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 […]
What is a crypto wallet?
A crypto wallet is a physical device or online application that lets you “store” crypto assets using private keys. They also allow you to send and receive cryptocurrencies. “Store” is used in quotes because crypto wallets don’t technically store the assets –– they live on a blockchain. There are two types of crypto wallets – […]
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 […]
Web3 news, June 29: DAO raises money for abortion rights groups, celebrities step up web3 game
COWGIRLDAO pledges to donate $3M to abortion rights group Molly Dickson, an artist and co-founder of COWGIRLDAO, was deeply disturbed by the news of the leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s opinion over Roe v. Wade in May and decided to act. She launched a COWGIRLDAO and a 10,000 NFT collection to help abortion rights […]
Top 6 NFT data platforms
It’s hard to underestimate the importance of data today. The more we know, the better decisions we make, right? And we have a list of NFT data platforms for your informed decision-making. 1. NonFungible NonFungible is a news and analytics platform that provides the opportunity to monitor the NFT ecosystem, decentralized asset transactions in real-time on […]
Who is Vitalik Buterin?
Born on January 31, 1994 Canadian-Russian nationality Ethereum co-founder Youngest billionaire in the world Vitalik Buterin, often referred to simply as Vitalik in the crypto space, is a co-founder of Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency in the world. Childhood and education Born in 1994 in Kolomna, Russia, Vitalik immigrated to Canada with his parents in […]
Web3 news, June 24: weekly NFT market overview
This week has definitely been less bumpy than the previous one. And with everybody visiting NFT.NYC, including our own team, even the Crypto Twitter has been awfully quiet. It doesn’t mean that there hasn’t been news, though! Because there have been many of them. First, the NFT trading volume has been mostly positive, with major […]
These 4 NFT projects try to save the environment
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have proven themselves to be more than just art or an investment opportunity. They might also be an incentive to do something good, helping the environment, for instance. Some projects use NFTs to draw attention to extinct species, and others plant trees with every NFT purchase, but they all certainly try to […]