Maybe you’ve seen his Bitcoin dollar bill on a billboard in Washington D.C. Or watched migrants tear down his mural of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, in Cúcuta, a Columbian border town, as part of an agreed-upon protest. Or, perhaps, you raised an eyebrow at his Bitcoin stickers on a Bank of America ATM in San Francisco. Or knew someone that knew someone who took part in his auction for the least expensive art in the world, Black Swan, which sold for a millisatoshi. Cryptograffiti’s art...

Maybe you’ve seen his Bitcoin dollar bill on a billboard in Washington D.C. Or watched migrants tear down his mural of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, in Cúcuta, a Columbian border town, as part of an agreed-upon protest. Or, perhaps, you raised an eyebrow at his Bitcoin stickers on a Bank of America ATM in San Francisco. Or knew someone that knew someone who took part in his auction for the least expensive art in the world, Black Swan, which sold for a millisatoshi. Cryptograffiti’s art...

The Philippines was the epicenter of the Axie Infinity surge. In 2021, in the middle of an eighteen-month lockdown, many impoverished teenagers and young adults turned to the blockchain game to supplement their income. If you don’t already know, Axie Infinity is a play-to-earn game originally developed by Sky Mavis in 2017, which launched with its own in-game non-fungible tokens (NFTs) — “Axies”, animated Pokémon-inspired creatures. During peak NFT-mania, many of its NFTs sold for life-changi...

The Philippines was the epicenter of the Axie Infinity surge. In 2021, in the middle of an eighteen-month lockdown, many impoverished teenagers and young adults turned to the blockchain game to supplement their income. If you don’t already know, Axie Infinity is a play-to-earn game originally developed by Sky Mavis in 2017, which launched with its own in-game non-fungible tokens (NFTs) — “Axies”, animated Pokémon-inspired creatures. During peak NFT-mania, many of its NFTs sold for life-changi...

May 9, 2037. You’ve got the first Ethereum art artifacts in your wallet. Someone in your personal metaverse gallery asks you if you know what they mean. “They’re from a moment in time, a pre-NFT world,” you say, tipping your sombrero knowingly. “An art show born out of the Bitcoin meetup days…” You pause, unable to hold back a smile. “Pre-CryptoPunks. Each artist has their own style.” “But do you know about the stories,” they ask, shimmering in and out of a Raccoon-colored waterfall. “Do you ...

May 9, 2037. You’ve got the first Ethereum art artifacts in your wallet. Someone in your personal metaverse gallery asks you if you know what they mean. “They’re from a moment in time, a pre-NFT world,” you say, tipping your sombrero knowingly. “An art show born out of the Bitcoin meetup days…” You pause, unable to hold back a smile. “Pre-CryptoPunks. Each artist has their own style.” “But do you know about the stories,” they ask, shimmering in and out of a Raccoon-colored waterfall. “Do you ...

To create is to participate. So says the art collective, Marisol Vengas. Formerly anonymous, now firmly public polymath and DAO innovator Max Infeld, Marisol’s emergence as auction-house-selling Curio Cards artist last year seemingly came out of the blue — their art had never sold, and only a few friends and loved ones seemed to care. Pull back the layers, however, and Infeld, the “stage director” behind Marisol, has an NFT art success story years of experiments in the making.Art engaging eco...

To create is to participate. So says the art collective, Marisol Vengas. Formerly anonymous, now firmly public polymath and DAO innovator Max Infeld, Marisol’s emergence as auction-house-selling Curio Cards artist last year seemingly came out of the blue — their art had never sold, and only a few friends and loved ones seemed to care. Pull back the layers, however, and Infeld, the “stage director” behind Marisol, has an NFT art success story years of experiments in the making.Art engaging eco...

Curio Cards’ on-chain data is now neatly organized and searchable in one place. In a recent Twitter Space titled “Curio Cards x Graphrica talk Subgraph APIs for NFTs,” Curio Cards founder Travis Uhrig spoke to Graphrica founders Mack and Richie about the ‘subgraph’ they’re using to track and index Curio Cards’ blockchain data. This includes all transaction data, enabling what Mack describes as the ability to “look at every single event that has happened on every single contract.”Subgraphs and...

Curio Cards’ on-chain data is now neatly organized and searchable in one place. In a recent Twitter Space titled “Curio Cards x Graphrica talk Subgraph APIs for NFTs,” Curio Cards founder Travis Uhrig spoke to Graphrica founders Mack and Richie about the ‘subgraph’ they’re using to track and index Curio Cards’ blockchain data. This includes all transaction data, enabling what Mack describes as the ability to “look at every single event that has happened on every single contract.”Subgraphs and...

Most NFT artists don’t have a Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford University. But this one does. That’s right: Daniel Friedman is a statistical anomaly. He’s an outlier; an entomologist studying ant colonies, an expert on decentralization and crypto, and a flourishing artist whose pen-based drawings for Curio Cards have been picked up by wealthy collectors, including those who bought full sets during auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in October 2021. But how did the Bay Area-native get here? If...

Most NFT artists don’t have a Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford University. But this one does. That’s right: Daniel Friedman is a statistical anomaly. He’s an outlier; an entomologist studying ant colonies, an expert on decentralization and crypto, and a flourishing artist whose pen-based drawings for Curio Cards have been picked up by wealthy collectors, including those who bought full sets during auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in October 2021. But how did the Bay Area-native get here? If...

The newest paradigm for business is DAOs. If you’ve been around Web3 — blockchain, crypto, and most recently, NFTs — you’ll have come across DAOs, or Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. They’ve been part of the wider crypto conversation since 2016, the year the levitating lightbulb was named in TIME magazine’s ‘best inventions’ list. Like the levitating lightbulb, the first DAO — known as the ‘The DAO’ — immediately took off, raising 11.5 million ETH from a token sale in April 2016. But t...

The newest paradigm for business is DAOs. If you’ve been around Web3 — blockchain, crypto, and most recently, NFTs — you’ll have come across DAOs, or Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. They’ve been part of the wider crypto conversation since 2016, the year the levitating lightbulb was named in TIME magazine’s ‘best inventions’ list. Like the levitating lightbulb, the first DAO — known as the ‘The DAO’ — immediately took off, raising 11.5 million ETH from a token sale in April 2016. But t...