Cryptoverse: Punk apes and a resurrection of NFTs
It’s alive! The NFT market is twitching out of its torpor, defying reports of its demise.
Total NFT sales on the ethereum blockchain – which hosts most trading – jumped to $780.2 ...
Top model Bella Hadid joins metaverse with NFT collection
US supermodel Bella Hadid has stepped from the catwalk into the metaverse with the launch of CY-B3LLA – a collection of Non-Fungible Tokens featuring artwork based on 3-D scans of ...
Cryptoverse: The bonfire of the NFTs
The NFT dream isn’t dead, but it’s taken a big non-fungible beating.
The market shone gloriously last year as crypto-rich speculators spent billions of dollars on the risky ...
Bored Ape NFT company raises around $285 million of crypto in virtual land sale
The company behind the “Bored Ape” series of NFTs has raised around $285 million worth of cryptocurrency by selling tokens which represent land in a virtual world game it says it ...
COVID to crypto-amulets: young Thais seek fortune-telling upgrades
Thai masters student Dhidhaj Sumedhsvast didn’t believe in fortune-telling or supernatural powers until the coronavirus pandemic started two years ago.
Now, he regularly seeks the advice of fortune-tellers, wears ...
Crypto and gaming collide in high-risk ‘play-to-earn’ economies
Jarindr Thitadilaka says he made as much as $2,000 a month last year from his collection of digital pets, which he would breed and send into battle to win cryptocurrencies.
The 28...
NFT bubble gets that shrinking feeling
The NFT bubble isn’t popping, but it may have sprung a leak.
A year on from when a single non-fungible token sold for $69.3 million in crypto at Christie’s ...
Ukraine launches NFT ‘Museum of War’ in crypto crowdfunding push
Ukraine started auctioning off a collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Friday in an expansion of a cryptocurrency fundraising push that Kyiv says has already collected more than $65 million for ...
Universal Music label acquires ape NFT to lead virtual music group
Universal Music Group (UMG.AS) is capitalizing on the popularity of non-fungible tokens by acquiring one of the cartoon apes that have taken the world of digital collectibles by storm ...
UK makes first seizure of NFTs in tax crackdown
British tax authorities said on Monday they had made their first seizure of non-fungible tokens in a crackdown on suspected criminal activity to hide money.
Her Majesty’s Revenue & ...
Unreal demand? Irregular sales worth billions fire up wild NFT market
On Jan. 12, an image of a computer-generated pixelated person was sold for about $50.6 million worth of cryptocurrency on a new online marketplace that caters for non-fungible tokens.
It gets stranger.
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Non-fungible tokens (NFTs): the next chapter in crypto
By Maria Demertzis
Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are the next hype in the crypto world. According to Collins Dictionary ‘NFT’ was the 2021 word of the year.
But what are they ...
Local university to introduce NFTs and the Metaverse
The University of Nicosia (UNIC) announced the UNIC Open Metaverse Initiative, including academic programmes, research, and on-campus integration.
The Department of Digital Innovation and the Institute For the Future (IFF) ...
Can you ‘own’ a goal? Collectible NFTs rolling into elite soccer
It might have seemed a long shot a year ago when a company built a digital platform for basketball fans to buy and trade video highlights of NBA games that ...