Megan Kaspar, the co-founder and managing director of FirstLight, is widely recognized as a savvy investor and trailblazer in the digital fashion realm. In October 2021, she made headlines as the first person to showcase NFT clothing during a video interview. Kaspar’s pioneering spirit also earned her a feature in Haute Living’s Miami issue wearing…
The Alpha: Digital wellness agency Peace Inside Live announced on April 12 that it will launch “The JOMO Effect,” a charity NFT campaign on Magic Eden in support of Mental Health Awareness Month in May, according to information shared with nft now from Peace Inside Live co-founder Shira Lazar.The project, whose partners include TimePieces, Deepak…
The Alpha Chiru Labs, the Web3 company best known for being the parent company of popular NFT collections Azuki and Beanz, has announced a strategic partnership with digital IP platform company IPX (formerly Line Friends). Line Friends — similar to the IP of Hello Kitty and Friends — features a world of cute original characters, including…
When you see a Zhuk painting, there’s no mistaking it as anyone else’s work. The Azerbaijani artist’s style has become a staple of Web3 over the last year, injecting a digital-heavy NFT space with some refreshingly ancient aesthetics. A third-generation family artist, Zhuk brings a uniquely modern lens to classical figurative painting, often depicting the…
The lines between art and technology are more blurred than ever. A successful NFT art career requires as much creative talent as it does technical knowledge. How are artists expected to navigate both worlds? Richerd may have created the solution. As the co-founder of Manifold, Richerd created a platform that not only empowers artists to…
Julie Pacino is leading innovation at the forefront of Web3 filmmaking, and it’s not even close. Her upcoming feature-length debut, I Live Here Now, evolved out of a 2021 photography NFT collection of the same name, and the film is largely being funded by Pacino’s follow-up to that series, Keepers of the Inn. And having…
One of the most promising sectors to have emerged from the proliferation of NFT and blockchain technology over the past few years is undoubtedly Web3 music. Considering the legacy music industry has continued to fail artists time and time again, music creatives of all types have been flocking to the blockchain to take a crack at…
Bryce Johnson, better known as Brycent, is a leading voice in Web3 gaming. A longtime gamer, he first stumbled on to NFTs when he heard Axie Infinity — dubbed Pokémon on the blockchain — mentioned on a podcast in early 2021. It was a perfect match for Brycent, who grew up playing Pokémon and worked…
Web3 is a breeding ground for innovation, almost by definition. The digital token economy is still nascent — cue the tried and true rhetoric of being early to the party — and that’s precisely why the NFT community is able to push the envelope of what’s possible in the new digital age. Art, tech, finance;…
