NFTs

Gap is the latest retailer to launch an NFT collection, which includes $415 tokens that come with a physical hoodie. Continue Reading →

A report in The Wall Street Journal suggests GameStop has a 20-person unit working on a DeFi marketplace, set to launch later this year, which will offer in-game goods as supply-limited, cryptographically-signed NFTs. Continue Reading →

Vodafone has turned the first text message into a non-fungible token (NFT), which sold at a Paris auction house this week for €132,680 ($150,000) worth of ether (ETH). The company will donate the proceeds to the United Nations Refugee Agency to support forcibly displaced people. Continue Reading →

Coinbase laid out its vision for crypto, NFTs, and the metaverse in a thoughtful blog post. I was excited to learn how the world's second largest crypto exchange is thinking about identity. Continue Reading →

In a move that may help drive adoption of its browser extension crypto wallet, Coinbase (the U.S.-based crypto exchange) announced that Coinbase Wallet has been upgraded to include support for NFTs (non-fungible tokens). Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, already supports an NFT marketplace and, in October, announced support for multi-chain NFT deposits and withdrawals. Continue Reading →

A hacker exploited the Polygon-based Vulcan Forged NFT Marketplace and got hold of the private keys from 96 crypto wallets, which enabled the hacker to steal 4.5 million PYR tokens (worth about $140 million). According to crypto.com, Vulcan Forged's PYR token is down 12% this morning. Continue Reading →

In the spirit of The Pirate Bay, a popular piracy site from the past, Geoffrey Huntley has created The NFT Bay: a repository containing 15 terabytes of JPEGs (NFT images). Continue Reading →

Regarding NFTs, Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s head of gaming, told Axios, "I think there's a lot of speculation and experimentation that's happening, and that some of the creative that I see today feels more exploitive than about entertainment." Continue Reading →

This case is a metaphor for the entire decentralized movement. No matter how it ends, contracts for copyrighted works will never be the same. Continue Reading →

Zero Contact, a new thriller starring Anthony Hopkins, is set to become the first NFT feature film released on Vuele, which calls itself "the premier direct-to-consumer, feature-length film viewing and distribution platform delivering feature-length films and digital collectible entertainment content as NFTs." Continue Reading →