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2022

The World’s First Yacht NFT Just Sold for $12 Million

The NFT of this superyacht was sold for $12 million.

The world’s first NFT yacht sale was made last week on the Ethereum Blockchain. Designed by Gregory C. Marshall, the 110-footer will be built in Canada by Tactical Custom Boats. Last month, Marshall partnered with Cloud Yachts to introduce the NFT concept to yacht design and sales, offering a $95 million NFT of a custom-designed superyacht that will be built by Delta Marine in Seattle.

NFT-Linked House Sells for $650K in Propy’s First US Sale

Real estate startup Propy has sold its first NFT-backed property in the U.S., the company announced Friday.

2021

Bacon Protocol offers industry-first ‘NFT mortgages’

Bacon Protocol offers industry-first ‘NFT mortgages’
Blockchain technology and smart contracts are helping to expand the residential mortgage market beyond the grip of big banks and governments.

Burn.art

Burn.art Labels the act of Burning as Art": Digital Artist Pak on his new Project Following the Sotheby's Sale - .ART
Pak’s project where you burn NFTs for $ASH

Eminem – Shadycom

WATCH: All the Eminem NFTs that drop tomorrow! – SOUTHPAWERS
NFT drop on Nifty Gateway

“The Currency Project” by Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst's "The Currency" is the best explanation of NFTs
on Layer 2 solution for ether

Russia’s State Hermitage Museum

Russia's Hermitage Museum selling artworks as NFT tokens | blooloop
Russia’s Hermitage Museum, the largest art collection in the world, has announced it will sell several masterpieces, including a work of Leonardo da Vinci, in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFT).

digitalax.xyz

First ever MultiToken Bridge — this includes the ability to move both a Parent 721 token and its Child 1155 material NFT components between Mainnet and Polygon

Mad Dog Jones

Mad Dog Jones 'Crash + Burn' Nifty Gateway Release | HYPEBEAST
First “replicator” NFT

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April, 2021

Pantone

Pantone NFT Colors on Cardano?: CardanoNFTs
First Pantone colours on chain NFTs

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April, 2021

Elementum

elementum.art (@ElementumArt) | Twitter
NFT platform

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April, 2021

Oncyber.io

Cyber (@oncyber_io) | Twitter
3d gallery NFT platform

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April, 2021

Lazy.com

Lazy Lion NFTs | Know Your Meme
NFT platform to show off NFTs

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April, 2021

Cargo.build

Cargo uses EIP2981 – a standardized way to handle royalty payments for ERC-721 tokens, including publicly viewable information and notification of payment event

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April, 2021

Overly Attached Girlfriend (a bit of internet history)

Overly Attached Girlfriend | Know Your Meme
NFT sells for 400,000 dollars on foundation.app

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April, 2021

Blog Post

Sold for 3K through Zora

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April, 2021

Graffiti Queens

The Graffiti Queens' Exhibition is a Game Changer for NFT Art
Biggest all female NFT exhibition ever

Meta_VS

Meta_VS: BEYOND THE STREETS NFT WEEK – NFT Calendar
Biggest NFT exhibition ever

Pak auction at Sotheby’s

The Fungible Collection by Pak
First crypto-native collaboration with a major auction house

Snoop Dog makes an NFT

Snoop Dogg has been moonlighting as a popular NFT account on Twitter

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April, 2021

“Virtual Niche: Have You Ever Seen Memes in the Mirror?”

Unearthing A Virtual Niche: Inside UCCA Lab's NFT Exhibition | Jing Culture and Commerce
Physical representations of NFTs exhibition by Block Create Art

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April, 2021

Unigrids

Unigrids #136
First interactive NFT with music stored onchain

Olta

OLTA -Interactive NFT Platform - Demo Video - YouTube
New interactive NFT platform – details TBC

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April, 2021

Zora

ZORA on Twitter: "Minting on https://t.co/MRFou9w9Fs is now open to the public.… "
New kind of NFT called a zNFT that extends allows the NFT to function as a marketplace as well – paradigm shift

