3. INTRODUCTION
NFTs are tokens that we can use to represent ownership of unique items. They can
tokenize things like art, collectibles, even real estate. NFT stands for non-fungible
token. Non-fungible is a term used in economics that describes things like furniture,
a song file, or your computer. These things are not interchangeable for other items
because they have unique properties.
4. NFTs can really be anything digital such as drawings, music, your brain
downloaded and turned into an AI but a lot of the current excitement is around
using the tech to sell digital art. I can personally relate to this trend as my own
brother is both a creator and a collector of the NFTs.
× Given below are his digital arts:
5. How does NFTs work?
An NFT is minted from digital objects as a representation of digital or non-digital
assets. An NFT could represent the following:
× Digital Art
GIFs, Collectibles, Music, Videos
× Real World Items
Deeds to a car, Tickets to a real world event, Tokenized invoices, Legal
documents, Signatures
× Anything you can get creative with works
6. Ownership
An NFT can only have one owner at a time. Ownership is managed through the
unique ID and metadata that no other token can replicate. NFTs are minted
through smart contracts that assign ownership and manage the transferability of
the NFTs. The information of the NFTs owner is added to the blockchain where it is
further managed. The minting process, from a high level, has the following steps
that it goes through:
× Creating a new block
× Validating information
× Recording information into the blockchain
7. Royalties
× Some NFTs will automatically pay out royalties to their creators as soon as
they are sold. This is still a developing concept but it's one of the most
powerful.
× Some other platforms, like Foundation and Zora, support royalties for their
artists.
This is completely automatic so creators can just sit back and earn royalties as
their work is sold from person to person. At the moment, figuring out royalties is
very manual and lacks accuracy, a lot of creators end up not getting paid what they
deserve.
8. Open Sea
Open Sea is the largest American NFT marketplace headquartered in New York
City. The company was founded by Devin Finzer and Alex Atallah in 2017.
Reference: https://opensea.io/rankings
9. THE FUTURE
The growing popularity of NFTs is reflected in its numbers. “Earlier, a very small
fraction of investors saw potential in NFTs but 2021 led to a complete U-turn as the
market opened up to massive NFT pitches with a record $2.5 billion in sales
globally. As per Google Trends data, in August 2021, global interest for NFTs rose
by 426 per cent with people showing a lot of interest in buying NFTs,” says
Tarusha Mittal, COO and Co-Founder, Oropocket, a digital assets investment
platform. Experts say this trend will continue.
Reference: https://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/investment/story/fad-or-future-
are-nfts-here-to-stay-329004-2022-04-11