Everything Interesting I Could Find About NFT — Categorized
7 min readMar 13, 2021
It has been a remarkable few months in the blockchain space. From the meteoric rise of bitcoin and ether to the constant buzz and never ending flow of news about non-fungible tokens, it sure seems like everyone is talking about blockchain, Defi, and NFTs
I first learned about blockchain and crypto in 2016. I became fascinated with learning everything I could about the technology, its applications, and use cases.
With NFTs being the conversation everyone is having, and after publishing my article and guide about NFTs a few days ago, I thought it might be helpful to organize everything I found interesting and useful in easy to browse categories.
I hope this is useful and helpful for creators, musicians, and entrepreneurs, to make this blockchain innovation accessible and easy to understand.
Comprehensive Sources & Guides
- Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs): The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide
- Non-fungible tokens (NFT) | ethereum.org
- Wikipedia | Non-Fungible Token
- NFTs, explained: what they are, and why they’re suddenly worth millions
- Everything You Need to Know About NFTs — the Crypto Art Selling For Millions
- The Non-Fungible Token Bible: Everything you need to know about NFTs
- A beginner’s guide to NFTs — Mirror
- The beginners guide to creating & selling digital art NFTs
- Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT): Beginner’s Guide
- Top NFT Marketplaces | Beginners Guide
- How to Create Your Own NFT Marketplace in Minutes
General Articles
- The ABCs of NFTs: Bringing Ownership to the Internet
- NFTs make the internet ownable — Mirror
- Deciphering the hype: A beginner’s guide to Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) | Venture
- Why NFTs are suddenly selling for millions of dollars
- The bitcoin elite are spending millions on collectable memes
- What is an NFT?
- Why an Animated Flying Cat With a Pop-Tart Body Sold for Almost $600,000
- Non-Fungible Tokens 101: A Primer On NFTs For Brands And Business Professionals
- NFTs and a Thousand True Fans
- Still haven’t learned what NFTs are? Well, this one just sold for $69M
- NFTs Are Here. But Where Are They Headed?
- People are making more than 500% buying property that doesn’t actually exist
- The fractionalization of NFTs will lead to better social tokens
- CoinDesk What Are NFTs and How Do They Work?
- NFTs Are Fueling a Boom in Digital Art. Here’s How They Work
- What are NFTs and why are some worth millions?
- NFT Art — Historic or Hysteric?. Making a Point About the Latest Crypto… | by Max Haarich | Feb, 2021 | Medium
- NFTs Are the ‘Gateway to Crypto’: Binance Executive
- Complete Guide to NFTs: How to Create & Collect the Next Wave of Digital Assets
About Art
- Beeple: A Visionary Digital Artist at the Forefront of NFTs
- NFT Art Boom Is the Same Concept as the Photography Market
- Christie’s now accepts auction bids made with cryptocurrency
- CoinDesk Early CryptoPunk Digital Collectible Sells for $762K in Ether
- Who Is Beeple? How Artist Mike Winkelmann Made Millions From Selling NFTs and Digital Art
- The ‘deal with it’ glasses are being sold as an NFT
- Are NFTs the Next Tulip Bubble? Kenny Schachter Doesn’t Care — and He Sold His Own Grandma on the Crypto Web to Prove It
- As Museums Go Dark, Crypto Art Finds Its Frame
- Crypto art exchanges are about to blow up the auction house
- FVCKRENDERVERSE Nifty Gateway Experience Launch | HYPEBEAST
- Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million
- NFTs Boom as Collectors Shell Out to ‘Own’ Digital Art
- Is This the Next Art-Market Bubble? A Unique NFT for the Popular ‘Nyan Cat’ GIF Just Sold for a Whopping $560,000
- Grimes sold $6 million worth of digital art as NFTs
- This ethereum-based project could change how we think about digital art
- Crypto art is gaining traction and one of its biggest stars is an artist from Thunder Bay
- NFT Art — Historic or Hysteric?. Making a Point About the Latest Crypto… | by Max Haarich | Feb, 2021 | Medium
- HashMasks, CryptoPunks, & More… Inside The Multi-Billion-Dollar Market For Tokenized Art
About People & Brands
- Nike now holds patent for blockchain-based sneakers called ‘CryptoKicks’
- Jack Dorsey Is Auctioning His First Tweet Ever As An NFT… And It’s Now Worth Over $2MM
- The brands are at it again — Taco Bell is hopping on the NFT train
- Nike’s ‘cryptokicks’ trademark application hints at its new blockchain ambitions
- Taco Bell joins NFT hype bandwagon. But business angle is real
About Gaming & Sports
- How Dapper Labs scored NBA crypto millions
- Worlds Beyond Worlds: Announcing the First Gaming Multiverse, Ever.
