Web3
Retract Royalties, Reduce Revenue: NFT Creators Are Suffering and so Are Marketplaces
A growing list of marketplaces are seeing the impacts of platforms ceasing to require buyers to pay royalties on collections. Experts aren’t optimistic about what this means for the market.

Blockchain Startup Elrond Rebrands to Focus on Metaverse
Elrond will aim to build on its prior work as a layer 1 blockchain with a focus on scalability to advance Web3 technology in the form of metaverse-related products.

How to Find Your Community in Web3
As the Web3 ecosystem continues to expand, so too have the ways in which people can connect and form communities.

Web3 Game Developer Mythical Games Loses 3 Top Executives
SVP Chris Ko, COO Matt Nutt and co-founder Rudy Koch announced their departures on Wednesday. Each hinted at new ventures.

Meta's Instagram Will Soon Allow Creators to Mint, Sell NFTs
Starting this week, Instagram will allow a select group of digital creators to mint and sell non-fungible tokens (NFTs) directly on the social media platform. "The Hash" team discusses the latest in Instagram's Web3 ambitions bringing blockchain awareness to the mainstream.

Crypto Exchange Kraken Launches 'Gasless' NFT Marketplace
The beta test is open to those who were joined the waitlist and will include a curated offering of 70 NFTs on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains.

Web3 Platform Alchemy Has a Plan to Thwart Bad Actors in NFT Mints
It’s new technology, Spearmint, is an “allow list” designed to keep out speculators and bots who drive up gas fees.

Venture Capital Firm Paradigm to Host Crypto Tech Event for US Policymakers
The Hands On Web3 affair aims to give U.S. policymakers a hands-on demonstration of the crypto technologies they could regulate.

SuperRare NFT Marketplace Launches RarePass for Exclusive Curated Art Drops
The artist-first marketplace will airdrop exclusive art to 250 holders of the subscription-like passes over the course of a year.

What Dance Tells Us About the Uses and Limitations of Art
NFTs may be able to help creators monetize their work, but questions of copyright and ownership have yet to give creators true ownership over their creations.
