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NBA vs NFL: What Dapper Labs’ Big-League Collectibles Say About Launching NFTs for Sports

Dapper’s NBA Top Shot experienced a wild price bubble during the NFT boom. The followup NFL All Day collection has had a more modest rollout - and collectors think that's good news.

NBA TOP SHOT NFTs (nbatopshot.com)
World Premiere Of "Fear"

Baron Davis: Bringing Athletes to Web3

The ex-NBA point guard is teaching sports clients to engage with communities using crypto tech.

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How Talent Agency WME Is Expanding Into Crypto

Chris Jacquemin, a speaker at CoinDesk's Consensus conference, on Hollywood's embrace of Web3.

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Yat Siu (Kevin Abosch)

Animoca Brands Co-Founder: Royalties Make It Possible for NFT Projects to Flourish

The computer gaming firm supports royalties. Removing them would only "send the industry backwards," said Yat Siu.

Yat Siu (Kevin Abosch)
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How AI Is Changing Artistic Creation and Challenging IP Laws

"These are ethical concerns that, as a society, we're really confronted with for the first time,” said trademark and copyright lawyer Jessica Neer McDonald.

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The Truth About Artificial Intelligence and Creativity

Artificial intelligence allows creators to be creative, but even sophisticated AIs are really just an advanced form of copying, says David Z. Morris. This feature is part of CoinDesk's Culture Week.

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Taking Photos and Minting NFTs at the Ends of the Earth, With FOTO’s John Knopf

The Emmy award-nominated photographer discusses the early days of Bored Apes, digital culture and turning an industry into a community using crypto.

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Uniswap's NFT Platform Shows DeFi's Reluctant Acceptance of Centralization

If you want to be “the interface for all NFT liquidity," you have to make some sacrifices.

CDCROP: Unicorn float pool beach Uniswap (Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)
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How Web3 Animation Project 'The Gimmicks' Survives a Crypto Winter

The creators of the successful Web3 cartoon – speakers at Consensus – talk about what’s next for interactive storytelling.

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Metaverse Fashion Week

Metaverse Fashion Is on the Rise, but for Whom?

Digital fashion is nascent in the Web3 space, with the potential to onboard millions of users in the coming years. But as brands work out who to target with hard-to-fathom technology, adoption is still in its early stages. This piece is a part of CoinDesk’s Culture Week.

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The Australian Open Goes Full Web3

January’s tennis grand slam shows how brands can embrace the metaverse for increased fan engagement.

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Stepn Was a Runaway Success During COVID but Can It Keep Moving Forward?

Some see the future of fitness motivation. Others see a Ponzi scheme. This feature is part of CoinDesk's Culture Week.

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Fan Tokens: A Bet on Your Favorite Soccer Team?

Does the performance of soccer team tokens align with on-the-pitch performance? Max Good, from CoinDesk Indices’ team, breaks down the match stats.

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Robin Arzon Peleton fitness instructor

Peloton’s Robin Arzón Is Building a Web3 Community Around Working Out

The exercise giant's vice president of fitness programming is soon launching Swagger Society, a Web3 lifestyle membership club that aims to foster a fitness community in Web3.

Robin Arzon Peleton fitness instructor
Phygital (Dall-e/CoinDesk)

Let’s Get 'Phygital': Combining the Physical and Digital in Web3

The new portmanteau speaks to experiences that bridge the gap between the virtual and the real world, like sneakers that exist in both the metaverse and on your feet.

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The Latest Opinions on Cryptocurrency and Culture

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Could Legendary Hip Hop Platform DatPiff Serve as a Springboard for ‘Music NFTs’?

In an age defined by digital disruption, legacy IP may hold the key to the next wave of culture, Gitcoin fundraising lead Azeem Khan writes.

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NFT Marketplaces Should Promote 'Underrepresented Artists and Art Forms'

Western art continues to dominate NFT land, Amberfi CEO J.D. Lasica writes. Instead, Web3 could dissolve borders between cultures.

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Web3 Offers a Cure to Toxic Pop Culture

NFTs can make geeking out fun.

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How Sports DAOs Can Offer Fans a Piece of the Action

Just as the Ethereum network continues to show us the way toward a fairer internet, Sports DAOs will show us the way toward the future of fandom, says Adam Miller of MIDAO in this op-ed for CoinDesk's Culture Week.

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AI and Crypto Are Combining to Create Web3's 'Multiplayer Era'

Creating with code has never been easier. Web3 tooling shows us how it can be equitable and collaborative.

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Move-to-Earn Has a Ponzi-Economics Problem

Stepn is a cautionary tale for M2E startup founders like me. But I see a better model in Sweatcoin, which leveraged real-life utility to amass over 100 million users before going on-chain, writes Iomob CEO Boyd Cohen.

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Rethinking the Value of DAOs

Or, how DAO culture creates value in crypto.

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