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A digital art piece inscribed on Bitcoin’s Ordinals protocol titled “Ascend” has been sold for $57,450 at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Day, beating it’s low estimate of $39,000. Ryan s Koopmans and Alice Wexell’s Bitcoin Ordinal “Ascend” was sold…
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A wide array of digital pieces and crypto-inspired art will be featured at Frieze London 2024 this week. Crypto.news brings you the highlights with selections from the Lumen Prize, Asprey’s Sigg Art Prize, Christie’s, and many more! Frieze London, an…
Starting in the 2010s, blockchain technology, NFTs, and AI have become hot topics in the art world, intersecting in unexpected ways.
Renowned digital artist, Beeple, announced that his first solo museum show will be held at the Deji Museum in Nanjing, China in November 2024. On his X account, renowned artist Michael Joseph Winkelmann posted a video from Deji Museum revealing…
Poland’s second-largest bank, Bank Pekao, is using blockchain technology to preserve the country’s cultural heritage. According to a Pekao press release, the bank partnered with Aleph Zero to launch Archiv3, a project aimed at tokenizing Polish artwork and securely storing…
Crypto wallet provider Kresus has partnered with Christie’s to bring blockchain technology to art ownership. As part of Christie’s photography auction, “An Eye Towards the Real: Photographs from the Collection of Ambassador Trevor Traina,” Kresus will issue digital Certificates of…
The Indonesian National Post Office has launched the country’s first Non Fungible Token postage stamp depicting the bird of paradise, Cenderawasih. On Sept. 27, Indonesia‘s National Post Office, Pos Indonesia, launched the country’s first NFT postage stamp to commemorate the…
New partnerships will leverage blockchain technology for logistics and document management and significantly ease the complexities of international trade.
With the power of blockchain technology, music NFTs give musicians a new universe of creative and financial options, yet challenges remain.
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‘Plastic Free July’ draws attention to the impact of plastic waste on nature, bringing diverse artists from the world with innovative technologies, such as NTFs.
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The shift from hype and speculation to integration within the wider crypto space serves as clear evidence of the maturation of NFTs.
This is Part Three of a three-part series interview with William Quigley, a cryptocurrency and blockchain investor and co-founder of WAX and Tether, conducted by Selva Ozelli exclusively for crypto.news.
In this week’s #hearsay, Dorian Batycka dives into Digital Art Week London, asking: are NFTs really dead? + is Martin Shkreli launching a DePin coin? #cryptogossip
The dialogue surrounding NFT standards is still in gestation, but the direction signposted by ERC-404 is unmistakable.
While NFT pessimism may be at an all-time high, we live in a digital society where we cannot ignore the benefits of this tech due to its immature phase.
A Paris art museum announced an NFT collection dedicated to Van Gogh to launch alongside the upcoming exhibition of the artist's artwork