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…
OpenSea has been stuck between a rock and a hard place for the last six months. In that time, its first real competitor — Blur, the NFT marketplace and aggregator — broke onto the scene, siphoning off the majority of trading volume from the once untouchable ruler of the NFT seas. The development caused a…
The Alpha Future+ is a new IRL/URL platform designed to connect fashion, beauty, luxury, and retail executives with Web3 creators, blockchains, and digitally native brands. Ashumi Sanghvi, the CEO and founder of MAD Global, launched Future+ in partnership with Samsung.The company held its much-anticipated launch event on April 12, 2023, at Samsung’s New York Flagship…
Since the first NFT was minted in 2014, digital artists and collectors have praised blockchain technology for its usefulness in tracking provenance, the origin and history of a particular artwork. Never before had artists seen a tool that could do it all like the blockchain, an immutable digital ledger that records transactions without the aid…
Degens look out for one another. Or at least, they should, if seeking to honor the community ethos of the NFT space. But how many NFT enthusiasts are actually putting that principle into practice? Sure, sharing opportunities and prosperity counts for something. Supporting each other to success does as well. But protecting each other from…
The NFT ecosystem is bracing for impact. In just two weeks, the wildly successful and controversial NFT marketplace and aggregator Blur will end its Season 2 airdrop, with big payouts of its native token, $BLUR, expected to land in the hands of its most loyal and active users. Rewarding users for participation is a good…
Artists have been experimenting with artificial intelligence for years, but the practice has gained new levels of awareness with the release of increasingly powerful text-to-image generators like Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and Open AI’s DALL-E. Similarly, the genre of generative art has gained a cult-like following over the past year, especially among NFT artists and collectors. …
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. If you were waiting for the other shoe to drop, it finally did. Adidas, Nike x RTFKT, and dotSwoosh make major announcements this week — filling the digital world with more sneakers than we could imagine housing in…
