Blockchain, Crypto, Ethereum, Generally, Law, NFTs

From Collectibles to Crimes? FIFA’s NFT Platform Faces Gambling Allegations

In mid October 2025, the Swiss gambling regulator Gespa filed a criminal complaint with the competent prosecution authorities alleging that FIFA’s blockchain based NFT platform, FIFA Collect, is operating unlicensed gambling services in Switzerland. The complaint asserts that FIFA Collect offers various “competitions” (such as drops, challenges, airdrops) in which participation requires a monetary stake,…

Georg Brameshuber
Oct 23, 2025

Blockchain, Crypto, Ethereum, Generally, Law, NFTs

·Oct 23, 2025

From Collectibles to Crimes? FIFA’s NFT Platform Faces Gambling Allegations

In mid October 2025, the Swiss gambling regulator Gespa filed a criminal complaint with the competent prosecution authorities alleging that FIFA’s blockchain based NFT platform, FIFA Collect, is operating unlicensed gambling services in Switzerland. The complaint asserts that FIFA Collect offers various “competitions” (such as drops, challenges, airdrops) in which participation requires a monetary stake,…

Investment, NFTs

·Oct 3, 2025

The Institutional Shift September 2025

Aster surges as CZ Returns Binance's Ecosystem Revival: CZ's Return Sparks Strategic BSC Rally BNB has outperformed the broader crypto market recently, driven by Binance founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao's return to public engagement and support for key BSC ecosystem projects. His social media mentions of tokens like ASTER and TWT triggered strong rallies, with ASTER…

Arts, Insights, NFTs

·Sep 2, 2025

Meet Elisabeth Our Digital Arts Expert AUGUST 2025

Some of you already know Elisabeth Mühlbacher from our previous blog posts or through direct contact, but we would like to officially introduce her. With a background in art history, image science and experience in the traditional gallery world, Elisabeth now leads our initiatives in the digital art space at Validvent. She sees digital art…

Arts, Blockchain, Crypto, NFTs

·Aug 29, 2025

The Moment for Digital Art is Now

  My name is Elisabeth Mühlbacher, and I am on a mission. I studied art history and image science, and I worked in a traditional gallery. Yet I soon realized that digital art is the defining art form of the 21st century. We are living through a cultural and technological renaissance. Over the past months,…

Sasha Stiles, Completions: Fragments – Fragment #17, 1/1/30 2022.

Crypto, Education, Ethereum, Generally, Investment, NFTs

·Apr 9, 2025

Sasha Stiles: Redefining Cross-Media Art in the Age of AI

Poetry has long been a medium of human expression, a technology of language that encodes emotions, memories, and cultural narratives. Sasha Stiles is a pioneer of generative literature and language art, pushing the boundaries of what poetry can be, integrating artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and transmedia storytelling into her work. As a poet and language…

NFTs

·Mar 14, 2025

XCOPY – Death and JPGS

Please allow the magical GIFs to load a moment.   “In the future, the ‘crypto art space’ will just be the art space.”[1] -XCOPY, 2021 In the world of Crypto Art, few names stand out like XCOPY. As NFT Now once put it, “When it comes to crypto art, there’s XCOPY, and there’s everyone else.”[2]…

NFTs

·Feb 13, 2025

Crypto Art in the Context of Art History: A Cultural and Technological Shift

Crypto Art in the Context of Art History: A Cultural and Technological Shift The question of whether NFTs are art and how they fit into art history has been widely debated in recent years. A look at the past reveals a clear pattern: art has always been closely linked to cultural and technological developments. From…