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From Novice to Pro: A Guide to Gods Unchained
Like many blockchain games, Gods Unchained aims to revolutionize the video game industry by giving players complete control of their digital assets. In traditional video games, the cards are just something you play with and are owned by the publisher. Not so in Gods Unchained. By turning in-game items into NFTs housed on the Ethereum blockchain, players can trade and sell them on the open market — just like you can with physical cards. Unlike other blockchain-based games, Gods Unchained is led by gaming veteran Chris Clay, who was previously Game Director at Magic: The Gathering Arena. If that’s not […]
An NFT Every Day: A Guide to the Nouns NFT Project, DAO, and Ecosystem
If you’ve been around the NFT space, you’ve likely seen Nouns’ playful pixel art images featuring signature bright colors and simple blocky designs. As time goes on, you’ll definitely see these unique characters more and more frequently. Unlike most NFT projects that have a set number of supply before mint, Nouns is an infinite work of art. One Noun NFT is generated every single day “forever.” As a community-driven brand, Nouns aims to use its open-source IP to empower holders to fund their most ambitious dreams and business ideas with their NFTs as the face of the projects. Nouns are already […]
Valhalla: The NFT Project Promising to Make Web3’s Version of Twitch
Valhalla and its team may have bitten off more than they can chew. The NFT project’s ambitious goals include creating a platform that can rival Twitch. However, despite the enormity of this task, the project has already shown promise. It had a successful mint that quickly sold out, and the project has had more than 23,000 ETH in total sales volume. If that doesn’t sound promising enough, the project was created by Stacked Studios, an LA-based startup with a stated goal of building web3 products to become one of the largest crypto companies in the world. So far, the company […]
Renga NFTs: A Guide to the Collaborative Storytelling PFP Collection
Renga is an NFT project as enigmatic as the “black box” NFTs that started it all off. Since launching in June 2022, the project has done more than 40,000 ETH in volume and has a current floor price of 1.1799 ETH. Despite the lack of a roadmap, little in the way of traditional NFT utility, and a mostly-private artist and founder, the project has maintained a healthy community sentiment, buoyed primarily by what some people call the best PFP art in all of Web3. But what is Renga, and how has it found its success? What is Renga? Renga is […]
ERC-4337: What Ethereum’s Latest Upgrade Means for NFTs
For most of us, NFTs have been our entrée into Web3. However, the process of buying, storing, and securing those NFTs is still relatively complicated for the average person. Moreover, the wallet creation experience — the necessary precursor to any Web3 activity, NFT or otherwise — is a major inhibitor to mass adoption. That’s where ERC-4337 comes in. This new Ethereum upgrade has the potential to make blockchain technology more accessible to non-crypto natives and provide benefits like lost key recovery, no seed phrases, gasless transactions, and more. Let’s explore what ERC-4337 is, why it’s important, and what it might […]
A Guide to Photography NFTs and the Future of Imagery
Never before has society been so visually saturated. Trillions of photos are taken every year, and the popularity of social media and the prevalence of image-based marketing are simply a given at this point. Clearly, image is everything. But, this proliferation of images and the infrastructure surrounding their consumption hasn’t always been for the better. At times, social media has been a particularly fertile ground for the outright plagiarism of professional photographers’ work. In October 2017, photographer Cath Simard shared a picture of a Hawaiian road on her Instagram account. It immediately went viral and was shared across several platforms […]
Taproot Wizards: A Guide to the Fastest-Growing Bitcoin Ordinals Project
At the start of 2023, with Ordinals Inscriptions growing in popularity daily, it seemed every collector worth their salt was out to cash in on the Bitcoin NFT craze. While most turned their attention to CryptoPunks, OnChainMonkey, and other Ethereum-native projects bridging over to the world’s oldest blockchain, one Bitcoin-centric endeavor emerged to establish a new narrative around digital artifacts. Helmed by an independent developer and longtime Bitcoin advocate, Taproot Wizards (TW) entered not only as the new kid on the Ordinals block but with a mission to become much more than just another generative avatar project. Carrying the tagline […]
OnChainMonkey: Meet One of the First 10k PFP Projects on Bitcoin
OnChainMonkey (OCM) has emerged as a historic staple of the NFT community that’s proven time and time again to be well ahead of the curve. The project is well-known for uploading its entire 10,000 NFT collection to Ethereum in a single transaction. And with the new Ordinals protocol, OCM became one of the first 10,000 PFP projects on Bitcoin. While OnChainMonkey has made its mark in Web3, its parent company Metagood is perhaps less well-known. With a mission to empower communities and be catalysts for positive collective action, Metagood has spearheaded a number of impactful initiatives and is one of […]
Blur’s Token is Live: Here’s Everything You Need to Know
$BLUR is finally here. After delaying the launch of the platform’s native token in January, the NFT marketplace officially began letting users redeem care packages for the token at 1:30 p.m. ET on February 14, 2023. The run-up to the launch has been marked by much anticipation, with popular exchange Coinbase tweeting that it would list the token if liquidity conditions are met and Blur’s trading volume surging in the last month, cementing its spot as one of the top ten NFT marketplaces in existence. How did Blur manage to do all of this in such a short time? And […]
Bitcoin NFTs: The 20 Most Notable Ordinals Inscriptions
When software engineer Casey Rodarmor launched the Ordinals protocol on Bitcoin in January 2023, he sparked a movement on the blockchain. Now, NFTs can be minted on the Bitcoin mainnet. This news lit up the Web3 world as few other things have in its history, resulting in a fair amount of protest and excitement from the Bitcoin community. Purists (called Bitcoin Maxis) labeled the protocol an attack on the network, while others began gleefully minting Inscriptions — Bitcoin’s “native” version of NFTs — to their heart’s content. Much attention has been paid to the global amount and order of Ordinals […]