$PEPE Multisig Mysteriously Transfers Out 16 Trillion Tokens, Investors Concerned

Investors of the popular meme coin, $PEPE, were (understandably) alarmed on Thursday after millions of dollars worth of $PEPE suddenly flooded crypto exchanges, including Binance, OKX, and Bybit. Interestingly, this incident marked the first instance in which the project’s essential multi-sig wallet participated in sending out PEPE tokens.  Thursday’s sudden surge of over 16 trillion…

Bright Moments, Gotham to Host Live Minting of Nicole Vella’s “If You Could Do It All Again”

New York City’s groundbreaking cultural and cannabis concept store, Gotham, is gearing up for the final installment of its vibrant digital generative art series, collaborating with the renowned digital art gallery Bright Moments.  The upcoming event, titled ‘If You Could Do It All Again,’ will feature the creative ingenuity of Gotham’s Artist in Residence for…

AI Language Models Are Nothing Without Humans, Sociologist Explains

The media frenzy surrounding ChatGPT and other large language model artificial intelligence systems spans a range of themes, from the prosaic – large language models could replace conventional web search – to the concerning – AI will eliminate many jobs – and the overwrought – AI poses an extinction-level threat to humanity. All of these themes have…

Next Up: Marcelo Soria-Rodriguez on Emotions, Machines, and Art

As the digital space undergoes rapid evolution, the world of NFTs has garnered significant attention both for the innovative nature of the associated technologies and also as a result of extracting liquidity through riding various trends. For artists like Marcelo Soria-Rodriguez, however,  it’s not about jumping on the bandwagon; instead, it’s a continuation of a…

Tornado Cash Founders Charged with Laundering More than $1 Billion

Hours after the DOJ announced that OpenSea’s former product manager Nathan Chastain would be sentenced to three months in prison, it just announced another major indictment — this time, against the crypto mixing service, Tornado Cash. And for its two founders, ominous clouds loom, signaling an impending storm. On Wednesday, Roman Storm, 34, and Roman Semenov,…