Dapper Labs CEO Roham Gharegozlou is coming to Disrupt

Dapper Labs CEO Roham Gharegozlou is coming to Disrupt

If you spent any time this year desperately trying to figure out what the heck NFTs are, you probably have Dapper Labs CEO Roham Gharegozlou to thank for that. His startup’s crypto trading card marketplace NBA Top Shot went viral earlier this year with users dropping hundreds of millions of dollars on digital NBA collectibles. […] …

Todd and Rahul’s Angel Fund closes new $24 million fund

Todd and Rahul’s Angel Fund closes new $24 million fund

After making investments in 57 startups together, Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra and Eventjoy founder Todd Goldberg are back at it with a new $24 million fund and big ambitions amid a venture capital renaissance with fast-moving deals a plenty. “Todd and Rahul’s Angel Fund” announced their first $7.3 million fund just weeks before the pandemic […] …

Dapper Labs backs art hardware start-up Infinite Objects in $6 million seed raise

Dapper Labs backs art hardware start-up Infinite Objects in $6 million seed raise

The NFT world is everything about reshaping the idea of digital ownership, but art hardware start-up Infinite Objects sees a big opportunity in making physical copies of those assets as it looks to improve digital art and antiques. The start-up makes screens that show a single video from a single artist and do not do anything […] If you even want another piece of art from Unlimited Things, you can’t just download it, you have to actually go to their site and purchase another screen with that art work on it. For the longest time, Infinite Things was an NFT platform without the NFTs. When the larger appeal of NFTs as a speculative asset hit earlier this year, Saavedra saw a substantial chance as internet users began talking about the future of digital art and digital scarcity. The team at Infinite Objects sees wider chances in the NFT world but they have actually been tight-lipped on exactly what these efforts will look like.

What the NFT? VC David Pakman dumbs down the digital collectibles craze and why it’s removing now

What the NFT? VC David Pakman dumbs down the digital collectibles craze and why it’s removing now

Non-fungible tokens have been around for 2 years, but these
NFTs, one-of-one digital items on the Ethereum and other blockchains, are all of a sudden becoming a more popular way to gather visual art, mostly, whether it’s an animated feline or an NBA clip or virtual furnishings. “Unexpectedly “is hardly an overstatement. According to the outlet Cointelegraph, throughout […]
We might just gather things in the real world due to the fact that digital collectibles were too easy to copy. You can screenshot it, but you don’t actually own the digital collectible, and you will not be able to do anything with that screenshot. DP: You’re best that one of the other factors why we gather is to show it off status, however I would actually argue it’s much easier to reveal off our collections in the digital world. It’s private developers, artists, digital artists who might create a piece of digital art, make only 5 copies of it, and auction it off. Is that a danger with these digital products, which you are basically keeping in a digital locker or wallet?…