Despite the recent decline, NFTs remain a powerful force, with $2.5 billion in sales just last quarter. Once a thriving ecosystem of digital-look art and collectibles, the trend has experienced remarkable peaks and notable valleys. Many of the blue-chip NFT collections that were once selling at a premium have seen...
Dead Bruv, the creator of the narrative-driven NFT project Meatbags, is hatching a really cool crowdfunding campaign. What’s his dream, you may ask? To buy a retired Cold War-era nuclear bunker! This new initiative is one piece of a larger effort to bring excitement and innovation back to the NFT...
Let's face it, the crypto space can feel like a Wall Street boys' club. We’re accustomed to narratives surrounding institutional investors, high-powered algorithms and predatory market making. What about the artists? The creators? The voices that have historically been silenced by that noise? What about those in Southeast Asia, Latin...
Jesse Pollak's retweet. A 20% price jump. Millions in trading volume. Sounds like another Tuesday in crypto, right? Wrong. As artists of Southeast Asia, this is a clarion call. We must act swiftly. ZORA is only the beginning. This is a monumental change in how creators are able to reach...
The NFT ecosystem is rapidly changing, as new platforms compete for market share and creators look for ways to make long-term, sustainable income. Zora, a platform recently praised for its cutting-edge approach to on-chain media, is riding high. Over the past few months, it’s experiencing a meteoric rise in price...
Here’s what happened Jesse Pollak’s innocuous retweet was the match that lit the ZORA fire. Is this simply another pump-and-dump, or does it indicate something much more meaningful about the future of Web3? I hope it’s the latter, but there would be a huge regulatory asterisk attached.Why Zora's Surge Really...
Is LOL Land, this deceptively complex, totally adorable, browser-based game from Yield Guild Games (YGG) really all that and a bag of chips? Or would it instead open the floodgates to a surge of artistic inspiration within Southeast Asia’s thriving Web3 ecosystem? I understand how this sounds, crazy even, connecting...
LOL Land, a new web3 board game, is strategically leveraging the popularity of Pudgy Penguins to attract a wider audience to the world of decentralized gaming. This decision is a notable example of a larger trend of utilizing established NFT brands to foster adoption and engagement in web3 projects. The...
LOL Land. Pudgy Penguins. YGG tokens. A browser-based board game. It all sounds harmless, doesn't it? A casual, fun-first videogame Web3 adventure, made to hook the players in with the siren song of low-effort rewards and easy-to-learn mechanics. I hope I’m wrong, but I can’t shake this feeling. Hopefully we’re...
As one of crypto’s original first-mover NFTs, CryptoPunks is currently sitting at staggering 93% decline in total sales. Even with this downturn, individual CryptoPunks are still selling for multi-millions, demonstrating the collection’s lasting value to collectors. Although the floor price across the NFT market drops, the CryptoPunks is one of...