- EnjinX Update: Blockchain Asset Support & The Real Ready Player One
- Microsoft launches game to celebrate women in science — with Minecraft NFT rewards
- NBA Top Shot: $230 million spent trading video highlights
- Enjin is Creating a Real-Life Ready Player One, and It’s Powered by Blockchain
- First trailer revealed for Gods Unchained, a crypto trading card game
- Car-Racing Crypto Collectable Sells for Over $100,000 In Ether Tokens
- WATCH: People are spending millions on virtual CryptoKitties
- Someone just bought a cryptocurrency cat for $172,000
- CryptoKitties is causing ethereum network congestion — Quartz
- Blockchain collectible firm Sorare raises $50m for NFT fantasy sports
- Leah Callon-Butler: The NFT Game That Makes Cents For Filipinos During COVID
- Why NFT Collector ‘WhaleShark’ Spent 22 ETH on These Sneakers
About Music & Entertainment
- Kings of Leon Will Be the First Band to Release an Album as an NFT
- WTF is an NFT? Allow Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda to explain Mark Yarm The rapper/producer
- Square buys majority of Tidal, adds Jay-Z to its board in bid to shake up the artist economy
- Mike Shinoda Releases ‘Happy Endings’ With Upsahl + Iann Dior
- KINGS OF LEON TEAM UP WITH YELLOWHEART TO PRESENT THE “NFT YOURSELF” COLLECTION — Live Nation
- William Shatner Tokenizes his Favorite Memories on the WAX Blockchain — Cointelegraph Magazine
- ‘Assigning value to every action’: Why Decrypt created its own cryptocurrency for super readers
- William Shatner Releasing Set Of Collectible Digital Trading Cards
- DJ Deadmau5 Launches $100,000 Worth of NFT Collectibles
- Crypto art is gaining traction and one of its biggest stars is an artist from Thunder Bay
- Can NFTs Crack Royalties And Give More Value To Artists?
Criticism & Misconceptions
- seths.blog NFTs are a dangerous trap
- No, CryptoArtists Aren’t Harming the Planet | by SuperRare Team | SuperRare 💎 | Mar, 2021
- Episode V. Toward a New Ecology of Crypto Art: A Hybrid Manifesto | | Flash Art
- memo/eco-nft: A basic guide to ecofriendly CryptoArt (NFTs)
- The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of #CryptoArt. Part 1 | Medium
- The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of #CryptoArt (Part 2: Extras)
- NFTs Are Hot. So Is Their Effect on the Earth’s Climate
- RJ Palmer on Twitter: “Cool new scam artists should be aware of. Any rando can now turn your tweet and by extension, your artwork into an NFT by tagging this account @/tokenizedtweets Block this guy… https://t.co/GRcCvcyFqs"
- Environmental Impact, Artistic Merit and Value of NFTs
Videos
- $69 Million for a JPEG File — The Wild World of NFT’s
- What Are NFTs and How Can They Be Used in Decentralized Finance? DEFI Explained
- Explained: What are Non-fungible tokens or NFTs?
