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Sotheby’s Plans Its First NFT Auction With Artist Pak and Nifty Gateway

The top auction house said its first auction of NFTs created by anonymous artist Pak “scrutinizes our understanding of value.”

News  ·  6 April 2021
NFTs

Tron’s Justin Sun Wins $6M Beeple in ‘Green’ NFT Auction

CarbonDrop, the three-day NFT auction, raised a total of $6.66 million for the Open Earth Foundation.

Business  ·  23 March 2021
NFTs

Even NYC’s Highfalutin Guggenheim Museum Is Looking at NFTs, Job Posting Suggests

A call for MBA interns asks: "How will blockchain and crypto currency [sic] change how a museum defines its collection strategy?"

Business  ·  19 March 2021
NFTs

Avant-Garde Painting to Be Sold With NFT-Backed Proof of Provenance

The sale of the Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine work will take place on the Mark Cuban-backed NFT marketplace Mintable.

News  ·  17 March 2021
NFTs

Performers’ Dance Moves Turned Into Animated NFTs for Games and Apps

Signature moves of dancers can be purchased by fans and used as NFT-based "emotes."

News  ·  16 March 2021
CoinFlash

Sotheby’s Moves Into ‘New World’ of Digital Art and NFTs

"There's a lot here that's really exciting and, we think, has staying power," said CEO Charles Stewart.

Business  ·  16 March 2021
CoinFlash

Investor Discovers Beeple NFT Purchased for $969 Now Worth $300K

The NFT is now being offered for sale at $1.7 million.

People  ·  15 March 2021
Art

Now Robots Are Making Digital Art NFTs

A new collaboration with Andrea Bonaceto sees Sophia the robot put "her" interpretation on the NFT artworks.

Business  ·  15 March 2021
NFTs

Batman Is Ours Alone to Exploit. DC Comics Warns Against Using Its Characters in NFTs

DC Comics, Inc., a subsidiary of Warner Bros, is unhappy with artists using its intellectual property in non-fungible tokens. The publisher has its own plans.

News  ·  13 March 2021
NFTs

How Bananas and Mortgages Can Explain the NFT Craze

A banana can be removed from its peel. A loan can be separated from the right to bill you every month. Now NFTs have cleaved bragging rights from artwork. What these things are worth is a matter of opinion.

Business  ·  12 March 2021
NFTs

Associated Press NFT Artwork Sells for $180K in Ether

The piece depicts a visual of the electoral college map from space using election data AP published on-chain at the time.

News  ·  12 March 2021
Tokenization

People Keep Tokenizing Other Users’ Art. Here’s How Artists Can Protect Their Work

Copyright law can protect artists if their work is tokenized without their permission.

Tech  ·  11 March 2021
NFTs

Beeple NFT Sold for Record-Setting $69.3M at Christie’s Auction

Just when you thought NFTs couldn't get any crazier.

News  ·  11 March 2021
NFTs

Burnt Banksy NFT Sells for $380K in ETH

A Banksy piece bought by a group of crypto-savvy artists, burned in a park and memorialized as an NFT has sold for 228.69 ETH.

Business  ·  7 March 2021
Ethereum

Nyan Dogecoin NFT Fetches $69K in ETH

A GIF cat with a DOGE body sold Thursday for 45 ETH.

News  ·  5 March 2021