NFT Revolution

Sep 30

Inside Art Blocks' Marfa Weekend, Digital Art's Latest Hotspot

Last weekend, hundreds of digital art devotees descended on Marfa, the tiny West Texas artist’s oasis, to partake in what’s rapidly become a can’t-miss cult favorite in digital culture circles: the Art Blocks Marfa Weekend. Art Blocks, which curates and releases generative digital art collections minted on the Ethereum blockchain, first invited community members to the desert town in 2021, when the company opened its physical gallery just off Marfa’s main drag. Last year, the event ballooned sub...

Sep 29

Mojo Melee champion character Haile Tibeb. Image: Amazon Prime Gaming

Amazon Is Giving Away Free Gaming NFTs—Here's How to Claim

Amazon is rumored to be developing its own NFT marketplace, but you don’t have to wait for it—the retail giant is already playing in the NFT space via its Prime Gaming portal, and best of all, the NFTs are totally free for subscribers to claim. If you pay for an Amazon Prime subscription, then there’s already a selection of free NFTs that you can claim and use in current blockchain games. Whether they’re playable characters or special outfits and skins, these freebies are worth grabbing. Amazon...

Sacra Famiglia by Ann Kirsch. Image: Ann Kirsch.

Ann Hirsch's 'Sacra Famiglia' Puts a Surreal AI Spin on Suburbia

What looks like a normal southern California home is nothing but in artist Ann Hirsch’s newest digital exhibit, "Sacra Famiglia." Clicking through the opening credits and entering the home’s foyer, guests are greeted by images of rather standard suburban living. A picture of a young girl sitting with her father and two children; one sitting in a yellow bucket, the other sprawled out in a purple dress. But skip past the foyer and into the den, and the images take an odd turn. In one home photo, a...

"Musée d’Orsay in a Starry Night," a digital souvenir by KERU created for the Musée d’Orsay (cropped). ©️ Musée d’Orsay and KERU

Musée d’Orsay Embraces NFTs in Push to Reach New Audiences

It was 2021, and the Musée d’Orsay had a problem. The Parisian museum, which boasts the largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, was struggling to attract visitors amid the seesaw uncertainty of Covid lockdowns. Some museum staff felt assured that the French people’s commitment to cultural enlightenment would prevail, and museum attendance would soon return to pre-pandemic levels. But the doors were open—and huge crowds hadn’t turned up. “French peop...

Sep 28

An NFC chip from IYK is scanned in MNTGE jeans to access digital content. Image: MNTGE

IYK Raises $16.8 Million to Power Token-Enabled Fashion With NFTs

As traditional and crypto-native brands alike start to embrace tech-connected apparel, one of the leading startups behind the trend—IYK—has just announced seed funding to grow its NFT-driven infrastructure. It also launched a platform to help automate the process for brands who want to add a digital tie-in to fashion and other products. On Thursday, IYK announced that it has raised $16.8 million in a round led by venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Collab + Curren...

Sep 26

The Fabrix AR kiosk at Paris Fashion Week 2023. Image: Fabrix

Paris Fashion Week AR Kiosks Turn Visitors Into Runway Models

This season, Paris Fashion Week is taking on a new virtual dimension. Along with attending the event’s physical shows and presentations, guests can now try digital versions of designer looks via augmented reality (AR) kiosks at the Sphere showroom in the city’s Palais de Tokyo. The neon-lit kiosks in lurid green feature full-length AR mirrors. Using an integrated touchscreen, visitors can select and try looks from a lineup of buzzy young designers—including Chet Lo, Andam Fashion Award winner Lo...

'Hoofster' NFT-Backed Shoe Hits AVAVAV's Milan Fashion Week Runway

During Milan Fashion Week on Sunday, a distinctive shoe with crowdsourced design decisions and NFT functionality made its debut on the AVAVAV runway. Dubbed the Hoofster, the cloven-toed boot with a faux-fur overlay recalled the hooves of a shaggy pony. And now you can order it. The Hoofster, created in partnership with Web3 design studio OnlyEver, is linked to an Ethereum NFT thanks to an embedded near field communication (NFC) chip. That connects the footwear to its digital twin, featuring a c...

