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Fear vs. Ethics: Where AI Art Critics Go Wrong
Artificial intelligence is making a lot of people angry this week. “AI art” has been trending on Twitter for several days now, community members on the popular artist platform Art Station are staging anti-AI art protests, and the tech’s biggest advocates have wasted no time in pushing back against the wave of outrage. Hell, even Beeple chimed in with a fantastic visual born of the whole debacle. But this week’s madness is only the symptomatic culmination of several months of technological developments and the widespread dissemination of AI-assisted artistic tools. The pressure has been building, and it’s now ruptured the […]
Seedphrase on the Malleable Nature of Web3 Identity
If you had gotten into crypto earlier, you’d probably be a millionaire by now. At least, that’s the common sentiment shared by those who missed the boat on the 2013 and/or 2017 Bitcoin booms. Hindsight is almost always 20/20, but we cannot change what has happened in the past. Rather, we can only use our experience to prepare for and build for our own future. This is precisely the attitude of Daniel Maegaard, better known in the NFT space as the influential collector and investor Seedphrase. Having made a small fortune by investing in Bitcoin and altcoins nearly a decade […]
Priced Out: Why NFT Events Are Broken
The memes spread far and fast. “No way NFT.London charged ￡600 entry for this to be the art gallery,” the November 5 tweet read over a photograph showing what appeared to be a drab office corridor doing its best impersonation of an art gallery. A smattering of small monitors displaying NFT artwork by XCOPY, Alyssa Stevens, and others populated the transitory space in seemingly random arrangement. Overall, the scenario screamed laziness, incompetence, or some combination of the two. Surely, a massive Web3 IRL activation would put more care into how it displayed community artwork, people mused. In the following minutes […]
Here’s What Web3’s Biggest Builders Say the Future Holds
Last week in downtown Miami, nft now and Mana Common’s The Gateway: A Web3 Metropolis brought together the crypto and NFT community during Art Basel. Over the course of five days, attendees viewed phenomenal displays and exhibitions from their favorite artists, caught a sneak peek of what major brands like Porsche and Instagram have in the works for their Web3 plans, and witnessed some excellent musical performances. nft now also hosted a series of panel talks, where a broad range of NFT community figureheads and leaders offered in-depth views on the state of Web3. It was a busy week full […]
12 Web3 Creators Discuss Royalties, Community, and the Future of Web3
This year’s Art Basel was a blast. Miami showed up in style to nft now and Mana Common’s The Gateway: A Web3 Metropolis, a five-day activation of art, performances, and panel talks by some of Web3’s biggest names. On Wednesday, we brought you a rundown of some of the highlights from dozens of event talks, showcasing what the ecosystem’s most prominent developers and thought leaders had to say about the future of crypto and NFTs. But to really do justice to the sheer number of fantastic panels from the week, we’re playing the rest of the hits — a part […]
Turning the Psychology of “Looking in” Into a Web3 Project
How do you define “identity” in Web3? It’s a question that opens up a can of metaverse worms. Is your online persona a reflection of your true self? Or is it simply a character that you’ve created in lieu of your real personality? Considering the ease through which users can hide their IRL existence behind a cartoon PFP, it can be difficult to trust that others are being their genuine selves from behind a screen. Yet, things get more complicated when we begin to think of digital identity as something separate from real-life, “meatspace” identity. Perhaps this is the reason […]
VeeFriends and Gary Vee on What Your Web3 Strategy Should Be in 2023
Gary Vee is no stranger to Web3. After launching VeeFriends, one of the most successful NFT brands in early 2021, the project later surged to nearly 60,000 ETH in trading volume and has spawned several follow-up and collaboration collections, including VeeFriends Series 2 and VeeFriends Mini Drops. In the last six years, VaynerX, Vee’s holding company — which focuses on contemporary media and communications projects — has grown significantly, and now encompasses subdivisions like Vayner3. Formerly VaynerNFT, Vayner3 is a Web3 consultancy that helped major brands like Stella Artois, PepsiCo, and JP Morgan Chase & Co. develop strategies to bridge […]
Exclusive: Rug Radio Announces “Faces of Web3” With Cory Van Lew
Until recently, the Web3 media landscape had been vast and desolate. While the NFT ecosystem continues to expand, few entities have taken up the cause to inform and educate the public about the future of digital ownership and blockchain-based prosperity that exists just over the horizon. But among those few, Rug Radio has quickly gained a foothold in the industry as a prominent voice of Web3 culture. A digitally-native outlet, Rug Radio — founded by NFT collector and prominent Web3 builder Farokh Sarmad — prides itself on being the first fully decentralized media platform. Through shared ownership, creators and consumers […]
Japan’s Government DAO Could Outpace Its Private Sector in Web3
In the last few years, world governments have become increasingly interested in blockchain technology’s potential to enhance the complex process of governing. So far, examples include institutional NFT marketplaces that stand to make visits to the DMV a thing of the past, while NFT sales envision Web3 as fundraising channels for political campaigns, and even national defense. But the Japanese government may be among the first to explore the possibilities of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). On November 2, the Digital Agency of Japan announced its intentions to convert its Web3.0 Study Group initiative into a full-fledged DAO. The aim is […]