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 […]
Ellyse Amelia, Director of Marketing and Community – Meet The Amberfi Team Edition
Ellyse Amelia Director of Marketing and Community Amberfi Catherine Ross-Mychka Lead journalist Amberfi Building a community is no easy task. Building a loyal and happy community that interacts with your brand on a regular basis is even harder. You have to be able to cut through the noise, stand out, be persistent and honest and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]