NFT

Not every digital artwork needs to be an NFT. After all, NFTs can already do so much more, notes Abigail Carlson on Decrypt. I had a realization recently while wandering through the Musée Matisse in Nice, France, where I went to see a temporary exhibit on David Hockney. If you’re not familiar, Hockney is considered…

OpenSea, the world’s biggest NFT marketplace, has officially announced OpenRarity, a new NFT rarity protocol for the NFT community, elaborated together with Web3 analytics experts Icy.tools, Curio Tools, and PROOF, to provide a new standard of NFT ranking methods. OpenRarity will be launched next week. Nowadays, there are several high-profile NFT rarity platforms, and each…

Top investment deals across the crypto sector over the last week (Sept. 10–16, 2022): VC firm Bloccelerate is raising $100 million for its second crypto-focused fund Venture capital firm Bloccelerate is looking to raise $100 million for its second fund, according to a filing with the US SEC on Sept. 9. The Bloccelerate VC Fund…

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York is considering buying NFTs with some of the proceeds of an auction of William S. Paley’s art collection. MoMA has formed a team that monitors the digital art market and will consider purchasing NFTs. As the Wall Street Journal reported, the museum plans to sell $70…

Using Ethereum scaling network Polygon, coffee chain Starbucks will launch The Starbucks Odyssey program that will give away NFT stamps to customers and employees and sell limited edition NFTs. The coffee giant plans to give out and sell digital stamps that can unlock perks like exclusive merch, private events, and trips. On Sept. 12, Starbucks…

Written off by some as a big bubble, non-fungible tokens represent a step change for forgery management, royalty payments, and identity, Ari Juels, professor at Cornell Tech says on CoinDesk. If you stop people on the street and ask what they think non-fungible tokens (NFT) are all about, what will you hear? Something about outlandish…