The recent NFT boom is spurring concern that the environmental impact of minting these tokens might not be worth the benefits this emerging market is creating, with at least one artist canceling his NFT drop. In brief, blockchain mining is very energy intensive, and by extension, so is mining NFTs.  Both the Bitcoin and Ethereum…

One of the permissionless ways to mint NFTs are through Mintable. In this tutorial, we demonstrate the steps involved in minting your first NFT.

DODO, a crypto exchange with contracts on both Binance’s Smart Chain and Ethereum, has suffered a $2.1M hack. The hacker attacked DODO’s Crowdpools, which the project launched in February as part of their version 2 (V2). “On March 8, Several DODO V2 Crowdpools were attacked. WSZO, WCRES, ETHA, and FUSI pools were impacted, while AC…

Yearn Finance and Cover are splitting ways after announcing a merger back in November. The reasons behind the break-up haven’t been disclosed, but Yearn’s creator, Andre Cronje, has made one thing clear: it’s not amicable. Lost Trust Originally, Yearn—which specializes in lending aggregation, yield generation, and insurance—had partnered with peer-to-peer insurance lending protocol Cover with…

With over $230M in gross sales since launch and affiliation with one of the most lucrative sports franchises in the world, there’s one important question NBA Top Shot fans should be asking themselves: Do they actually own their NBA Top Shots? Top Shot users are experiencing several days of delays in the withdrawal of funds…

Big Data Protocol wasn’t even live a week ago. Now it sits third in terms of total value locked, ahead of DeFi mainstays Compound Finance and Uniswap, according to data compiled by DeBank.  With over $6B locked up since rewards emissions began on Saturday, the project has DeFi watchers wondering how it rocketed from nowhere…

The last time a stranger called me a “whore” in an effort to insult me, I was standing in line outside of a grocery store, wearing what any confident woman might wear on a beautiful morning in Los Angeles. I thanked her. I knew upon entering cryptoart last fall that there was quite a task…

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

In this week’s episode I interview Ameen Soleimani, one of the most prolific builders in Ethereum. He’s the CEO of SpankChain, a blockchain-based adult entertainment platform, the co-creator of MolochDAO, a DAO to fund Ethereum projects, and the co-founder of Reflexer Labs, which created RAI, a purely ether-backed stablecoin. We talk about the need of a purely…

Amazon Managed Blockchain, an AWS offering, now fully supports Ethereum. This means that companies will be able to spin up a node “in minutes” as the release says. Customers will be able to offload infrastructure issues of “data reliability due to out-of-sync nodes, data storage scaling challenges, and time-sensitive Ethereum software upgrades,” to AWS. This…