People Are Using NFTs to Create Literal Empires

A business empire is often defined as a large commercial organization or group of businesses owned or controlled by one person or entity. These organizations are powerful and governed by a centralized authority. For example, think of the Big Tech behemoths of the Web2 world – Meta, Amazon, and Google....

NFT Marketplaces Are Centralized, and It’s a Real Problem

Minting often happens on an NFT community’s webpage. However, many projects direct members to NFT marketplaces for secondary sales, which happen almost exclusively on marketplaces like OpenSea. There’s nothing stopping NFT communities (or users) from being de-platformed by these major NFT marketplaces. While the blockchain is decentralized, Opensea, Coinbase, and...