NFTs & Culture: Latest news & analysis on NFTs and Web3

Ben McKenzie needs a hug: The ‘OC’ star’s crypto book is an ill-informed flop
BYKathleen Breitman
Floor turning to in-app payments to make buying and displaying NFT artwork ‘more accessible’
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
‘Digital art is here to stay’: Despite market downturn, NFTs are still popping up in galleries, including this small NYC exhibition space
BYBen Weiss
Sound wants to be the next iTunes, and it just raised $20 million from the likes of a16z and Snoop Dogg
BYBen Weiss
DOJ accuses 25-year-old OpenSea spoofer of stealing $450,000 worth of NFTs and crypto
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
This Week in the Metaverse: Bored Ape Yacht Club is sinking as floor prices spiral
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
This Week in the Metaverse: Azuki’s botched Elementals drop has some calling it quits on the collection
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
‘NFL Rivals’ creator Mythical Games raises first $37 million of new funding round
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
This Week in the Metaverse: ‘NFL Rivals’ hits 1 million downloads, and getting to the bottom of the Eminem-BAYC mystery
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
This Week in the Metaverse: A Sothebys auction brings in $11 million—and a bit of hope for the NFT market
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
Apple threatens to remove Web3 social network Damus from App Store if it doesn’t end Bitcoin tipping
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
Going to golf’s U.S. Open? Get a limited-edition NFT from Amex
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
This Week in the Metaverse: The Sandbox and Decentraland are caught in the SEC’s crosshairs
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
Tokens for The Sandbox and ‘Axie’ among those branded securities in SEC suits against Coinbase and Binance
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
This Week in the Metaverse: Apple and Meta’s looming headset war
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
Blur overtakes OpenSea even as monthly NFT trading falls below $1 billion for first time in 2023
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
This Week in the Metaverse: Bitcoin ups its NFT game, surpassing Solana in weekly volume
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
NFT marketplace Magic Eden will pay you to buy and sell Solana NFTs
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
This Week in the Metaverse: NFT-backed loans, led by Blur and Arcade, are making a comeback
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
‘Axie Infinity’ creator Sky Mavis releases new mobile app where buying NFTs isn’t required
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
This Week in the Metaverse: Researchers are making strides toward creating a ‘smellaverse’
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
Binance embraces Bitcoin NFTs, which some users are blaming for slower transactions
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
Keith Grossman brought NFTs to 99-year-old Time magazine—why he’s now all in on Web3
BYAnna Tutova
How the Pepe coin, ‘fueled by pure memetic power,’ soared past a $1.6 billion market cap in 3 weeks—and then tumbled
BYBen Weiss
The Solana Saga is here. Should you spend $1,000 on the newest crypto smartphone?
BYBen Weiss and Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez
This Week in the Metaverse: A former OpenSea employee is convicted, but a different court case could shed more light on the future of NFTs
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
Conviction of former OpenSea product manager could broaden federal enforcement of wire fraud charges, legal experts say
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
Solana bounces back with NFTs as cofounder says FTX meltdown is ‘in the rearview mirror’
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
This Week in the Metaverse: Zuckerberg tries to reconcile A.I. with the billions he’s already sunk into the metaverse
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez
NFL launches first blockchain-backed mobile game in collaboration with Mythical Games
BYMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez