Auction


Finance

Christie's to Offer Blockchain-Based Ownership Certificates for Photography Collection

Wednesday's sale of "An Eye Towards the Real: Photographs from the Collection of Ambassador Trevor Traina," in New York will see digital certificates issued for each of the 130 lots, which will be minted by Kresus on Base.

Chritie's in Manhattan, New York. (Spatuletail/Shutterstock)

Web3

Art Trading Platform LiveArt Announces NFT Membership Card Linked to Exclusive Drops

The platform says its LiveArt X Card is meant to "put an end to NFT flipping and speculation" by encouraging collectors to hold onto their art for the long term.

Digital artist FEWOCiOUS auctions his NFT art at Christie's. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Finance

FDIC Planning to Try Auctioning Silicon Valley Bank Again: WSJ

The designation of SVB’s failure as a potential systemic threat gives the FDIC more options to sell the bank.

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Policy

Judge Approves Sale of Self-Custody Platform to Galaxy Digital in Celsius Bankruptcy

Galaxy, the crypto-focused financial services firm, had won the auction for GK8 earlier in the month.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Videos

Celsius’ Crypto Customers Face New Challenge in Retrieving Deposits

CORRECTION: Since publication, the reporting and headline of Celsius executives withdrawing crypto has been corrected to $17 million based on documentation provided by CTO Nuke Goldstein’s lawyers, who showed that most of his apparent withdrawals were sent to other accounts at Celsius. The original headline indicated a figure of $42 million.

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Finance

Crypto Exchanges Binance and FTX Have Both Bid Roughly $50M for Voyager’s Assets: Report

Binance’s current bid is slightly higher than FTX’s, according to sources who spoke to the Wall Street Journal.

Changpeng Zhao, CEO de Binance. (Archivo de CoinDesk)

Finance

New York’s Museum of Modern Art Considers Buying NFTs With Proceeds of $70M Auction: Report

MoMA has a team monitoring the digital art market and will consider purchasing non-fungible tokens.

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Finance

‘Beer With Bill Murray’ NFT Sells for $185K in ETH at Charity Auction

The NFT sold on Coinbase's NFT marketplace prompted a bidding war Wednesday in an effort to raise money for charity.

Bill Murray's charity auction sparked a bidding war (Coinbase)

Markets

Sotheby’s to Auction 104 CryptoPunks for Estimated $20M-$30M

The legendary “Punk Sweep” of July 2021, originally bought for about $7 million, is going up for sale.

Sotheby's to auction 104 CryptoPunk NFTs in "Punk It!" auction on Feb 23. (Sotheby's)

Finance

A Struggling South Korean Museum Is Auctioning National Treasures; Meet the 2 DAOs Trying to Buy Them

The Gansong Art Museum will be auctioning the sculptures, which the DAOs hope to keep on public display.

Seoul, South Korea (Getty Images)

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