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Optimism reigned at Paris Blockchain Week

Careful optimism was the theme at this year's Paris Blockchain Week. Builders will build and the crypto community will keep going. Expectations for Paris Blockchain Week were relatively low considering the downbeat market conditions. However, Paris can always surprise you. Indeed, Conference halls at the Event were not nearly as empty or depressing as Consensus after the big crypto meltdown of 2018. People were present, and conversations were fruitful. (And yes, the croissants were, as always, delicious.) In 2022, the conference was held symbolically in Palais Brongniart, a building known for hosting the historical Paris Stock Exchange until 1987. This time, organizers managed to outsoar themselves and held the event right under Louvre in the elegant “Carrousel du Louvre” conference halls. Paris Blockchain Week 2023. Here's beginning pic.twitter.com/ZnmlhWcQpE — DavidSHLee (@davidshlee11) March 21, 2023 Evening side events took place all around central Paris, overlapping an...

France's top modern art museum to display CryptoPunks, Autoglyphs NFTs

A new exhibition targeting the intersection of art and blockchain will open this spring at the Centre Pompidou, home of the first collection of modern art in Europe. Paris's leading contemporary Art museum , the Centre Pompidou announced on Feb. 10 an upcoming permanent exhibition targeting the intersection between Art and the blockchain represented by nonfungible tokens (NFTs).  According to an announcement on Feb. 10, the Centre will feature NFTs from over 16 digital artists around the world, including popular collectables such as CryptoPunk #110 and Autoglyph #25, both donated to the Centre Pompidou. Le Centre Pompidou fait l’acquisition d’un ensemble d’Å“uvres traitant des relations entre blockchain et création artistique, dont ses premiers NFT ! Ce sont 18 projets de 13 artistes français et internationaux qui entrent en collection. Plus d'infos https://t.co/PXL4O2E9vh pic.twitter.com/sNI7EYtK5E — Centre Pompidou (@CentrePompidou) February 10, 2023 Xavier Rey, director...