NFT News and Notes

• Goblintown WTF? Meet the World’s Strangest NFT Project
  The 2022 NFT market crash gave birth to one of the strangest NFT collections the world has ever seen. It’s known as Goblintown. Its purpose? To make weird goblin sounds. No, seriously.  Here’s how the creators describe the project on OpenSea, the world’s largest NFT marketplace, “AAAAAAAUUUUUGGGHHHHH gobblins goblinns GOBLINNNNNNNNns wekm ta goblintown yoo sniksnakr […]
• Undervalued: Party Degenerates, The Walking Dead Avatars, and More
  Traversing the world of non-fungibles is a daunting task. With so many new NFT projects, artists, and large-scale collections cropping up weekly, it’s become nearly impossible to keep up with every subsequent development. In the past, a simple browse of OpenSea was enough to find the latest NFT craze. But things have changed drastically since […]
• Anime PFPs: 6 Stunning NFT Projects Bringing a New Generation to Web3
  For as long as users have set their own PFPs on community sites, one type of imagery has dominated the space — the anime PFP. From the 90s to the mid-2000s, Western anime fans were primarily interested in hits like Dragon Ball Z, which appeared on Cartoon Network’s Toonami programming block, and Cowboy Bebop on […]
• SuperRare Co-Founders Explain How the Merge Will Shape the Future of NFTs
  The Ethereum merge is still fresh. Not even a month has passed since the second-largest blockchain switched from an energy-intensive proof of work validation mechanism to proof of stake, lowering its energy consumption by 99.5 percent. But context clarifies the magnitude of this change. In the summer before the merge, Ethereum consumed nearly 60 tera-watt […]
• NFTs Explained: A Must-Read Guide to Everything Non-Fungible
  Let’s face it: Non-fungible tokens — or NFTs — are transforming every facet of modern society, from finance to art. And we have every reason to suspect it won’t stop there. Since the twenty-teens, NFTs have become one of the most significant and resilient contemporary innovations in tech, finance, fashion, sports, and the arts. But […]
• NFTs Live Forever: From Apollo 11 Artifacts to the Arch of Peace
  When you store something on a blockchain — whether it’s a meme coin, a Goblin NFT, or even government documents — it will remain there forever, etched upon the blockchain’s ledger. It won’t be disturbed or modified, and, barring a worldwide apocalypse, it won’t be forgotten. This last bit is essential. Although an ISIS supporter […]
• The 10 Types of NFTs You Need To Know About
  There are endless potential applications for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). However, since we’re still in the early stages of the non-fungible era, it might be some time before we see large-scale projects that aren’t, in one way or another, related to art. To this end, NFT projects these days typically fall into one of seven categories. […]
• How Soulbound Tokens Could Change Society as We Know It
  Vitalik Buterin, best known as one of the co-founders of Ethereum, has a massive new Web3 project in the works. In a white paper entitled “Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul,” Buterin and his fellow authors detail their vision for a fully decentralized society (DeSoc) and how we could make it a reality. Their answer? That […]
• Rug Pull Comeback? Pixelmon CEO Opens Up in an Exclusive Interview
  What happens when you wake up with $70 million in the bank and a tattered reputation? If you’re Martin van Blerk, the former head of Pixelmon — the infamous NFT project that spectacularly failed to live up to its promises, enraged swindled community members, and whose floor price tanked as a result — you get […]
• Next Up: Five Ones to Watch in October 2022
  In 2021, a new creator economy was born on the blockchain. Since NFTs took center stage, artists have achieved NFT superstardom, billion-dollar brands have been forged in just a few months, and many lives have been utterly transformed time and again. Yet, the most inspiring thing about the NFT space is the number of artists […]