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Gary Vaynerchuk's VeeFriends Combine NFTs with Social Tokens
Want to play tennis with serial entrepreneur and tech investor Gary Vaynerchuk? You’ll have to snag a VeeFriends non-fungible token. Gary Vaynerchuck, also known as Gary Vee, is working on a new project combining collectible NFTs with social token utility. The result is a novel project with big potential benefits for Vaynerchuk fans, including annual…
Novice Jeweler Living the American Dream Thanks to NFT Wearables
Recently multiple images of a pendant featuring NFT art were shared on Instagram and Twitter creating sizable buzz for Eduardo Jaramillo aka the NFT Jeweler. The jewelry piece, an iced out iWatch display on a gold chain, showed a series of images. In one sense it was a simple concept yet it also unofficially launched…
Eminem & Ellen DeGeneres are Latest Celebs Into NFTs
Another week, another batch of celebrities entering the NFT space. Over the past month, we’ve seen Snoop Dogg sell an original NFT music track and art collection, Tony Hawk auction off NFT skateboarding videos, and Paris Hilton (who quietly sold her first NFT for $17k in August, 2020, way before the current market boom) emerge…
Social Tokens Get Rolled On
Social money issuer Roll was hacked for nearly $5.7M of creator tokens held in hot wallets on the platform over the weekend. Using Roll’s private keys, the hacker made off with tokens from 400+ creators on the platform. They immediately sold into Uniswap pools created around the vulnerable social tokens and transferred the ETH via…
Destigmatizing the Blockchain: Sex Workers in NFT CryptoArt
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…
Building the Investable Layer of Music, by 3LAU
A Creator’s Perspective: Music & Distributed Ledger Tech Tokenizing music is still in experimental stages but my long-term vision is that digital collectibles will evolve into true fractional ownership in a song’s master recording rights, allowing artists to disintermediate the music industry and fans to gain from their success. After brainstorming for months on a…
Trump’s Deplatforming Has Crypto Leaders Calling For Decentralization
While half of America likely cheered the deplatforming of Donald Trump, crypto was calling for decentralized social media. Facebook and Twitter have banned the President from their networks, while Google and Apple have taken rightwing social network Parler, off their app stores with Amazon also pulling its web services from the app, taking it offline.…
