Smart Media Tokens (SMTs)
Will Cryptocurrencies Be the Art Market’s Next Big Thing? (Published 2018)
Digital collectibles underpinned by blockchain technology are rising and falling in value at a far faster rate than just about everything in the analogue art world.
Skin-in-the-Game Coins
Non-worthless utility tokens: truly rare, mythical, beasts if there ever were.
Rare Pepe - AVC
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been playing around with a digital asset collecting game called Rare Pepe. My partner Andy tipped me off to it a while back and it took me a while to wade into it. Rare Pepe is based on an internet meme called Pepe The Frog that has been around […]
Colored Coins - BitcoinX
Bitcoin visionary Hal Finney 'predicted' booming NFT market — in 1993
Bitcoin legend Hal Finney probably wasn't expecting NFTs when he penned this throwaway CompuServe post back in 1993.
Amy Madison Luo - NFTs: A Legal Guide - CoinDesk
NFTs raise some thorny intellectual property issues. Here is a guide from a lawyer who works with artists.
Larva Labs Blog: A Physical Model for Digital Art Ownership — The CryptoPunks in their First Gallery Show
How the CryptoPunks took physical form to participate in their first Gallery show.
So You Bought an NFT Couch. Now What?
Furniture is made for human bodies. So what, exactly, do you do with a couch you can’t sit on?
How to Display Cryptoart 🖼️
Your NFTs are beautiful. Share them with the world!
Do You Really* Own Your NFT? Chances Are, You Don’t - The Defiant - DeFi News
Many NFTs are more centralized than collectors realize, which means that true “ownership” is not necessarily a given. Some projects are seeking to change that.
The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Katie Haun on the Dark Web, Gangs, Investigating Bitcoin, and The New Magic of “Nifties” (NFTs) (#499)
Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with Katie Haun (@katie_haun), a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, she spent a decade as a federal prosecutor with the US Department o…
Trends #0050 — Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
What Critics Don’t Understand About NFTs
The complexity and arbitrariness of non-fungible tokens are a big part of their appeal.
Naval on Twitter
Demystifying NFTs:
(A thread)
The Furry Lisa, CryptoArt, & The New Economy Of Digital Creativity
Over the last year I became the proud owner of The Furry Lisa, among several other one-of-a-kind digital creations often referred to as…
The Non-Fungible Token Bible: Everything you need to know about NFTs - OpenSea Blog
Discover unique NFTs and receive news, updates, tips, and tricks on the world’s first and largest NFT marketplace. Welcome to the OpenSea’s Blog.
Crypto fundamentals and NFTs
and ✨ NFTs ✨ Crypto fundamentals
💻🌃🧙♂️Crypto Will Change Value, NFTs Will Change Society
Note: “Crypto” is a catch-all term for assets like bitcoin and blockchain protocols like Ethereum. Note 2: The “Metaverse” is a virtual environment where people live, work, and play. Crypto is going to radically alter finance, value, organization, governance, the internet, money, and more. But it’s non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that will radically alter human society and culture.
Proof of Passion
How NFTs Will Power the Passion Economy
Creators, Communities, and the Gray Space in the Middle — Nichanan Kesonpat
How David Bowie presciently described the breakdown of barriers between creators and their audiences, the future of digital communities, and experiments in NFTs and social tokens.
NFT subculture — Mirror
Established art cultures online and in the physical world won’t be early adopters of NFTs. A crypto-native subculture will emerge around the medium first.
Stories, Scarcity and Mimetic Desire
NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have recently exploded onto the mainstream in a way that nothing else has in the history of our industry…
1,000 True Fans
This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This revisited essay appears in Tim
arweave
arweave is a global, permanent hard drive built on two novel technologies: the blockweave, a derivative of the blockchain, and proof of access, a custom incentivised proof of work algorithm. These innovations provide truly permanent data storage for the very first time and at a massive scale.
Snapshot
Masterworks - Learn to Invest in Fine Art
Purchase shares in great masterpieces from artists like Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Andy Warhol, and more.
REPLICATOR by Mad Dog Jones
The world’s first self-replicating NFT sold for a record $4.144M USD!
Opinion: NFTs, DAOs and the New Creator Economy - CoinDesk
Decentralized autonomous organizations, non-fungible tokens: Building blocks for a new media owned by talent.
Social Tokens Year in Review
A SeedClub x Forefront Collab