Hermès sued the artist behind 100 MetaBirkins NFTs and won a $133,000 jury verdict in 2023. What the first NFT trademark trial actually decided, and what it left for the people holding the tokens.
Wash trading is when someone buys and sells the same NFT between wallets they control, inflating volume without real demand. Here is how to spot it from a collection page.
A signature request costs no gas and leaves no on-chain record, which is why most NFT theft now starts there. How to read the prompt before you approve it.
Asking prices are not valuations. How to read floor price, volume and rarity, and why the bid side is the number that decides what you can actually sell for.
Nike wound down RTFKT in January 2025. The Clone X tokens survived, the company behind them did not, and for a month the artwork went offline. What that says about owning a brand’s NFTs.
If an NFT marketplace shuts down, self-custody holders usually keep everything, because the token stays on the blockchain. Custodial balances and centrally hosted artwork are where real losses happen.
Every time you list or mint an NFT you grant a contract standing permission to move it, and that permission never expires on its own. Here is how to review and revoke wallet approvals.
You own a token and an ownership record. The copyright, and often the image file itself, is a separate question answered by the project’s license.
On April 30, 2022, Yuga Labs’ Otherside land sale triggered one of the worst gas spikes in Ethereum history, burning nearly $180-200 million in fees.
On March 11, 2021, Christie’s sold Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5,000 Days for $69.3 million, the first purely digital NFT-backed artwork sold by a major auction house.
Copyright © 2026 Crypton NFT