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.

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?

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,”…

Accelerators supporting startups that focus on or utilize non-fungible tokens, here described as NFT startups, include both newly established Web 3 accelerators as well as historical players in the accelerator space. In addition, many of these accelerators are associated with venture funds that have invested in NFT startups. Accelerators are a well-developed funding and development…

Enjin, the blockchain software company that co-created the ERC-1155 token standard, will be launching two scaling solutions intended to remove gas fees and provide cross-chain support for NFTs. JumpNet will be a “high-speed bridge network” that allows users to mint, distribute, and trade ERC-1155 NFTs (and ERC-20 tokens) without any gas cost or transaction fees.…

Ubisoft, the video game company behind major franchises like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry,  has entered the NFT arena with its newest mobile game, One Shot League. This marks the first time that a major gaming studio has developed a video game revolving around NFTs.  One Shot League is a collaboration between Ubisoft and Sorare,…

One of the main concerns revolving NFTs are liquidity. How do you pass it on if it has no buyers? In this tutorial we go over NFT20, a platform allowing users to swap, trade, and sell NFTs.