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, […]
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 […]
Amberfi interview with Yale PhD student Eliza Riley Oak
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 Eliza Riley Oak, a Ph.D. student at Yale University, who we talked to at Permissionless 2022. Haley: Hello, everybody, I’m here with Eliza […]
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 […]
Web3 news, June 15: An outlook on not so grim NFT market
I have to be honest with you –– the markets do look tough right now. With major cryptocurrencies losing more than 30% in price and the biggest crypto companies like Coinbase and BlockFi laying off up to 18% of their employees, it’s getting more and more complicated not to get worried. But there is good news, too. […]
Web 3 news, June 13: Positive outlook on NFT market amidst the crypto crash
While the crypto market is experiencing a sharp fall, NFT trading volume is, surprisingly, on the rise. Kevin O’Leary believes in NFTs’ greatest potential Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary thinks that NFTs’ greatest potential lies in “the authentication of physical assets.” He proved his point by making a video (which will later be used as […]
Web3, June 10: Jack Dorsey’s Web5 venture and Meta’s virtual social space
Jack Dorsey’s new Bitcoin venture TBD plans to build “Web 5” Jack Dorsey’s “extra decentralized” TBD has announced today it’s going to focus its efforts on building a decentralized Web platform. According to the official site, it aims to “put you in control of your data and identity,” describing itself as “Web5.” Jack Dorsey first […]