Opinion: Adding the trust layer to the NFT space
One word I see mentioned frequently about NFTs and marketplaces is trust. You’ve probably seen an article (or 20) where the word is usually prefaced with lack thereof, distrust, or untrustworthy. If you think about it, it isn’t really surprising that such labels stick in light of persistent scandals that characterize this landscape in which […]
Web3 news, July 1: Bored Apes for ‘hire,’ OpenSea data breach, Meta’s NFT feature
OpenSea suffers major data breach A non-fungible token marketplace OpenSea announced the platform had suffered a data breach. According to the blog post, an employee from the company’s email delivery vendor Customer.io “misused their employee access to download and share email addresses – provided by OpenSea users and subscribers to our newsletter – with an unauthorized external […]
Spike Lee: Bringing democracy to filmmaking with NFTs
Spike Lee appeared at NFT NYC 2022 to talk about the promise that NFTs and blockchain hold out for filmmakers and creatives looking to finance their projects.
Amberfi goes to NFT.NYC. Come and meet us!
We are very excited to be attending the biggest NFT event, NFT.NYC, this week! NFT.NYC is an annual NFT conference sponsored by Polygon and MoonPay, with thousands of attendees expected. Here are the events we’ll be visiting. Make sure to find us and say hello! Monday, June 20 Web3 Equity NFT.NYC Crypto Monday at Williamsburg […]
Pulitzer-winning photographer Scott Strazzante praises the power and possibilities of NFT community
Scott was supposed to follow in his father’s footsteps, who owned a tire dealership on the south side of Chicago and inherit the family business, but he decided to follow his passion –– photography. Starting with small publications, he became a photojournalist, mostly covering sports. He then moved on to work for Chicago Tribune, where […]
Amberfi interview with Serotonin’s Ian Leviness at Permissionless
The web3 community is filled with amazing people who create, build, and inspire. And we’re excited to be publishing a series of conversations with people we’ve interacted with at different events. Meet Ian Leviness, content manager at Serotonin, who is also an Advisor for Amberfi and was key to its creation. We talked to them […]
Amberfi interview with co-founder and CEO of Mooch Richard Velazquez at Permissionless
The web3 community is filled with amazing people who create, build, and inspire. And we’re excited to be publishing a series of conversations with people we’ve interacted with at different events. Meet Richard Velazquez, co-founder and CEO of Mooch, whom we talked to at Permissionless. Haley: Hi, I’m here with Richard Velasquez, and we are […]
Global Creatives Society launches with fanfare
New creator-focused project is building a platform for emerging talents A group of creatives have been working for some time on a new project for the Web3 space called the Global Creatives Society. Today we rolled it out on a Zoom call with about 30 NFT photographers — and the reaction was overwhelmingly positive. The […]
WTF (What the Fungible)?
NFTs are taking over the Internet by storm, but what are they? (Solana Boss Bulls Club) The word NFT is an abbreviation for the term Non-Fungible Token. Tokens are not to be mistaken with currency because they are one-of-a-kind assets similar to Pokemon cards or other collectors items. Nevertheless, similar to cryptocurrency, tokens are cryptographic, […]
Web3, May 23: eBay, GameStop, and Pharrell Williams
Ebay taps into Web3 with NFT collection An e-commerce giant eBay is releasing a collection of 13 “limited-edition” digital collectibles, containing 299 NFTs, in partnership with a Canadian hockey legend, Wayne Gretzky. Each collectible depicts a 3D animated rendering of Gretzky making one of his famous moves on the ice. […]