US Arrests ‘Mutant Ape Planet’ NFT Creator in $3M ‘Rug Pull’ Scheme to Defraud Crypto Investors – Regulation Bitcoin News

The U.S. government has arrested and charged the creator of “Mutant Ape Planet” non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for allegedly defrauding crypto investors. “The purchasers were ‘rug pulled,’” the Depa...

Upshot Announces Public Availability of Its “gmi” Grading Index for NFT Wallets to Identify the Most Savvy Investors

“gmi” is One of Many New Features on The Upshot Platform Designed to Provide New and Veteran Investors with Deeper, Real-Time NFT Insights NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Upshot, a blockchain-based protocol ...

ASEC: A Fake Pokemon Featured NFT Game is Controlling User Devices

A cyber security firm exposed a phishing website that offers a Pokemon-featured Non-Fungible-Tokens (NFT) card game. Apparently, the criminals were passing malware onto gamers’ devices via these NFTs....

DOJ Arrests 24-Year Old in an Alleged NFT Fraud

With the increasing number of fraudulent acts in the NFT market, no one can vouch for the entire market to be an authentic place to make investment. The United States Department of Justice recently ch...

Donald Trump NFT Collection Loses 99% Value

Donald Trump’s recently released NFT collection is fading according to the data provided by CryptoSlam. The collectibles gained a lot of investors’ attention upon the release. But it appears like its ...

Will The Gamers Backfire Forge The NFT Space or Burn it?

The NFT craze is going on and on despite the fact that the market is having a downturn for a while now. The hype has caught the spark due to blockchain games like The Sandbox, Axie Infinity and more. ...

Europe: NFT market growth forecasts

According to a new report, the NFT market in Europe is expected to grow 46.8% year-on-year to reach $13.35 billion in 2022 with predictions through 2028. Europe and the new report on NFT market growth...

BAYC Leads the Pack as NFT Sales Bounce Back in New Year

Bouncing back after months of declining prices and waning interest, NFT sales volume has started the new year off strong, data shows.  In the week ending Jan. 7, NFT sales increased by 26%, led b...

Logan Paul Apologizes to Coffeezilla Amidst Fallout Over NFT Project

In a surprising turn of events, Logan Paul deleted his response video targetting Coffeezilla’s series on CryptoZoo, where he accused the latter of spreading misinformation and even threatened to take ...

Walmart workload surges as a new green NFT market debuts on VeChain

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage VeChain and Walmart China’s relationship continues to achieve new successes. During the month of December, Walmart surpassed its ...

Top 5 Indian NFT Artists Representing India in the NFT Art Scene

NFT art may be new for the Indian diaspora, but there’s a huge talent pool of artists who have the potential to dominate the global NFT art scene. Many Indian artists have already jumped on the bandwa...

Cybercriminals use fake Pokemon NFT card game to access gamers’ PCs

A recent security report has revealed that hackers have developed a fake Pokemon NFT card game that allows them to access the users’ PCs remotely through a remote access tool. Fake NFT card game goes ...

Blockchain Is Combining Machine Learning With Incentives To Identify NFT Fraud

– Advertisement – The popularity of non-fungible tokens has soared, and as with everything else that becomes popular in the crypto world, fraud is on the rise too. As a result, many people...

NFT: Shopify welcomes Avalanche-based – The Cryptonomist

Shopify, through its Venly app, has introduced Avalanche-based NFTs for its millions of merchants so they can be sold through their online stores.  NFTs: Shopify adds Avalanche blockchain The ecommerc...

Which one is better, NFT or crypto? 2023 Lookup

2022 witnessed a lot of developments around two significant virtual assets: cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Cryptocurrency and NFT innovations like TEDY have shown that their strength...

Solana (SOL) Price Prediction: Can the NFT Giant Beat Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Orbeon Protocol (ORBN)?

Solana (SOL) is a leading competitor of Ethereum and a powerhouse to contend with, especially in the NFT industry. Solana is also a favorite of many developers seeking to build dApps on a platform tha...

