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Picsart’s AI-powered SketchAI app turns images and outlines into digital art
Riding the generative AI wave, Picsart, the developer behind various photo and video editing apps for the web and mobile devices, is introducing a new iOS app that transforms photos…
Blockchain-based games have seen a surge in popularity, but playing them is getting expensive. Play-to-earn games like StepN require players to purchase an NFT before they can participate, while other…
Tiffany and Gucci’s dip into crypto is a balance of reputation and revenue
Are crypto integrations by household name brands and sports teams evidence of increasing use cases for digital assets and cryptocurrencies — or more of a marketing ploy?
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It’s paintbrushes at dawn as artists feel the pressure of AI-generated art
If you’ve been anywhere close to the interwebs recently, you’ll have heard of DALL-E and Midjourney. The types of art the neural networks can generate — and with a deeper understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the tech — means that we are facing a whole new world of hurt. Often the butt of…
Meet the second wave of Disrupt Audience Choice roundtable winners
We asked TechCrunch readers to vote for the roundtable sessions they would most like to see at TC Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco, and startup fans from around…
All my apes gone: Legal disputes at the intersection of IP and NFTs
NFTs are no different than old-school physical assets in one important way: They’re governed by a legal framework which, in many respects, is rooted in the 20th century.
The race to build a social media platform on the blockchain
It’s easy to be skeptical of the big social media giants. They typically sell user data to advertisers and have been mired in controversy for their approach to content moderation.…
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Bored Apes founders on their plans for Otherside metaverse
After seemingly pulling off the strangest unicorn success story in tech, the founders of NFT project Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) have an awful lot to prove with their startup Yuga‘s early beta vision of the metaverse, a gaming platform called Otherside. Few entertainment startups have had this level of community pressure riding on their…
NFTs have the potential to become media companies, Rarible co-founder says
As NFTs work to retain mainstream attention, one founder predicts the digital assets sector will pivot in a new direction.
Crypto startups — fresh off a mind-boggling bull run — are preparing for the next phase of life where the mere mention of “NFT,” “DAO” or “DeFi” may not tempt…
NFT marketplace OpenSea lays off 20% of its staff: ‘We have entered … crypto winter’
Despite a significant depression in crypto markets, plenty of top players have been hesitant to say that the good times are over for the time being, but as NFT marketplace…
Mike Shinoda backs a startup that lets you do video calls as NFT avatars
As I speak to Tong Pow over Google Meet, he appears as a cartoon medieval-helmet-clad cat that talks and bobs its head, mirroring Pow’s movement behind the webcam. The visor…
After flagging concerns over the financial risks associated with non-fungible tokens, some of China’s authorities are putting forward guidance on how to best make use of the novel technology. The…
The US government is digging into NFTs’ impact on intellectual property
After NFTs exploded over the past year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Copyright Office are launching a joint study to investigate the digital assets’ impact on intellectual property…
The future of non-fungible tokens is getting more clarity in China as the country’s tech giants come together to formulate standards for the nascent industry. The China Cultural Industry Association,…
After debuting NFT support on Instagram in May, Meta has launched digital collectibles support on Facebook with select creators. A spokesperson for Meta told TechCrunch that the company has started…
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The past several months haven’t been entirely kind to the NFT market — while transaction volume hasn’t stuttered too significantly, the dollar amount invested in the space has been in…
A Ukrainian deep tech startup is launching a charity NFT project to sell AI-generated artworks with the twin goal of raising money to support people affected by Russia’s war of…
The data doesn’t appear to indicate that there is a more attractive way to view NFT activity today. It is, by a number of measuring methods, depressed at the moment.…
DOJ case against ex-OpenSea exec could label NFTs as securities, former SEC lawyer says
The case could determine whether NFTs are indeed securities — and if that label really matters for the future of the digital assets.
Primitives wants to turn your crypto wallet into a social network
Only a handful of “whales,” or big spenders, still own the majority of NFTs. While the digital assets have piqued widespread consumer interest, the user experience associated with actually minting…
Four-month-old Doppel is helping some of the biggest NFT projects spot scams
As NFTs have gained popularity, so, too, has NFT fraud. Copycats can quite easily upload images to an NFT marketplace, mint them and sell them to customers for profit without…
a16z, Coatue, USV invest in $725M developer fund for Dapper’s Flow blockchain
The web3 world is continuing to discover that it’s a lot harder to build a developer ecosystem than it is to build a platform. The Flow blockchain launched by NBA…
Co:Create aims to help NFT projects launch their own cryptocurrencies
NFT powerhouse Yuga Labs, the startup behind the Bored Apes Yacht Club (BAYC) monkey JPEGs, launched its native ApeCoin cryptocurrency in March to much fanfare. Through the launch, the startup…
In mid-April, a group of industry associations in China issued a warning against the potential financial risks of non-fungible tokens, digital assets that represent real-world objects or intangible goods like…
Daily Crunch: Startup that transforms real-world items into NFTs raises $6.9M seed round
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NFTs are being used for far more than just proving you own a JPEG on the internet. Americana Technologies, a startup founded early last year by designer Jake Frey, allows…
No one told the crypto world that startup megadeals aren’t as plentiful anymore
Watching the mega-round venture world contract as the crypto world stays silly is a good reminder that the web3 world is in fact siloed from the rest of the global…
Top NFT collections are bringing in millions of dollars weekly, but which will survive?
Many blue-chip NFT holders said that demand comes with inherent risk and market volatility that play a part in the future of the digital collectibles and their liquidity.
