It’s tempting to take the U.K.’s announcement that it’s going to mint an NFT to signal the launch of new crypto policy as a sign that nonfungible tokens aren’t cool anymore. Sort of like how your mother getting a Facebook account marked the end of...
Socure, which provides digital identity verification and fraud solutions, has announced that Dibbs, the real-time blockchain marketplace, will be using its platform to provide a better onboarding experience, a press release said. Dibbs lets collectors buy and sell fractions of physical collectibles in real time,...
Great Britain unveiled plans Monday (April 4) to mint its own non-fungible token (NFT) in an effort to become a major player on the global cryptocurrency stage. According to CNBC, Finance Minister Rishi Sunak has asked the Royal Mint — the government-owned entity charged with...
Fractal, a gaming NFT marketplace, has been doing well, CoinDesk writes. Fractal raised $35 million in a seed round, the report notes. The platform was rolled out last December by Justin Kan, co-founder of Twitch. It’s been used as a marketplace for players to buy...
The International Game Developers Association (IGDA), a professional group for game makers globally, has become concerned about several issues tied to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Ars Technica reported Friday (April 1). Jakin Vela, interim director of IGDA and founder of gaming nonprofit Games for Me, said...
Hackers “briefly compromised” Bored Ape Yacht Club’s non-fungible token (NFT) collection through chat servers on messaging platform Discord and attempted to trick users into minting fake tokens, Bloomberg reported Friday (April 1). Minting is the process of taking a digital asset and converting it to...
NFT marketplace OpenSea is teaming up with MoonPay to enable direct credit card payments for the purchase of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), opening the doors to investors that don’t own cryptocurrency, according to reports. People who want to buy, sell, trade, and collect NFTs can pay...
The Visa Creator Program is a lot of things, according to Cuy Sheffield, head of crypto for the credit card and payments giant. It’s a mentorship program. It’s a way of helping people support their art, music and filmmaking skills. It’s a way of bringing...
Sure, Beeple’s $69 million non-fungible token (NFT) collage was impressive, but it only made him the third-most expensive living artist. Now No. 1, Jeff Koons has announced an NFT project that’s going to moon — literally. Each piece in “Jeff Koons: Moon Phases” is a...