Future Art

First Crypto Art Festival

The first Neurofeedback NFT

Read more about the first mind-controlled NFT ever! Includes unlockable EEG headset and remote Peak Performance Neurofeedback Training! https://t.co/CNdDLHDjyl: NFT

Hash Masks

What Makes Hashmasks So Valuable? - NFT's Street
First dynamically nameable artworks on blockchain

Eulerbeats

Euler Beats Music NFT Already Sold for $458.000 - Play to Earn
First generate your own music from NFTs assets linked to blockchain (not sure if thats right). Also unique pricing model

Aavegotchi

Aavegotchi ???? (@aavegotchi) | Twitter
Onchain NFT defi – defi meets art

Charged Particles

Charged Particles - DeFi NFT - Interest-bearing Non-fungibles | Grants | Gitcoin
Turn your NFT into a programmable basket of tokens even other NFTs – defi meets art

Nyan Cat

Nyan Cat is being sold as a one-of-a-kind piece of crypto art - The Verge
After ‘the duck song’ the first Youtube legends NFT – sells for alot of money

NBA topshots

What is NBA Top Shot? Explaining the Blockchain NBA highlight collectables | NBA.com Canada | The official site of the NBA
First FLOW blockchain NFTs

Lady Pheonix (Lady Phe)

Lady PheOnix (@yesladypheOnix) | Twitter
Introduces NFTs into clubhouse and coins phrase ‘audio reactive NFTs’

Mark Cuban discovers NFTs

Investor Discovers Beeple NFT Purchased for $969 Now Worth $300K

Lindsey Lohan and Mark Cuban mint stuff on rarible.com

Lindsay Lohan Cashing In On Daft Punk Split with $15K NFT on Rarible

Paris Hilton makes an NFT

Paris Hilton sells Ethereum-based artwork for $17,000 - Decrypt

Murall

What is MurAll?. The invention of the blockchain has… | by MurAll | Medium
First Collaborative mural NFT platform

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February, 2021

Paras.id

NFTs on near blockchain

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February, 2021

Kings of Leon – band album NFT

Kings of Leon's 'When You See Yourself' album to be released as an NFT
First NFT album Digital Vinyl by Francis Kneebone

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February, 2021

FEWOCiOUS

Meet FEWOCiOUS, the Crypto Artist Who Crashed Christie's Auction House
An 18-year old in collab with a virtual sneaker brand RTFKT Studios – sells 3 million dollars worth of sneakers in 7 mins

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February, 2021

3Lau

World's first NFT album earns 3LAU $11.3M in less than 48 hours - Global - Mixmag Asia
First music artist albums NFT sells for 11 million

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February, 2021

Beeple Christies Auction

Beeple: A Visionary Digital Artist at the Forefront of NFTs | Christie's
The most expensive NFT $69.3 million sold

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March, 2021

Beeple artwork resells for 6.6 million

Beeple Artwork Sells for Record-Breaking $6.6 million – ARTnews.com

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March, 2021

Most expensive NFT Tweet – by Jack Dorsey

Billionaire bitcoin advocate Jack Dorsey is auctioning the very first tweet in history as an NFT - and the highest bid is $2.5 million | Currency News | Financial and Business News | Markets Insider

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March, 2021

Hackatao

Hackatao - H I S T O R Y
First NFT to be listed on the Vastari platform for Galleries and Museums

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March, 2021

‘The Greatest NFT Film Ever Made’

The Greatest NFT Film Ever Made - YouTube
First NFT film about NFTs

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March, 2021

First NFT House

The World's First NFT House Just Went Up for Sale – Robb Report

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March, 2021

Elon Musk makes an NFT that is a song about NFTs

Image credits: Reuters/Twitter.

