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

Crypto Custodian BitGo Adds AVAX Support as Institutions Eye Avalanche

It means BitGo clients, such as exchanges Bitstamp and Bitbuy, can now offer AVAX to their users.

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Tech

Ancient Rome Play-to-Earn Game ‘vEmpire’ Launches

Mythology meets the metaverse in a play-to-earn game you can actually play.

(Massimo Virgilio/Unsplash)

Finance

Auction Platform Otis House to Sell the First NFT of a Bob Ross Painting

The platform mints NFTs to prove ownership of physical collectibles, and destroys them if their owners ask for the items to be returned.

Bob Ross (Acey Harper/Getty Images)

Finance

Solana Ventures Looks to Boost Web 3 Gaming With Launch of $150M Fund

The initiative tops an earlier $100 million fund raised with FTX and Lightspeed in November.

Solana (Zack Seward/CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Toy Brand L.O.L Surprise! Launches In-Store NFT Collection

The billion-dollar toy brand is calling the collection “the largest retail NFT launch in history.”

L.O.L Surprise! dolls (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

Finance

Twitch Co-Founder Justin Kan Launches Gaming NFT Marketplace on Solana

Fractal is bringing ownership to a community rich in both digital assets and NFT skepticism.

Fractal is Justin Kan's latest venture. (Possessed Photography/Unsplash)

Tech

Audius Is Building a Radio Station in the Metaverse

“DeFi Land” is integrating music streaming into its gameplay by way of the blockchain-based Spotify rival.

DeFi FM is the latest metaverse experiment from Audius. (DeFi Land)

Finance

ConsenSys-Backed Virtue Gaming Launches ‘Play-to-Earn Poker’

The blockchain-based poker game is the first of its kind in the play-to-earn space.

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Finance

Metaverse Goes Hollywood With Universal Music Group Avatar Partnership

Avatar company Genies has inked a deal with UMG that could bring celebrity merch from Rihanna, Migos and more into virtual worlds.

Genies avatars of Quavo, Kim Petras, J Balvin and Lil Huddy. (Genies)

Finance

Microsoft Leads $27M Funding Round for Palm NFT Studio

The Web 2 giant’s venture arm thinks enterprise demand for tokenized art will stick around.

(Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)