Here comes Hollywood.  In the latest sign that global media groups are embracing NFTs, Disney’s Fox Entertainment is launching a $100M creator fund to produce new offerings on blockchain platforms and NFT-related content, the company announced this week. Dubbed Blockchain Creative Labs, the Los Angeles-based venture is a partnership between Fox Entertainment and its in-house…

The source code for the World Wide Web is being turned into an NFT.  Created by World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the NFT is composed of four elements: the time-stamped files containing the source code, a moving visualization of the code, a letter written by Berners-Lee reflecting on the code’s creation, and a…

ARCx Introduces “DeFi Passport” for On-Chain Credit Scores In a move that could bring DeFi into the mammoth industry of consumer credit scoring, ARCx has introduced an offering that will measure the financial health of customers based on their Ethereum addresses. As the key feature of its Sapphire (v3) release, ARCx will enable “identities issued…

Bored Ape Yacht Club isn’t monkeying around when it comes to NFTs. On June 1, a rare Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT sold on OpenSea for 49.99 ETH, or $128k at the time of purchase. This marks the highest sale yet for a BAYC NFT, putting it in a price range typically reserved in…

It’s official: NFTs have gone totally mainstream. That’s the upshot from the announcement that the Associated Press, the 175-year-old paragon of traditional media, is planning to auction off 10 one-of-a-kind NFTs to celebrate its iconic photojournalism. Among the offerings: an artistic representation of the shot showing U.S. Marines hoisting the Stars and Stripes on a…

Developed by NFT social media network AITO, the NFT is a first on Aave and also a first in that it’ll generate ongoing Aave yield for the artists. The artwork itself is a multimedia, audiovisual collaboration between the DJ Marshmello and Steven Messing, the concept art director for Avatar 2 and Avatar 3. The auction…

I bet you’re wondering… what the hell is a Meebit? Well, I will tell you. It’s a collection of 20,000 3D characters, each unique but assembled from a randomly generated collection of attributes of varying degrees of scarcity and hence desirability. Sounds like CryptoPunks? Well that’s the idea. That model has been the undeniable party…

Sotheby’s art auction house is accepting Bitcoin and Ether as payment for physical artworks.  In collaboration with Coinbase, Sotheby’s becomes the first major fine art auction house to do this.  While Christie’s art auction house recently accepted $69M in ETH for Beeple’s “EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS,” that was an NFT. Sotheby’s is taking its…

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IDEO today announced the IDEO Founder Collective, where founders of the design firm’s portfolio companies can invest in each others’ startups.  All 20+ members —including IDEO CoLab Ventures, the firm’s venture arm— are contributing an equal amount of equity or tokens in return for shared ownership in the collective. Besides participation in the group’s companies,…