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You Can Earn a $130k Bored Ape by Winning this Blockchain Game
The Alpha: NFT tickets for the Web3 game called Internet Game minted today in anticipation of its aptly-titled second-phase Bear Market Battle. The sale will only last 24 hours, but will maintain an unlimited supply throughout the sale period. Via minting an NFT ticket, you can play to win ownership of several high-end NFT projects. As of writing, the floor price for each ticket is 0.07 ETH, or a little more than $100. The first announced prize? Bored Ape #4317 — currently valued at a cool 88.9 ETH. Why it matters: Internet Game, co-founded by Jordan Lejuwaan and venture partner […]
Street Art: The New Link Between Virtual and IRL NFT Experiences?
Anecdotally, NFTs exist as solely digital experiences. Sure, NFT events have regularly helped bridge the gap between the metaverse and IRL, but trading NFTs, interacting with the NFT community, and accessing blockchain tech all largely happen behind a screen. If we consider the great potential of NFT ticketing in the context of live music, it wouldn’t be too presumptuous to assume that there will be even more use cases for the link between NFTs and in-person experiences in the near future. And as developers and artists alike build toward integrating NFTs into real, everyday life (such is the goal of […]
NFT Tickets Are the Future of Live Music. Here’s Why
For the better part of a decade, concert and festival goers have foregone ink and paper in favor of storing their event tickets on their phones. As ticketing has transitioned from paper to PDF and the age of digital credentials, a new wave of post-pandemic performances has started to shake up the live-event ecosystem via — you guessed it — NFTs. Although it can sometimes seem like digital art and avatar NFTs are the only use cases for NFTs that have longevity, this just isn’t so. The truth is that NFTs can be used in far more ways than they […]
In This Bear Market, NFT Communities Still Find Reasons to Celebrate
Sometimes, you need to focus on the good stuff in life. Even when the market’s down, we can still have nice things. Really nice things, in fact. At least that’s the perspective taken by Trevor Jones, the OG crypto artist behind the now iconic NFT artwork “Bitcoin Angel.” Jones, a traditional painter with a keen interest in the intersection of art and technology, wrote his name into NFT history with the piece when it sold for $3.2 million in February 2021, setting the record for the most expensive open-edition NFT artwork ever at the time. The sale was one of […]
OpenSea Just Laid Off 20% of Its Staff
OpenSea has let 20 percent of its staff go, in a colossal decision to weather the crypto winter that everyone in the NFT space is living in, according to a tweet from Co-Founder and CEO OpenSea Devin Finzer. And while the broader context of a market downturn has many worried about the wider Web3 and NFT space, Finzer stressed his belief that we’re in for an “explosion in innovation and utility across NFTs,” hinting at a brighter future for everyone. Today is a hard day for OpenSea, as we’re letting go of ~20% of our team. Here’s the note I […]
A VIP Look Into the World’s Biggest NFT Festival
This year’s edition of NFT.NYC was something else. With large swathes of the NFT community making landfall in New York City, NFTs became a very IRL thing in the city that never sleeps throughout the week of June 20. Attendees had a smorgasbord of events to choose from throughout the week’s festivities. This included panels and talks hosted at the convention’s main stage, as well as exclusive parties throughout the city featuring performances from some of the music industry’s biggest NFT advocates such as Steve Aoki, Snoop Dogg, and Eminem. Some of this year’s eventgoers even partied hard enough to […]
A Global Guide to the Most Important NFT Events of 2022
Couldn’t make it to NFT.NYC? Looking for an NFT event outside the U.S instead? Lucky for you, NFTs have grown into a truly global phenomenon. In fact, according to a recent analysis, the countries most interested in NFTs include Singapore, Canada, and Iceland — in addition to the United States. Considering this, we’ve curated a list of the most notable NFT (and NFT-adjacent) events taking place across the globe in 2022. European Blockchain Convention When: June 26-28, 2022 Where: Barcelona, Spain A confluence of industry leaders in blockchain, crypto, DeFi, and NFTs are coming together for a series of talks […]
Celebrating Diversity in Web3 at Zoratopia
The second-annual Zoratopia event — presented by community-led platform, Zora — was held this week during NFT.NYC. The goal of the event was to showcase the diversity present in the NFT space by featuring an array of creators who have innovated in all sectors of the NFT and Zora ecosystems. Spanning three days of programming, Zoratopia was spearheaded by a mish-mash of influential creators, including Zora’s own head of community programming, Latashá. Kicking off with yoga and brunch on June 21 at Gaia Nomaya in Brooklyn, the first day of activities drew to a close with music and art. Headlining the […]
Police, Art, and Music: Inside FVCKRENDER’s NFT.NYC Experience
With NFT.NYC entering its last full day of festivities today, June 23, this week-long celebration of all things NFTs is officially coming to a close. Over the last few days, we’ve seen countless IRL events, activations, and art installations in and around the city commemorating one of the year’s biggest NFT events. Among these NFT.NYC-hosted galleries is FVCKRENDER’s LVCIDIA, located in Studio 525 in Manhattan. The three-day RSVP and holder-only gallery event showcases the artist’s LVCIDIA project live and in person. Launched as an online art exploration experience, LVCIDIA exists as an interactive way for enthusiasts and collectors to enter […]
NFTs IRL: A List of the Must-See Art at NFT.NYC
With NFT.NYC in full swing, creators and community members have come together from all over the world in celebration of art, culture, and all things NFTs. Whether you’re an NFT veteran or relatively new to the scene, there’s bound to be something for you at NFT.NYC. And these experiences won’t just be contained to the grounds of NFT.NYC. NFT creators and Web3 organizations are truly taking over the city, ensuring that enthusiasts and tourists alike get a glimpse of their projects. They’ve ported their work from the blockchain and into the real world with installations, billboards, and activations aplenty. If […]