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By Dr Don Basile While deep-pocketed hedge funds are buying Bitcoins or investing in decentralized finance protocols, many curious digitalists and everyday artists are looking at a provably scarce asset class called non-fungible tokens (NFTs). In the last few months, NFTs have outgrown all...

A non-fungible token (NFT) collection released by Brazilian artist Monica Rizzolli sold out within one hour, raking in an impressive sum of money. What Happened: According to The Block report on Tuesday, Rizzolli's "Fragments of an Infinite Field" tokenized...

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) is purportedly blocking an Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) from its App Store because it lets users view non fungible tokens or NFTs. What Happened: Gnosis Safe, product development head Lukas Schor made the disclosure on Twitter Tuesday. Schor said in a Twitter thread, “...

Takung Art Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: TKAT) shares are skyrocketing Wednesday, possibly moving higher as the NFT market is getting a boost. Takung is considered to be an NFT play and given Visa Inc’s (NYSE: V) acquisition of a CryptoPunk this week, Takung and other NFT plays are...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) has launched a new marketplace for non fungible tokens, or NFTs,  where trademark holders can sell tokenized licenses to their intellectual property, the South China Morning Post reported. What Happened: The new NFT...

A painting by a Chinese artist duo that depicts meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) has sold for $23,168 with a non fungible token or NFT, the South China Morning Post reported. What Happened: Lai Shengyu and Yang Xiaogang, the artists behind the Hunan artistic duo TaMen, tokenized one of...

Takung Art Co Ltd (NYSE: TKAT) soared almost 24% in the regular session on Tuesday. What Happened: The shares of the Hong Kong-based company moved higher after it disclosed a “definitive agreement” with British Virgin Islands-based Cultural Objects Provenance Holdings Limited in a U.S....

"The Chartist" said he has always been interested in art and investing. Combining the two was an idea that he had for a while, and once the COVID-19 pandemic hit, he finally had extra time and got started. The Chartist, whose pieces are available on his Etsy store,...

After his record-breaking $69 million auction with Christie’s Auction House, Beeple is now releasing some of his NFT artwork on Nifty Gateway via drawing. What Happened: Nifty Gateway, a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, is hosting drawings over a three-day period, from April 30-May...

Fancy creating a non-fungible token-based art on your Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) made iPhone or iPad? There’s an app to help you do that.  What Happened: The free S!NG or SING Idea app touts itself to be a platform for creators to make free NFTs for storage in a digital portfolio, as...

ESE Entertainment Inc (OCT: ENTEF) has launched Virtual Pitstop, a motor sports simulation platform, and plans to research and develop non-fungible tokens (NFTs) applied to it. What Happened: ESE Entertainment, a European-based esports company, announced on Wednesday it developed a...

Christie’s auction house just sold Beeple’s ‘The First 5000 Days’ NFT based digital artwork for $69 million. What Happened: The two-week auction first began on February 25. The bidding had originally started at a mere $100.   In fact, until the very last 30...

One of the paintings of famed Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh was stolen early Monday from the Netherlands' Singer Laren Museum, the day he was born on 167 years ago. According to its website, the museum is currently closed for the public for an indefinite time due to the novel coronavirus (COVID...

By WeedMaps News' Tyler Koslow, provided exclusively to Benzinga Cannabis. Stiiizy's new retail store in the downtown Los Angeles Arts District feels as much like an open spaced art gallery as much as a modern weed store. But wander deeper within the new 6,500-square foot flagship...

The bullish case for Apogee Enterprises Inc (NASDAQ: APOG), a commercial building installer and art framer, has come to an end despite the company's top-and-bottom-line earnings beat Thursday, according to D.A. Davidson.  The Analyst D.A. Davidson's Brent Thielman...