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Dookey Dash: Six Tips and Tricks to Land a High Score
The Bored Ape Yacht Club is once again injecting the NFT ecosystem with some much-needed vitality. Leading up to and following the release of the Sewer Pass — an access token that enables BAYC holders to take part in an interactive minting experience — BAYC-related assets accounted for nearly half of the total ETH NFT volume from January 16 to 23. Driving that volume is the desire to compete in a skills-based endless runner-style game developed by BAYC’s Yuga Labs called Dookey Dash. Available only to Sewer Pass holders, Dookey Dash players try to make it as far as they […]
Exclusive: Nifty Gateway Co-founders Reveal Why They’re Stepping Down
The Alpha Brothers and Nifty Gateway Co-Foudners Duncan and Griffin Cock Foster announced they would be stepping down from their leadership roles at the company. The news comes after (but not in response to) Gemini, Nifty Gateway’s parent company, announcing it will cut 10 percent of its workforce. The Cock Foster brothers have no concrete plans for the future but have expressed a desire to start another company. In an exclusive conversation with nft now, Duncan Cock Foster spoke about his and his brother’s decision to leave the company. Why it matters Big changes are on the horizon for the […]
Exclusive: Doodles Unveils Doodles 2 Details and Flow Expansion
If there were to be an influential NFT moment fit for a drumroll, the long-awaited announcement of Doodles 2 would surely be it. An ecosystem expansion that has been in development for about a year now, the anticipated next iteration of the beloved Doodles project is finally on the horizon. But surprise: it won’t be taking place on Ethereum. While this may come as less of a shock to fans who have been following the brand since 2021 — considering plans for Doodles 2 were originally unveiled this past summer — a cross-chain undertaking of such magnitude is certainly not […]
How Jack Butcher’s Checks Challenges the Way People View NFTs
When Elon Musk bought Twitter in October 2022, the internet collectively braced itself. The world’s richest human’s new toy was now a social media platform with an active user base of 368 million accounts — what could go wrong? One of the billionaire’s first changes to Twitter was to upend its “lords and peasants” system of deciding who gets a blue checkmark next to their name on the site. These checks, which users had to apply for, were a designation of the notability, activity, and authenticity of accounts. In place of that top-down system, users could now simply buy blue-check-mark-notability […]
A Guide to The Memes by 6529: Building an Open Metaverse Through Humor
Over their lifetime, memes have come to be understood as more than just cat pictures and fail videos that solicit the occasional laugh. In contrast to the often flippant nature of internet culture, memes have taken on great significance in mainstream and popular culture, achieving staying power as somewhat of a universal language. This also rings true in the NFT space, where memes continue to be created, shared, and sold for incredible sums. Considering the off-kilter, self-deprecating, and sometimes even plain nonsensical nature of Web3, the culture on the blockchain would be nothing without humor, distilled and disseminated through memes. […]
Reality vs Hype: Why Experts Say Blockchain Is The Future of Card Games
What’s the best kind of blockchain game? The answer is obviously subjective, as it depends on your taste. Do you prefer testing your skill on runner-style games, or would you rather explore a virtual open world? It can be hard to decide which is truly best. That said, one game format has stood out as perhaps the most compelling case for blockchain integration: Card games. Even opponents of NFT games — including journalists who have published massive features attempting to disparage the Web3 gaming industry as a whole — have been forced to admit that NFT card games have real utility. Need proof? One of […]
Gaming in Web3: Here’s Where the Most Iconic Brands Stand
We’ve come a long way since CryptoKitties and Axie Infinity were the most compelling options in the blockchain gaming space. Today, the blockchain gaming market is a billion-dollar industry, valued at roughly 4.6 billion dollars in 2022. Still, this growing slice of the gaming industry has decades’ worth of catching up to do with the mainstream gaming market, which saw a valuation of an estimated $232.02 billion in the same year. But not all brands are going full throttle on Web3 features in their games. In 2022, Microsoft took a hard stance on NFTs in its proprietary Minecraft game, banning […]
Sewer Pass Fever Pitch: BAYC Nets $20 Million, Blocks Zero-Royalty Platforms
The Alpha: On January 19, Yuga Labs launched Dookey Dash, an interactive minting experience playable until February 6. Users must have a Sewer Pass in their crypto wallet to play the game. These passes were initially airdropped to BAYC and MAYC NFT holders for free and have since started appearing on secondary NFT marketplaces, as announced by Yuga Labs in a Tweet. Public demand for Sewer Passes has reached a fever pitch since they first became available. Just three days since appearing on OpenSea, Sewer Passes have accrued a trading volume of over 13,000 ETH — more than $20 million […]
Is Bitcoin a Religion? A Scholar of Religion Explains
Read enough about Bitcoin, and you’ll inevitably come across people who refer to the cryptocurrency as a religion. Bloomberg’s Lorcan Roche Kelly called Bitcoin “the first true religion of the 21st century.” Bitcoin promoter Hass McCook has taken to calling himself “The Friar” and wrote a series of Medium pieces comparing Bitcoin to a religion. There is a Church of Bitcoin, founded in 2017, that explicitly calls legendary Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto its “prophet.” In Austin, Texas, there are billboards with slogans like “Crypto Is Real” that weirdly mirror the ubiquitous billboards about Jesus found on Texas highways. Like many […]