Is Azuki A Rug Pull?
The NFT market is suffering terribly under the weight of the recent crypto crash. This was only made worse when the community learned about the sketchy history of Zagabond, the creator of the blue-chip NFT collection, Azuki. Azuki is a simple set of 10,000 generative...
Did A Planned Attack On UST Cause This Crypto Crash?
Last Monday the cryptocurrency and NFT markets experienced their worst week in a long time. Meanwhile, most other financial markets are suffering from the fear of increasing interest rates, as well as rising geopolitical tensions. These pressures alone would likely have caused a crypto downturn,...
NFTimes Volume 22 – Madonna’s Cunning MOTHER OF CREATION NFTs
We finally did it. We hit peak weird NFTs and we have Madonna to thank for it. We have already seen a myriad of extremely bizarre NFTs like toilet paper NFTs from Charmin, digital rock NFTs, and even “fart in a jar” NFTs sold by...
NFTimes Volume 21 – The NFT Community is Naive
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX – and new owner of Twitter – seems to be spending more of his time trolling people than actually working. About a week ago, he changed his Twitter profile picture to a collage of Bored Ape NFTs. ...
NFTimes Volume 20 – The Otherside Opens a New Chapter For NFTs
The entire NFT market has been waiting for Yuga Labs, the creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club, to launch its new project. It’s an innovative metaverse game called the Otherside, and at its foundation are 200,000 land NFTs. 100,000 of those NFTs, called Otherdeeds, dropped...
The NFTimes Volume 19 – Buy The NFT Rumors, Sell The News
The NFT market moves faster than any other financial market in the world—by a large margin. NFT prices have been known to shoot up 60x in a few days and then end up negative by the end of the week. These fluctuations can be caused...
NFTimes Volume 18 – A Billion-Dollar Metaverse Land Sale?
This January, Bored Apes dethroned Cryptopunks as the top NFT project, and its floor price has continued to increase ever since. Part of this success comes from Yuga Labs’s ability to bring holders of their NFTs value. They have done this by airdropping more NFTs...
NFTimes 17 – The Dawn Of A New Era Of NFTs
Moonbirds, the profile picture project launched by PROOF Collective, the incredibly successful private discord for NFT traders and artists, led the charge. Moonbirds If you spend a lot of time in the NFT ecosystem, you’ve probably already heard chatter about Moonbirds. Yet not many people...
NFTimes Volume 16 – How To Start An NFT Project By Yourself
If you have spent a decent amount of time in the NFT market, you have probably considered starting your own collection—especially when we see project founders making tens of millions of dollars in minutes by selling a few thousand profile pictures. The technical difficulty it...
NFTimes Volume 15 – Is April The Beginning Or The End Of NFTs?
The NFT market hit its peak in January, reaching an incredible $5 billion of trading volume on OpenSea that month alone. It doubled the trading volume of the previous month, and the community was hopeful that this amazing growth would continue. This dramatic shift was...
NFTimes Volume 14 – Are NFTs A Bubble?
A lot of financial commentators call the NFT market nothing more than a massive bubble. Most people inside the crypto community think there is much more to the market, but it’s hard not to recognize that NFT values are somewhat inflated right now. Some aspects...
NFTimes Volume 13 – How To Keep Your NFTs Safe
When it comes to NFTs, two main types of attacks tend to hurt end-users. They differ dramatically in scale, ranging from more common small scams, which are directed at single users or smaller groups of people, to larger-scale schemes and cons. Small Scams: Tricky, Yet...
The Largest Cryptocurrency Hack Ever?
We may have just witnessed the largest cryptocurrency heist ever, depending on the price of Ethereum. A hacker stole 25.5 million USDC and 173,600 Ethereum from the Ronin sidechain on Wednesday, March 23rd. Ronin acts as the foundation for the popular play-to-earn game Axie Infinity....
NFTimes Volume 12 – A Tale Of Two P2Es
Popular play-to-earn (P2E) NFT games have been an important pillar holding the market up. We also have to give credit to the startup behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, Yuga Labs. It has put out multiple tremendously impactful announcements recently that you can catch up on...
NFTimes Volume 11 – $400 Million From One NFT Mint?
In the last edition of the NFTimes we covered a few massive moves made by Yuga Labs over the past 2 weeks. And they weren’t done. Yuga is the startup behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, the ultimate blue-chip NFT collection. Little did we know when...
NFTimes Volume 10 – Bored Apes Has Won The Battle For NFT Dominance
The NFT market had one of the most exciting moments in its short history this week. Yuga Labs, the company behind the bluest of all blue-chip NFT collections, Bored Ape Yacht Club, announced Friday that it made a massive acquisition. How many zeros did it...
NFTimes Volume 9 – Now THAT Is Utility
What is NFT Utility?NFT projects all fall somewhere on an extremely wide spectrum of utility. Some have none; others are life-changing. The best way to evaluate a project’s utility is to look at its returns. It’s about profit. If you are just looking at which...
The NFTimes – Volume 8
The NFT market has taken another turn for the worst as the crisis in Ukraine continues. Almost every bluechip collection is down. Bored Apes dipped below 70 ETH, Azuki fell to 9 ETH and Cool Cats are struggling to break 7ETH again. Is it time...
The NFTimes Volume 7 – Crypto.com Has NFTs?
If you’re an investor or trader, OpenSea is where it’s hopping. You can list your NFT on one of the new platforms like LooksRare or X2Y2, but you might struggle to find a buyer. OpenSea has the most volume, and in the incredibly illiquid NFT...
The NFTimes Volume 6 – NFT Communities Show Their Worth
This week was supposed to be fantastic for NFTs. We had a ton of exciting project launches on the horizon. However, NFTs quickly became the last thing to worry about after the Russian invasion of Ukraine– and for good reason. Even without the recent massive...
The NFTimes – Free Money And Drama. A Fun Week In NFTs
We also watched some interesting drama over artist compensation, while the top upcoming play-to-earn games (Cool Cats and Raid Party) got delayed…again.Overall the market has been remarkably resilient in the face of another significant dip in the price of ETH, while we had a free...
Star Wolvez: The Way Discord Is Supposed To Be Used
Originally created for gamers to talk with their friends while playing online games, Discord has become the most important platform in the NFT market. (The only other contender would be OpenSea.) Discord started by providing basic text and voice chat functionality and has grown into...
The NFTimes – A Surprising Combo Of Football And Toad NFTs
Football and Toads?The Super Bowl, the most-watched annual broadcast in the world, went down on Sunday but American Football fans were not the only ones excited. Because of its massive viewership, the Superbowl is the premier advertising event of the year, with many viewers tuning...
The NFTimes – Are NFTs Finally Slowing Down?
The NFT market has been reeling following an all-time daily trading volume record. (We hit almost $250 million on OpenSea, not including the other big NFT platforms like LooksRare and Rarible.) Frankly, the market was growing at an unsustainable rate. However, small but significant corrections...
The NFTimes – The NFT Hype Wave Is Washing Over Asia
Follow the HypeOne of the most exciting drops of the upcoming week is Cool Pets, a companion collection to the bluechip NFT collection Cool Cats. Originally, it was slated to release on January 28th but has been pushed back multiple times. 20,000 Cool Pets will...
The NFTimes – What’s Dropping This Week?
While we gear up for the launch of this week’s most exciting NFT drop on Friday, Cool Pets, let’s take a look at what happened the past few days. (If you want to learn about Cool Pets before it launches, don’t worry, it won't fit...