NFT stand for Non-fungible token. That doesn’t make it any clearer. … “Non-fungible” more or less means that it’s unique and can’t be replaced with something else. For example, a bitcoin is fungible — trade one for another bitcoin, and you’ll have exactly the same thing
NFTs on Ethereum are based on open-source standards and you hold them or “custody” them in your own wallet. … After creating a collection and naming it, you can create and add NFTs to it using image files, video files, 3D models, music files, or basically any type of digital content file
NFTs are “one-of-a-kind” assets in the digital world that can be bought and sold like any other piece of property, but which have no tangible form of their own. The digital tokens can be thought of as certificates of ownership for virtual or physical assets.
NFT stands for non-fungible token. It’s generally built using the same kind of programming as cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin or Ethereum, but that’s where the similarity ends. Physical money and cryptocurrencies are “fungible,” meaning they can be traded or exchanged for one another.
Every NFT has an owner, creator, history, and this information or “provenance” is verifiable on-chain. On each item’s page there is a section marked “Details” where you can verify details about the contract used to create it.
In 2021, interest in NFT’s has increased, with celebrities and artists getting on the bandwagon causing the cost of them to skyrocket. This year the most expensive NFTs of all time were sold, demonstrating serious investor appetite.
Some of the famous memes that sold this year include ‘Disaster Girl’ meme sold for $473,000 and ‘Nyan Cat’ sold for $590,000.
NFTs are expensive because they are one of a kind. Traditionally artwork is valuable because they were the only version available whereas digital art can be copied and reproduced with much more ease. NFTs tokenize the art so that the owner has a certificate of ownership that can be sold which confirms the asset as the original.
According to Google Trends data, the most expensive NFTs aren’t necessarily the most talked about.
The record for the most expensive NFT ever sold (and one of the most expensive artworks ever sold) goes to EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS.
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