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Investors strike gold with sale of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, earns 700% profit
1 year, 10 months ago

Investors strike gold with sale of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, earns 700% profit

Hindustan Times  

Former Barclays Plc bond traders Ovie Faruq and Mike Anderson have sold a collection of iconic digital art that triggered their departure from banking and their pursuit of careers in nonfungible tokens. Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs Faruq and Anderson sold 72 Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs for between 78.08 and 78.18 Ether each this week, which translates to roughly …

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The Year the NFT Died and Came Back to Life
2 years ago

The Year the NFT Died and Came Back to Life

Wired  

The inventor of the non-fungible token says he has spent the last two years lurching “from excitement to dread.” Although artist Kevin McCoy says he is “gratified” to see people engaging with what started as his “own private thought experiment,” he claims to be terrified by the gold rush it inspired. In March 2021 during the early throes of NFT …

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Royal Enfield's Art of Motorcycling NFTs sold out
2 years, 1 month ago

Royal Enfield's Art of Motorcycling NFTs sold out

India Today  

Indian manufacturer Royal Enfield recently announced the launch of its NFTs featuring ten winning artworks from its ‘Art of Motorcycling’ programme. Royal Enfield listed these ten digital collectables, priced at Rs15,000 each, in an Ethereum-based NFT marketplace called ‘Foundation’. Speaking on the success of the campaign, Puneet Sood, Global Head, Apparel Business, Royal Enfield said, "We are extremely proud and …

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Explained | The OpenSea tale on the future of NFTs
2 years, 4 months ago

Explained | The OpenSea tale on the future of NFTs

The Hindu  

The story so far: The writing is on the wall for the crypto market. While proponents of NFTs laud these assets as a way to revolutionise the art scene or explore new models of proving ownership, OpenSea users complain of excessive downtime on the platform. One of the best known OpenSea collections was musician Shawn Mendes’ collaboration with Genies to …

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China’s Tencent retreats from NFT platform Huanhe as crypto scrutiny increases
2 years, 4 months ago

China’s Tencent retreats from NFT platform Huanhe as crypto scrutiny increases

The Hindu  

Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings' non-fungible token platform Huanhe will no longer release digital collectibles to the public, it said on Tuesday, as regulatory scrutiny of NFTs mounts in the country. The Shenzhen-based company said that Huanhe, officially launched early last August, will no longer release new NFTs to users from Tuesday. Huanhe is one of the biggest NFT platforms …

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Art Basel takes a futuristic turn as sculptures head to the moon
2 years, 6 months ago

Art Basel takes a futuristic turn as sculptures head to the moon

Live Mint  

Art Basel, the world's leading contemporary art fair, has taken a futuristic turn this year, offering buyers the chance to see their sculptures placed on the moon. "We're Elsewhere at Art Basel, Turkish artist Ozgur Kar's LCD display of a man surrounded by skeletons is being sold by the French gallery Edouard Montassut. The Vive Arts platform, meanwhile, dives into …

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NFTs are coming to Instagram ‘soon’, Mark Zuckerberg warns
2 years, 9 months ago

NFTs are coming to Instagram ‘soon’, Mark Zuckerberg warns

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We’re working on bringing NFTs to Instagram in the near term," the Facebook founder and Meta chief …

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An NFT Bubble Is Taking Over the Gig Economy
54 years, 11 months ago

An NFT Bubble Is Taking Over the Gig Economy

Wired  

Argentinian musician Frank Tavis had the life he always dreamed of. A friend recommended he join Fiverr, a freelance gig economy website where people are paid for a variety of digital services usually offered by contractors. The number of people listing NFT-related services on Fiverr rose 278 percent from the third to the fourth quarter of 2021; at the same …

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NFTs aren't art — they're just the Cult of Crypto's latest scam
2 years, 10 months ago

NFTs aren't art — they're just the Cult of Crypto's latest scam

Salon  

"If it looks like a scam, it's probably a scam." But also there's a lot of cases where those narratives aren't entirely trustworthy because people who get involved have an incentive to perform successfully because that's culturally ingrained into it and ties back to a lot of just general finance industry narratives of like: "Success comes to those who are …

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Art frauds on the rise on NFT platforms
2 years, 10 months ago

Art frauds on the rise on NFT platforms

Live Mint  

Prasad Bhat, a Bengaluru-based caricature artist who frequently lists his artwork as non-fungible tokens, is unable to hide his distress. To encourage more artists to mint NFTs, OpenSea has a tool called Lazy Minting, which doesn't require them to pay a gas fee--a one-time fee charged for creating NFT on a blockchain. According to Huzefa Motiwala, director, systems engineering, India …

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NFT marketplace that sold Dorsey tweet shuts down because it can't deal with fakes
2 years, 10 months ago

NFT marketplace that sold Dorsey tweet shuts down because it can't deal with fakes

India Today  

Cent, the NFT marketplace, which sold ex-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s first-ever tweet as an NFT, has put the transactions on hold. "There's a spectrum of activity that is happening that basically shouldn't be happening - like, legally," said Cameron Hejazi, CEO, and co-founder of the NFT marketplace Cent told Reuters. Every time we would ban one, another one would come …

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What is Web3? The future of the internet, a 'marketing buzzword' or something still to be defined?
2 years, 10 months ago

What is Web3? The future of the internet, a 'marketing buzzword' or something still to be defined?

ABC  

The future of the internet is a multi-trillion-dollar question facing the technology industry, including some of the world's wealthiest companies and investors. The technologies behind it could allow internet users to earn money, assets, or ownership for making content or otherwise contributing to the web, according to Kelsie Nabben, a researcher at RMIT University's Blockchain Innovation Hub. In a sense, …

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Are there reasons to be wary of music NFTs ?
2 years, 10 months ago

Are there reasons to be wary of music NFTs ?

