Author: Jeremy Ryan

NFT A group of NFT enthusiasts are trying to buy the winning key from Yuga Labs’ endless runner game Dookey Dash and have placed an eye-watering $1.1 million bid on the asset. Yuga Labs is the $4 billion company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club and also owns the Crypto Punks NFT collection. UpDAO is the collective behind the winning key bid, which has not yet been accepted by the current owner, 18-year-old Fortnite streamer Kyle “Mongraal” Jackson. Mongraal has listed his key NFT for 2,222 ETH, which is about $3.5 million. UpDAO is connected to Pixel Vault’s Inhabitants Universe,…

Blockchain ‘Recycle to Earn’ was the motto presented by Eric Vogel earlier this month while pitching his startup at the European Blockchain Convention, decades after he started recycling plastics and cans from his grandmother’s house to earn extra money for a Game Boy. Vogel’s love for video games and increasing interest in the impact of recycling in the world are behind his inspiration for Circularr, a London-based company seeking to connect recyclers, manufacturers, and brands throughout a decentralized recycling ecosystem. Proper recycling is a growing challenge.According to the Plastic Waste Makers Index, recycling across the world is not expanding fast…

Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather and other celebrities are looking to convince a judge to dismiss another revised attempt to hold them liable for allegedly promoting EthereumMax (EMAX) without proper disclosure. The celebrities asked a California federal judge to dismiss a second amended complaint from EthereumMax investors filed in December 2022. According to the defendants, the renewed allegations push the “same basic theory” forward that the court had previously dismissed. Looks like Floyd is rockin with the $eMax waveeee #EMAX #Ethereummax #Ethereum pic.twitter.com/TB9wNLwCcb— Breezy Gambinø (@BreezyGambino1) June 4, 2021 The investors’ class-action lawsuit runs on the premise that the EthereumMax team worked with…

NFT According to Anndy Lian, President of NFT Factory, NFTs have the potential to be a “Trojan horse” for crypto adoption, offering a tangible and unique asset that can bridge the gap between traditional collectibles and the world of blockchain. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have emerged as one of the most popular use cases for blockchain technology in recent years. NFTs represent unique digital assets that can be traded and owned in a decentralized way, thanks to the security and transparency provided by blockchain technology. While NFTs have gained popularity in the art world, they also have the potential to drive…

NFT We can have a lot of NFTs and they can still be worth a lot of money. At least, that’s what the founder of ArtBlocks hopes. The creator of the popular NFT collection Chromie Squiggles, Erick Calderon, is looking to a future where NFTs are valuable without scarcity, and products can be tailor-made for consumers. “We as humans have a tendency to lean towards individuality,” he said speaking at the NFT Paris conference on Friday. Despite this, he posed the question: What will it take for NFTs to be valuable without the promise of scarcity? The crypto winter caused…

NFT Steez hosts Alyssa Expósito and Ray Salmond chatted with Victor Solomon to discuss his journey in bridging his in-real-life artwork with NFTs and how he cultivates the community and culture that surrounds his art. Solomon’s work centers around basketball — not just the object, but the sport itself. For Solomon, the inspiration for his work comes from wanting to play hockey in his early childhood. At the time, this was a sport that was not accessible for him, but it led to his eventual discovery of basketball, which he found to be more accommodating. Solomon said: “Basketball was such an inspirational…

NFT Getting crypto into the hands of the masses may come one NFT at a time. This is exactly what NFT Factory, an NFT-dedicated hub in the heart of Paris, is trying to offer within its 400 square meters physical building dedicated to NFT education. “When we started this project we wanted to let as many people as possible discover NFTs and make them accessible,” NFT Factory president John Karp told Decrypt during this year’s NFT Paris event. NFT Factory is made up of around 130 tech and crypto leaders, artists, investors, and companies which include Blackpool, Ethereum France, Ledger,…

Gods Unchained moves into their first public pre-alpha for their new mobile client. Beginning on February 24th, 2023, invited players can try out the Gods Unchained gameplay on their Android device, and provide feedback to help the team fix bugs and improve the experience! The web3 space is hitting the mobile gamers from both sides. Some web3 games are moving into mobile like Gods Unchained, while other, already existing mobile games are incorporating NFTs and blockchain tokens. This first Gods Unchained mobile alpha test opens up first for those on the elected Council of Mortals, and those with Mount Olympus…

Blockchain Sergey Vasylchuk, the chief executive officer of staking provider Everstake, said the company is continuing to move forward despite the continuing military conflict between Ukraine and Russia. Exactly one year ago today — Feb. 24, 2022 — Russian military forces invaded many areas of Ukraine in what has become one of the biggest conflicts in modern Europe since World War II. In the last twelve months, more than 8,000 civilians have died, many Ukrainian cities have been shelled with at least one almost leveled, and the country continues to be at risk of missile attack and ground invasions. Vasylchuk…

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has again been accused of overstepping its authority and unfairly labeling crypto assets as securities, this time in its insider trading case against ex-Coinbase employees.In an amicus brief filing on Feb. 22, the U.S.-based Chamber of Digital Commerce argued the case should be dismissed as it represented an expansion of the SEC’s “regulation by enforcement” campaign and seeks to characterize secondary market transactions as securities transactions.We have serious concerns about the SEC’s attempt to label these tokens as securities in the context of an enforcement action against third parties who had nothing to do…