Ethiopian-Eritrean rapper Heno grew up in Takoma Park, Maryland, at the nexus of multiple worlds. As an honor roll student with street smarts, Heno experienced both the privileges and injustices of his environment. His family’s apartment was located next to his elementary and middle schools, a library, and a police station — a combination of…
The significant drop in the price of Bitcoin from $47,000 to $16,000 in 2022, along with a related fall in the average price of NFT art from $3,200 in 2021 to $1,200 in late 2022, led many commentators to declare a “crypto winter.” But, the authors of The Story of NFTs: Artists, Technology, and Democracy,…
Luxury fashion house Gucci is doubling down on its Web3 ventures. Although the brand has maintained an elusive presence on the blockchain thus far, the recent announcement of a partnership with Yuga Labs’ coveted Otherside metaverse project has set the NFT space abuzz with speculation. While the companies had previously indirectly collaborated on offerings, this…
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…
Welcome back to Runway, where we report to you from the frontlines of the digital fashion revolution. Not related to digital fashion but no less critical, Jeremy Scott is stepping down from the Italian designer label Moschino after 10 years. Who can remember what Moschino was like before the teddy bears, the burgers, and the…
Like many blockchain games, Gods Unchained aims to revolutionize the video game industry by giving players complete control of their digital assets. In traditional video games, the cards are just something you play with and are owned by the publisher. Not so in Gods Unchained. By turning in-game items into NFTs housed on the Ethereum…
If you know Web3, you know OpenSea. Since its launch at the end of 2017, the NFT marketplace has largely been the poster child for the world of Ethereum and crypto art, and it’s got the numbers to prove it. OpenSea’s total historical trading volume sits comfortably at just shy of $41 billion, according to…
There’s little more to say about the state of the legacy music industry that hasn’t already been said. These days it’s common knowledge that labels and execs rake in the dough while artists make pennies. And to top it all off, touring — which has anecdotally been a major breadwinner for artists — has increasingly…
The Alpha: The Now Pass, a collection of 2,750 NFTs set to help build the future of tokenized media, has arrived. The Now Pass grants holders access to the Now Network, an ecosystem containing nft now’s industry-defining tokenized media initiatives based on community, rewarding participation, and progressive decentralization. The Now Pass mint is officially live…
