The NFT boom has yet a new twist: social media. Nifty’s, which is led by NBA’s former SVP of new media Jeff Marsilio, is creating an NFT-focused social media platform. Members will be able to create, collect, and display all sorts of NFTs under one community.  Nifty’s recently closed pre-seed round secured support from Mark…

The NFT of an Elon Musk tweet about making a song about NFTs to sell as an NFT is selling for over $1M.  Yeah, that’s a mouthful.  To break it down, Elon Musk tweeted that he had made a song about NFTs that he would sell as an NFT.  The NFT of Elon Musk’s NFT…

It’s official. NFTs have exploded. Prompting a wild free for all on one side with numbers you can scarcely believe and deep and justified skepticism on the other. But the problem is most have only the most rudimentary understanding of what NFTs are and what they can do. So I set myself the goal of…

Move over legacy M&A, on-chain protocol mergers are coming to town. Proposals for merging Keep and Nucypher are live on both projects’ forums. The projects are threshold cryptography networks, which protect information by encrypting it and then requiring a certain number of parties to decrypt it) networks. The potential merge is the first of its…

In case you needed further proof that NFTs are going mainstream: the latest NFT artist uploading tokens to Rarible is Mean Girls star Lindsay Lohan. Not only that, but her Bitcoin to the Moon piece is going for 24 ETH, or around $44k. Since Rarible is built on Ethereum, Lindsay also released an NFT painting…

Interview with Marguerite deCourcelle (aka Coin Artist) and Cooper Turley in full length, from “Social Tokens: plague or paradigm shift?

Aavegotchi, a DeFi game revolving around digital “fren” avatars similar to Tamagotchi, sold out of their first drop of 10,000 NFTs in under one minute. Including additional sales of “wearable” and “consumable” NFTs that players can use on their Aavegotchi, collectors bought $5.5M worth of tokens. The Aavegtochi NFTs came in the form of “Portals,”…

Enjin, the blockchain software company that co-created the ERC-1155 token standard, will be launching two scaling solutions intended to remove gas fees and provide cross-chain support for NFTs. JumpNet will be a “high-speed bridge network” that allows users to mint, distribute, and trade ERC-1155 NFTs (and ERC-20 tokens) without any gas cost or transaction fees.…

EulerBeats is a new NFT project that has emerged at the intersection of audio collectibles and algorithmically-generated art. For high-end collectors, EulerBeats might offer the chance to own a piece of NFT history, too. EulerBeats are, in essence, limited edition, algorithmically-generated beats attached to algorithmically-generated record art composed according to a multiplicative function called Euler’s…

Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure provider, now supports Unstoppable Domains’s .crypto domain name resolution. This will allow billions of users to access web content hosted on decentralized storage like IPFS and routed using blockchain-based domains. By using Cloudflare’s DNS over HTTPS, and after a quick change of settings, crypto enthusiasts can sidestep individual browser requirements and…