NFT
What is an NFT?
NFT stands for Non Fungible Token.
Fungible means something is able to be exchanged or substituted and will hold the same value. It’s interchangeable like the dollar, gold, casino chips, bitcoin, ethereum or frequent flyer loyalty points.
Let's Explain
So non-fungile obviously means it’s an asset that can’t be substituted. It has unique attributes that makes it different from something else in the same asset class.
Like a painting, a theatre ticket, a house, a video game skin, a trademark or a CryptoKitty which was the first real use case to take off on the Ethereum blockchain in 2017.
Some of these assets are physical and tangible and others are digital and intangible.
This is just the beginning
So NFTs are non-fungible tokens. ‘Token’ refers to a digital certificate stored on a secure distributed database called a blockchain.
NFTs are digital assets. Publicly verifiable intellectual property authenticated on a blockchain.
It’s an exciting space, I believe the NFT space will continue to grow in the coming years with some popular use cases being:
Digital Art, Virtual Land, Gaming, Collectibles, Finance and much more.