Art Financial News

24.02 / 19:59

Ethereum Art Bloomberg Bitcoin Sotheby's Cancels CryptoPunks Auction, Canada Ends Use of Emergencies Act + More News

Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.

24.02 / 16:37

Art NFT Gaming Nifty News: Collector spends $488K minting Tubby Cats, NFT vending machine

An anonymous nonfungible token (NFT) collector spent 204 Ether (ETH) worth roughly $488,800 (at the time of writing, considerably more when it occurred) on gas fees to mint 1,000 Tubby Cats NFTs.

24.02 / 09:29

Art NFT Crypto Collectibles Auction Seller 'rugs' $30M CryptoPunks collection minutes before Sotheby’s auction

NFT enthusiasts and fine art collectors have been left confused, after an auction for a collection of 104 CryptoPunks estimated to be worth around $30 million was canceled at the last-minute.

23.02 / 18:47

Art Entertainment Gaming Fashion What’s Still Holding NFTs Back & How to Fix It

Kiril Nikolov is Senior Sales Executive at major digital assets company Nexo.

20.02 / 17:20

Blockchain Art Adoption Auction Future We are all going public: Privacy rules, tax shelters and the future history of art

After a banner year of 2021 for individual object sales through nonfungible tokens (NFTs), 2022 is poised to be the year of MetaFi. A recap of Beeple, Christie’s, Visa and endless aping-in celebrities hardly feels necessary, except to point out that we seem to be standing on (or perhaps have already crossed over) a fundamental precipice. While the rocket-propelled ascent of NFT prices will not continue forever, numerous voices have predicted that a mature tech stack for discovering, vetting, valuing, trading and protecting collections of digital assets will soon emerge, without a crash.

18.02 / 10:19

Art Fire Fire breaks out on cruise ship carrying 288 people near Corfu

A fire broke out Friday on an Italian-flagged cruise ship sailing through the Mediterranean’s Ionian Sea with 237 passengers and 51 crew onboard, according to Greek port police.

16.02 / 18:09

Art Adoption NFT Gustav Klimt's 'The Kiss' Masterpiece is Selling as 10,000 NFTs

The popular Belvedere Museum in Vienna, Austria, in collaboration with the artèQ auction house, has turned Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's famous masterpiece 'The Kiss' into 10,000 non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

16.02 / 07:59

Art NFT Art lovers can own part of an NFT of Gustav Klimt's 'The Kiss'

The Belvedere museum in Vienna collaborated with the artèQ investment fund to launch a nonfungible token (NFT) drop inspired by one of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's most famous works "The Kiss."

14.02 / 17:23

Art Sport 'Business as usual': Western firms in Ukraine resist calls for expats to leave

The message from Western businesses operating in Ukraine appears to be very much "business as usual" -- at least for now -- despite intensified warnings from international governments of a potentially imminent Russian invasion.

14.02 / 15:33

cryptocurrency Art Gustav Klimt's 'The Kiss' selling as 10,000 NFTs for Valentine's Day

For the ultimate Valentine's Day gift you can now buy a limited edition digital NFT piece of 'The Kiss', the romantic masterpiece painted by Gustav Klimt.

12.02 / 16:51

Art us government AML regulatory Laundering via digital pictures? A new twist in the regulatory discussion around NFTs

On Feb. 6, the United States Department of the Treasury released a report under the headline “Study of the facilitation of money laundering and terror finance through the trade in works of art.” In fact, only a tiny fraction of the 40-page document is dedicated to the “Emerging Digital Art Market,” by which the department understands the market for nonfungible tokens, or NFTs. Still, even a brief mention of the emerging NFT space in this context can have major implications for the tone of the nascent regulatory debate with regard to the asset class.

10.02 / 12:01

Art NFT Non-fungible tokens DAO AssangeDAO Wins the Bid for Pak's Clock NFT for USD 53M

AssangeDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) consisting of "cypherpunks" fighting for the liberation of incarcerated WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has won the bid for the Clock NFT, which was created by digital artist Pak in collaboration with Assange.

10.02 / 08:23

Art virtual reality Real Estate fall Grab Nifty News: Land grab in the Shiberse, floor prices fall, NFT house sale and more…

The team behind one of the top memecoin projects Shiba Inu (SHIB) is rolling out tokenized real estate dubbed “Shiba Lands” as part of its upcoming metaverse project.

09.02 / 19:05

Blockchain Ethereum Art Bitcoin Suit up! Cointelegraph Store drops fresh crypto swag

A new era in the world of crypto-inspired merch is here. The Cointelegraph Store is live and ready to outfit you with swag you can’t find anywhere else. Check out what we’ve been up to here.

09.02 / 08:31

Art NFT DAO AssangeDAO concludes raise with $53M to help Julian fight for freedom

The Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) supporting Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s legal plight has concluded its raise, generating a whooping 17,422 Ether (ETH) worth roughly $53.7 million.

07.02 / 18:27

business Art Court Copyright ‘Wave of litigation’ to hit NFT space as copyright issues abound

Ownership is one of the most critical aspects of nonfungible tokens (NFT). They are a representation of the evolution of execution and ownership of art, content, music, in-game assets, etc., since they are digital assets with distinctive identities that are verifiable on a blockchain network.

05.02 / 00:07

Art NFT Marketplace Winter Olympics Nifty News: Olympic Games Beijing 2022 edition

Today's Nifty News rounds up nonfungible token (NFT) projects centered around the Winter Olympics, which began Friday in Beijing, China. The following are initiatives taken by the International Olympic Committee, or IOC, The British Olympic Association,and an independent artist leading up the 2022 games.

04.02 / 08:07

business Art New York State A metaphor? NYC 'solid gold cube' crypto promo turns out to be hollow

The “solid gold cube” crypto promo that surfaced in New York this week has turned out to be hollow on the inside, with onlookers online lampooning the stunt as an appropriate critique of the extravagant promises of crypto and blockchain tech.

03.02 / 11:01

Art Auction Wikileaks Top secret Julian Assange and Pak NFT collaboration is wikileaked

A collaborative NFT project from belagued Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and pseudonymous digital artist Pak is set to drop next week.

03.02 / 09:45

Technology Art Extreme weather has cost Europe €50bn and killed 142,000 in 40 years

Heatwaves, floods, and other extreme weather have killed 142,000 people in Europe over the last 40 years and cost European economies more than 500 billion euros, according to a report released on Thursday.

03.02 / 09:45

Art In France, Emmanuel Macron calls for new rules to halt migrant flows

French President Emmanuel Macron is taking aim at migration — a core issue in the country's presidential campaign — by pushing to strengthen the European Union's external borders against people illegally entering the bloc’s passport-free area.

Art Financial News

popular questions about Art

What is Art and why is it important?

Where can I find the latest updates on Art?

How can I verify the accuracy of information on Art?