Coinbase's bouncing QR code crashed its own app during the 2022 Super Bowl. FTX's Larry David ad became the industry's most-cited cautionary tale a year later. Ten crypto marketing campaigns, and the one that collapsed.
Crypto and Web3 public relations across three cycles — the 2017 ICO boom, the 2021 Web3 and NFT wave, and the 2024-2025 institutional Bitcoin treasury era. EPR's full crypto coverage hub.
A directional modeling study of how five AI engines surface and rank 28 crypto and Web3 brands across 62 prompts. Bitcoin and Ethereum anchor the category; Coinbase dominates US-exchange citation; the named founder beats the anonymous team.
Mayweather $614K + Khaled $152K (Nov 2018 Centra Tech). Kardashian $1.26M (Oct 3 2022 EthereumMax). The March 22 2023 SEC sweep — Lindsay Lohan, Akon, Soulja Boy, Ne-Yo, Lil Yachty re: Justin Sun/Tron. The FTX celebrity class action: Brady, Gisele, Curry, Larry David, Shaq, O'Leary.
Smart-contract exploits, bridge breaches, and exchange hacks are common in crypto. This article examines the crisis communication playbooks of Ronin, Wormhole, and Bybit, highlighting the importance of fast, credible responses and the costs of slow detection. Learn how to navigate a crypto hack, from immediate disclosure to securing user funds and coordinating with partners.
Originally published March 2022 at the NFT market peak. Rebuilt June 2026 as EPR's current reference on what four years have taught creators about the NFT category — from the audience-precedes-platform reality through the security operational discipline through the post-2021 cycle market.
ICANN's 2012 gTLD round: $350M in fees, 2,091 applications, ~1,200 new gTLDs added. The next round opens April 2026. Web3 domains and AI answer engines now compete with the DNS.
