Posts Tagged:NFT

The Minting of an NFT Unicorn.

Andreessen Horowitz is placing a big bet on #NFTs, leading a huge $100 million funding round for the largest of the #NFT trading marketplaces, OpenSea. With the round, OpenSea, founded in 2017, has a valuation of $1.5 billion. #wakeupimagine #NFTunicorn https://www.fastcompany.com/90656775/andreessen-horowitz-nft-opensea-100-million-funding

For the music industry, cryptocurrency will be as disruptive as MTV.

For the music industry, cryptocurrency will be as disruptive as MTV. Great read from Fast Company – a former MTV exec reflects on how crypto is shaking up the music industry in ways reminiscent of a certain game-changing video network born in 1981. #wakeupimagine #crypto #musicindustry #music https://www.fastcompany.com/90651595/for-the-music-industry-cryptocurrency-will-be-as-disruptive-as-mtv

Brands gone wild. The NFT bandwagon.

A couple of months after #NFTs caught the public imagination with the $69 million #Beeple Christy’s auction, it has been fascinating to see how brands have scrambled to jump on the NFT bandwagon. Everyone is talking about NFTs but very few people understand them. Luxury #brands are minting virtual sneakers, QSR brands are out minting pixelated pizza and taco GIFs, and even…

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Cryptopunks x Christie’s = $17M

A lot of 9 CryptoPunks portraits ended up selling for just under $17 million in a Christie’s auction Tuesday evening, marking another substantial moment for #NFT art sales. The lot of pixelated portraits were from the collection of the NFT platform’s co-creators Matt Hall and John Watkinson. The CryptoPunks platform is one of the first NFT projects on the Ethereum#blockchain. Back in…

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Go Dapper Go

#Canadian NFT crypto player Dapper Labs is raising money at an over $7.5 Billion valuation! The rush of enthusiasm for blockchain-based collectibles is driving an extraordinary surge of investor interest in Dapper Labs, the developer of collectibles like NBA Top Shot and CryptoKitties. Just a few weeks after Dapper Labs raised $305 million at a valuation of $2.6 billion,…

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Beeple x NFT x $69M

Wow!!! – “Everydays — The First 5000 Days,” by the artist known as Beeple, set a record for digital artwork in a sale at Christie’s (surpassing bids for work by artists like Frida Kahlo and Salvador Dalí). Wait you say… I’m just trying to get my head around #blockchain (the general ledger), bitcoin (#cryptocurrency), and fungible currencies…

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