When something new comes along in DeFi you have to try it out to truly understand what it is and how it works. That’s what we’re doing with this new series. Say hi to ‘First Look’ and let’s start unboxing.

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…

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

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,”…