Author: Jeremy Ryan

Murakami to wind back from NFTs Acclaimed Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami says he may not release anymore nonfungible tokens moving forward, after first jumping into the market in late 2021. Murakami is a world-renowned artist that has a career spanning back to the late 1980s. He has released two NFTs collections to date, firstly with the Clone X collection in partnership with RTFKT in December 2021, and then with the Murakami.Flowers collection in May 2022. Speaking with The Guardian in a Sept. 20 interview at the Asian Art Museum as part of his new solo art exhibition dubbed Unfamiliar…

The first ever NFT mint is coming soon to Sunflower Land in the form of Buds, game companions that will help you on your farm! These Bud NFTs are considered the premiere NFT collection for Sunflower Land and come with a number of perks and bonuses. Farming in Sunflower Land is about to get a little friendlier with the introduction of Buds, unique farming companions that will help out players with their farming production. Buds are friendly, farming pets that are the first NFT mint for Sunflower Land. This collection numbers 5,000 in total. The Buds are a generative collection,…

The closed alpha for MegaWorld Express has arrived, allowing the first wave of players a chance to try out the new, free, to play, play to earn, delivery system that also ties back into the city building aspect of the game! Mega World moves to a new phase, adding a free to play economic loop that allows building owners to receive a production boost by paying for special deliveries from players navigating the 3D world with their avatar. Players who were already involved with MegaWorld in pretty much any way should have access to this alpha. You do need to…

The non-fungible token (NFT) market, once hailed as the future of art and collectibles, has seen a lot of changes in recent years. While its meteoric rise has cooled, select collections continue to carve a niche for themselves, especially those that bring genuine value and rich heritage to the table. Enter NBA Top Shot: a combination of the world’s premier basketball league and cutting-edge digital technology. This article delves deep into what NBA Top Shot is, how it operates, the essence of its prized Moments, and more. I will also look at some of the potential investment opportunities it offers,…

NFT cards of legendary anime Pokemon designed by Courtyard have been released on the Polygon network. The two-stage sale of Pokemon cards on the Polygon (MATIC) blockchain ended successfully, with NFT enthusiasts buying 175 cards in a couple of seconds. In addition to the stablecoin USD Coin (USDC), the organizers accepted fiat money from credit cards. According to analyst S4mmy.eth, those who participated in the token sale purchased so-called “Mystery Boxes,” each of which contained a unique physical Pokemon card. The analyst emphasized the similarity of this project to a lottery, but with a special audience of RWA collectors. This…

Deep within the blackness of space, where devils roam, and opportunities lurk at every turn, the mighty Star Atlas has launched SAGE Labs, the latest gamified experience within its vast and bountiful universe.Through SAGE Labs, lovers of the dark and brooding cosmos can embark on mining and retrieval missions to garner valuable resources. Users can then craft those resources into genuine Star Atlas Loot, including Land and space ship NFTs, and potentially fruitful ‘Golden Tickets’.The game itself essentially acts as a simplified introduction to the Star Atlas economy, and will stand users in good stead for the launch of the…

Rollingstone.com hit the traffic motherlode today with an eye-catching post calling the end of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The piece, “Your NFTs Are Actually – Finally – Totally Worthless,” picks up a new study by dappGambl, a community of finance experts, and runs with it hard. And it hit a nerve. As of writing (lunchtime Thursday), the post is top-trending on their website and on Google itself. Type the term “NFTs” into your browser, and it appears at the apex of the search results. To be sure, there is plenty of meat here and the headline isn’t completely wrong, at least…

Nouns DAO’s internal critics have long chafed at the NFT project’s reckless spending – like paying $90,000 to name a rare frog species after itself The DAO designed a “fork” to give dissenters an exit ramp, and itself an escape hatch if it ever came under attack But savvy arbitrage traders played the governance game for profit, raising tough questions about the desirability of decentralization Can you put a price tag on decentralized governance? For Nouns DAO, the answer was $27 million in crypto. DAOs are the cryptocurrency movement’s version of a company – but with more democracy and (ideally,…

Upland, a metaverse platform mapped to the real world, is launching an NFT fundraiser to help support an American nonprofit building playgrounds in neighborhoods that historically haven’t had access to them. KABOOM! has built or renovated over 17,000 playspaces since its founding more than 25 years ago. According to Upland chief of staff Danny Brown Wolf, ending playspace inequity is a mission that resonated with users of the Upland metaverse. “Our community members who are avid Uplanders brought in…KABOOM!,” Wolf said, adding that some of those members participate in real world fundraisers for the playground manufacturer. Thanks to the community…

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, Miller and his crew were shooting without a permit on an active railroad bridge in southern Georgia when a…