Sam Ewen

Sam Ewen is CoinDesk's SVP, head of CoinDesk Social, Multimedia & CD Studios

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Consensus Magazine

CoinDesk Got Colorful With the Most Influential 2022 NFT Collection

CoinDesk has partnered with 14 truly incredible artists to immortalize on-chain some of the Most Influential 2022, whose NFT portraits will be made available in an exclusive auction being held on Coinbase NFT.

(Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)

Consensus Magazine

The Artist/CEO Generating $1.4B – and Growing – in Generative Art Sales

Blockchain-based algorithmic art is bucking the downward market trend of NFTs and one of the most popular platforms supporting this work is five-year-old Art Blocks. That’s why artist and CEO Erick Calderon is one of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2022.

"Erick Calderon, AKA Snow Fro" (Dave Krugman/CoinDesk)

Opinion

The Metaverse Isn't Real

The hype surrounding the metaverse is betting on a future immersive and experience-rich virtual world infrastructure that does not yet exist.

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Opinion

The Balance Between Art and IP Theft in NFT Culture

From "Squid Game" to Olive Garden, the NFT boom is an orgy of intellectual property infractions.

A scene from the MetaBirkins project home page. (MetaBirkins)

Tech

Why I Decided to Spend New Year’s Eve in the Metaverse

Times Square’s famous festivities are being recreated in Decentraland. CoinDesk will be there.

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Finance

Note to Brands: Crypto Isn’t Funny Money. It’s Community

How marketers can engage with crypto folk (and how not to).

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