From $2.5M for NFT champagne bottle to digital art collection to help children: Web3 news, July 20-21
This week the crypto and web3 spaces are celebrating a slight uptick in prices. It’s actually quite funny to see everybody celebrating Bitcoin touching the $24,000 levels after last year’s craze around $60,000 and predictions of the price going as high as $100,000 by the end of last year. Still, the markets seem to be […]
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, June 8: Solana’s $100M fund, Salesforce NFT platform, Alibaba Cloud NFT services
Solana launches $100 million fund to support Web3 startups in South Korea Solana Ventures and Solana Foundation have announced they’re launching a $100 million investment fund to finance DeFi, NFT and Web3 projects in South Korea. Why South Korea? The teams believe that “Korea is at the forefront of web3 game design and development” after […]
Web3, June 6: $50 million earned in NFT sales, $370,000 stolen in attack, $72 million raised in game
19-year old transgender artist earns $50 million selling NFTs Victor Langlois is joining the list of highly successful NFT artists making six figures. The 19-year-old transgender artist has shared that he made earned $50 million in less than a year by selling his NFTs. Langlois was one of the artists whose work was sold at a Christie’s […]
Recent security attacks and fails in the NFT world
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), as much as they have become a new way for artists and inventors to interact and claim ownership, have fallen victim to one of the most pressing issues the crypto industry is still experiencing – security. In this article, we’ll take a look at one of the most “popular” and most devastating […]
Web3 news of the day: May 5, 2022
They say Thursday is a little Friday, but in the NFT market every day is a working day. Here’s what this Thursday has brought. New Ethereum NFT project to donate all proceedings to Ukraine’s non-profits The Russian invasion of Ukraine is still ongoing, and a lot of projects try to help in any way they […]