Web3 has a bad habit of leveraging its niche, insulated existence as cover to engage in objectionable behaviors. While the nascent state of the crypto and NFT market allows for seemingly boundless opportunities for all types of creatives and builders, its relatively unregulated nature (and promise of earning millions in a moment) can tempt people…
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 Now Runway, where we report to you from the frontlines of the digital fashion revolution. TikTok and Instagram were atwitter with all of the red carpet fashion this past Monday. For those of you that are strangers to fashion, this red carpet was none other than the one rolled out for The…
Imagine a game of chess where the pieces are all jumbled up. A player might be given four queens while their opponent has none or a score of bishops and rooks to match. Such is the premise behind “Really Bad Chess,” released in 2016 by developer Zach Gage. Although many have analogized chess to the…
Slowly but surely, the already larger-than-life Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) is getting bigger — and massively so. These days, new and exciting happenings are being announced on a regular basis. And now Yuga Labs — the company behind BAYC — has started down the path of creating an enormous metaverse endeavor called Otherside. Initially…
Depending on what your Twitter timeline looks like, you may have seen your favorite influencer or trader talking about Claynosaurz, the cute 3D dinosaurs on Solana that are taking the NFT world by storm. Despite the SOL and ETH communities being relatively independent of one another, this project has brought them together, attracting Ethereum enthusiasts…
Anything can happen in Web3. In fact, one of the most alluring aspects of the crypto and NFT space is its Wild West-like nature; play your cards right, and you might stumble into generational wealth in a way that just isn’t possible anywhere else. And while scams, fraud, and ruin certainly rank among the seemingly…
The recent Mad Lads craze has taken the NFT space by storm. From the outside, the collection of 10,000 Solana-based PFPs seems akin to the many generative avatar projects that came before it. However, there’s one major distinction between this new potential blue-chip project and others: executable NFTs. An enigmatic new advent on the blockchain,…
Once again, the NFT marketplace and aggregator Blur has shaken up the NFT space. On May 1, the company announced the launch of Blend, a peer-to-peer lending protocol built alongside Web3 investment firm Paradigm. Blur claims the new protocol will help unlock liquidity for NFTs and help grow the market overall. In the first 24…
