Can “phygital” art keep collectors from walking away with NFT prices?
March 2021 will forever be remembered as the month NFTs went kaboom and burst into the mainstream when Beeple’s Weekdays: the first 5,000 days sold to...
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Jolly Crowds of Damien Hirst Fans turned out for the IRL conclusion of the artist’s NFT experiment. Here’s what they had to say
Excitement was in the air on Thursday night at London’s Newport Street Gallery. But the crowd of visitors chatting excitedly or snapping photos of the exhibition...
The Boom and the Bust: How NFTs Went the Way of Beanie Babies
In early 2021, NFTs were presented as a way for artists to make life-changing money. All you needed was a symbol! So artists ran out to...
OpenSea, one of the top NFT platforms, has seen trading volume drop by more than 90 percent since January
Data seems to confirm that last year’s NFT craze has come to an end. Online decentralized app hub DappRadar shows that daily traffic and sales volume...
Metakovan and Twobadour teamed up to buy for $69.3 million. Here’s what their split tells us about the future of the NFT market
Vignesh Sundaresan and Anand Venkateswaran, once known only by pseudonyms as Metakovan and Twobadour, made waves—or more accurately, a tsunami—when they acquired Beeple’s Weekdays: The first...
Tiffany and Co.’s news that it will produce custom CryptoPunk pendants sparks a 2,200 percent jump in NFT trading volume
Some people have their NFTs on their Twitter profile, others wear them around their necks in diamond-encrusted rose gold – or at least they will later...
A new DAO wants to bring art collecting power to the people through the magic of blockchain. Can it actually work?
As decentralization gains serious momentum in investment circles, it was only a matter of time before blockchain startups tapped into a slice of the art market....
More than $100 million worth of NFTs have been stolen in the past year as crypto fraud continues to rise
Over $100 million worth of NFTs have been stolen in the past year, according to a new study, with the thieves getting away with an average...
Actor Anthony Hopkins reprises his best-known roles for new NFT project, says ‘Anything is possible at any age’
British actor Anthony Hopkins has gone all in on the NFT train. Better late than never, Hopkins said in a statement yesterday announcing his new partnership...
Artists Rights Society, a copyright player, launches NFT platform to create ‘new economies’ for artists
The Artists Rights Society, an organization that has advised artists on copyright and licensing issues for 35 years, has expanded its efforts into the digital space...