Fake Pokémon NFT game spreads malware, ‘Jai Ho’ singer to launch metaverse and more

Hackers hide malware in fake NFT game A phishing website purporting to offer a Pokémon-branded nonfungible token (NFT) card game has been spreading malware to unsuspecting gamers, a cybersecurity firm...

NFT Marketplace SuperRare Announces Mass Layoff

SuperRare, the non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace has decided to lay off 30% of the workforce, CEO John Crain announced. Crain in the screenshot on Twitter said he is taking full ownership and they ...

To leave Solana, Polygon paid y00ts NFT Collection $3 million

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage DeLabs, the start-up that created the two most popular Solana NFT collections, DeGods and y00ts, has disclosed that it has obtain...

Metamorphic: Niall Dailly’s VR Musical Experience and NFT Holders

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Niall Dailly, also known as DJ Plus One, an electronic artist and former world champion turntablist, developed interactive visual...

Fidelity Explores Possibilities In The Metaverse, Plans To Launch NFT Marketplaces And Virtual Real Estates ⋆ ZyCrypto

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp Fidelity files three trademark applications, delving into the metaverse with huge plans.  The firm leverages key areas like virtual real estate inves...

New Year Brings Strong NFT Sales, Up 26% in First Week of 2023 With Top 5 Blockchains Seeing Double-Digit Increases – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News

The first week of 2023 saw an upswing in non-fungible token (NFT) sales as seven-day volume increased 26.01% compared to the previous week, totaling approximately $208.99 million in NFT sales. Additio...

NFT Project Moonbirds Partners With Hollywood Talent Agency

Moonbirds will now have access to extensive UTA network of talent. The Moonbirds project on Ethereum has 10,000 owl-themed 8-bit avatar NFTs. In February of 2022, Kevin Rose, an early Facebook and Twi...

NFT Rug Pull Artist Behind MAYC Copycat Charged by US Authorities

Vladislav Sopov 24-year old suspect was arrested last night at JFK airport for alleged $2.9 million fraud Contents NFT dev charged with rug pull with $2.9 million stolen “Community went way too ...

Why NFT Marketplace SuperRare Is Sacking 30% Of Workforce

NFT startup SuperRare has started to take drastic measures in order stay in business in the face of an extended crypto winter, giving the pink slip to some members of its workforce. According to the c...

Bluechip NFT project Moonbirds signs with Hollywood talent agents UTA

The NFT-focused company was founded by early-stage Facebook and Twitter investor Kevin Rose, and designer Justin Mezzell in February 2022. The company also has the Proof Collective and Oddities NFT co...

Avalanche [AVAX] doubles down on the NFT industry, here’s how

Avalanche’s latest announcements underscore a stronger focus on NFTs in 2023. AVAX bulls failed to yield a substantial upside in the short term. The Avalanche layer 1 blockchain recently announced int...

NFT project accepted $3M to move its collection to Polygon

The team behind y00ts and DeGods were paid $3m to move their collections off Solana and onto Polygon, according to a January 6 announcement from the company. The statement was made on Discord and copi...

Polygon to Host Mastercard’s Web3 Artist Accelerator and a ‘Limited Time Release NFT’ ⋆ ZyCrypto

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp The partnership is a win for the Ethereum-scaling network, having welcomed a major NFT project from Solana, y00ts. Polygon’s native MATIC token added...

Wyre Announces Modification of Withdrawal Policy, Pushing Topps to Temporarily Suspend NFT Marketplace Transactions – Bitcoin News

Following reports that the crypto payments firm Wyre was shutting down operations, CEO Ioannis Giannaros offered a contradicting story, stating that the firm was merely “scaling back.” Wyre has now an...

NFT Marketplace SuperRare Cuts 30% of Staff: ‘We Over-Hired’

SuperRare Labs, the company behind NFT marketplace SuperRare, became the latest crypto player to make job cuts on Friday, announcing it will reduce its staff by 30%.  The news came from SuperRare CEO ...

Arrested Mutant Ape Planet Founder May Have Pulled Off Multiple Other NFT Rug Pulls

Aurelien Michel, the founder of NFT collection Mutant Ape Planet, was arrested this week by federal authorities for allegedly orchestrating an “NFT rug pull” scam. But that may have been just one of m...