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mmERCH founder and CEO Colby Mugrabi. Photo courtesy of mmERCH.
In Conversation with mmERCH's Colby Mugrabi
OpenSea: Can you share the story of how you first conceived the idea of mmERCH? What sparked the concept, and why did you choose generative AI hoodies?
Colby Mugrabi: In March 2021, when the Beeple sale happened, my husband, an art dealer, started getting inundated with calls about Beeple and NFTs. I began researching NFTs, the metaverse and web3. I quickly realized...
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“An Old Soul” by Grant Yun
Museum of Art and Light’s first digital exhibition opens
The Museum of Art and Light (MoA+L), a new institution stewarded by art collective Iconic, has announced its first digital exhibition.
Ahead of the museum’s grand opening in Manhattan, Kansas, in November 2024, Iconic will be releasing a series of exclusive digital art pieces for the multi-month exhibition titled Code & Canvas: Defining Digital Art in the Age of Blockchain.
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Spellborne RPG launches open beta
The monster-catching role-playing game Spellborne has officially entered open beta. Season 1 kicked off on July 4 with 20 new quests, 30+ new monsters and more. Players can now grow more than 16 types of crops in the game’s fictional Heiwa Village, and cultivate new food to feed their monsters.
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Ledger announces Clear Signing initiative to enhance web3 wallet security
Ledger wallet CTO Charles Guillemet presented a rundown of the company’s exciting next steps to eliminate a web3 wallet security risk known as “blind signing.” The update debuted as a talk on the EthCC stage in Brussels, but Guillemet later tweeted a summary.
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The Sandbox partners with manga series ‘Attack on Titan’
The Sandbox, a popular metaverse world, has teamed up with the manga series “Attack on Titan” to bring exclusive content to its virtual universe. First created in 2009, “Attack on Titan'' was written and illustrated by Japanese manga artist Hajime Isayama. The bestselling books were adapted into an anime TV series shortly after.
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Toledo Museum of Art concludes Ethiopian exhibition with NFTs
The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) is wrapping up its year-long Ethiopian art exhibition with an NFT drop from the art collective Yatreda, the institution’s second digital artist in residence.
Entitled “House of Yatreda,” the installation features both historical pieces and contemporary digital art. The collection was co-curated by the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.
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Forgotten Runiverse migrates to Ronin
Forgotten Runiverse, the fantasy role-playing game (RPG) based on the Wizards Cult NFT collection, is moving from Arbitrum to the Ronin network this month.
The game, which allows players to form guilds, participate in expeditions and craft items, will launch a closed beta on Ronin on July 31, followed by a public event in August.