Sep 25

A BAPE x Bored Ape Yacht Club teaser. Image: Yuga Labs

Bored Ape Yacht Club Reveals BAPE Streetwear Collab

The Bored Ape Yacht Club is collaborating with another Ape-themed brand from the fashion world—Japanese streetwear icon BAPE, or A Bathing Ape. Bored Ape creator Yuga Labs confirmed the crossover Monday evening after a tease on Twitter earlier in the day. The teaser showed a cartoonish drawing of a t-shirt in a closet with both BAPE and Bored Ape imagery on it. “Been a fan since way back when,” the tweet reads. BAPE then quote-tweeted it. According to Yuga, the collaboration will first take the...

Sep 24

Will SEC's 'Stoner Cats' Action Have a Chilling Effect on NFT Media Projects?

Earlier this month, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced its second-ever enforcement action against the creators of an NFT project—this time, against the team behind “Stoner Cats,” an NFT-backed web series from Mila Kunis’ production company that featured the vocal talents of Hollywood A-listers including Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Chris Rock, and Jane Fonda. While the SEC’s first case regarding NFTs—against a media company that promised “massive” returns on its memb...

Sep 22

Artwork from some of NHN's mobile games. Image: NHN

South Korean Mobile Developer NHN Is Building Crypto Games on Sui

South Korean tech firm NHN is developing crypto games and will use the Sui blockchain, NHN’s gaming division announced Thursday. NHN has previously developed social casino games like Hangame Poker and mobile titles including Crusader’s Quest and Guns Up! Mobile War Strategy. The company claims that its games have over 37 million total users, according to an announcement. Now, the firm plans to develop digital board games that leverage NFTs. While the firm has yet to solidify exactly how it will...

Sep 21

Alan Rickman in the 2008 film "Bottle Shock." Courtesy: Unclaimed Freight Productions

'Bottle Shock' Film Director Plots Animated Musical Remake—Funded by NFTs

Randall Miller has directed 12 movies. The most famous of those is probably “Bottle Shock,” the 2008 indie starring Alan Rickman and Chris Pine that gained cult popularity in the wine world for its dramatization of the "Judgment of Paris"—the famed 1976 occasion on which California wines defeated their French counterparts in a blind taste test. The most infamous is certainly “Midnight Rider,” an unfinished biopic Miller directed about the singer Gregg Allman. In 2014, on the first day of filming...

South Korean rapper Psy. Image: Shutterstock

South Korea's Dreamus Debuts Avalanche NFT Tickets for Events, K-Pop Concerts

South Korean entertainment and events firm Dreamus, a subsidiary of SK Planet, is now offering NFT ticketing services through SK Planet’s OK Cashbag loyalty rewards app, allowing fans to buy tickets to events like K-pop concerts and other shows as Avalanche NFTs. OK Cashbag rewards members with points for making qualifying purchases. OK Cashbag also offers games and quizzes on its Android Google Play Store app, which has over 10 million downloads. OK Cashbag’s NFT ticket offerings will leverage...

'Pirate Nation' Studio Raises $33 Million to Build Fully On-Chain Games

Proof of Play, the game studio behind the blockchain-based social role-playing game Pirate Nation, announced today that it has raised $33 million in seed funding in a round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Greenoaks Capital. The studio, co-founded by CEO Amitt Mahajan—previously co-creator of the smash casual game FarmVille at Zynga—says it will use the funding to grow the company and further scale its technology, which enables fully on-chain games that can live on indefinitely. Emmett Shear, c...