Damien Hirst says he will be making NFTs

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March, 2021

Async Art Music

Async Art Changes Tune with Async Music - Play to Earn

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March, 2021

Feralfile

First type of NFT that hashes artwork with details of collector and artwork

Hic et Nunc

Hic Et Nunc — the story, facts, suppositions and ideas (June 2021) | by Matheus Siqueira | Medium
Decentralised NFT platform on Tezos blockchain – created by Rafael Lima

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March, 2021

Mario Klingemann

Mitosis | Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale | 2021 | Sotheby's
Famous artist making original interactive NFTs on h=n

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March, 2021

Lionel Radisson

Lionel Radisson (@MAKIO135) | Twitter
First interactive NFT on the tezos blockchain

Mr Doob

Mr.doob on Twitter: "Made an eco-friendly NFT ???? https://t.co/iavErSEDw4… "
First game NFT on the tezos blockchain

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March, 2021

TIME magazine

First TIME cover NFT – ‘Is Fiat Money Dead?’

Blockparty v2

BlockParty Original [Minigame] | Minecraft PE Maps
NFT platform launch

New York Times article by Kevin Roose

First NYT NFT sells for 350 eth

Mike Tyka

Mike Tyka on Twitter: "New kind of #NFT on @hicetnunc2000: This is both an art piece and an actual real backup service. Collect it & your collection and creations will be added
First IPFS backup NFT

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April, 2021

kalamint.io

Kalamint - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding
NFT marketplace on Tezos

John Cleese makes NFT

John Cleese has an NFT bridge to sell you for $69.3 million - The Verge

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March, 2021

NFT-Linked House Sells for $650K in Propy’s First US Sale

Real estate startup Propy has sold its first NFT-backed property in the U.S., the company announced Friday.

2020

Words: onchain words as NFT

NFT Words | Devpost
New words are minted by concatenating (combining) two existing words

The First Math-based pixel art

Created on onchain as NFT

The First Math-Based RGB Tokens

alxo ???????? on Twitter: "Alert! Each $MATH #MATH token has been split into 3 universes: Red, Green, and Blue. It is your job to rescue them into $RGB # RGB pixel art masterpieces.

Chain Faces

ChainFaces
An on-chain art contract that generates faces form a limited number of characters

BitsForAI

BitsForAI | Dapp.com
First NFTs for the AI art collectors of the future

Avastars

Avastars: Generate Unique Avatars as NFT Collectibles
Onchain NFT images of avatars

Somnium Space

Somnium Space VR on Steam
First VR land NFT (Maybe was Cryptovoxels)

MagNFT

MagNFT
The NFT Art Magazine – first NFT magazine

ROBNESS and Max Osiris

ROBNESS CYBERPOP / MAX OSIRIS (CRYPTO ART 'SPLIT') SHAREWARE ART - Stay Decentralized | OpenSea
first NFT collab

Connie Digital

Connie Digital – Medium
first NFT hiphop song (HOLDING) on MakersPlace

First Powersurge NFT comedy

Nifty Gateway

Nifty Gateway: All You Need To Know - AirdropAlert
NFT marketplace that also takes fiat payments

Nifty Gateway

Nifty Gateway: All You Need To Know - AirdropAlert
first NFT marketplace allowing fiat purchases

NFT Showroom

Get Started - NFT Showroom
Hive NFTs

GhostMarket.io

World premiere: First ever cross-chain NFT marketplace! | by Jay | PhantasticPhantasma | Medium
The first cross-chain NFT marketplace

Dada.nyc

DADA • Living Art
Dada’s radical separation of art from the market includes a new form of exchanging value in which tokenized digital drawings (NFTs) are the medium of exchange

VerticalCryptoArt

first twitter NFT art review (powersurge first comedy version)

Atomic Assets NFT Creator

AtomicAssets
Wax blockchain NFTs

Infinft

first fully onchain minting of NFTs (the artwork files and meta data are stored on chain as well an identifier)

Foundation.app

NFT Marketplace

Skeenee

First burning of IRL artworks and minting as NFTs

Jonathan Mann

Learn About NFT History in a Song...As An NFT - NFT Plazas
first song NFT on ether blockchain

89 sec Atomized by Eve Sussman on Snark.art

Presale of Eve Sussman's 89 seconds Atomized Is Live | by Snark.Art | Medium
Artwork broken into NFTs

JOY (John Orion Young)

JOY (@JohnOrionYoung) | Twitter
created NFT with multi-image and 3D file formats that will be extended to work in more Metaverse and AR locations

