For the fourth year, CoinDesk has partnered with 14 artists to immortalize on-chain some of the Most Influential 2022, whose NFT portraits will be made available in an exclusive auction being held on Coinbase NFT. Source
Animator Bryan Brinkman Zooms in from Dubai, where he’s part of a delegation of non-fungible token artists, collectors, and platform executives. “There’s people from SuperRare, Nifty Gateway and we’re all spreading the word of NFTs here,” Brinkman, 37, says. “They’re treating us like diplomats.” Source
The artist couple collaborated for the first time ever on their painting of Alexey Pertsev, the developer arrested for his role in creating Tornado Cash. Source
The artist sought inspiration from Andy Warhol and Tim Burton to create his portrait of Binance’s CEO Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ. Source
The previous programmer creates an image called “The Maestro,” which ties Yat Siu’s music background to his position as a leader in the gaming and blockchain industry. Source
When CoinDesk caught up with Yosnier, a 23-year-old artist based in Tampa, Florida, in November about his image of the embattled FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried, he hadn’t started it yet. To be fair, he’d been assigned a massively influential subject, and not influential in a good way – the man had just lost billions of dollars’ worth of crypto, the extent of his wrongdoings still under intensive investigation. Source
The Edinburgh-based artist use a combination of technologies and brick-and-mortar traditional values to draw Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs for this year’s Most Influential list. Source
More than a decade ago, multimedia artist Oveck “fell in love with photography” while retouching images for a photo studio in New York City where he lives In 2020, after an infection left him “half blind,” he took up oil painting. “Still today my right side vision is obstructed, which makes lines distorted and a bit blurry,” he says. Source
Since the beginning of the 2022 2FIFA World Cup, the value of Chiliz native token has plummeted. Due to the discovery of various issues, the sporting event has been met with some controversies. Not to mention that just a week before the World Cup’s start, the collapse of the infamous FTX exchange shook the crypto world. But then, this is not the main point here. Despite some promising advances off-chain, Chiliz continues to struggle. The token is down more than 30% in the last two weeks. There is a lot…
Bitcoin was trading above $17,000 on Monday, as the world’s largest cryptocurrency raced to a three-week high. Today’s move comes as prices rose for a second straight day, with momentum now firmly bullish. Ethereum was also in the green to start the week, with the coin hovering near the $1,300 mark. Bitcoin Bitcoin (BTC) surged to a three-week high on Monday, as prices climbed for a second straight session. Following a low of $16,940.90 on Sunday, BTC/USD moved to an intraday peak of $17,378.15 earlier in today’s session. This high…