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David Roth

A picture of Donald Trump at the first presidential debate next to a rendering of a trading card which includes a swatch of the suit he wore in that debate, taken from the website selling those cards.

Politics

Donald Trump Is Still Selling NFTs, Now Also Selling Trading Cards With Bits Of His Suit Embedded In Them

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Chris Thompson

DraftKings Sued By NFL Players Association Over Reignmakers Rug-Pull

Capital

DraftKings Abruptly Shuts Down NFT Operation, Panicking Collectors With Vast Holdings Of Digital Tokens

Albert Burneko

A Bored Ape Yacht Club, uh, ape, whose eyes I have crudely blacked out, with blood running in rivulets from his empty eyesockets.

The Machines

When Blindness Hits A Hundred Bucks A Share, Then Who Will Be Laughing, I Ask You, “Doctor”

Dan McQuade was a founding member of Defector. He died in January 2026.

Dan McQuade

Pepe Reina of Villarreal CF during the friendly football match between SSC Napoli and Villarreal CF at Diego Armando Maradona stadium. Naples (Italy), December 17th, 2022.

Soccer

The Color Star Cup Runneth Over

“Major Announcement” From Donald Trump Turns Out To Be NFTs Of His Head Photoshopped Onto A Skinny Man In A Tuxedo

The Sixers Season Is Over, But At Least I Got This Playoff NFT

Patrick Redford

Former world welterweight king Floyd Mayweather speaks on stage during the crypto-currency conference Bitcoin 2021 Convention at the Mana Convention Center in Miami, Florida, on June 4, 2021. (Photo by Marco BELLO / AFP) (Photo by MARCO BELLO/AFP via Getty Images)

Boxing

Floyd Mayweather Is Also The Floyd Mayweather Of Shady Crypto Shit

De’Aaron Fox’s NFT Project Suddenly, Mysteriously Shuts Down

Kelsey McKinney

Jimmy Fallon holds NFT on Tonight Show with Paris Hilton.

Arts And Culture

Imagine If Celebrities Actually Cared About Art

Ray Ratto

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 06: A general view of play between the Oakland Athletics and the Texas Rangers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on August 06, 2020 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)

Mount Davis Is An Insult And MLB Is Too Stupid To Realize Or Too Greedy To Care

Clubhouse Is Loud, Incoherent, And Packed With Suckers

Interviews

A Cryptocurrency Expert Introduces Me To The Dystopian Nightmare Of Art As A Financial Instrument

This is the screen you see when there are only 55,000 people ahead of you in line for a NBA Top Shot pack.

A Short, Lucrative, And Depressing Journey Into NBA Top Shot

NFTs