Top 10 Examples of NFTs
Non-fungible tokens
Nfts or
non-fungible tokens are all of the headlines right now and the definition for
an nft doesn't do much to clear up the confusion of
what they
are and
why people
are lining up to buy them,
so i
thought it would be really helpful to look at some recent examples of nfts,
so you can
get a feel for the marketplace and better understand why people are finding
these items so valuable,
but let me
first try to explain what nfts are,
nfts are a
special kind of crypto asset that is part of the ethereum blockchain,
each nft
represents a real world object like a piece of music a video an in-game item or
a virtual baseball trading card,
these
digital assets are then bought and sold online typically with cryptocurrency,
things like
physical money or bitcoin are fungible meaning they can be exchanged for one
another,
non-fungible
tokens are unique and each one has a digital signature that can't be exchanged,
the owner
of an nft can therefore use it to verify their ownership of their asset,
so let's
look at my top 10 recent nft examples,
1 - Beetle's First 5 000
Beetle's
first 5 000 days the artist people created a digital collage of 5 000 digital images
that were created for his everyday series,
it became
the first nft to be sold at a major auction house and christie's sold it for an
eye-popping 69 million dollars,
2 - William Shatner's Memorabilia
Actor
william shatner released a collection of nfts of personal memorabilia,
from his
60-year career,
he sold 125
000 units in just nine minutes,
including some
of his early headshots a photo of shatner hugging star trek co-stars and even
an x-ray of shatner's teeth,
3 - Grimes War Nymph
Singer and
songwriter grimes made 5.8 million dollars selling a collection of 10 nfts,
the highest
selling asset was a one-of-a-kind video called death of the old,
and it sold
for three hundred and eighty nine thousand dollars.
4 - Nyan Cat
The crypto
art rendition of the beloved gif nyan cat meme sold for 590 000 in online
auction,
it was the
first foray into nfts for creator chris torres,
who said
that he was surprised with the success,
but was
glad that it,
open up the
door to a whole new meme economy in the crypto world,
5 - Glennfittig Whiskey
Distillers
william grant and son recently sold 15 bottles of 46 year-old
glenn
fittig whiskey 18.000 and,
each one
was accompanied by dollars for its own nft artistic impression of the bottle,
the nft
allows the owner to show off their purchase and then act as a certificate of
ownership.
6 - Jack Dorsey's First Tweet
Former
twitter ceo jack dorsey sold his very first tweet from twitter's launch day
back in march 2006,
the nft of
the tweets sold for nearly three million dollars.
Dorsey says
the money will be converted to bitcoin and then donated to a charity organization
called give directly.
7 - Furniture Nfts
Argentinian
designer andres reisinger sells furniture nfts,
that people
can use in open worlds like decentraland or minecraft,
ryzenger's most
expensive piece sold for a little under seventy thousand dollars.
8 - Nba Shorts
Top shots
is an nba market place for
buying
selling and trading videos of nba
moments,
their
slogan is own the nba's
best place,
and lebron james
is dunking against the houston rockets is currently their highest earning asset
selling for 387 thousand dollars.
9 - Artifacts Digital Sneakers
In march
2001 artifact collected 3.1 million dollars in just a few minutes by selling a series
of sneakers they co-created with another artist named fevocious,
10 - Taco Bell Gifts
Fast food
giant taco bell commissioned a series of gifts based on dishes from their menu,
and taco
bell donated all the proceeds from the sale to the taco bell foundation the company's
charity organization.
so there we have it the top 10 nfts.