The NFT Landscape

More than just ape and bull avatars

Mark Kelly
Grab a Slice

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You may think you’ve seen it all when a collection of jpegs sells for $69m.

You haven’t.

You may even be somewhat surprised that a European girl can package up her virtual love as an NFT and sell it for $185,000.

Brace yourself.

Or you may have gotten wind of investors paying more for virtual land and mansions than you or I would spend on real-life bricks and mortar.

Believe me, we are just at the foothills of where we are going with NFTs!

The beauty of these non-fungible tokens is that their application is limited only by the imagination of their creators. And some of them are getting exceedingly creative.

Pak turned the non-fungible into fungible by letting his purchasers burn their artworks in exchange for a general-purpose currency token called Ash.

Daniel Arsham created a work that could only really function using this medium, where the nature and surroundings of the piece change very slowly over time, in line with the seasons.

Mad Dog Jones created a Replicator machine that churns out its own derivative NFTs on a strict timetable, but also allows for machine jams and repairs being needed.

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Mark Kelly
Grab a Slice

Writing about family, trading, spirituality and popular culture. Speculating in my fiction and investments. Made more mistakes than I’m admitting here.