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What is an NFT? Non-fungible tokens explained

The world has gone crazy for non-fungible tokens (NFT). For centuries, the rich have spent excess money on things that were perceived in society as status symbols.

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What is an NFT? Non-fungible tokens explained

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The world has gone crazy for non-fungible tokens (NFT). For centuries, the rich have spent excess money on things that were perceived in society as status symbols.

Once fast cars, luxurious villas, yachts, expensive clothes and shoes, designer jewelry and today these are NFTs. The luxury goods market always finds a way to spawn new trends that wealthier people then follow.

NFT is becoming an increasingly widespread term for various industries such as banks, especially the gambling industry.

Online casinos are increasingly indulging in alternative gambling methods such as NFTs and cryptocurrencies. Today, everyone has almost become obsessed with crypto idolz, and more and more people are entering the world of NFT, someone for-profit and someone for prestige and status.

NFT meaning

If you’ve been following some innovations in recent months and projects, you might have heard the acronym NFT. NFT is the English abbreviation for non-fungible token.

In translation, it will be an irreplaceable token. The term refers to cryptographically protected blockchain fragments designed to be a means of storing something of unique value.

Also NFTs are designed as digital or physical assets that can be easily proven ownership. NFT can be any piece that is presented in digital form - music, drawing, video file, tweet, gif and so on.

In the case of NFTs, each NFT is a single asset and cannot be exchanged for another. Cryptographic protection in the case of NFT guarantees its uniqueness and does not allow its value to be manipulated.

Decentralization of the system

The system is designed to be decentralized, which means that there is no competent government, organization, bank or anyone else who has the main say.

All data is shared at the same time on hundreds of computers, which are interconnected and thus enable the functioning and operation of this ecosystem.

Since there is no middleman, everything is done online, if you are an artist, you no longer have to worry about looking for galleries, exhibition spaces, as well as transporting your bodies.

Everything is at your fingertips, via the Internet from the comfort of your home.

How to make your first NFT

First of all, to access the NFT world at all, you will first need to create a crypto wallet, on which you will deposit a certain amount of cryptocurrency.

To buy it is necessary to make a cryptocurrency deposit for the wallet. After connecting your wallet from OpenSea, you can start creating the first NFT. You will click Create and create a collection.

Once you have filled in all the required information, you will save it. After that, go to New Item, transfer the artwork and write all the details about it. When finished click on Create. And the boom successfully you created a token.

How to sell NFT

However, if you want to sell it on OpenSea, you have to open the forged item and click on the sell button.

On the sales page, you can choose Ethereum tokens that you will accept as payment if you want to sell at a fixed price or auction, and the royalties you want to receive from the first and each subsequent sale.

There are a lot of benefits and privileges when it comes to NFT, you can consider them as a kind of investment in the future.

It is impossible to delete them, all information on property transactions can always be easily checked at any time, a secure system from bureaucracy and intermediaries, as well as weather disasters and catastrophes.

Although NFT is almost in its infancy, we can say that this is a beginning in a way. Artists are already creating personal wealth with their art, but NFTs are also widely accepted if only five years have passed.

As new protocols for Ethereum reduce low summer gas rates and customers continue to trade

for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The NFTs ecosystem is constantly evolving and changing, and it is ours to observe its development and expansion as well as the impact that it lives on the world.

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