NFT

TIME Magazine President Keith Grossman discusses TIMEPieces, the magazine’s NFT community initiative. Grossman dives into the future of Web3 and TIME, telling CoinDesk’s Christine Lee “We are building an incredible community on Discord and Twitter for the Web3 space organically.”

23 jun 2022

"Ally Haire (Filecoin Foundation), Stuart Berman (PiKNiK & Co), Marc Johnson (Protocol Labs / Filecoin Green), Michael Horowitz (Seal Storage Technology) and Pooja Shah (Tephra Labs) present the highlight of their projects on the Filecoin ecosystem. Plus, Stefaan Vervaet (Protocol Labs) reviews Filecoin's upgrade on storage systems, applications and products in the past year, followed by a Q&A session with Anais Rachel and Gayatri Choudhury (both Bitwise Asset Management). Protocol Labs' NFT Lead Jonathan Victor presents everything you need to know about NFTs. And the session ends on a conversation between Starling Lab Founding Director Jonathan Dotan and USC Libraries Senior Director Linda Truong on the future of data storage."

22 jun 2022

Pharrell has joined popular NFT project Doodles as the new Chief Brand Officer, also serving as executive producer on Doodles’ first music release in partnership with Columbia Records. Doodles CEO Julian Holguin shares his insights, along with the latest fundraise led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, the new Doodles 2 collection and its competition.

22 jun 2022

Ukraine has sold CryptoPunk #5364, the highly valued NFT it received as a donation in March during its fundraising campaign against Russia’s attacks. Alex Bornyakov, the country’s deputy minister of digital transformation, announced the sale in a tweet. The NFT was sold to an anonymous buyer for 90 ETH, worth roughly $100,000.

21 jun 2022

Hong Kong movie star Louis Koo denies involvement with Chinese NFT platform. China’s Wechat bans NFT marketplace over flipping. Combating phishing scams and insider trading in the NFT market. Babel Finance says liquidity pressure eased with new debt agreements. Bybit to cut up to 30% of employees. Those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."

21 jun 2022

Grammy-Nominated Artist and Producer Steve Aoki talks about his land in The Sandbox, as he described his "insane playhouse, Aoki's playhouse," the metaverse, A0k1verse, and his NFT plans with Snoop Dogg. When asked about the future of crypto Steve said, "I do" think crypto has a future.

21 jun 2022

BlockFi is reportedly among those that liquidated Three Arrows Capital positions. Fed boost to crypto market proves short lived. Huobi to exit Thailand permanently on July 1. Hong Kong Monetary Authority joins with Bank of Israel to investigate CBDC cybersecurity. China media watchdog: NFTs are digital publications and need to be censored. Should NFT collectors be buying insurance? Those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."

21 jun 2022

“The Hash” group discusses Microsoft founder and environmental advocate Bill Gates’ recent criticism of cryptocurrencies after he stated that NFTs are based on the “greater fool” theory.

15 jun 2022

Three-time grammy-nominated recording artist and entrepreneur French Montana discusses his new “French Family” NFT project. Montana also shares his take on the current state of the NFT market amid a crypto downturn and his advice for upcoming artists new to the space.

15 jun 2022

Former paratrooper, and now photographer, Isaac "Drift" Wright on how NFTs gave him financial freedom and helped him through incarceration. Plus, Highstreet's Jenny Guo, Bright Moments' Seth Goldstein and Sotheby's Michael Bouhanna share insights into the impact of NFTs on traditional arts, the hurdles that NFT artists face and how blockchain empowers underrepresented artists.

12 jun 2022