NFTs


Web3

NFT Marketplace Blur Releases Native Token for Community Ownership

After a delay, Blur's highly anticipated token is live. Traders have 60 days to claim their airdropped BLUR tokens.

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Web3

Magic Eden Lays Off 22 Staff as Part of Companywide Restructuring

CEO and co-founder Jack Lu explained the company needed to make changes in order to reach new goals in 2023.

Magic Eden CEO Jack Lu at Solana Breakpoint 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Web3

NFT Marketplace Magic Eden Partners With MoonPay to Offer Credit Card Payments

MoonPay has a similar partnership in place with NFT marketplace LooksRare.

Proposed EU money laundering rules for crypto have implications for online privacy (boonchai wedmakawand/Getty Images)

Web3

Introducing CoinDesk’s First Web3 Newsletter: The Airdrop

Our weekly newsletter breaks down the biggest news related to internet culture, NFTs, DAOs and the metaverse that is pushing Web3 forward.

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Web3

Popular Rihanna Song Offered as NFT With Royalty Sharing Ahead of Super Bowl

Music producer Deputy, who helped produce Rihanna's hit 2015 single "B**** Better Have My Money," is granting a portion of his streaming royalties to collectors through anotherblock.

Rihanna (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)

Policy

Legal Expert Says MetaBirkin Project Intended to Use Hermès’ Brand for Economic Gain

Olta Andoni, general counsel at financial firm Enclave Markets, said artist Mason Rothschild was looking to “piggyback” off the French luxury brand’s reputation. But even artists who are creating digital art aren't free of consumer protection laws.

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Web3

Crypto Payments Firm MoonPay and NFT Marketplace LooksRare Ink Partnership

LooksRare users can buy and sell cryptocurrencies through MoonPay, which will allow users to purchase NFTs with a credit card.

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Markets

Bitcoin Network Activity Spikes to Two-Year High Thanks to NFTs, CryptoQuant Says

Transactions are coming from the popularity of the recently deployed Ordinals protocol, which allows for NFT-like tokens to be stored on-chain.

Los NFT lideran la actividad en la blockchain de Bitcoin. (Ordinals Protocol)

Tech

Bitcoin NFTs Explode in Popularity as BitMEX Research Shows 13,000 Ordinals

Interest has skyrocketed following the first Ordinals transaction on Dec. 14.

Ordinals is exploding on Bitcoin (DALL-E/CoinDesk)