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Photographer Dave Krugman’s first minted non-fungible token (NFT) has a rich analog history. It’s a high-resolution film scan that the artist shot on his grandfather’s old Hasselblad 503CX, a variation of the camera used to shoot the Apollo moon landings.“

Animator Bryan Brinkman Zooms in from Dubai, where he’s part of a delegation of non-fungible token artists, collectors, and platform executives. “There's people from SuperRare, Nifty Gateway and we're all spreading the word of NFTs here,” Brinkman, 37, says. &ld

Trevor and Violet Jones have been together for eight years. They work out of the same studio in Edinburgh, Scotland, and learned about crypto art at the same time – early.“I had my Crypto Disruption exhibition in 2018,” Trevor says, a collection of oil paintings

While in Tokyo in November for a group show with a New York-based gallery, Alex Headlam, 23, decided at the last minute to put on a solo show, as well. “I realized that I want to maximize on this moment, because I was making a lot of work here on my iPad, just getting reall

Encouraged by digital artist Beeple to start making 3D art daily, Fesq uses a simple, three-color palette to render futuristic stills and animations that make viewers feel like they’re in the matrix. Based in Brazil, the 25-year-old studied software engineering in college a

When CoinDesk caught up with Yosnier, a 23-year-old artist based in Tampa, Florida, in November about his image of the embattled FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried, he hadn’t started it yet. To be fair, he’d been assigned a massively influential subject, and not influentia

Before he learned about non-fungible tokens in 2018, Norman Harman had what he calls the “practice of a traditionally trained painter.” He also had an interest in digital technologies, which led him to explore using programs like Photoshop in his work – but ther

More than a decade ago, multimedia artist Oveck “fell in love with photography” while retouching images for a photo studio in New York City, where he lives. In 2020, after an infection damaged an eye, he took up oil painting. “Still today my right-side vision is

Ovie Faruq, aka OSF, started making his first non-fungible token while working as a trader at the London-based Barclays. Already involved in Web3, “mainly buying and selling NFTs,” he doodled a skull wearing a hoodie that said “GM” on it, the NFT community

As a Greek-American, I’ve been paying attention to the European Central Bank (ECB) for too long.Imagine the scene: There’s a teenager on the way to soccer practice absolutely in shambles because he just learned that Goldman Sachs brokered a cross-currency swap for Gre

FTX and Alameda Research founder Sam Bankman-Fried has spent the week on what may be a genuinely unprecedented media tour, sitting for a series of extended interviews even in the face of his likely imminent arrest for criminal financial fraud.This article is excerpted from The No

When you purchase digital assets through a centralized exchange — a CEX — like Binance or Coinbase, you’re only purchasing an IOU for these assets. 

On Nov. 14, as the rapidly widening contagion from the FTX exchange’s collapse was thrusting crypto into an existential crisis, shoemaking giant Nike launched its bold new Web3 platform, SWOOSH.The initiative, which will allow Nike sneaker fans to buy and sell the brand&rsq

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Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, were all the rage in 2021, soaring to astronomical heights along with skyrocketing cryptocurrency prices. However, cryptocurrency prices fell off a cliff in 2022,...

Bitcoin’s moves in the light of what happened shows that it is volatile, as young markets tend to be, but that there is an underlying stability to it that is actually quite encouraging.

Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times interviewed former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried on Nov. 30 at the DealBook Summit. What follows is a transcript of that conversation.Read CoinDesk's coverage of the interview here.

In the weeks since Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency empire was revealed to be a house of lies, mainstream news organizations and commentators have often failed to give their readers a straightforward assessment of exactly what happened. August institutions including the N

Officials in the European Union (EU) say their landmark new legislation, the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA), would have prevented FTX-style collapses – but there’s also a major loophole that could allow offshore companies to continue to operate within the

As a securities litigator for over 30 years, I have cross-examined a host of conmen and fraudsters. Most of my cases have been concentrated in the financial services field where I represented Wall Street, securities brokerage firms, commercial banks and national stock and derivat