The Teen Dropping $20M in NFTs

Following his breakout year as an NFT artist, this 19-year old sold a generative art collection of "paint drop" NFTs for $20 million. That’s why FEWOCiOUS is one of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022.

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Performance in Code: Deciphering Value in Generative Art Exhibition at Art Basel Miami Beach 2022, Powered by Tezos

MIAMI BEACH, FL – November 21, 2022: The ever-evolving world of generative art will be at the forefront of this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach exhibition – Performance in Code: Deciphering Value in Generative Art, Powered by Tezos.

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SuperRare NFT Marketplace Launches RarePass for Exclusive Curated Art Drops

The NFT marketplace will airdrop exclusive art to 250 holders of the subscription-like passes over the course of a year.

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NFT vending machine to make digital art more accessible at London event

Proceeds from the NFT vending machine at this year’s NFT.London event will be donated to charity.

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High Profile NFT Collection Moved from 3AC Wallet Amid Bankruptcy Proceedings

Last year, a non-fungible token (NFT) fund created by Three Arrows Capital co-founders has now seen many of its digital art assets moved to another wallet. The post High Profile NFT Collection Moved from 3AC Wallet Amid Bankruptcy Proceedings appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Justin Sun is Showing Up Everywhere – from Crypto to Politics & Beyond

The 32-year-old creator, a self-made billionaire, founded the TRON blockchain and has acquired traditional and NFT works of art totalling more than $100 million last year alone. While Sun was well-known in the crypto community beforehand, he came to the public’s attention in 2019 after winning a $4.6 million bid at a charity auction to […]

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Vast Potential of NFTs in Sports

We’ve spilled lots of ink about NFTs over the past year or so. We’ve talked about how they could be used in everything from video games to fashion to art. But one area that we haven’t really explored in depth is sports.

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For Freedom: Julian Assange Subject of NFT Drop At Venice Biennale

Imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is the subject of a new NFT collection that features at this year’s Venice Biennale art exhibition. The collection, This Cannot Be Erased, is a collaboration between Greek artist Miltos Manetas and acclaimed British composer Howie B.

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EXIT FESTIVAL LAUNCHES NEW NFT COLLECTIONS WITH GLOBAL MUSIC STARS AND CELEBRITIES

Unique NFT collections combine cutting-edge digital art and superior real-life experiences Ahead of this year’s much-anticipated EXIT Festival, the two-time winner of the Best Major European Festival award and one of the world’s leading cultural, social, and entertainment events is set to launch two new NFT collections on the 20th and 21st of June.

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Gameplay Plus Innovation Will Drive the Success of NFT Gaming

NFTs were the biggest revelation of 2021, recording a 200x jump in cumulative trading volume from the previous year. NFTs have truly carved out a significant market sector in the crypto industry, from providing art ownership to becoming a market-expanding technology.

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NFTs achieve another milestone with the arrival of Esaiyo Protocol

Using non-fungible tokens (NFTs), creators made a fortune last year by selling digital art, collectables, and gaming elements. Meanwhile, the core of every NFT is its metadata. This information includes the NFT’s name, characteristics, properties, history, digital rights, ownership, etc.

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NFTs Today: What Sells the Most?

NFTs are redefining the way we conceive art, and of course, the investors are taking notice. NFTs seem to be at the frontline of the cryptocurrency sector for the past year. Furthermore, NFTs allow artists to create the unavailability of digital resources in the actual world, and they have taken advantage of the possibility.

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Pixelmon Announces New NFT Project Despite Initial Response

Pixelmon’s Twitter account resurfaced on Friday morning. However, there had been an ongoing conversation on private Discord groups; the project had gone dark on the public platform after raising $104 million following a botched non-fungible token (NFT) art released earlier this year.

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More Than A JPEG: NFTs, Cannes & Feminism By Pplpleasr

NFTs are breaking into the film industry and the tokens could turn into a tool to open new corridors for gender diversity, both in the crypto market and in the making of movies. During this year’s Cannes Film Festival, NFT artist Pplpleasr continuous to explore how the tokenization of digital art is revolutionizing many concepts. […]

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NFTs are more than just digital art, here’s why

So, you have heard about NFTs and how these “digital avatars” are printing money for their holders. In 2021, NFTs were so popular that the term was christened Word of The Year by a famed dictionary company.

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721Land launches NFT Tiger Year, Tiger Explosions, collab between Cai Guo-Qiang and Cai Wen-You

For decades, contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang has been internationally acclaimed for his unique gunpowder art and large-scale installations. In 2022, on the occasion of the Year of the Tiger, Cai GuoThe post 721Land launches NFT Tiger Year, Tiger Explosions, collab between Cai Guo-Qiang and Cai Wen-You appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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NFT Collectors Can Now Frame Their Art in the Metaverse

Since Facebook announced Meta in October of last year, the world became Metaverse-crazy. Meta Quest store sales have quadrupled in the last three years with the Quest 2 becoming a roaring success, with 8.

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Moon.Art Announces The Issuance of Limited Keycards With Lifetime Utilities

Moon. Art – the world’s first fully regulated, eco-friendly and community-driven NFT-Marketplace, has announced the issuance of 10,000 limited Keycards with lifetime utilities. The issuance of these unique Keycards will be the first phase in launching the much-awaited NFT marketplace at the end of the year.

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Avalanche Crypto Event Woos 3.5K to Barcelona With Late Parties, Late Starts, Long Lines

There's plenty of cava and tapas along with video art exhibits featuring the head of a sheep, and the official events don't start till noon. Nobody seems to care too much about this year's price performance in the AVAX token.

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MetaFi projects to keep an eye on in 2022

The Open Metaverse is a nascent field, however, 2022 is perhaps the year when creators, users, developers, and tech-savvy individuals will tap into various Metaverse opportunities never seen before whether in gaming, music, art, work, commerce, etc.

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NFTs are coming to collegiate sports in this new marketplace

NFTs have been on the surge for a year and are proven to be more than just digital art. The post NFTs are coming to collegiate sports in this new marketplace appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Additions to the crypto wallet – Litecoin (LTC), Decentraland (MANA), and FIREPIN Token (FRPN)

The cryptocurrency industry continues to grow at a rapid rate and has infiltrated most facets of society including sports, TV and film, music, and art. With most cryptos, especially the most influential ones, several levels below their all-time high following $1 trillion being wiped off the global crypto market value in January of this year, […]

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Influential collector decides to hold his NFTs just before Sotheby's auction; Here's why

Fine art and luxury goods auction house Sotheby’s enjoyed a record-breaking sales year in 2021. It was boosted by a younger, digital-savvy generation of collectors. In fact, the famed auction house The post Influential collector decides to hold his NFTs just before Sotheby's auction; Here's why appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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The United Community of Hashmasks

Hashmasks Follow Feb 25 5 min read The Hashmasks are just over a year old and remain one of the most influential and innovative NFT projects ever created. It is responsible for onboarding countless new people into the web3 space and has set the standard for what high quality art on the blockchain can be.

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Rapper Drake Places Over $1.5 Million In Super Bowl Bets Using Bitcoin

The presence of celebrities in bitcoin is no longer a novel or surprising concept. Over the past year, numerous celebrities have come out to express their support for bitcoin and the crypto market at large, with NFTs providing them one of the best avenues to exert full ownership over the art they create. Others have […]

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HeritageDAO Plans To Bid For Two National Treasures In South Korea

HeritageDAO (HDAO) announced its plans to acquire two significant Korean national treasures to preserve their culture. According to reports, one art museum in South Korea is auctioning two natural treasures, the national Treasure #72 Gilt-bronze Standing Buddha Triad with Inscription of “Gyemi Year” and #73 Portable Shrine of Gilt-bronze Buddha Triad to survive the ongoing […]

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January Proves Turbulent For Investors But NFT And GameFi Seems To Be Eating Good

NFTs existed prior to 2021, but it was last year that digital art exploded in the blockchain space, and digital artists shone in the NFT spotlight. While the crypto world became an exciting place to be, a new generation of NFT artists entered the world’s largest artistic movement to date.

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How NFTs are Fueling the Anime Community in Japan

As a new year is finally upon us, it is incredible to see where technology has taken things over the past 12 months. NFTs (aka non-fungible tokens) have disrupted both the investing and art world, making headlines in 2021 for their groundbreaking utility for both creators and investors alike, and they don’t show any signs of slowing down in 2022.

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From art to gaming: The biggest NFT trends of 2021

Pop culture NFTs, blockchain art games, Metaverse NFTs, charity auctions and worldwide NFT art are the year's central themes.

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NFT.NYC co-founder says the mainstream adoption of NFTs started in 2021

NFT. NYC, an annual gathering in the non-fungible token (NFT) and digital blockchain art world, had an overwhelming attendance this year. The organization’s co-founder, Cameron Bale, disclosed this news during an interview on December 20, noting that the gathering attracted over 5,500 attendees and sponsors this year.

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Generative NFT Art Is A Boon For Digital Artists

Industry analysts and investors worldwide are looking at the biggest tech trends of the year. That way, they can determine which trends carry on in next year’s digital landscape. The popularity of NFTs is perhaps the most notable trend of this year.

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Blue Space and NFT NTWK partner up to bring Miami Art Week to the water

(Miami, FL– Nov 30, 2021) Where else other than Miami can you visit a floating NFT exhibit and dine with artists in an intimate venue on the water? Blue Space and NFT NTWK have partnered up to bring a first of its kind program to this year’s Miami Art Week.

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2021 ends with a question: Are NFTs here to stay?

NFTs are the biggest disrupter in art this year, with artists minting, exhibiting and auctioning, and investors buying, selling and trading.

