NFT

Last fall, Randi Hipper decided to, as she put it recently, “go in-depth with the crypto space.” After hearing about NFTs on Twitter and other social media platforms, Ms. Hipper, then a 17-year-old senior at Xaverian High School in…

But the highly speculative market for NFTs has also cooled in recent months.On May 9, the price of Ether, the cryptocurrency to which the values of NFTs are pegged, soared to $3,883, more than five times its price at the beginning of the…

Tim Berners-Lee, a native of London, received the MacArthur Fellowship in 1998 with a grant of $ 270,000 for his pioneering work on the World Wide Web.Elise Amendol | APLONDON - In a few hours, a non-fungible token of the original code for…

The original 2007 video “Charlie Bit My Finger,” a standard-bearer of viral internet fascination, has sold as a nonfungible token for $760,999, and the family who created it will take down the original from YouTube for good.The original…

The name Zoë Roth may not ring bells. But you've probably seen her photo.On a Saturday morning in 2005 when Ms. Roth was 4 years old, her family visited a burning house in their Mebane neighborhood. NC Firefighters deliberately lit the…

To restore "authority" over the use of their likeness, Emily Ratajkowski, the model and writer, coined a non-fungible token (NFT) that will be auctioned at Christie's on May 14th. The piece is entitled “I'll buy myself back: A model for…

SpaceX Founder and Chief Engineer Elon Musk speaks at the 2020 Satellite Conference and Exhibition on March 9, 2020 in Washington, DC.Win McNamee | Getty ImagesElon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, on Tuesday withdrew the offer to sell one…

The buyer of the non-fungible Beeple token for $ 69 million is a crypto investor operating under the pseudonym Metakovan.Metakovan's true identity is unknown, but the investor is a co-founder of the Metapurse NFT collection, which gathers…

Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey gestures while interacting with students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi on November 12, 2018.Prakash Singh | AFP | Getty ImagesJack Dorsey appears to be offering to sell the…