🎧 NFT Founder Blows $10M on Gambling & DJ Hobby: The Taj Tarsha Saga Another day, another crypto fraud indictment, but this one takes the cake for pure degeneracy. Federal prosecutors in New York just charged Taj Tarsha, the founder of NFT marketplace Few and Far, with securities and wire fraud. The allegation? He raised over $10 million from investors to build a Web3 platform and instead torched it all on online ga…

Channel
NFT Times
@NFTtimes
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
198subscribers
-3 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001322022350 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @NFTtimes |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 2 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 2 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/NFTtimes |
Topic
Crypto & trading — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 24 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 77% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Oct 2026, 03:16 | 198 | -2 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 12:35 | 200 | -1 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 04:02 | 201 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 00:54 | 201 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 14 May 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
🎰 Fake World Assets: How Onchain Gacha Became the Degen King While Bitcoin was busy bleeding 20% in July 2026, the NFT market was printing its wildest month ever. In June alone, users burned a record $324M on onchain gacha. You read that right. A third of a billion dollars straight into blind loot boxes. The absolute ruler of this meta is Fake World Assets (FWA) by TokenWorks (the same OGs behind PunkStrategy). In …
NFTX Teases v4 Relaunch With New Whitepaper NFTX is returning with a new v4 whitepaper and a mainnet launch on the horizon, the protocol announced on X, its plan being to rebuild its fungible NFT liquidity model on Uniswap V4. What's the Scoop? The big idea: NFTX v4 will let any item in an NFT collection, not just floor pieces, get deposited into a pool in exchange for a freshly minted fungible floor token, with th…
🇪🇺 Brussels is back in the crypto weeds. MEPs are pushing the European Commission to look at DeFi, staking, lending, and NFTs under a possible MiCA overhaul, because the current rulebook left those areas mostly untouched. 📌 What’s changing MiCA already covers issuers and centralized crypto service providers, but DeFi protocols, NFT markets, staking, and lending still sit in a regulatory gray zone. Lawmakers now w…
🪙 The Runes Revival: Bitcoin Traffic Hits Two-Year High Bitcoin transaction volume has surged past 820,000 daily transactions, hitting a two-year high driven by a resurgence in the Runes protocol - a Bitcoin-native fungible token system that launched in April 2024. This is the first time since late 2023 that Bitcoin network activity has reached this level. 🔎 What's happening Runes transactions are once again domin…
🤨 Pudgy Penguins Hits Target: NFT-Born IP Goes Mainstream Retail Pudgy Penguins has launched its Vibes Series 3 trading cards at Target stores nationwide, marking the project’s biggest retail expansion to date. The cards are now on shelves next to Pokémon packs at 1,600+ Target stores across the US. What’s in the pack New gameplay mechanics and original street-artist artwork. Character appearances from Moonbirds …
🎨 Arnold Tsang Launches Original Manga “Azuki” - From Overwatch Art Director to Creator Arnold Tsang, former art director of Overwatch, is back in comics with an original manga titled “Azuki.” The manga will debut at Anime Expo in Los Angeles (July 2–5), with exclusive access to the first chapter only at the event. 📚 Story & Creative - The story follows Shao, a girl whose sister disappears, leading her to become a …
💥 Asterix Hit as Flooring Protocol Vulnerability Spreads Across Forks Asterix has confirmed its contract was attacked, and the exploit appears to be part of a broader vulnerability pattern already seen in Flooring Protocol-style forks. The shared root cause looks like a high-bit NFT ID shift / overflow issue that can break ownership accounting and let attackers drain liquidity. 👤 What happened Attackers reportedly…
©️ Yuga Labs CEO Michael Figge said the team has completed a whitehat rescue operation for an exploit discovered in Flooring Protocol. The rescued NFTs are now safely in Yuga Labs’ custody, including 29 BAYC, 4 MAYC, 1 BAKC, 2 CryptoPunks, 1 Azuki, 2 Elementals, 26 Captains, 1 Moonbird and 2 Doodles. Yuga Labs said it instructed its GrailsOTC trading desk to front the funds and NFTs needed to rescue the at-risk ass…
🃏 Crypto’s New Rich Are Buying Pokémon Cards, Not Picassos The signal is getting harder to ignore: crypto wealth is flowing into tokenized collectibles, and Pokémon cards are becoming the status asset of choice. Fine art may still matter, but the real marginal dollar is increasingly chasing graded cardboard, not canvas. 🎯 Why this matters Courtyard reportedly hit $50M a month vaulting graded Pokémon cards, which is…
🤨 PENGU: Calm Before The Storm The PENGU chart is at a critical junction. After months of consolidation, the wedge pattern is hitting its final point - and the move is starting. Most traders aren't ready. 📉 📊 What's happening on the chart PENGU is holding above the 7-day SMA at $0.01144 - this is the key level for the next leg up. RSI at 45 → momentum is balanced, neither overbought nor oversold. MACD turning bu…
🎮 Animoca Brands sells majority stake in GAMEE to Alpha Compute for $18M Animoca Brands has successfully sold its majority stake in GAMEE to Alpha Compute for $18 million, with an initial payment of $3.5 million and potential earn-outs based on GAMEE's performance over the next two years. 📉 What's the real story? 🎯 GAMEE has a 120 million registered user base, but active users are significantly lower. 2025 revenue…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @NFTtimes. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 2 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“NFT Times” (@NFTtimes), 198 subscribers as measured 2 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/NFTtimes.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.