Tag: art

Prestigious auction house Sotheby’s has announced the company will be selling Banksy works for real-time bids in Ethereum (ETH) at an auction on November 18. The famed auction house claims it will be the first to accept crypto for a real-time auction of physical art — but other auction houses are not far behind. On…

Art that was usually confined inside the museum or the apartment has found an expansive new home now – in the world of crypto. Contemporary art sales are back, hitting a record $2.7 billion in the past year, thanks to the love between young people and blockchain. According to Artprice, a leader in art market…

Nabil Al Sayed, a serial startup entrepreneur, has announced the launch on Thursday of NIFTY Souq, a new digital platform where artists and collectors of the Middle East and North Africa region can create and buy NFTs. The new NFT marketplace is going to revolutionize the music and art scene in the Gulf countries. As…

One of the original NFT marketplaces, MakersPlace, has announced a $30 million Series A round of venture financing on Aug 4, led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Pantera Capital. It also includes a number of backers from the venture arm of Coinbase and Sony Music Entertainment to many important persons in the worlds of sports,…

The NFT boom caused OpenSea trading volume to explode 76,240% year-to-date. The non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace processed 1.18 million transactions worth $1.06 billion just in the last 30 days. Trading volumes on peer-to-peer nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea in 2021 have surged by over 12,000%. According to DappRadar data, the total incoming value to OpenSea’s…

Table of Contents    Do NFTs protect the artists who create them? What is an NFT? Why were NFTs created? Are NFTs succeeding in their intended goal? Why pessimists believe NFTs will fail Why Anil Dash believes NFTs cannot be saved Why optimists believe NFTs will succeed Summing up: Who is right? Do NFTs protect the…