NFT100 Spotlight: How Richerd and Manifold Empower Artists Beyond Open Editions

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…

Runway Exclusive: SYKY Debuts Luxury Fashion Incubator for Digital Designers

Today, we bring you nft now’s first Runway exclusive. We were lucky enough to sit down virtually with Alice Delahunt, Founder and CEO of digital fashion platform SYKY, and formerly Chief Digital and Content Officer at Ralph Lauren and Digital and Social Marketing Director at Burberry. In our chat, Delahunt demurely blames her Irishness for…

Upcoming Drops: April 10-16

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…

How Roope Rainisto’s AI Photography Redraws Artistic Boundaries

On April 5, Web3 photography platform Fellowship dropped Post Photographic Perspectives, its inaugural group show headlined and curated by designer and AI-collaborative artist Roope Rainisto. Featuring 500 new pieces from Reworld, Rainisto’s latest collection, and a further 1,000 works from 10 AI artists hand-picked by Rainisto and Fellowship, Post Photographic Perspectives is one of the…

Cryptocurrency and NFTs: What’s the Difference?

NFTs. Cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin. Ethereum. Web3. To someone who has never directly interacted with these things, the crypto world can seem obtuse, opaque, and overtly strange.  All of which is completely understandable. The advent of the blockchain and the technologies it supports represent a sea-change on par with the advent of the internet itself. And just as…

Sotheby’s All-Male Auction Shouldn’t Surprise Web3

Last week, legacy auction house Sotheby’s shut down the latest auction from its NFT initiative just two days after its March 24 opening. The show, entitled Natively Digital: Glitch-ism, featured 17 artists from the glitch art world, an aesthetic known for its distorted visuals, flashing lights, and erratic compositions. However, the show quickly courted controversy,…

Exclusive: Bugatti and Asprey Unveil The Most Expensive NFT Inscribed on the Bitcoin Blockchain

The Bugatti family was known for producing luxury goods long before they entered the automobile industry. Rembrandt Bugatti gained fame as a talented sculptor in the late 1800s and early 1900s, while Carlo Bugatti specialized in designing and manufacturing Art Nouveau furniture during the same era.  Carlo, father of Ettore Bugatti — who eventually founded…