I spent last weekend in mental turmoil, agonizing over the following questions: Can authors benefit from publishing ebooks as NFTs? And if so, how do they go about doing it? Slight exaggeration about being in mental turmoil. The reality is I love these questions about NFTs and authorship. They prompted me to dig further down the blockchain rabbit hole (I’ll…
Famous YouTuber and professional wrestler, Logan Paul has turned an extremely rare 1998 Pikachu Illustrator Pokémon card into an NFT. In fact, Paul paid a whopping $5,275,000 for the card. Notably, the card has even broken the Guinness World Record for the most expensive Pokémon trading card sold at a private sale. Logan Paul has turned a rare Pokemon card…
A collectible card game (CCG) is a strategy card game which involves play using specially designed sets of collectible playing cards. Now with the advent of blockchain technology, we have decentralized collectible card games that feature play-to-earn mechanisms, so players are compensated for their time spent playing. Blockchain trading card games are catching up swiftly to regular trading card games…
Welcome to another exciting round of CryptoArt Sundays! This week we have NFT artist Jeff Aphisit in the house. He’s a an absolute rockstar illustrator and artist hailing from Bangkok, Thailand. I love his quirky and colourful style of art. Jeff has been in the NFT scene for more than one year already, and in the interview below he shares…
The iconic French DJ, David Guetta has partnered with metaverse developer Stage11 to build a music-themed metaverse. Reportedly, the platform will enable users to go on a sci-fi adventure with Guetta, Snoop Dogg, Akon, and Ne-Yo. While Stage11’s playable demo will launch in Fall 2022, the full experience is set to release in 2023. So, what is the David Guetta…
“Skeletal Garden” explores similar concepts but more quietly—the art shows a skeleton awash in golden light over a backdrop of night skies and deep indigo mountains, dark turquoise grass dotted with white and blue flowers. It appears to be growing from the ground and simultaneously sinking into it, at rest but somehow alive. The sentence “Congratulations! You managed to grow…
CK: Paint us a picture of your life pre-NFT. What kind of art were you creating, and when did the Muse first appear? Were there any formative experiences that really shaped your artistic vision? ACK: Pre-NFT I was making art and music, but just for myself really. Since childhood, I was always passionate about art, creativity, and the role they…
In just over a year, the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) became one of, if not the biggest brand in all of NFTs. Seen as one of the largest money makers in the NFT ecosystem, throughout most of 2022 it was nearly impossible to purchase an original BAYC NFT for less than six figures. Yet, it may (or may not)…
In the wide world of Web3, hacking attacks are far from the only threat you need to worry about with regard to the security of your assets. For some, particularly for those dealing with portfolios totaling in the millions, the biggest threat can be the market itself. This is particularly true in the case of financial entities in Web3. Since…
In just a few short months, Doodles has transformed into one of the most influential and beloved NFT projects in existence. The collection of colorful line-drawn characters has, quite literally, swept across the globe and ranks high on the list of top PFP (profile-picture) collections in terms of both popularity and sales volume. Doodles What is the Doodles NFT collection?…
