What’s next for metaverse post-crypto winter? Q&A with CAA’s Joanna Popper

As a kid growing up in Chicago, some of CAA’s Chief Metaverse Officer Joanna Popper’s earliest experiences with digital worlds came from playing arcade classics like Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man. Now...

Doodles CEO says brand is ‘ready to grow up,’ aims for Disney-level brand recognition

Ask Doodles new CEO Julian Holguin what he envisions for his upstart NFT brand, and he boasts of his company aspiring to challenge entertainment giants such as Disney, Amazon or Netflix. Doodles...

Web3 gaming infrastructure startup Xternity raises $4.5 million: Exclusive

Web3 gaming infrastructure startup Xternity raised $4.5 million in a pre-seed funding round as the space continues to grab the most venture funding. NFX, a pre-seed and seed-stage-focused ventur...

A Comprehensive Overview of NFT Marketplace Fees

November 7, 2022, 10:13AM EST • 7 min read Quick Take NFT marketplaces have been one of the main beneficiaries of the NFT gold rush. The golden age of effortless revenue generation has come to an end,...

Meta prepares to layoff thousands of employees this week: WSJ

Meta intends to cut thousands of employees in the second week of November, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. With over 87,000 employees at Meta, the layof...

OpenSea creates tool to help NFT collections enforce royalties on-chain

Marketplace giant OpenSea laid out the first of a suite of tools for its users this weekend, allowing creators of new NFT collections to enforce royalties on-chain.  Debuting on Nov. 8, the comp...

LooksRare Reward Rebalance Results in Otherdeed Price Slide

October 21, 2022, 2:41PM EDT • 4 min read Quick Take LooksRare has revised its listing reward program that compensates traders for listing eligible NFTs within a certain price range. Yesterday, change...

The Block: NFT royalties net projects $1.8 billion in revenue: Galaxy Digital Research

A report from the research arm of Galaxy Digital, a digital asset-focused financial services firm, laid out data showing that, while NFT royalties benefit small artists, the main beneficiaries are top...

Interpol to offer metaverse police training in virtual bureau, launch expert taskforce

Interpol said it will offer training in its own online world for policing the metaverse. The Interpol metaverse will allow registered users to tour a virtual copy of the Interpol General Secretariat h...

Build up war chests for ‘prolonged’ crypto market downturn, VCs say

Crypto companies are locked in a fierce race to bolster their coffers in anticipation of a “prolonged downturn” in financial markets, leading venture capitalists said. Pantera Capital part...

NFT marketplace Blur to airdrop tokens to users as it goes live

Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Blur is airdropping “care packages” with BLUR tokens to its users in light of its launch. Blur will send the tokens to “everyone who’s stuck arou...

Solana-based gaming platform Arcade2Earn raises $3.2 million: Exclusive

Arcade2Earn, a play-to-earn gaming platform built on the Solana blockchain, has raised $3.2 million in a seed funding round led by Crypto.com Capital. Other investors included Solana Ventures, Shima C...

Major League Baseball is hiring an NFT and metaverse licensing manager

Major League Baseball (MLB), an American professional baseball association composed of 30 teams, is looking to hire someone to spearhead digital gaming, NFT and metaverse licensing projects.  The posi...

BAYC creator Yuga Labs faces SEC probe: Bloomberg

Yuga Labs, creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, is facing a probe by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission into whether sales of some of its offerings violate federal law, according to a repor...

OpenSea launches support for Avalanche: Techcrunch

OpenSea has added support for Avalanche, bringing the total number of supported blockchains on OpenSea to seven. Users can now display, list and trade their Avalanche-based NFTs on OpenSea, the platfo...

A Look at Art Gobblers

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buy now, mint later NFTs

Some people don’t like generative art because they see less value in things created at random by a computer than they do in the more deliberate strokes of talented humans.   Those people really aren’t...

Warner Music Group is hiring a metaverse development director

U.S. music conglomerate Warner Music Group is looking to hire at least two people who can develop and manage projects related to web3. The first job entails creating marketing plans for metaverse bran...

The number of NFT-related trademarks tripled in 2022

The number of U.S. trademark applications pertaining to NFTs and other blockchain products have already nearly tripled in 2022 compared to the entirety of 2021.  Last year saw a total of 2,142 NFT-rel...

‘Please mom!’ Kids enticed by web3 projects with plush toys, adorable avatars

Non-fungible token and web3 evangelists appear to believe the children are the future. And plenty of major brands appear to agree. In recent months, a slew of announcements – startups, partnerships an...

Minting on Solana hits new high

Solana’s NFT space saw a surge in minting this month despite NFT market volumes  showing little improvement following the crash earlier this year. SudoAMM has conducted $50 million in trading si...

The State of Solana NFTs

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Crypto games are moving away from play-to-earn to build robust digital economies

Episode 92 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and Sky Mavis Co-Founder and Growth Lead Jeff Zirlin. Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on Apple,...

Unpacking Recent ApeCoin Developments

September 26, 2022, 10:15AM EDT • 12 min read Quick Take ApeCoin aims to fuel innovation at the intersection of culture, gaming, and commerce. Governance is conducted through the synergistic relations...

Stepn users logged 67 million miles on the move-to-earn app

Solana’s move-to-earn web3 app Stepn released notable statistics on Thursday to mark a year in operation.  Users logged over 67 million miles (108,017,738 kilometers) on the app, reaching an all-time ...

OpenSea announces support for Layer 2 network Arbitrum

On Sep 21, 2022, Poly Network, a cross-chain interoperability protocol, announced that it will integrate with XRP Ledger, an open source, public and decentralized Layer 1 blockchain. This integration ...

Summarizing The NFT Royalties Debate

September 19, 2022, 12:21PM EDT • 12 min read Quick Take Lately, the topic of NFT royalties has sparked a heated debate that has divided the market NFT royalties are not enforceable on-chain, but inst...

Venture funding for NFT and gaming firms jumped 66% from July to August

Funding for NFT and gaming-related venture deals jumped 66% in August from the previous month, according to The Block Research. In August, funding totaled $842 million compared to July’s $507 mi...

GameStop’s head of blockchain departs company

Matt Finestone, GameStop’s head of blockchain, announced Monday that he has left the company. In a heartfelt, five-part Twitter thread he wrote: “The past year and a half has been among th...

Polygon chosen for Starbucks web3 ‘odyssey’

Starbucks has tapped Polygon as its blockchain provider for what the coffee giant is calling a web3 “odyssey.”  The new initiative will allow Starbucks Rewards loyalty program members and ...

How CC0 can help — or hurt — NFT projects

Creative commons (CC0) licensing is, yet again, in the spotlight in crypto. Following Nouns, Goblintown and Cryptodickbutts, Moonbirds became the latest blue-chip NFT project to place its work in the ...

Singapore’s biggest bank DBS to acquire land in The Sandbox metaverse

Singapore’s biggest bank DBS announced a partnership with The Sandbox, a decentralized gaming virtual world and a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, on Friday. As part of the partnership, DBS will cr...