NFT market correlations among Ethereum collections are weaker than correlations in cryptocurrency, stock and Forex markets, and they deviate from pure noise, according to a study by Marcin Wątorek, Paweł Szydło, Jarosław Kwapień and Stanisław Drożdż, posted in April 2024. The authors apply random matrix theory, detrended cross-correlation coefficients and minimal spanning trees to 90 ...
A study on NFT wash trading detection from the University of Pennsylvania, Boston University and the University of California, Los Angeles classifies about 38% of trades on LooksRare, Blur and OpenSea as likely manipulation. Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas and Niuniu Zhang measured wash trading directly from public on-chain data, tracing wallets instead of inferring ...
NFT valuation in major Ethereum collections tracks the intensity and tone of Reddit discussion, according to a working paper by researcher Samiha Tariq posted on February 2, 2026. The study merges 87,696 secondary-market sales from January 2021 through March 2025 with Reddit-based attention and sentiment measures for 25 large generative collections. The author reports conditional ...
On December 7, 2021, Ubisoft presented Ubisoft Quartz, a platform for players to acquire and trade non-fungible tokens (NFTs) integrated into the company’s video games. The platform launched in beta for the game Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint on PC via Ubisoft Connect. The digital assets, named “Digits,” included cosmetic items such as masks, vehicle skins, and ...
Key Takeaways Finding the best NFT marketplace in 2026 is a different challenge from what it was three years ago. The era of a single dominant platform is over. According to DappRadar’s Q3 2025 Industry Report, NFT sales reached a quarterly record of 18.1 million transactions, generating $1.58 billion in trading volume – a 45% ...
Key Takeaways In June 2021, the Doge Meme NFT sold for over $4 million. A few months later, PleasrDAO – the buyer – did something unexpected: they split it into millions of tiny pieces, letting anyone buy a fraction for as little as $1. That experiment planted the seed for what is now one of ...
Key Takeaways You see an NFT you like, you take a screenshot. Simple enough. But what happens next – and what you do with that screenshot – determines whether you are on solid legal ground or heading toward a copyright dispute. The question of NFT screenshots has been debated online since at least 2020, fueled ...
Key Takeaways Most people think they own their domain. They don’t. They’re renting it, year after year, from a registrar that can suspend, transfer, or simply take it away. With over 157.2 million .COM registrations active as of Q1 2025, the traditional domain market is massive. But a quiet shift is happening underneath it. NFT ...
Runestone crypto represents a significant milestone in the Bitcoin Ordinals ecosystem. Ordinals are a new type of NFTs (Non-Fungible Token) on the Bitcoin network. Leonidas, the creator of ord.io, started a project that includes these unique inscriptions. This collection of 112,383 distinct digital artifacts aims to reward early adopters of Bitcoin Ordinals, making it one ...
