Her creativity helped fuel a technological revolution she knew almost nothing about. Although the Bored Ape Yacht Club — now, arguably, the world’s biggest NFT project — first appeared online in May and quickly started selling for millions, the woman who drew its primary characters had no idea that the …
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At the start of the new year, global NFT sales leapt over the $4 billion mark. Simultaneously, like the stench of a bloated trash bag busting open, talk of scamming in the space spread with gusto: Google searches for “NFT scam” hit an all-time high the week of Jan. 1. …
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If the list of best-selling NFTs was a party, it would have been filled with cartoon bears that look like frat boys, dive-bar-crawling apes, and puking children — until a group of glowering, Amazonian women threw themselves into the mix. The NFT scene really is overwhelmingly, grossly male. It is …
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Grimes is auctioning off 10 exclusive pieces of digital artwork — in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) — for the next 48 hours, the singer’s first-ever collection of crypto art aimed at the burgeoning blockchain collectible market. Some of the digital artwork in the WarNymph Collection Vol. 1 — …
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In a huge labyrinthine ecosystem of labels, publishers, distributors, and royalty collectors, the idea of artists getting paid quickly may sound like a revolutionary concept. What if it wasn’t? What if the music industry‘s hundreds of thousands of artists — who are especially cash-strapped when they can’t tour, like right …
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