DegenZoo used AI to create Logan Paul’s NFT game without him

It started with an angry tweet. “It takes 30 days to build CryptoZoo. To prove that I will build: CryptoPoo $POO in less,” tweeted Chris Zaknun, the CEO of crypto fundraising platform DAO Maker,...

NBA Top Shot CEO’s decadent lifestyle, ‘public shaming’ led to toxic culture as Dapper flails

Last May, Grammy award-winning DJ Diplo grabbed headlines after a video showed him struggling to pass security and get into a yacht party held during the Cannes Film Festival. Although meant to perfor...

Starbucks’s web3 Odyssey is seeing early signs of success, BofA says

Starbucks’s Odyssey program, an extension of Starbucks Rewards that seeks to expand brand loyalty in the virtual world, is seeing encouraging signs of early success, Bank of America said.  ...

Yuga Labs drops bitcoin-based NFT collection TwelveFold

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...

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...

NFT index token launched by Cryptex Finance

Cross-chain DeFi provider Cryptex Finance today will launch its JPEGz token, an index token based on the market capitalization of some of the hottest NFT collections, the company said. The index...

OpenSea rolls out one-stop shop for NFT drops

OpenSea has launched a suite of tools to let people or brands launch their own NFT projects.  The tools aid deploying smart contracts across all supported EVM chains, configuring drop mechanics ...

Social token platform Rally shuts down sidechain containing creators NFTs

The social token platform Rally is shutting down a sidechain containing creator NFTs.  In an email sent to users, Rally said that it would sunset the Rally sidechain after today, meaning that so...

What are Bitcoin NFTs Ordinals and how do they work?

Bitcoin is no stranger to NFTs, but it’s not been much of a friend to them either. That could be all changing as a new kind of Bitcoin-based NFTs called Ordinals emerge. The first blockcha...

Coinbase Wallet shows transaction previews to protect against NFT scams

Coinbase Wallet has added transaction previews for its users to include a visual representation of what actions they are taking when signing transactions, in the company’s latest move to help pr...

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...

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...

Two Yuga Labs leaders to be deposed amidst the Ryder Ripps legal saga

The legal saga continues for Yuga Labs, the creator of the hit NFT project Bored Ape Yacht club, and NFT artist Ryder Ripps.  A federal court in California ruled that two of Yuga Labs’s fo...

NFT founder DNP3 admits to gambling away user funds

The founder of Goobers NFT, who goes by the name DNP3, blamed a gambling addiction for why he gambled and lost user funds.   “Over the last year I got incredibly addicted to gambling,̶...

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...

Bored Ape Yacht Club ends 2022 at $83,000 floor price

Yuga Labs backed NFT project Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) ended the year with a floor price around 69 ETH, or $82,740, according to The Block’s Data Dashboard.  Source: NFT Price Floo...

Three crypto stories you might have missed this week

Even in the no man’s land between Christmas and New Year, there’s news to be had in crypto.  Here are three stories you might have missed while tucking into festive leftovers or tryi...

Memes were top asset class of 2022 as madness prevailed

It’s been one wild year in Crypto World, and that’s probably an understatement. But if you’re going to cry, you may as well have a laugh. To help with that, we’ve scoured Twitt...

NFT sales dip around Christmas for second year in a row

NFT sales have dipped leading up to Christmas for the second year in a row.  NFT trading volume fell from over $24 million on Dec. 20 to $12.9 million on Dec. 25 of this year — a 46.5% decrease....

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. ...

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...