The last couple of years in the blockchain space has seen several high profile airdrops from some of the hottest blockchain projects out there. Airdrops are proving to be one of the most exciting features of web3 and are increasing in frequency. This article will provide an overview of what airdrops are and how they …
One of the most popular NFT marketplaces on the Tezos blockchain, Hic et Nunc (HEN), randomly disappeared from the Internet recently. Its disappearance sparked some confusion and worry over what happens to everyone’s assets who used the marketplace. And for that reason, the discontinuation of HEN provides a great learning opportunity on how Web 3.0 …
In Neal Stephenson’s 1992 book Snow Crash, he imagines a world where society largely exists within a virtual realm which he christens “the Metaverse”. People access the Metaverse through virtual reality (VR) headsets, and once in, they enter a completely digital urban world that behaves much like the “real” world in terms of how people use …
Welcome to Afrocrypto and thank you for taking the time to read this introductory post. In this post I’ll explain what Afrocrypto is and what I hope to accomplish with it.
In 2017, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies first started dominating the mainstream news as each of these assets reached incredible highs. Now, a new trend to come out of the crypto space is creating the same degree of media attention. Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs for short, are turning people into millionaires overnight. But what exactly are NFTs, …