By: Ryan Borba
Kings Of Leonraised more than $600,000 for Crew Nation with an NFT-laden album drop in March.For the last couple years, the still-burgeoning world of cryptocurrency seemed like something out of science fiction, at least to most run-of-the-mill, regular-money-using people.
Even its name, with the prefix “crypto,” suggested a dark-web underworld where people traded things of nebulous worth for nebulous currency for nebulous reasons. While some mainstream outlets and businesses started accepting Bitcoin for transactions, and even just recently some major online brokerages started tracking cryptocurrency on their own exchange-traded funds, the crypto craze has mostly seemed to be as a new asset class for people hoping to make a quick buck.