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Will auction houses be bigger than museums in the NFT world?

2021 has been a crazy year around the NFT ecosystem, especially in the art world.

The post Will auction houses be bigger than museums in the NFT world? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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NFT Calendar: Top 10 upcoming NFT drops according to a survey of 1000 NFT traders

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have proven to be the next big thing. NFT has even been declared the “word of the year” by Collins Dictionary. From celebrities to top athletes, and global payments giants, investors are splashing millions of dollars on digital art.

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Gate.io’s NFT Magic Box Launches $1 Million Fund To Support NFT Creators

Over the last year, the global NFT market has boomed, minting new millionaires and pushing blockchain-based art to the forefront. Celebrities and leading brands from across the world have entered the market and many believe there will be a lot more growth in the market in the years ahead.

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Land Art is Exploding in the NFT World

Amidst rising global wealth, resurging interest in blockchain, and a shift in cultural prominence towards digital experiences, NFTs have become a powerful medium for art. Next Earth, an NFT-based replica of Earth, has seen tremendous growth over the past year.

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Art Basel in Miami Beach to Feature Tezos (XTZ) NFT Exhibition with Leading AI Artist Mario Klingemann

Tezos-themed unique interactive NFT exhibition will be featured at this year’s Art Basel in Miami Beach, an announcement made today confirms. Tezos-based NFTs in the Spotlight Titled Humans + Machines: NFTs and the Ever-Evolving World of Art (December 2–4, 2021), this year’s Art Basel in Miami Beach will bring together art, technology, and culture andRead More

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10 World-renowned artists featuring at LGND NFT art gallery at ComplexCon

LGND ART has curated one of the year’s most exciting and notable NFT art shows, to be presented exclusively at ComplexCon 2021. LGND Art will host a major NFT art show in the form of a gallery toThe post 10 World-renowned artists featuring at LGND NFT art gallery at ComplexCon appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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How NFTs Created An Economy for Digital Creators

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have revolutionized the art world in 2021. The market has seen groundbreaking sales, with collectors having spent over $2 billion on NFTs in the past month alone, compared to only $250 million in the entire year of 2020, according to NonFungible.

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‘The First Tweet’ – which sold for $2.9 million in March – has been the most searched for NFT this year

Everything went digital last year, including art. Throughout 2021 interest in non-fungible tokens(NFTs) increased dramatically, with many celebrities and artists releasing their own series of virtual work.

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How NFTs and DeFi are Combining to Disrupt the Non-Fungible Space

NFTs and DeFi are two of the biggest trends the investment world has seen this year. While non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have given rise to a whole new digital marketplace for art investors, decentralized finance (DeFi) has provided investors with a brand new landscape for using currencies free of conventional limitations.

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NFT Trading Volume Continues to Drop Sharply Since Hitting an ATH in August

Non-fungible token (NFT) mania seems to now be losing its heat as the floor price of digital art starts to fall. Also, on Google, the trend for the search term “NFT” has topped out earlier this year.

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Doge, Beeple, and Tiger King: Here are 5 of the Most Iconic NFTs of 2021

It’s no secret that NFTs have exploded this year. These exclusive digital assets have brought a whole new market to the world of investing and art collecting. So what’s behind all the hype? Although the non-fungible tokens have no tangible form and are purely digital, NFTs provide buyers with certificates of ownership for virtual andRead More

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Doge, Beeple, and Tiger King: Here are 4 of the Most Iconic NFTs of 2021

It’s no secret that NFTs have exploded this year. These exclusive digital assets have brought a whole new market to the world of investing and art collecting. So what’s behind all the hype? Although the non-fungible tokens have no tangible form and are purely digital, NFTs provide buyers with certificates of ownership for virtual andRead More

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$4 Million Meme Coin “Doge” NFT Being Sold in Billions of Fractions on SushiSwap’s MISO

The original image of Shiba Inu that was behind the popular “Doge” meme is now getting auctioned off on Fractional. Art, an NFT fractionise platform. What started as a joke in 2013 has taken the world by storm this year and gained the support of the likes of Tesla’s Elon Musk and Dallas Mavericks’ Mark Cuban.

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An Investor Bought A Beeple NFT For $969 – It’s Now Worth $300k

An art enthusiast who purchased a Beeple NFT for $969 hoping to resell it for double the price in a year or two notes a 30,000% increase of the virtual asset to US$300,000 in just about three months.

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Grimes Sells NFT Collection for $6 Million

The collection of NFT art pieces, called WarNymph Collection Vol 1. , is based around the “WarNymph” avatar Grimes created for herself. This avatar came about with the release of her fifth album this past year, “Miss Anthropocene.

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The History of Art Tokenization. Part II

2018 was a successful year for the art industry as several auction records were broken: a painting by British artist David Hockney was sold for a record sum of over $10 million and over 40 million transactions were conducted.

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