27, 2023, 6:00PM EST Yuga Labs, the creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, announced the release of a new bitcoin-based NFT collection called TwelveFold. The collection will consis...
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Dookey Dash’s top prize sells for $1.6 million, less than half original goal, says winning gamer
Professional gamer and Twitch streamer Kyle Jackson said he sold the digital “key” he won playing Yuga Labs’ video game Dookey Dash for a whopping 1,000 eth, which is about $1.6 million. Jackson, more...
NFT weekly trading volume on Ethereum rises to highest level since May
Web3 • February 27, 2023, 2:19PM EST The lull in NFT activity is showing signs of subsiding with weekly trading level on Ethereum last week hitting its highest level since May, according to data from ...
Collectors spend $280,000 in Ethereum fees to mint 28,000 Coinbase NFTs
Crypto fans have cumulatively spent $280,000 in transaction fees to mint more than 28,000 Coinbase NFTs on Ethereum. The NFTs were available to be minted for free for those who wanted to mark the test...
3AC’s NFT collection to be put up for sale by liquidator
Deals • February 23, 2023, 1:40AM EST A collection of prized NFTs purchased by Three Arrows Capital (3AC), the failed crypto hedge fund, will soon be put up for sale. 3AC’s liquidators, Teneo, n...
Cryptocurrency adverts benched ahead of Super Bowl LVII
Coinbase, Crypto.com, eToro, and FTX advertised at Super Bowl LVI as last year crypto markets were firmly part of the zeitgeist. This year, declining prices amid a turbulent macroeconomic backdrop and...
MetaBirkins lost to Hermès. But be they art or merchandise, NFTs are being taken seriously.
MetaBirkins creator Mason Rothschild may have lost a trademark case over Birkin bags to Hermès, but not everyone sees it as bad news for NFTs. Leaders across web3 are offering a nuanced appraisa...
MetaBirkins maker Rothschild blasts Hermes after NFT trademark decision
MetaBirkins creator Mason Rothschild didn’t mince words when speaking out after a Manhattan federal jury ruled that the NFT artist had violated the trademark rights of the famous French luxury brand H...
Jury favors Hermes in MetaBirkin trademark dispute, says NFTs are not art
Luxury handbag maker Hermes won in court against the artist producing an NFT dupe of its flagship trademark Birkin. A nine-person jury in New York returned the verdict on Wednesday, ordering th...
Hackers takeover Azuki’s Twitter account, promote virtual land scam
The blue-chip NFT project Azuki said Friday that its Twitter account had been compromised, with apparent hackers posting two tweets that prompted users to claim virtual land. One tweet was pinned to t...
Yuga Labs blacklists Blur and other marketplaces in Sewer Pass mint
Yuga Labs blacklisted at least four marketplaces that don’t mandate NFT royalties in its newest NFT drop, Sewer Pass. Sewer Pass includes coding that blocks NFT transactions from wallets b...
Bored Ape’s Sewer Pass mint nabs $1.3 million one hour after launch
Bored Ape Yacht Club’s experimental mint for Sewer Pass attracted more than $1.3 million worth of ETH in trading volume just one hour after the mint began. The floor price for the new NFT projec...
Lionel Messi’s crypto sponsor Socios offering token holders chance to snag game balls
Socios, the company with World Cup-winner Lionel Messi as its global ambassador, is trying to score with fans by offering them a chance to win balls used to score goals. But you’ll have to pay t...
NFT blue-chip Azuki launches virtual city Hilumia
The blue-chip NFT project Azuki has launched a virtual city called Hilumia. Hilumia boasts a toy store, arcade center, gym and even a romance competition called “Love Island.” The vi...
Win Trump Rewards NFT collection lets users buy access to Donald Trump
A new collection called Win Trump Prizes that allows users to buy rewards related to former U.S. president Donald Trump launched on OpenSea. Individuals can claim a one-on-one Zoom meeting with...
December breaks 8-month decline in NFT monthly sales with 13% increase
Monthly trading volume of NFTs in December broke an 8-month streak of declines in 2022, rising 13% from November to $549.5 million, according to The Block’s data dashboard. The increase i...
OKX and Tribeca Film Festival launch NFT-gated VIP perks
Want to schmooze with celebrities at the The Tribeca Film Festival this year? You’ll need an NFT for that. The festival and crypto exchange OKX are releasing NFTs that give users exclusiv...
Yuga Labs gamifies minting NFTs with ‘Dookey Dash’
Yuga Labs, creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection, unveiled plans to gamify the process of minting NFTs. The startup today announced an upcoming online game in which players must navigat...
Solana NFT trading volumes remain stable in the 2022 bear market
NFT trading volumes on Solana are showing signs of strength for the ecosystem despite its native token losing about 94% of its value last year, with the week of Dec. 25 seeing the most activity since ...
Customers receive NFTiff diamond pendants worth $50,000
Physical versions of Tiffany’s ‘NFTiff’ diamond pendants are finally arriving on customer doorsteps. The collection was launched last year by the luxury jewelry firm, which of...
Manchester United NFTs accused of copying work of popular NFT artist
An official NFT collection from the Manchester United Football Club has been accused of looking a little too much like the work of a popular NFT artist known for his colorful animated monsters. ...
Pudgy Penguins floor price jumps 25%. Why? Because, penguins.
The floor price of the Pudgy Penguins NFT collection rose 25% over the past day as the NFT market shows signs of a minor resurgence. And because, penguins. The cute collection has seen its floor...
The year in NFT charts
From the dizzying highs of the bull run, when NFT Google searches were up what felt like thousands of percentage points, to the dark corners of the bear market, it’s been a tumultuous year for N...
Trump NFTs may prove the utility of utility
Donald Trump’s recent NFT drop was ridiculed. Bigly. But the former U.S. president seems to have had the last laugh and may have provided the digital asset community a valuable lesson if they can get ...
Yuga Lab’s NFT collection Meebits drops a collectible music album
Yuga Labs’s NFT collection Meebits launched a music album that’s also collectable as ERC-1155 NFTs. The album resulted from a collaboration with WarpSound, a subsidiary of the gener...
Generative NFTs largely avoided the market mayhem of this year
Generative NFTs have not faced the market pressures that affected other NFT collections over the course of 2022, according to a new report from The Block Research. “Although the NFT...
Argentine fan token sinks 57% following World Cup win
Argentina won the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, but a fan token connected to the team is collapsing. The Argentine Football Association Fan Token, offered through partnerships with Socios, jumped to $...
Christie’s NFT sales fall 96% in 2022
Art auction house Christie’s saw a tremendous decrease in NFT sales this year compared to 2021, despite a bumper year elsewhere in its art business. Christie’s sold 87 NFTs in 2022 ...
Donald Trump NFT collection sells out within hours
A 45,000 item NFT trading card collection created by the former U.S. president Donald Trump sold out within hours and has already racked up more than 648 ETH, or about $785,000, in trading volume, acc...
Magic Eden introduces discount and rewards system for marketplace users
Magic Eden announced a rewards system that allows users to receive rewards, discounts and other perks based on their activity on the platform. Magic Eden Rewards, as it’s called, will officially...
Valhalla and Cockpunch NFTs draw in combined $18 million in seven days
Two new NFT projects saw over $18 million in transaction volume within the last seven days. The depressed market conditions of 2022 spared no one, not even blue chip NFT projects, but these pro...
a16z leads $6.9 million investment in decentralized video platform Shibuya
Shibuya, a decentralized video platform co-founded by Emily Yang of pplpleasr fame, has raised $6.9 million in seed funding. Crypto investment firms a16z and Variant led the round, with additio...