An Artist-centered NFT Platform?
There are art platforms that want to use NFTs to empower digital and new media artists rather than focusing just on the market. Where once modern art was primarily defined by style — think Surrealism or Op art — today contemporary art can be characterized by how it is tracked and traded. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) […]
FriesDAO scoops up fast food franchises as part of its crypto governance experiment
DAO reps said they want to build on-chain and membership utility around Subway, Domino’s and more. A new proof of concept decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, called FriesDAO wants to democratize access to the fast food industry. Cointelegraph spoke to FriesDAO advisors Brett Beller and Bill Lee about their mission to be a “part of something that […]
Myth-Busting NFTs: 7 Claims Fact-Checked
With all the marketing aplomb of basement-coders worldwide, NFTs were named with an acronym that does little to clarify their utility. You probably know by now that NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token; what is perhaps less clear is what “Fungible” actually means; in this context, it means interchangeable. Consider an ounce of platinum. That platinum […]
Ethereum Foundation Kills ‘ETH 2.0’ in Favor of ‘Consensus Layer’ Rebrand – Decrypt
In brief The good news for developers is that the next time someone (usually a reporter) asks them when Ethereum 2.0 is coming, they’ll have an answer: Never. The bad news? They’ll have to get a bit technical to explain why. The Ethereum Foundation today, following the lead of the blockchain’s core developers, that the […]