Take for example, Emily, hawking colorful cloth in Accra’s crowded Makola Market. She dreams of a life beyond the grind, a life where her art makes her rich in every sense of the word. Then she starts to hear about this new stuff called digital gold – NFTs – and...
I'll be blunt: the intersection of crypto, NFTs, and fitness feels like a fever dream cooked up by venture capitalists hopped up on Soylent. Hear me out. The recent Karate Combat and STEPN GO partnership, launching NFT sneakers that reward you for moving, has me intrigued, and maybe a little...
Liga MX team Necaxa is selling off 1% ownership as an NFT auction. Tickets, access, even championship rings? Sounds amazing, right? Hold on. Is this a brilliant new strategy to connect with fervent fans, or are we witnessing a digital fleecing of enthusiasm? Future of sports ownership or just a...
Necaxa. A Mexican soccer club. NFTs. Ownership. On the face of it, it sounds like a tech bro’s fever dream. Even worse, it would be perceived as a deeply cynical cash grab. If you go a bit below the surface, you’ll find an interesting story. Necaxa’s plan to sell 1%...
Shaquille O’Neal, the larger-than-life basketball legend recently settled an $11 million lawsuit with NFT investors. What’s that—day three of our celebrity endorsement backfiring series? Before we shrug this off as just another case of the rich getting richer (and then settling with the less rich), let's ask a crucial question:...
