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WATCH: Stan Lee’s Legacy Lives on in Web3
Stan Lee is a comic book legend who made iconic characters like Spider-Man, the Hulk, Black Widow, and more into household names. Though he passed in November 2018, his legacy lives on through posthumous projects, including ones in the realm of Web3. Several of Lee’s former collaborators have linked up with the green NFT platform OneOf to onboard fans of Lee — and Marvel Comics as a whole — into the metaverse. In our latest episode of Behind the Drop, we spoke with OneOf co-founder Lin Dai — along with Art Director Will Meugniot and Slam Girl Curator Shirrel Jones […]
Internet Game Brings Game Shows to Life in Web3
What is it about game shows that makes them so hard to turn away from? Is it the prospect of winning big prizes that gets home viewers’ blood pumping? Or maybe it’s the frustration experienced from watching contestants fail challenges that seem like a walk in the park? Of course, we know exactly why game shows are so popular, because through watching others’ successes or failures, we envision ourselves being able to succeed if given the chance. Yet, because of their popularity, it’s notoriously difficult to get your name on the short list for a playing role on a game […]
WTF Are POAPs? The Intriguing Power of Proof of Attendance Protocol
In the last few years, the Proof of Attendance Protocol, commonly referred to by the acronym POAP (pronounced “poh-ap” or “poe-app”), has grown in leaps and bounds alongside the NFT space. Once perceived as a simple platform used to issue commemorative NFTs to Web3 communities, in 2022 alone the protocol leveled up, completing a $10-million funding round and incorporating. Yet, while POAP has proliferated to the farthest reaches of the non-fungible ecosystem, the general NFT enthusiast remains unaware of the true power of the unique platform. While many are happy enough to click a link, collect a commemorative badge and […]
Pplpleasr’s Two-Year Journey to NFT Stardom Highlights the Importance of Humility
So you just became internet famous. Now what? This is the situation Emily Yang faced in March 2021. Better known in the NFT space as pplpleasr, Yang’s was a different kind of fame. Rather than going viral on social media, Yang’s fame came with a payout of half of one million dollars. After the monumental 310 ETH (around $530,000) sale of Yang’s NFT, titled x*y=k, the budding artist was propelled to Web3 stardom. Not only did she become a niche internet microcelebrity overnight, but her influence immediately spread throughout the NFT space, propelled by the creation of her very own […]
Bigger Than Middle Earth? An Inside Look at Forgotten Runes Wizards Cult
In the world of traditional media, IPs often have to wait to receive a big-budget adaptation before mainstream audiences embrace them. For instance, George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones took 15 years to receive an adaptation — and audiences across a wide gamut of demographics ate it up. However, in the spirit of Web3 making new approaches possible, the Forgotten Runes Wizard’s Cult hopes to flip that meta on its head. “We’re speedrunning the next big fantasy franchise,” said Forgotten Runes co-creator Dotta in an interview with nft now. How big? “Bigger than Middle Earth, Westeros, and Hogwarts combined,” […]
Anime PFPs: 6 Stunning NFT Projects Bringing a New Generation to Web3
For as long as users have set their own PFPs on community sites, one type of imagery has dominated the space — the anime PFP. From the 90s to the mid-2000s, Western anime fans were primarily interested in hits like Dragon Ball Z, which appeared on Cartoon Network’s Toonami programming block, and Cowboy Bebop on Adult Swim. As a result, anime PFPs used during this era tended to feature characters from these specific shows. Seeing the likes of Goku, Vegeta, or Spike Spiegel in a profile picture was common. Unsurprisingly, back then, avatars tended to look rather similar. Since that […]
Meme Mania: The Best NFT Memes of All Time
When it comes to memes, the NFT space doesn’t disappoint. As a community based on blockchain art and internet culture, things can and often do change on a dime. From 48-hour-long crypto crashes to celebrities jumping into NFT projects at random, there’s always something to talk about. But when simply talking about cultural happenings doesn’t suffice, you can always count on the NFT community to whip up a meme or two to enhance social media discourse. So to shine a light on the unsung heroes of the weird wide world of non-fungibles, we’re bringing you the best NFT memes of […]
NFTs Live Forever: From Apollo 11 Artifacts to the Arch of Peace
When you store something on a blockchain — whether it’s a meme coin, a Goblin NFT, or even government documents — it will remain there forever, etched upon the blockchain’s ledger. It won’t be disturbed or modified, and, barring a worldwide apocalypse, it won’t be forgotten. This last bit is essential. Although an ISIS supporter may have previously experimented with the immutable properties of blockchain technology as a way to keep hateful propaganda online forever, this is very much the exception and not the rule. As such, multiple projects have propped up over the years to leverage this core feature […]
Rug Pull Comeback? Pixelmon CEO Opens Up in an Exclusive Interview
What happens when you wake up with $70 million in the bank and a tattered reputation? If you’re Martin van Blerk, the former head of Pixelmon — the infamous NFT project that spectacularly failed to live up to its promises, enraged swindled community members, and whose floor price tanked as a result — you get humbled. Before Pixelmon’s fateful February 7 launch this year, van Blerk had done an undeniably fantastic job of building up a mountain of expectations for the project, accruing more than 200,000 Twitter followers in the span of roughly a month. He did this mainly by […]