Eli Tan

Eli was a news reporter for CoinDesk who covered NFTs, gaming and the metaverse. He graduated from St. Olaf College with a degree in English. He holds ETH, SOL, AVAX and a few NFTs above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1000.

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Finance

Starbucks Teases Web 3 Platform in NFT Announcement

The coffee chain says its digital collectibles will likely be chain-agnostic and come with benefits tied to its physical locations.

Starbucks NFTs? (June Andrei George/Unsplash)

Finance

BAYC Team Raises $285M With Otherside NFTs, Clogs Ethereum

The virtual land rush for the ape-centered metaverse project has already cost traders more than $176 million in fees alone.

(Yuga Labs)

Finance

Coinbase NFT Marketplace Beta Sees Less Than 900 Transactions in Opening Week

The exchange’s long-awaited NFT platform saw 73 ETH in trade volume in its first week after a small portion of its three million-person waitlist was granted access.

(Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

CXIP Labs Taps Celebrity Investments in $6.5M Round for NFT Development Suite

The NFT-minting protocol has plans to launch a series of creator and enterprise targeted products.

Multichain is building bridges for shuttling crypto across networks. (Modestas Urbonas/Unsplash)

Finance

NFL Draft Goes NFT: Football League Releases New Collection on Flow

The league says its official NFT platform is still in its “test and learn” phase, but has seen promising results since launching in November.

A selection of the NFL Draft NFTs (NFL)

Finance

Moonbirds COO Leaves Project for New Fund – With $1M in NFTs in Tow

Founder Kevin Rose addressed the controversial exit of Ryan Carson, the project’s chief operating officer, in a Twitter Spaces on Monday.

(Moonbirds)

Finance

OpenSea Eyes ‘Pro Experience’ With Acquisition of NFT Aggregator Gem

The deal comes just weeks after controversy surrounding one of Gem’s pseudonymous developers.

(OpenSea/CoinDesk, modified by PhotoMosh)

Finance

DeFi Data Shop Nansen Makes First VC Investment in Gaming Analytics Firm ZeroDrop

Following a $75 million funding round of its own, it’s the first time Nansen has invested in an outside firm.

(Lorenzo Herrera/Unsplash)

Markets

It's Bananas, but Unconfirmed Metaverse Rumors Are Pumping ApeCoin

The latest price pump in almost-anything-goes crypto markets shows just how quick and easy it can be to touch off a fresh flurry of speculation.

Bored Ape Yacht Club's Riverboat in Decentraland (Decentraland)

Finance

Coinbase NFT Marketplace Goes Live. Can It Rival OpenSea?

The beta iteration of the exchange’s marketplace is putting a social-media spin on NFT trading.

(Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg via Getty Images)