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Upcoming Drops: September 5-11
Let’s face it: The NFT space moves really fast. Considering how quickly things can change in the metaverse, a week in NFTs might as well be a month IRL. Don’t get us wrong — the more people onboarded into the space, the merrier. But because of the constant influx of great art and ideas, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with all the news, launches, and general happenings. Well, you can put the days of endless Twitter and Discord scrolling behind you, as we put together a weekly list of upcoming NFT drops you definitely don’t want to miss. […]
Dystopian Futures: The Vision of Idil Dursun’s NFT Art
When you look at the NFT art of Idil Dursun, an architect and CGI artist whose work deals in future dystopia and cyberpunk aesthetics, it imparts an eerily familiar feeling. Several sci-fi traditions immediately jump out at you: a bit of Blade Runner here, a dash of The Matrix there. But what’s most unsettling about the sprawling and seemingly endless cityscapes of Dursun’s art is that they don’t feel like fantastical impossibilities; they feel like a version of something you’ve already seen. If you’ve ever walked through the center of a dense urban metropolis, you’ve seen bits and pieces of […]
Miguel’s Vision for a Creative Renaissance
With Web3, creatives across various industries and disciplines have found a place that undeniably feels like home. The promise of selling your works directly to your fans is everything for a creative. One such visionary is Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Miguel, who has steadily made a name for himself as one of Web3’s most outspoken supporters. Through his recently established membership-based lifestyle solutions brand, S1C, he hopes to utilize the power inherent in blockchain technology and its underlying concepts. Namely, decentralization. “The creative renaissance through NFTs, through blockchain, through Web3 is already happening. Web3 is always about the artist — or […]
DeGods and y00ts NFTs: A Guide to the Ultimate Comeback Story
The DeGods NFT community is shaking up the NFT space in a big way. With a current floor price of 529.9 SOL, or more than $17,000 (as of writing), the DeGods collection has shot up into the top five most valuable NFT collections across all chains, coming in after Bored Ape Yacht Club, CryptoPunks, Mutant Ape Yacht Club, and Moonbirds. The collection has more than 4,300 unique owners and is one of the highest-ranked Solana projects on both OpenSea and Magic Eden. One of the most well-known and respected Solana-based projects, the approach of the DeGods y00ts mint, which launches […]
Nifty Gateway’s ‘Publishers’ Storefront Is Now Open for Curators
The Alpha: On Friday, Nifty Gateway announced it’s launching the beta-testing version of Publishers, its Shopify-like platform that will allow curators to build NFT storefronts and present collections from artists with whom they’ve partnered, according to an early release of a company blog post shared with nft now. Publishers grants users registered on the platform access to the same tools Nifty Gateway has used to present its Curated Drops over the years. Instead of the marketplace acting as the primary drop curator for the Nifty Gateway community, Publishers storefronts provide a new space for interactions between artists and buyers. It […]
Rarity Tools Explained: A Guide to Ranking Rare NFTs
Despite troublesome times, the excitement surrounding NFTs perseveres. For example, feelings of nostalgia and pride abound in digital ownership, reflecting how many feel about physical collectibles. For many collectors, minting NFTs is like opening a fresh pack of baseball cards. You never know the outcome, but there’s always the potential to pull out something rare. With the supply of most PFP projects at 10,000, the odds aren’t promising, but the potential to hit big is enough to pull in collectors. Others are more systematic, using NFT rarity tools to “snipe” NFTs off the secondary market by finding market opportunities where […]
Blockchain Gaming Needs Triple-A Titles to Truly Go Mainstream
For better or for worse, one of the buzziest words in the gaming landscape is now “blockchain.” Blockchain gaming, crypto games, NFT games — whatever feels most apt works. While the Web3 community believes gaming may be the biggest driving force in onboarding the mainstream into Web3, gamers themselves have long resisted the idea. In the wider gaming community, blockchain games don’t receive the highest respect. But why? For most gamers, the problem might not have anything to do with environmental concerns or the looming threat of bad faith actors licking their paws at any mention of the word “blockchain.” The […]
Exclusive: World of Women Reveals WoWverse Capacitors NFTs
The Alpha: Today, World of Women, the NFT brand that began as a 10k generative PFP project from WoW artist and Co-Founder Yam Karkai, announced the reveal of its Capacitors NFT collection, according to information shared with nft now in an exclusive press release. The collection marks the powerhouse NFT project’s continued expansion into the metaverse. Starting Wednesday, WoW and WoW Galaxy holders can “transform” the Capacitors NFTs the team recently airdropped to them by redeeming virtual apartment spaces that each holder can customize. Why it matters From its inception, WoW has aimed to create a pluralistic and positive community […]
Refik Anadol on How AI ‘Imagination’ Elevates Memory With NFTs
On June 25, 1949, the British neurologist Geoffrey Jefferson gave a lecture to the Royal College of Surgeons of England entitled The Mind of Mechanical Man. It may be surprising that machine intelligence was the subject of much debate in Jefferson’s time, with some describing the 1904s as the period in which artificial intelligence was born following the development of cybernetics. Jefferson’s ideas about the intersection of human and machine were ahead of their time and even impressed the great Alan Turing with their prescience and clarity. “[N]ot until a machine can write a sonnet or a concerto because of […]
NFT Game Developers: Play-to-Earn and ‘Play and Earn’ Are Not the Same
Across all applications of NFTs, one thing has remained consistent: they’re a demonstration of the untold potential of blockchain technology. In the early days of crypto, most early adopters were drawn to the idea of blockchains due to their disruptive potential in the world of finance. But with NFTs, that disruption takes place across a wide variety of industries. NFTs have gradually gained traction among internet-savvy users who have utilized this technology to launch careers in a host of creative industries — namely music and art. However, one sector that seems to be a match made in heaven for blockchain […]