Jessica Rizzo has a great piece in Wired about how actor, writer, and television producer Seth Green, known for his unique brand of childish humor, recently got taken by a simple phishing scam and lost control not only of a very expensive Bored Apr NFT but all the rights he had negotiated to use the NFT as the basis for an animated television series. Green, an actor best known for his pouty portrayal of archvillain Dr. Evil’s disappointing son in the Austin Powers franchise,

The names Nike and Hermes rarely appear in a sentence together, even when discussing fashion apparel. But the explosion in popularity of non-fungible tokens (or more simply, NFT’s) has made them strange bedfellows. Athletic shoe and apparel manufacturer Nike has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against StockX for its creation and sales of an NFT based on Nike sneakers. French luxury brand Hermes has done likewise against Mason Rothschild. The cases were filed in differe

Just when you thought it was impossible for the art world to get any weirder, this happens: A non-fungible token (or “NFT”) of a digital artwork just sold at Christie's auction for $69 million. Digital artwork? Non-fungible tokens? $69 million? At least the concept of paying millions of dollars for artwork has become a familiar one. As for the others … Earlier this month, Mike Winkelmann, a Charleston, SC graphic designer who goes by the adopted art world name of “Beeple," s