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Coachella Innovation Lead Looks to the Future of Music Festivals
Coachella Innovation Lead Looks to the Future of Music Festivals
Coachella Innovation Lead Sam Schoonover shares his outlook on the future of music festivals and the role of technologies in that vision. Plus, Schoonover says purchasing and...
Coachella Innovation Lead Looks to the Future of Music Festivals

Why Coachella Chose Avalanche to Power Their NFTs
Why Coachella Chose Avalanche to Power Their NFTs
Coachella Innovation Lead Sam Schoonover answers five rapid fire questions from CoinDesk, including NFT's killer use cases, the journey that led him to digital collectibles an...
Why Coachella Chose Avalanche to Power Their NFTs

Coachella Teams Up With OpenSea for NFT Collections That Unlock IRL Utilities
Coachella Teams Up With OpenSea for NFT Collections That Unlock IRL Utilities
Coachella announced their partnership with NFT platform OpenSea for Keepsakes, a series of collections that unlock IRL utilities at the California-based music festival. Coache...
Coachella Teams Up With OpenSea for NFT Collections That Unlock IRL Utilities

How Can OpenSea Regain Dominance After Layoffs and the NFT Market Decline?
How Can OpenSea Regain Dominance After Layoffs and the NFT Market Decline?
Last week, OpenSea, the former frontrunner in the NFT marketplace, confirmed the layoff of half its workforce as the NFT markets seemed to bottom out. gmoney, NFT collector an...
How Can OpenSea Regain Dominance After Layoffs and the NFT Market Decline?

Binance Unveils Self-Custody Wallet; HSBC to Start a Custody Service for Tokenized Securities
Binance Unveils Self-Custody Wallet; HSBC to Start a Custody Service for Tokenized Securities
"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the hottest crypto headlines today, including new details about Binance's self-custody Web3 wallet. OpenSea's valuation was...
Binance Unveils Self-Custody Wallet; HSBC to Start a Custody Service for Tokenized Securities

OpenSea Investor Coatue Slashes NFT Marketplace's Valuation by 90%: Report
OpenSea Investor Coatue Slashes NFT Marketplace's Valuation by 90%: Report
The Information reports that OpenSea's valuation has been slashed by 90% from asset manager Coatue Management. This comes as Decrypt reports the NFT marketplace faced a workfo...
OpenSea Investor Coatue Slashes NFT Marketplace's Valuation by 90%: Report

Bored Ape Yacht Club #3001 (OpenSea, modified by CoinDesk)
OpenSea Investor Coatue Cuts NFT Marketplace's Valuation by 90%: Report
Coatue also marked down its stake in MoonPay by 90%
Bored Ape Yacht Club #3001 (OpenSea, modified by CoinDesk)

Former OpenSea Exec Nate Chastain Sentenced to 3 Months in Prison for Insider Trading
Former OpenSea Exec Nate Chastain Sentenced to 3 Months in Prison for Insider Trading
Nate Chastain, the former head of product at OpenSea, has received a three month prison sentence in what the prosecutors are calling the first-ever digital asset insider tradi...
Former OpenSea Exec Nate Chastain Sentenced to 3 Months in Prison for Insider Trading

Nate Chastain Twitter (CoinDesk screenshot)
Ex-OpenSea Executive Nate Chastain Gets 3 Months in Prison for Insider Trading
Chastain was found guilty on charges of buying and selling NFTs from collections he knew would later be featured on his former company’s home page.
Nate Chastain Twitter (CoinDesk screenshot)

Billionaire Investor Mark Cuban Says OpenSea Making NFT Creator Fees Optional Is a 'Huge Mistake'
Billionaire Investor Mark Cuban Says OpenSea Making NFT Creator Fees Optional Is a 'Huge Mistake'
NFT marketplace OpenSea plans to "sunset the OpenSea operator filter" and "move to optional creator fees on all secondary sales for new collections," according to a recent pos...
Billionaire Investor Mark Cuban Says OpenSea Making NFT Creator Fees Optional Is a 'Huge Mistake'