NFTs


Finance

Southeast Asian VC Firm SeaX Ventures Closes $60M Tech Fund

The fund will invest $500,000-$5 million in technology companies, which includes blockchain and Web 3.

Venture Capital  (Getty Images)

Marchés

Pudgy Penguins NFT Collection Looks to Next Chapter With $2.5M Sale

The collection of 8,888 digital penguins has been sold to LA-based entrepreneur Luca Netz in a 750 ETH deal.

Pudgy Penguins are a collection of 8,888 NFTs with proof of ownership stored on the Ethereum blockchain (OpenSea).

Finance

NFTs Take Hollywood: My Week at NFT LA

The star-studded week brought out the good and bad of NFT mania. But who was it for?

Attendees gather outside NFT LA. (Eli Tan/CoinDesk)

Finance

Monetized Memes: Dank Bank Raises $4.2M

The NFT platform plans to use the funds to acquire “legendary memes.”

Dank Bank wants to give memes the NFT treatment. (Ochre Jelly/Flickr)

Analyses

NFT Punks With the FU Money

Michael Casey visits NFT.LA and finds permissionless innovation in the capital of storytelling.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Finance

Twitch Co-Founder’s Gaming NFT Marketplace Raises $35M

Fractal is ramping up development with the help of big-name backers.

Justin Kan (Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Finance

Citi Sees Metaverse Economy as Large as $13T by 2030

The virtual world could be the next generation of the internet, the bank’s analysts said in a report.

Citibank (TungCheung/Shutterstock)

Technologies

BAYC Says Discord Briefly Compromised, Tells Users to Avoid Discord for Minting APE NFTs

A ticket tool on Discord was briefly compromised and caught by the BAYC team in early Asian hours on Friday. It also affected other NFT projects.

(Bored Ape Yacht Club, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

OpenSea Exec Who Quit After ‘Insider Trading’ Scandal Is Back With NFT Platform

Two pitch decks seen by CoinDesk show that OpenSea’s former head of product, Nate Chastain, is building a platform to simplify the NFT discovery process.

(Andy White/Unsplash)