NFTs are a simple idea, but not for long. We’ve already seen how they’re being tapped as collateral for loans. Now more complex instruments are coming, thanks in part to projects breaking NFTs into pieces in a process called fractionalization.  That’s not all — some financial engineers are reportedly fashioning futures contracts derived from NFTs. …

Investor appetite for NFT art and collectibles shows no signs of abating.

DeFi can be part of the conversation at South by Southwest — if you demand it. Organizers allow the public to weigh in on the agenda of South by Southwest (SXSW), one of the biggest festivals in the country, and that’s underway now. Dozens of sessions have been proposed that touch on crypto topics and…

Last week, we conducted our BAYC evaluation 3 months after our crew was gifted them by Robin. But, here's the thing, in this ever expanding space of crypto capital and hoddling there is a growing consensus that a "gifting culture" is fundamental to this moral tightrope of the Nakamoto consensus. So we dived into this…

The whole world is struggling to wrap its head around non-fungible tokens (NFTs), including DeFi. But DeFi is trying. “Over the last two weeks NFT sales have exploded to levels well beyond the NFT boom seen in March,” says a new report by CoinMetrics. Obviously, that’s driven in part by genuine interest but also by…

SuperRare, the influential NFT art platform, is taking a big step forward in its plan to progressively decentralize with the launch of its RARE token on Aug. 17. As part of a slew of changes, SuperRare is poised to bestow more control to artists.   The new token rocketed more than 235% on Tuesday and Wednesday…

reNFT is a rental protocol, enabling lending and borrowing of NFTs.

If TikTok is a window into what teens are up to these days, then crypto has a place beside dance videos.  On Aug. 17, blockchain-based music streaming protocol Audius announced its partnership with TikTok to allow one-click sharing with the social network.   This is the first music integration TikTok has established. The upshot of the…

A copyright battle is being waged in the NFT space.  On August 16, Sad Frogs District, a collection of 7,000 Ethereum-based non-fungible tokens (NFTs), was delisted from OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace. According to the OpenSea team, the action was taken in response to a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown request by Matt Furie,…

A new NFT project that auctions off one digital asset per day made four sales in its debut.  The total spent? 764.75 ETH, worth around $2M in Friday trading.  The NFTs are called Nouns and their inventor, who goes by 4156 after the numbered CryptoPunk he owns, started the project wondering what the next iteration…