Paris Saint-Germain star Kylian Mbappé. Image: Shutterstock

Paris Saint-Germain Is Giving Away Free AI-Generated NFT Posters

Prominent French soccer club Paris Saint-Germain F.C. is teaming with its cryptocurrency exchange sponsor Crypto.com to launch matchday posters co-created with artificial intelligence tools—and fans can collect the posters as NFTs. Benjamin Benichou, an artist that uses generative AI as part of his creative process, designed the poster series for PSG. Out of 1,970 total incarnations, just seven were ultimately chosen to be released via the NFT series. Paris Saint-Germain F.C. will display the p...

Sep 20

Hashflow Turned DeFi Trading Into a Sci-Fi Game—With an AI Dictator

Decentralized crypto exchange Hashflow has launched a competitive gamified financial experience called the Hashverse, which offers narrative and educational quests around decentralized finance (DeFi) activities like trading cryptocurrency. In the Hashverse, traders will be able to choose a character avatar, stake tokens, complete various browser-based “quests,” mint Hashverse character NFTs, climb the leaderboard, and earn or potentially win HFT—Hashflow’s governance token. “We hope to positivel...

Sep 18

GEN/GEN: Generative Generations. Image: Gazelli Art House

Exploring the 'Shared Vocabulary' of Generative Art's History

Generative art has exploded in popularity alongside NFTs—and is drawing further attention as AI becomes an increasingly powerful and accessible tool for artists. But generative art as a concept predates NFTs and the recent upsurge of interest in AI. A new London exhibition, GEN/GEN: Generative Generations, running at Mayfair’s Gazelli Art House until October 7, aims to highlight the history of generative art—and place the rising stars of the NFT scene in a broader historical context. “For us, it...

Stoner Cats was co-created by actress Mila Kunis, whose Orchard Farm Productions studio developed the project. Image: Stoner Cats

Mila Kunis' Stoner Cats Banned From NFT Marketplaces After SEC Charges

The Stoner Cats NFT project can no longer be traded at prominent marketplaces like OpenSea, Blur, and Rarible. The moves follow last week’s announcement that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had charged the creators with selling unregistered securities. The Ethereum NFTs—which are tied to a celebrity-packed animated series—were initially sold in 2021 and have been available to trade across various marketplaces since then. But as of this writing, both OpenSea and Blur do...

Sep 15

Nouns NFTs are auctioned one a time, and only once per day. Image: Nouns

Nouns Fork: Disgruntled NFT Holders Exit With $27 Million From Treasury

The community of NFT holders in prominent Ethereum collection Nouns fractured into two late Friday when a proposed fork from the project was completed. Holders of more than half of all Nouns NFTs opted to leave—and collectively withdrew over $27 million worth of ETH from the project treasury in the process. The owners of 472 total Nouns NFTs—out of 846 in total, or almost 56% of the collection—joined the fork, and took almost 16,757 ETH ($27.3 million worth at present) with them from the current...

A still from the official Overdare teaser trailer. Image: Krafton

PUBG Creator Krafton Unveils 'Overdare' NFT Game With AI Creation Tools

South Korean game studio Krafton, maker of the popular battle royale shooter PUBG, announced Thursday that its upcoming NFT-driven metaverse game project will be called Overdare—and offered a first look at the creation-centric platform. Previously known as Project Migaloo, Overdare will soft-launch in December and fully release sometime between January and July 2024, Krafton said in a statement. The company has created its own blockchain, Settlus, for the game. Overdare appears to be a Roblox-l...

Sep 14

The Christie's x MNTGE Keith Haring patch. Image: MNTGE

Christie's Turns Keith Haring Digital Art Into NFC-Equipped Patch

With five digital drawings from legendary pop artist Keith Haring currently up for sale as NFTs, auction house Christie’s has teamed with connected fashion brand MNTGE to release a physical patch inspired by one of the works—with a tech twist of its own. The Christie’s auction, Keith Haring: Pixel Pioneer, is currently underway with digital paintings created on a Commodore Amiga computer in 1987 and minted as Ethereum NFTs by the Keith Haring Foundation. MNTGE has converted one of the drawings (...

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