Upcoming Drops: January 3-8

Let’s face it: The NFT space moves really fast. Considering how quickly things can change in the metaverse, a week in NFTs might as well be a month IRL. Don’t get us wrong — the more people onboarded into the space, the merrier. But because of the constant influx of great art and ideas, it’s…

4 Brands That Didn’t Need to Say ‘NFT’ to Bring Fans Into Web3

Despite the best efforts of the NFT community and builders leading the space into the future, the term “NFT” remains controversial for most of the internet. The mere utterance of NFTs has been enough to send fans of deceased creators into a frenzy upon learning of impending drops related to these late creators’ bodies of…

Why Hip-Hop Is Becoming the Greatest Web3 Music Success Story

There’s a disparity between genres in Web3 music. While hip-hop and electronic (and, to a much lesser extent, pop) undoubtedly dominate the space, each seems to exist in its own microcosm. Considering the technological dependency of electronic music, it makes sense that the genre has easily found a foothold in Web3, but what about the…

Four Times NFTs Proved to Be Good for the Environment

When it comes to the environment, NFTs have a bad reputation — much of it undeserved. At the height of the “NFTs harm the environment” frenzy in mid-2022, wildly uncontextualized claims about single blockchain transactions consuming as much energy as a mid-sized house does in three days proliferated across the Twitter-sphere.   Two things have slowly…

How Enigmatic Artist Trippy Is Leading the Charge for Better Web3 Events

NFT events are broken. This fact shouldn’t be news to anyone within Web3. While the vast community of creators and builders have flourished in curating offshoot activations surrounding NFT.NYC and the like, the conferences and conventions themselves continue to fall short. Of course, there are exceptions. When the NFT community itself is the planner of…