M○C△ WEEKLY 9/8

*Links to all the news you need to know...and some other stuff too*

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• Curated Vs. Open NFT Marketplaces (RollingStone)

• SEC probes OpenSea, but NFT artists are likely not the target | Opinion (Crypto.news)

• An Artist-Made Billboard in Times Square Has a Hidden Message: Save Gaza (ArtNews)

• Critics Are Missing the Point of AI Art (TheAtlantic)

Metaverse

• Why the US Open is building a tennis metaverse inside Roblox (Digiday)

• Lonely Men, AI Girlfriends, the Metaverse, and the New Cold War (ClearanceJobs

• Metaverse expected to rapidly grow within China (ECNS)

• Metaverse in Real Estate Market is Likely to Experience a Tremendous Growth in Near Future (NewsWires)

AI

• AI craze is distorting VC market, as tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon pour in billions of dollars (CNBC)

• A.I. Isn’t Magic, but Can It Be ‘Agentic’? (NewYorkTimes)

• US judge runs 'mini-experiment' with AI to help decide case (Reuters)

• New AI Model Can Simulate Super Mario Bros. After Watching Gameplay Footage (Wired)

Finance

• Crypto market enters ‘extreme fear’ as analysts warn of Bitcoin below $50K (CoinTelegraph)

• Trump’s Idiot Sons’ Crypto Scheme Is a “Huge Mistake” (NewRepublic)

• Inside the 'crypto con' costing victims billions in losses as scam compounds spread globally: ABC News Investigates (ABCNews)

• Mastercard’s Crypto Debit Card Integrates With Apple and Google Pay (Pymnts)

Potpourri

• ‘Feisty’ Gen Z millionaires shaking up investment world, pouring money into crypto, art (ArabianBusiness)

• Could tokenization revolutionize illiquid markets? (TheStreet)

• Magic Eden faces backlash over US service segregation (CoinTelegraph)

• Sotheby’s core earnings down by 88%, according to Financial Times report (TheArtNewspaper)

Tweet of the Week

Tweet by Michael Saylor

Art From M○C△’s Collection

The stone beneath our feet (2018), by Ophelia Fu. In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection.

Art in the Wild

THE OFFERING (2024), by Panter Xhita. Currently open to offers.

Traditional Art Banger

The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1720), by Sebastiano Ricci. Oil on canvas. 32.28in x 26.77in. Held by Dulwich Picture Gallery, London UK.

Quote of the Week

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”

-Wallace Stevens

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