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What place should cryptocurrency hold in a portfolio, and what is the bigger picture going forward?

The story of the initial coin offering (ICO) in American law is a play in four acts: Kik Interactive, Telegram, LBRY and Ripple Labs.With three of those four cases decided, and Ripple Labs exchanging dueling replies to motions for summary judgment on Friday, Dec. 2, we now enter

In the current whirlwind of dismay and disappointment (or should I say shock and shame?), many in the Bitcoin ecosystem are no doubt fondly remembering simpler times when the bitcoin currency crashing was all we had to stress about. In 2011, BTC’s drawdown reached 93%, a ma

It's no secret that 2022 has been a pretty rough year for the crypto market. The industry has been hit with everything from crashes to bankruptcies, to fraud allegations, massive fines and layoffs....

Chainlink, the crypto oracle project that specializes in providing data feeds to blockchain protocols, is set to allow early access for qualifying users to stake LINK tokens starting Tuesday.According to a Chainlink web post, "Staking provides Chainlink ecosystem participants wit

With his decidedly cuddly style, Adam Levine’s (aka Adamtastic) art may feel more suited to a Pixar cartoon than crypto skeptic Molly White and others who call out serious scams and wrongdoings in the industry. But the artist, 42, found a way to use the “softness&rdqu

Nigerian artist Osinachi creates with an unusual medium. You might not guess when looking at his minutely detailed illustrations, but they’re made in Microsoft Word.“As a kid, my dad introduced me to the computer,” he says, where he discovered early online liter

Nigerian artist Osinachi creates with an unusual medium. You might not guess when looking at his minutely detailed illustrations, but they’re made in Microsoft Word.“As a kid, my dad introduced me to the computer,” he says, where he discovered early online liter

Before non-fungible tokens Ravi Vora worked as a commercial photographer, shooting for Apple, Nike and Land Rover. He’s used to helping brands make the trek from old habits to new media – something the subjects of his “Most Influential” piece, Gary Vaynerc

A calligraphy artist, Sarah Richardson (who works under the name Sarah Script) had been making Instagram videos of her work for roughly seven years before learning about non-fungible tokens (NFT). “When you do calligraphy, you only get one shot to get it right. You have to

Before the coronavirus pandemic, before non-fungible tokens picked up speed, Federico, 49, had a collector who’d come by his studio to discuss his work. “In 2019, he told me my work would be great as crypto art and I should consider NFTs,” Federico says. “

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