NFT
Tweets Are For Sale in a Sign the Future Will be Tokenized
Ethereum-based social network Cent has caught Twitter by storm through its new Valuables feature, allowing users to buy Tweets, minted as scarce, digital assets. “The creator of this tweet decides whether to turn their work into a limited edition, one-of-one NFT,” states the website. “Prior to them deciding, anyone can make an offer for them…
The Beeple Bonanza Unpacked With Trevor Jones
$777,777.77 was the highest bid for a piece from Beeple’s entire 2020 collection. The whole catalogue went for $3.5 Million. Trevor Jones breaks down the Beeple bonanza and later shares his ambitious project for the upcoming year involving 20 artists. And guess who’s involved…
A Record $3.5M in Crypto Art Was Sold Over the Weekend
Prolific 3D artist Beeple sold $3.5M worth of crypto art on fiat-to-crypto marketplace Nifty Gateway, a record for NFT sales over a 72-day period. The sale is a sign digital art is becoming increasingly valuable, The Beeple Everyday: 2020 Collection featured 21 single edition auctions, three open editions which were auctioned for 5 minutes and…
NFT Collectors Snatch Up "Rug Pull" Art for $65k in Auction
If you follow the Defiant YouTube channel you’ll probably have spotted me doing some very unusual experiments around NFT ownership and digital art. It’s over an hour’s worth of content across the two videos but the TLDR is this —I had an itch to scratch, my best friend Simon Wan is a fantastic IRL artist...
The Nifty Ways That NFTs Become DeFi
Blockchain technology goes far beyond the digital currency use case. Over the past six months, headlines have been dominated by cryptocurrencies and related projects as they spiked in value. But these assets were fungible meaning that one ETH token is identical to another ETH token. In the shadow of the DeFi canopy blossomed NFTs, and…
He Let Strangers Raid His Private Wallet for Art
Non-fungible tokens, or digital assets representing unique and scarce items, have taken off in the past few weeks. So much so, that video producer Robin Schmidt and artist Simon Wan thought to do an experiment to find what is actually valuable, art attached to these tokens or their crypto component? And that gets to a…
Social Token Projects Enlist Celebrities in Push for Adoption
Social tokens are becoming a breeding ground for adoption, with major names in music and sports all trying their hands at the web3-native fan engagement mechanism. Just this past week, social token platform Roll announced a partnership with Akon for the Grammy-nominated music producer to introduce personal tokens to his Akoin community, including in the…
The Defiant Guide to Digital Art and NFTs
Following the great DeFi summer many have been predicting NFTs to be the tricky second album. This is a monumentally large subject with competing viewpoints and every level of talent from scammer to international superstar. In this episode we cover Robert Alice’s Block 21 sale at Christie’s through Anthony Pompliano’s big bet on Trevor Jones,…
The Defiant's Guide to Digital Art & NFTs
Do you recognize art when it's right in front of you? As the yield farming craze cools off, non-fungible tokens are undoubtedly taking the blockchain world by storm, making us question our ideas about art and —as is often the case in crypto— greed. Quick reminder: Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are cryptocurrencies meant to represent…
Blue Kirby Sign Off Stains Anon DeFi Projects
Here’s the fable of Blue Kirby, the anonymous, video-game based character, who rode the explosive rise of the most popular DeFi token to the top and crashed back to earth along with it. Blue Kirby’s Twitter account emerged in the space at the end of July, right as Yearn Finance was gaining traction from its…
