Kevin Whalen, Director of Business Development – Meet The Amberfi Team Edition

Education: Marketing, Northern Michigan University Role: Director, Business Development Location: Southern California   Born and raised in Illinois, Kevin graduated from Northern Michigan University, where he studied marketing and advertising. And then, as he puts it, his work took him all over the US map.  Kevin is a director of business development and partnerships on […]

Neville Hobson, Advisor – Meet The Amberfi Team Edition

Neville Hobson Advisor Amberfi Catherine Ross-Mychka Lead journalist Amberfi Choosing the right communication channel is essential for every brand. But what is the most efficient platform for communication with your audience these days? And how to define your audience in the first place? Neville Hobson is a seasoned PR and communication leader with years of […]

Web3 news, July 15: Snapchat, OpenSea, KIA, Tony Hawk and The Sandbox

Snapchat will test NFT showcasing feature  Snapchat is working on a new feature that will allow users to use non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as filters through AR lenses, the Financial Times reports. Creators will be able to transform their NFTs into AR filters, available on the platform. The feature is planned to be implemented in August […]

A marketplace for NFT photographers

In Twitter Spaces, we invited photographers of all stripes — landscape, portrait, documentary, sports, street photographers — to share their input about the kind of ideal NFT marketplace they’d like to see built.

Web3 news, July 13: From Shanghai to The Price Is Right – everyone wants a piece of NFTs

NFTs seem to be doing just fine during this unstable time in the crypto industry. According to Nansen’s NFT Indexes Report, first-time buyers keep coming into the market, with around 5,000 new users since March this year.  The highest performing NFT ETH indexes in June included Metaverse-20, Blue Chip-10, and Social-100.  Shanghai will implement metaverse, […]

What are corporate NFTs?

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are unique tokens that can not be interchanged. NFTs are largely used in digital art, gaming, and the concept of digital ownership. They gained huge momentum in 2021, with the world’s most expensive NFT artwork sold for $91.8 million and trading volume reaching over $40 billion, according to recent estimations. But despite the obvious opportunities, […]

Ian LeViness, Advisor – Meet The Amberfi Team Edition

Education: MBA, University of New York in Prague Role: Advisor at Amberfi, Content Manager at Serotonin Location: Richmond, Virginia   Ian got into the crypto and web3 world back in 2016 when he was living in the Czech Republic. He went to a random provincial library, not looking for anything in particular, and stumbled upon […]

Web3 news, July 8: It’s all about Polygon this week

It looks like Polygon has taken over the web3 world this week with major headlines circling around the network and its ecosystem.  Reddit releases Polygon-built NFT avatars collection A social media and forum platform, Reddit has announced the launch of an NFT collection Collectibles Avatars that will be hosted on Polygon’s blockchain. Reddit, in partnership […]

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 […]