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Tron creator Justin Sun has reportedly eaten the $6.2 million banana from Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” sculpture. Sun previously bought the banana at a Sotheby’s auction. Streaming live on his X account, Tron(TRON) founder Justin Sun ate Cattelan’s banana at an…
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Tron founder Justin Sun bought the famed banana duct-taped to the wall sculpture for $6.2 million at Sotheby’s after six minutes of bidding. He says he will ‘personally eat the banana.’ On Nov. 21, Justin Sun posted about his recent…
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A Base-supported generative art project called Artnames turns a user’s name into a unique piece of NFT art. Each piece is created in collaboration with renowned artists from the digital art space. The Artnames project was founded by the artist…
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Christie’s hosted a charity auction with proceeds going to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The auction featured 11 pieces of digital art sold in the form of NFTs. The “Bridging Worlds: Digital Art Beyond Borders” charity auction ran…
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Sotheby’s is auctioning six works by the autonomous artist Botto in an exhibition that marks the third anniversary of the AI bot created by Mario Klingemann in collaboration with ElevenYellow. The auction house Sotheby’s is hosting Botto’s first art exhibition…
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Phaidon will launch ‘CryptoPunks: Free to Claim’, the first and only comprehensive book to feature all 10,000 Punks ever created, alongside a detailed look at how the digital collectibles became a cultural phenomenon. In an Oct. 16 press release received…
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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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