Live Mint  

If you work in or adjacent to the music industry, it has become impossible to go a day without someone singing breathless paeans to the glorious future that awaits us thanks to non-fungible tokens and the coming crypto revolution. Swarathma released audio rarities, merchandise, live experiences and exclusive animated artwork as part of an NFT collection That last promise—as well …

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The Yanni NFT might be the crypto boom’s nadir.
2 years, 11 months ago

The Yanni NFT might be the crypto boom’s nadir.

Slate  

Welcome to Slate’s new column Not Gonna Make It, in which an actor/famous guy and a journalist/broke guy dissect the culture and economy of crypto. In this context comes Fantázomai, Yanni’s personally curated vault of digital collectibles, which promises to include 17 unpublished Yanni photos-turned-video NFTs that are collectively, and somewhat melodramatically, dubbed the 17. According to a representative of …

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NFT hack sees collector loses $2.2 million of ‘Bored Ape’ pictures
2 years, 11 months ago

NFT hack sees collector loses $2.2 million of ‘Bored Ape’ pictures

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An NFT collector had $2.2 million worth of ape images stolen by hackers. …

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Year Ender 2021: Was 2021 The Wildest Year For Cryptocurrencies?
2 years, 11 months ago

Year Ender 2021: Was 2021 The Wildest Year For Cryptocurrencies?

News 18  

Bitcoin close to $70,000,?memecoins? worth billions of dollars, a blockbuster Wall Street listing and a sweeping Chinese crackdown: 2021 was the wildest yet for cryptocurrencies, even by the sector?s volatile standards. Emblematic of bitcoin?s mainstream embrace was major U.S. exchange Coinbase?s $86 billion listing in April, the biggest yet of a cryptocurrency company. 2/The rise of the memecoins Even as …

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As NFTs are being sold by the likes of Amitabh Bachchan, what exactly are they?
2 years, 11 months ago

As NFTs are being sold by the likes of Amitabh Bachchan, what exactly are they?

Live Mint  

Some time ago, Amitabh Bachchan made an announcement to launch his own NFT collection to roll out poems, autographed posters and several other souvenirs. He was the first, but surely not the last, Bollywood actor to leverage blockchain technology and use it to launch his own digital assets. Non-fungible token, or an NFT, includes a unit of data stored on …

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NFTs had a breakthrough year – What’s next for them?
3 years ago

NFTs had a breakthrough year – What’s next for them?

Al Jazeera  

When Canadian artist Trevor Jones graduated 14 years ago from the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland, he was quickly confronted by the harsh realities of the art world. “When you make an NFT there’s always a limited number of them,” Yan Ketelers, CMO at Venly, a Belgian startup that builds NFT marketplaces, told Al Jazeera. “Whenever you sell them, it …

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What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained
3 years ago

What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Chris Torres, the artist who first created Nyan Cat, recently ‘minted’ a new GIF of the famous …

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First rhino horn NFT sold at auction in South Africa
3 years, 1 month ago

First rhino horn NFT sold at auction in South Africa

The Hindu  

A digital replica of a rhino horn sold at an auction in South Africa late Thursday, as conservationists tapped into the craze for NFTs to raise money to protect real rhinos. "If worst-case scenario, if rhinos go into complete disarray then I would still own a rhino horn, because the NFT is a token of the physical rhino horn," he …

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Conservationists Join NFT Bandwagon, Digital Rhino Horn Sold at Auction in South Africa
3 years, 1 month ago

Conservationists Join NFT Bandwagon, Digital Rhino Horn Sold at Auction in South Africa

News 18  

A digital replica of a rhino horn sold at an auction in South Africa late Thursday, as conservationists tapped into the craze for NFTs to raise money to protect real rhinos. “If worst-case scenario, if rhinos go into complete disarray then I would still own a rhino horn, because the NFT is a token of the physical rhino horn,” he …

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Amitabh Bachchan's NFT collection auctioned for Rs 7 crore
3 years, 1 month ago

Amitabh Bachchan's NFT collection auctioned for Rs 7 crore

India Today  

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan’s NFT collection has been sold for a whopping 9,66,000 dollars. Bachchan’s NFT collectable series included his father’s famous poem “Madhushala”, autographed vintage posters of himself, along with his other works. The exclusive Amitabh Bachchan BigB Punks and exclusive Smart Contract-Generated Pastel NFT Art which has his signature headgear, neck-gear, hairstyle, eyewear, facial hair, and a few …

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Whopper with a Side of Bitcoins: Burger King is Giving Cryptocurrency With Its Items
3 years, 1 month ago

Whopper with a Side of Bitcoins: Burger King is Giving Cryptocurrency With Its Items

News 18  

After McDonald’s, another fast food biggie, Burger King, has jumped into the digital currency world. In a recent announcement, the company said that people who join their Royal Perks loyalty programme and spend at least $5 using its app can win Bitcoin, Dogecoin or Ethereum. The fast food chain has partnered with online brokerage firm Robinhood to give away these …

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NFTs Explained: What Is This Digital Asset That's Making So Many People Millionaires?
3 years, 2 months ago

NFTs Explained: What Is This Digital Asset That's Making So Many People Millionaires?

News 18  

There’s a lot of talk about NFTs these days. Even Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet was sold for $2.9 million as an NFT earlier this year. However, NFTs can and have been created in sets like trading cards where there’s 50 or hundred of the same exact NFT that are up for sale. How to Create NFTs So …

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