Valuables

Valuables Enables Monetization of Individual Tweets - DeFi Rate
First NFTs of tweets

Unisocks

Unisocks Exchange
NFT for socks – more to story

$TAPE

RAC on Twitter: "$TAPE is apparently the most expensive cassette tape of all time. I'm speechless. Thank you. ????… "
RAC sold first NFT for a cassette tape on Zora

Saint Frame

Saint Elon - MakersPlace - Price $ 92.23 | Coinranking
first internet owned fashion house producing NFTs

Mintable.app

Mintable.app | Dapp.com
First Zilliga blockchain NFT marketplace

Async.art

The world’s first programmable artwork, First Supper NFT

Spaced Painter

The Spaced Mythos by Spaced Painter
first 4K video NFT

Pranksy Land

Pranksy ???? a Twitter: "The concept was pretty simple, i owned a lot of adjacent land in Frankfurt, @cryptovoxels and reached out to a ton of top # NFT artists to see if
first NFT land and NFT art sale combo

Artblocks.io

REMO on Twitter: "Talking Blocks project do this ???? Can you see @dcsan @artblocks_io #nft #nftcollector #NFT #NFTCommunity #NFTs #NFTartists #NFTcollection #NFTcollectibles #AI #code #arblocks #gans #generative #art #robots #color #design #codeart #
first generative art code on blockchain

Don’t Buy Meme

Meme mashes up the most exciting innovations in DeFi and crypto collectibles.

Niftx

Dissecting the Fractional protocol | by Andrew Hong | Coinmonks | Medium
first fractionalised NFT ownership

Cargo.build

Cargo
Cryptocurrency stored in NFT (gems)

Decentraland

Welcome to Decentraland, where NFTs meet a virtual world
NFTs can be shown in world – NFT galleries launch of main NFT platforms – Knownorigin.io, Superrare.io, Makersplace.com, Mintbase (gensis art week)

NFTX

first NFTs as indexed funds

WhaleShark

Whale Shark Turns World's Biggest Digital Art Collection into Charitable Cause — DailyCoin
first social coin to get listed on coin gecko

Decentraland Fashion Show

Decentraland Fashion Show 2 0 - YouTube
first metaverse NFT fashion show

NFT wearables

Cryptovoxels Allows Minting Wearables Again - Play to Earn
Cryptovoxels wearables are wild, wacky and out there! The community has been given free reign to create, design and sell their own wearables.

Decentraland – 100xart show

100xARt (@100xARt) | Twitter
first NFT metaverse multi gallery artshow

NFT trash art movement

A handful of artists have been experimenting with minting digital art on the blockchain using newly available marketplaces for digital collectibles.

Bronx zoo in cryptovoxels

Obtain Shared Ownership over Virtual Zoo - Play to Earn
First shared land NFT (at least best known)

Pak – ‘red’

A Single Red Pixel is Selling as an NFT Artwork For Rs 6.5 Crore. Is This Peak Internet?
First one pixel one color NFT

Pak – ‘the title’ offer to Christies

What We Know (and Don't Know) About Pak - Auction Daily
First performance art piece NFT

Cryptovoxels

Cryptovoxels Wants to Make Sure People Actually Build - Play to Earn
First voxel NFT

Cryptoavators

First cross Metaverse avatar NFT

Cryptomotors

CryptoMotors | CryptoMotors.eth (@CryptoMotors_io) | Twitter
First cross metaverse car NFT

Matt Kane

First physical artwork with an NFT sale at Christies

Hackatao ‘Hack the Tao’

Hack the Tao. Hackatao's art is brought to life… | by The Sandbox | The Sandbox | Medium
First NFT Art as a 3d voxel game

Bacca Arts

NFT art: the bizarre world where burning a Banksy can make it more valuable
First graphic novel as NFT

Proof of Beauty

Proof of Beauty Studio's Upcoming 'SAGA' Drop - NFT Plazas
First snapshot of ether blockchain as seed for generative art NFT

