How crypto is changing media and entertainment – and forging its own culture. Sponsored by Nexo.
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Profile avatars emerged from a long tradition of artists expressing themselves through code, math and randomness. This article is part of CoinDesk’s Culture Week.
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A roundup of books worth reading for Culture Week.
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The crypto-backed social club is looking to remain accessible to the creators it wants to attract.
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Music NFTs are about to disrupt an industry full of gatekeepers and middlemen.
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Earnest eco-crypto nerds at a three-day retreat attempted to resolve interoperability among crypto-climate projects.
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The school at No. 42 is a member of the largest scientific organization in the country. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
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An interdisciplinary approach to blockchain – and key industry sponsors – elevated the famed Pittsburgh University 11 spots to No. 22. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
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A blockchain project to support African farmers is one of the highlights of the blockchain research projects at the No. 49-ranked school. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
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Des Dickerson: “We want to gamify the world with bitcoin.”
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Crypto communities are playing a big series of “live action role playing games,” and they’re changing how we organize and interact across digital and physical spaces. This post is part of Crypto 2022: Culture Week.
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An industry known for leading on tech seems comparatively slow on crypto.
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Different cryptocurrency networks will form distinct societies.
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How crypto is changing media and entertainment – and forging its own culture.
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Money innovation is everywhere and it’s getting wilder. Get all the week’s content here.
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Introducing a week of content about how regulators are shaping the digital assets industry (or trying). Find it all here.
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Next year, the NFT market will broaden and migrate towards quality, said one collector.
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To think through the cultural practices and evolution of a DAO, we present a thought experiment on the life of a DAO, from birth to death to resurrection.
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A ‘90s kid reflects on seeing how iconoclastic rappers changed the world. And how that energy is now in Web 3.
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“I think that’s what audiences want, right?” writer and founder of freelance payments system OutVoice, Matt Saincome said.
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If appetite for staking on Ethereum does not slow meaningfully over the next several months, the size of Ethereum’s validator set could become problematic for the blockchain, says Christine Kim, Vice President of Research at Galaxy Digital.
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Nix.eth argues that dominant decentralized staking provider Lido is exploiting a flaw in Ethereum that threatens some of the industry's core values.
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Axelar's Galen Moore provides a front-row seat to changes afoot at dYdX as the popular decentralized trading platform builds on Cosmos.
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BitGo COO Chen Fang writes reward-bearing staked ether is a cushion during market drops, but developers need to solve problems caused by the growing number of validators.
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