Tag: NFT

NFTs are clearly one of the hottest topics in crypto at the moment. CryptoPunks, Autoglyphs, Bored Apes, Pudgy Penguins – some of them selling for hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars.

So are NFTs just a hype or a paradigm change? What are some of the most interesting NFTs out there? And what are the biggest challenges of this new space? You’ll find answers to these questions in this video.

Let’s start with a quick recap of what NFTs are in the first place.

An NFT or a Non-Fungible Token is a way of representing ownership in the digital world.

Since the dawn of our civilization, humans have been collecting rare items. From seashells and gems to coins, post stamps and Pokemon cards. NFTs are just digital versions of that.

Collectibles, pieces of art, game items, domain names and even complex bespoke financial instruments – all of these can be represented as NFTs.

In contrast to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ether where each unit is interchangeable, NFTs are unique – at least in most cases. The creator of an NFT project can decide on the exact parameters of their NFTs.

Some of the common examples are:

-only 1 NFT per unique piece of art – artists that create individual pieces like Beeple follow this approach,
-a collection where each item has a unique combination of different traits – CryptoPunks, Bored Apes
-a collection where there is a set number of the same item in the collection – usually used for card collectibles like My Curio Cards.

Visa is the latest major company jumping into the NFT craze.

The payments processor said Monday it bought a “CryptoPunk,” one of thousands of NFT-based digital avatars, for nearly $150,000 in ethereum.

An NFT — which stands for non-fungible token — is a unique digital asset designed to represent ownership of a virtual item. Unlike bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, NFTs can’t be exchanged like-for-like with another NFTs.

Proponents say this makes NFTs scarce, driving up their value. NFTs have often been compared to physical collectible items like rare trading cards and works of art.

“We think NFTs will play an important role in the future of retail, social media, entertainment, and commerce,” Cuy Sheffield, head of crypto at Visa, said in a blogpost Monday.

“To help our clients and partners participate, we need a firsthand understanding of the infrastructure requirements for a global brand to purchase, store, and leverage an NFT.”

Sheffield said CryptoPunks have become a “cultural icon for the crypto community.”

“With our CryptoPunk purchase, we’re jumping in feet first,” he said. “This is just the beginning of our work in this space.”

Anchorage, a federally-chartered digital asset bank, facilitated the purchase, Visa said.

Big firms join NFT craze

Several big firms have been experimenting with NFTs lately.

Christie’s has auctioned off several NFTs, some worth millions of dollars. The auction house set records in March when an image created by the digital artist Beeple sold for $69 million.

Meanwhile, a number of media publications, including CNN, The New York Times and Fortune magazine, have sold NFTs of their own.

But some critics are skeptical of NFTs. While such tokens represent a digital certificate of ownership, buyers don’t own the underlying item, and internet users can still view the associated media online. Some people have even stolen other artists’ work and gone on to sell them as NFTs.

“The purchaser of Beeple’s $69 million NFT artwork, ‘Everydays – The First 5000 Days’, owns the unique token,” Adam Rendle, partner at law firm Taylor Wessing, said in a blogpost.

“They do not, however, own copyright or any other intellectual property rights in the digital artwork itself. They cannot distribute or otherwise commercialise the represented asset.”

What are Non-Fungible Tokens or NFTs? Why are they taking the digital art world by storm?

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Famed contemporary artist Damien Hirst told CNBC on Wednesday he believes in the staying power of nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, the blockchain-based digital collectibles that soared, then sank, in popularity this year.

“You look at what’s happening in NFTs, and you can kind of see the galleries disappearing before you see the NFTs disappearing,” Hirst said on “Squawk Box,” where the British artist discussed his NFT collection called “The Currency.”

That project features 10,000 NFTs, with each corresponding to their own distinct works of physical art. The NFTs cost $2,000 apiece. But the twist: Their eventual owners have one year to choose between holding onto the NFT or exchanging it for its physical creation. The one owners don’t pick will be destroyed.

“They’re both art, and they’re both equal. I had to buy into that first, and I have to buy into the idea that I’m happy with destroying physical art and destroying the NFTs,” Hirst said. “I’ve got absolutely no idea what people will do.”

Applications to buy one of Hirst’s NFTs closed Wednesday after opening a week ago.

The NFT craze took off early this year, coinciding with the surging interest in and the surging value of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ether; both NFTs and cryptocurrencies are based on blockchains, which are decentralized digital ledgers. High-class auction houses Christie’s and later Sotheby’s jumped into the NFT action. In March, the digital artist Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million at a Christie’s auction.

NFTs are unique by design, and proponents say that scarcity supports their value over the long term. However, just as bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies hit a rough patch this year, the amount of money spent on NFTs suffered a noticeable decline in May and into June, according to weekly sales data from the website nonfungible.com. Total money spent on NFTs has started to trend upward again in recent weeks.

Critics of NFTs say they’re just a fad, destined to fade in value over time. Believers in cryptocurrencies and blockchains broadly herald NFTs as a crucial innovation that can prove ownership of assets in an increasingly digital world.

Hirst, a prominent figure in the Young British Artists phase that began in the late 1980s, said he sees tension between the people in the worlds of physical and digital art. At the same time, Hirst tried to blur the distinction in some ways.

“I think that digital art is probably going to last a lot longer than galleries. I mean, you probably won’t be going into galleries. We’ll be sitting in bars showing each other what we’ve recently bought on our phones, and that’s kind of what we do now. I just think anything that looks good and feels good, and makes you feel good, you know, it’s good art. It doesn’t have to be in a gallery.”

Skeptics also have criticized the fact that ownership of an NFT-based artwork doesn’t prevent other people from easily being able to view the image online. Because copies of the artwork can appear in various digital places, some question what the value proposition of NFT ownership really is.

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Introduction to non-fungible tokens.