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Sotheby's Ups NFT Game with Launch of Metaverse Auction Platform
NFTs & Web3

Sotheby's Ups NFT Game with Launch of Metaverse Auction Platform

Maybe it’s time to retire the tulip bubble analogies.  Anyone out there who still dismisses NFTs as nothing more than a digital fetish might want to check out the announcement from Sotheby’s today.  It’s launching a dedicated marketplace for non-fungible, tokenized art called Sotheby’s Metaverse, a nod to the virtual world where NFTs are becoming…
Infinity is Going After OpenSea With 600M Free Tokens
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Infinity is Going After OpenSea With 600M Free Tokens

Infinity, a new NFT marketplace is taking aim at OpenSea with 600M tokens ready to give away. People who have made transactions on the biggest marketplace for digital collectibles will get free tokens, but only if they use the new competitor — and soon.
Own Your Ethereum Name with ENS
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Own Your Ethereum Name with ENS

The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is a distributed, open, and extensible naming system based on the Ethereum blockchain. ENS’s job is to map human-readable names like ‘alp. eth’ to machine-readable identifiers such as Ethereum addresses, other cryptocurrency addresses, content hashes, and metadata.
Everything That's Wrong with NFTs
NFTs & Web3

Everything That's Wrong with NFTs

Let's get real – NFTs aren't just about cute profile pics. In this episode we're lifting the curtains to unveil the ugly secrets of the NFT world: the scams, the shitcoins, the mods, the influencers, the scamdrops, wash trading, you name it. Joining us will be Artur Sychov (founder and CEO at Somnium Space), NFT…
Non Fungible Debt Positions with JPEG'd
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Non Fungible Debt Positions with JPEG'd

JPEG'd is a new project that will allow NFT owners to deposit their NFTs as collateral into a vault and be able to take out a loan in PUSd.
Startup Icon AngelList Embraces DeFi by Opening Site to USDC
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Startup Icon AngelList Embraces DeFi by Opening Site to USDC

Add AngelList to the ever-lengthening list of mainstream tech outfits going crypto. On Tuesday it started letting investors use USDC-enabled funds on its site.  It’s a significant move. For the last decade, AngelList’s online bulletin board for angel investors and job-seekers has made it a valuable utility in the U.S. startup scene by playing matchmaker…
New York’s Downtown Art Scene Embraces NFTs with Online Auction Site
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New York’s Downtown Art Scene Embraces NFTs with Online Auction Site

If Jean-Michel Basquiat were still alive, he probably would have loved NFTs. And the American painter who captured the hip-hop, graffiti zeitgeist of 1980s’ New York probably would have been all over a new venture called ArtOfficial. Backed by serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk and developed by art dealer Vito Schnabel, the venture is billed as…
What Is the Metaverse? Metaverse 101
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What Is the Metaverse? Metaverse 101

This is the Defiant’s foundational guide to the Metaverse. It would take way way too long to go into all the different expressions of the Metaverse but this is our view of how the core of this exciting new space is not about immersive universes with hypercolour graphics but something far simpler and more profound.
NFTx Wants to Beat Opensea but How Are They Going to Do That? Deep Dive.
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NFTx Wants to Beat Opensea but How Are They Going to Do That? Deep Dive.

NFTX is a platform for making ERC20 tokens that are backed by NFT collectibles.