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…

Next week, the NFT platform Expressions — a marketplace dedicated to supporting underrepresented global art communities in Web3, will launch its genesis art project — Origins & Ancestries. The drop is the first of ten that will take place over the next year and will showcase 1,000 artworks from 12 artists in the Caribbean, including…

Web3 has a navel-gazing problem. While it’s hard to pass a day on Twitter without coming across rhetoric of the space’s accessibility and egalitarianism, it remains stubbornly Western-centric. Big international happenings like NFT Paris and NFT Korea Festival absolutely deserve credit for helping to broaden its scope, but even these events can feel like rehashes…

If value was a competition in the NFT world, Azuki’s Beanz would be the perennial winners. While the collection isn’t necessarily the least expensive on the market, it acts as a more affordable entry into the popular Azuki community, offering owners a way to enjoy the project’s premium features at a fraction of the cost….

Megan Kaspar, the co-founder and managing director of FirstLight, is widely recognized as a savvy investor and trailblazer in the digital fashion realm. In October 2021, she made headlines as the first person to showcase NFT clothing during a video interview. Kaspar’s pioneering spirit also earned her a feature in Haute Living’s Miami issue wearing…