Eight outlandish items jumping on the NFT bandwagon
From a picture of a twig to a golden Pringles can, we've rounded up eight NFTs that are trying take advantage of the hype around the blockchain technology.
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which can be used to sell digital assets such as jpegs and mp4s, have exploded in popularity following a number of high-profile, multi-million dollar sales.
Digital designers including Andrés Reisinger and Andreas Wannerstedt have hailed NFTs as a new frontier that will allow them to sell experimental, avant-garde work directly to consumers.
That's because attaching one of these tokens to a file effectively acts as a blockchain-based certificate of ownership, allowing it to be authenticated, bought and collected.
However, with large sums of money seemingly up for grabs, NFT marketplaces such as OpenSea, Rarible and Nifty Gateway have increasingly been flooded with projects that are hoping to cash in on the boom. Below, we've shared eight of the most frivolous.
Non-fungible twig by Between Two Naps
Concerned that our four-legged friends were missing out on the NFT craze, experimental dog wear brand Between Two Naps sourced a stick from the streets of New York and sold it as a non-fungible twig.
The "collector's item for art-loving dogs" is for sale at a starting price of $1,200, with one lucky canine receiving not just a digital image of the twig but also the one-of-a-kind physical stick, complete with a presentation stand and handmade aluminium display case.
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