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TikTok Chooses Blockchain-Powered Audius for First Music Integration
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…
Sad Frog NFT Holders Furie-ous After OpenSea Delisting
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,…
How Nuts is the NFT Market? New Project Makes $2M in Its First Four Sales
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…
Rarible Shakes Up NFT Race with New Protocol
Rarible is lowering the barrier to entry for developers looking to launch NFTs projects. On August 12, the NFT platform launched Rarible Protocol, an open-source toolkit for developers to create custom NFT storefronts and marketplaces. The tech stack includes contracts, standards, and APIs for minting, exchanging and indexing NFTs. Rarible is one of the most…
Token Thieves Mint Hundreds of Illicit NFTs in Radical Heist
There’s been an art theft of NFTs! Yesterday, an attacker stole tokens from a DAO called Bright Moments and used them to mint the remaining 309 NFTs involved in the organization’s flagship project, CryptoVenetians. The project announced on Discord that one of their members fell victim to a phishing attack which exposed their private key. …
Something Fishy is Happening on OpenSea as Bots Upset NFT Auctions
The NFT marketplace OpenSea has been on a tear — at 14.61%, its primary smart contract has consumed more gas than any other on Ethereum in the last 24 hours, according to block explorer Etherscan. But there’s something strange going on in OpenSea’s waters. Ethereum wallets appear to be canceling orders at a surprising rate on…
Auction of Monet NFT Spurs Questions About Authenticity and the Future of Art
Michelangelo drew inspiration from the Greco-Roman statues of Classical antiquity to sculpt his masterpiece David. Van Gogh paid homage to the vibrant colors in the woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige. Great artworks of the past live beyond their creators to inspire great artworks of the future. Digital art and NFTs are no exception. But…
How to Buy and Sell Digital PFP Collectible NFTs | Part 2
Welcome to another tuesday tutorial, this is actually the second of a two part series looking at how to navigate the weird and wonderful world of PFP collectibles and how to go about buying, selling, identifying promising projects and creating an identity for yourself within a community. In this second part we’ll look at life…
"We're Not Really at an Inflection Point Yet:" OpenSea's Nate Chastain
In this week’s episode we interview Nate Chastain, head of product at OpenSea. Opensea got its start back in 2017 when CryptoKitties launched on Ethereum. After those digital cats, the NFT space was pretty dead for the next couple of years. Now OpenSea is reaping the rewards of hanging through that NFT winter, as NFT summer explodes with…
Anonymous Trader 0x650 Bought 88 CryptoPunks for $5.5M; Here's the Backstory
Last month, one anonymous user spent more than $5M on CryptoPunks in a buy that kicked off a frenzy of NFT sales. In an exclusive interview, The Defiant’s Camila Russo sat down to chat with the buyer 0x650d, who purchased 88 CryptoPunks for $5.5M in a single block. 0x650d gives us the scoop on how…