- ETH, NFTs & Blockchain | The Prof G Show
- What are NFTs and Crypto Art?
- What the *&$# Are NFTs?! Crypto Art is Blowing Up.
- Taco Bell Sells Its Own NFTs
- Explained: What are Non-fungible tokens or NFTs?
- Beeple sells most expensive NFT ever for $69.3 million
Notable NFTs
- CROSSROAD
- Buy and Collect William Shatner Trading Cards on the WAX Blockchain
- Beeple (b. 1981), EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS | Christie’s
- USD $179,000.00 — USD $225,000.00 LeBron James — available from 3 sellers
- Nyan Cat [original]
- OpenSea 1–1–1 — F1® Delta Time
- Stem
- Check out Kitty #896775!
- Authentic Digital Art — Elephant Dream
- Unisocks Exchange
- MetaGrail | THE X EVOLUTIONS
- Death of the Old
- Mike Shinoda | Linkin Park / Fort Minor
- Lindsay “Lightning” Lohan — Rarible
- PhiAMT Park, Lemursiv, and Pixels for Madagascar — Decentraland
- Taco Bell’s NFT Taco Art
- Hashmasks
Stats
- Crypto Art Data
- Bitcoin vs. VISA: energy consumption per transaction 2020
- ღ✧*:~.·:·.･ﾟ CryptoArt.wtf ღ✧*:~.·:·.･ﾟ
- NFT market history overview
Marketplaces
- Nifty Gateway
- MakersPlace — Premier Rare Digital Art Market
- SuperRare | Authentic Digital Art Marketplace
- EnjinX — Ethereum (ETH) Blockchain Explorer
- OpenSea: Buy Crypto Collectibles, CryptoKitties, Decentraland, and more on Ethereum
- Rarible — create and sell digital collectibles secured with blockchain
- Foundation.app
- Welcome to Decentraland
- NFTX Gallery
- Zora | The NFT Protocol
- The Worldwide Asset eXchange™ (WAX)
Artists
- Memo Akten | Mehmet Selim Akten | The Mega Super Awesome Visuals Company — Artist
- ☘︎𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 (@Grimezsz)
- Cain Caser (@caincaser) • Instagram photos and videos
Musicians
Games
- CryptoKitties | Collect and breed digital cats!
- Gods Unchained
- Welcome to Decentraland
- Axie Infinity
- Cheeze Wizards: A blockchain battle royale with cheese
- Sorare • Global Fantasy football
- NBA Top Shot | Officially Licensed Digital Collectibles
Projects
- YellowHeart
- Crypto-collectibles & blockchain gaming news and tools
- Welcome to Decentraland
- NBA Top Shot | Officially Licensed Digital Collectibles
- S!NG • Every idea, shared safely.
- Flow: the blockchain for open worlds
- Dapper — Your account manager for all things Flow
- Dapper Labs — Fun and games on the blockchain
Companies
Technical & How To
- How to Create and Deploy an NFT Smart Contract in 10 Minutes
- NIFTEX | Create and trade ERC20 fractions of non-fungible tokens
- Zora | The NFT Protocol
- ERC: Multi Token Standard · Issue #1155 · ethereum/EIPs
- Fusible — Price Discovery Protocol for NFTs
- How To Create NFTs With Solidity. A glorious guide to using NFTs | by Patrick Collins | Mar, 2021
- 4. Non-Fungible Tokens
- EIP-2309: ERC-721 Consecutive Transfer Extension
- ERC-721 Non-Fungible Token Standard | ethereum.org
- ERC-1155: The Crypto Item Standard | by Witek Radomski
- ERC-721 Non-Fungible Token Standard | ethereum.org
- EIP-1155: ERC-1155 Multi Token Standard
- EIP-721: ERC-721 Non-Fungible Token Standard
- ERC-721
More
- Home | ethereum.org
- DappRadar — Ranked list of blockchain dapps
- Masterworks — Learn to Invest in Fine Art