Osinachi

Nifty Gateway
First artist on rarible.com to sell an NFT for up to 1 eth

GrowYourBase and NIFTEX

The GYB Nifty ONEz. This is big. Scratch that. This is… | by Lucas Gil Cantón | GrowYourBase | Medium
Create the first-ever fractionalized CryptoArt NFT Bundle

SHE ART

NFT | IRL is the first exhibition to combine digital and virtual art in Dubai - Teller Report
First all women NFT art exhibition in Cryptovoxels

Ephimera.com

Ephimera - Home | Facebook
NFT platform – “intersection of traditional fine art and cryptoart”

BeyondNFT

BeyondNFT (@BeyondNft) | Twitter
First interactive and NFT games

2019

Descontrol

DADA and the NFT Craze. The world is finally catching up. | by DADA.art | Medium
presented at http://NFT.NYC.

Despedida

presented at Art + Music.

Sight Unseen

NFTs Archives - Sight Unseen
was made live and auctioned at RadicalxChange.

Andrew Steinwold

Andrew Steinwold: The Trillion Dollar NFT Opportunity - Metaverse Musings Ep 04 - Delphi Digital
Not the first NFT podcast but one of the most important

Blockade

Neon District Air Drop #345 - NFTBoxes | OpenSea
first large scale airdrop on ether – airdropped 6,150 NFTs to OG OpenSea user wallets on Ethereum.

Autoglyphs

Autoglyph - NFT Crypto News
first onchain generative NFT art on the blockchain by Larva Labs

Editional

First mobile app for minting NFTs

Makersplace.com

NFT marketplace

Simply Maria

UTV's Simply Maria Attracts Large Audience
presented at CADAF NY

Soul In The Machine

My latest musicNFT. The Soul In the Machine. Check it out! Link in the comments.: NFT
Was made live and auctioned at Ethereal Summit

Animalia

luc1us.Ξth on Twitter: "I have my eyes close on @Animalia_token | $ANIM The artwork is so stunning and the utility is really interesting. Watch this WIP shots and imagine all the things
Presented at Rare Art Fest 2.

Clover.Network

Clovers Network (@cloversnetwork) | Twitter
first icon NFTs

Rarible

Rarible Review 2021: Pros & Cons Of Rarible NFT Market Place Explained !
NFT Market place

DADAGAN

DADA at Rare AF 3. Our artists speak! | by DADA.art | Medium
presented at TATE

Screens: An Exploration

Authentic Digital Art - Screens: An exploration | SuperRare
made live at TATE Modern

The Nifty Report

The Nifty Report | NFTs | CryptoAtlas
First NFT report

2018

Rare Art Festival

Rare Digital Art Festival - Splash

A significant moment in NFT history. Rare digital art is a movement to take internet assets that have previously been infinitely copyable (songs, memes, etc) and turn them into provably rare, tradable blockchain assets.

Auction of Homer Rare Pepe (at Rare Art Festival)

Homer Simpson Rare Pepe NFT Crypto Art Sells For Over $312,000 | Know Your Meme
Back in early 2018, an auction for Rare Pepes (collectible NFTs of Pepe the Frog) was held in NYC during the Rare Art Labs Digital Art Festival. Although relatively new in 2018, the sale of one “Homer Pepe” for around $39,000 quickly became a trending story online.

Neon District

Neon District NFT trading now available on the Arkane Market. | by Yan Ketelers | venly | Medium
Neon District is a free-to-play, cyberpunk, role-playing game created by Blockade Games. It features collectible NFTs on the Ethereum and Matic/Polygon …

Crypto Artist Kevin Abosch

crypto art kevin abosch
A piece of crypto-artwork sold for $1 million on Valentine’s Day. The digital photo of a red rose sold to a group of 10 collectors who split the cost evenly in cryptocurrency. This is thought to be the highest price ever paid for virtual artwork.

Open Zeppelin

DeFi Deep Dive - What is OpenZeppelin? - Ivan on Tech Academy
OpenZeppelin provides security products to build, automate, and operate decentralized applications.

Rare Bits

Rare Bits Series A and (actually) owning things online | by Amitt Mahajan | Medium

First NFT Marketplace. Rare Bits is a zero-fee peer-to-peer marketplace to buy, sell, and discover crypto goods.

