Eli Tan

Eli was a news reporter for CoinDesk who covered NFTs, gaming and the metaverse. He graduated from St. Olaf College with a degree in English. He holds ETH, SOL, AVAX and a few NFTs above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1000.

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Solana Ventures Looks to Boost Web 3 Gaming With Launch of $150M Fund

The initiative tops an earlier $100 million fund raised with FTX and Lightspeed in November.

Solana (Zack Seward/CoinDesk archives)

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Toy Brand L.O.L Surprise! Launches In-Store NFT Collection

The billion-dollar toy brand is calling the collection “the largest retail NFT launch in history.”

L.O.L Surprise! dolls (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

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Twitch Co-Founder Justin Kan Launches Gaming NFT Marketplace on Solana

Fractal is bringing ownership to a community rich in both digital assets and NFT skepticism.

Fractal is Justin Kan's latest venture. (Possessed Photography/Unsplash)

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Audius Is Building a Radio Station in the Metaverse

“DeFi Land” is integrating music streaming into its gameplay by way of the blockchain-based Spotify rival.

DeFi FM is the latest metaverse experiment from Audius. (DeFi Land)

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ConsenSys-Backed Virtue Gaming Launches ‘Play-to-Earn Poker’

The blockchain-based poker game is the first of its kind in the play-to-earn space.

Paul Yeung/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Metaverse Goes Hollywood With Universal Music Group Avatar Partnership

Avatar company Genies has inked a deal with UMG that could bring celebrity merch from Rihanna, Migos and more into virtual worlds.

Genies avatars of Quavo, Kim Petras, J Balvin and Lil Huddy. (Genies)

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Microsoft Leads $27M Funding Round for Palm NFT Studio

The Web 2 giant’s venture arm thinks enterprise demand for tokenized art will stick around.

(Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Pantone ‘Color of the Year’ Gets the NFT Treatment

Tezos nabbed Ubisoft yesterday, now Pantone. How will XTZ react?

2022's color of the year is being commemorated as a Tezos NFT. (Pantone)

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Crypto VC Chiron Raises $50M to Invest in Terra Ecosystem as LUNA Stays Hot

The fund is the latest cash influx into promising DeFi and Web 3 gaming projects from institutional investors.

This is a photo of a moon at over 98% full. The image was taken one day prior to the supermoon, or a moon that appears larger due to being the closest to earth in its elliptic orbit.

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Crypto Fans Rejoice, Gamers Revolt as Ubisoft Announces NFT Plans

The first major game maker to roll out in-game NFTs was met with backlash Tuesday from a crypto-wary public.

(Chesnot/Getty Images)