Kevin McCoy, the artist who is widely credited with creating the first NFT, and auction house Sotheby’s have won a legal victory in a lawsuit that challenged the terms and propriety of a 2021 sale at ...

EPO-Granted Patent Embeds NFTs Directly into Secure Semiconductors, Creating an Immutable Chain of Provenance, Ownership, and Authenticity for WISe.ART’s Global Art Ecosystem SEALSQ Corp (NASDAQ: LAES ...

SEALSQ Corp (NASDAQ: LAES) ("SEALSQ" or the "Company"), a leader in Semiconductors, PKI, Post-Quantum technology, and secure digital identity solutions, today announced that the European Patent Office ...

Way back (if we’re counting tech years) in 2014, artist Kevin McCoy (“McCoy”) created a digital record of his pulsating, octagon-shaped digital artwork Quantum on the Namecoin blockchain on May 2, ...

Sotheby’s made headlines last year when it sold Kevin McCoy’s Quantum (2014), which some have regarded as the first-ever NFT, for $1.47 million during its “Natively Digital” auction. Now, that sale is ...

The legal battle over “Quantum” is part of a larger effort to define rules of ownership for digital artworks. By Zachary Small A federal court last Friday dismissed a lawsuit that questioned the ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed an open-source software called SuperConga, which promises to accelerate quantum technology research and facilitate new ...

Bitcoin Ordinals project Taproot Wizards saw robust uptake for its inaugural "Quantum Cats" digital-art sale on Monday, despite severe tech issues that delayed the planned mint three times last week.