SuperRare.io & KnownOrigin.io

NFT art marketplace SuperRare closes $9 million Series A | TechCrunch NFT Marketplaces

John Orion Young

John Orion Young aka JOY — Designcollector
First 3D Art on Blockchain

Cryptovoxels

Cryptovoxels Wants to Make Sure People Actually Build - Play to Earn
NFTs can be shown in world

CryptoArte

CryptoArte - An Ethereum art collection, non-fungible token, and Dapp.
First NFT collection telling history of ethereum

Maecenas.io

NFT Maecenas (@NMaecenas) / Twitter
Tokenises an Andy Warhol painting which is the first time a piece of fine art from the traditional market is tokenised and sold on the blockchain
2017

2017

OpenSea

OpenSea confirms executive engaged in NFT insider trading | Shacknews

A peer-to-peer marketplace for NFTs, rare digital items and crypto collectibles. Buy, sell, auction, and discover CryptoKitties, Decentraland…

EtherRock

The price of Ethereum Pet Rock NFTs Has Surpassed $100,000 – NFT Hours

Launched in 2017, EtherRock was one of the first crypto collectible NFT-type projects on the Ethereum blockchain, having launched shortly after CryptoPunks.

Crypto Kitties – Dapper Labs

Will you be the first to breed these imaginary CryptoKitties? - CryptoKitties Blog

Launched in 2017, CryptoKitties are now being sold for millions, but the average price is about £175.

Mooncats: first NFT cats

What is MoonCat Rescue? | Sequence Bots Are Ruining MoonCats, One Of Ethereum's Oldest NFT Projects - Decrypt

Mooncat Rescue is an Ethereum-based NFT Collectible launched back in 2017, rescued this year by cat-loving NFT Holders. …

Decentraland

Sells land tokens (not NFTs but implements NFT’s in late 2018)

Cryptopunks – Larva Labs

10,000 unique collectible characters with proof of ownership stored on the Ethereum blockchain. The project that inspired the modern CryptoArt movement.

2016

DJ Pepe

DJPEPE | Know Your Meme Issued in 2016, this NFT that lives on the bitcoin blockchain is the first-ever NFT with sound attached.

First GIF UFOPEPE minted on BTC using counterparty

Diario El Salvador's La Ley Bitcoin Edition | Scarce City

In 2016 gif tokens were already minted for #Rarepepe on Counterparty / $XCP (on the Bitcoin blockchain).

First Rare Pepes on Counterparty

What is MoonCat Rescue? | Sequence Rare Pepe Cards Become Tradeable CounterParty Asset, Now Has Value
The popular meme known as Pepe the Frog is becoming a tradeable CounterParty asset through the Bitcoin Blockchain.

Force of Will cards on Counterparty

Trading Card Game Force of Will (FoW) is teaming up with two Counterparty-based projects and will leverage blockchain technology to enhance the gaming experience for its community of over 100,000 players.

Spells of Genesis on Counterparty

Spells of Genesis Supports Different Blockchains - Play to Earn

Level 2 NFT app on Bitcoin. You can buy blockchain cards directly from the Askian Merchant. The in-game cards can be bought in the in-game shop for in-game currencies.

2015

Left.Gallery

left gallery (@leftgallery) | Twitter

Early online gallery that would adopt NFTs in the future.

First NFT House

Etheria ⬢ on Twitter: "1/ I hear that NFTs have become a thing. Here is some essential about Etheria, the first NFT project ever deployed to the Ethereum blockchain all the way

First NFT House built in Etheria.

Etheria

What is MoonCat Rescue? | Sequence In the modern era, Etheria ended up being the first NFT project in history (by more than a year) and tiles are now traded on the Exchange …

Harm van den Dorpel

News: Vintage NFT drop — Harm van den Dorpel Claims to first artist to sell an NFT to an institution for Bitcoin

‘Spells of Genesis’ by Everdreamsoft

Spells of Genesis - BlockSocial Launched in 2017, EtherRock was one of the first crypto collectible NFT-type projects on the Ethereum blockchain, having launched shortly after CryptoPunks.