I am utterly obsessed with Rick and Morty. As such, this bit of news makes me smile.
Nifty Gateway, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), is auctioning a collection of original digital art by Justin Roiland. Unlike cryptocurrencies, NFTs capture identifying information in their smart contracts. This makes each individual coin/token unique. Since they are not mutually interchangeable, owners of an NFT posses a scarce + singular digital asset.
“2020 was a huge year for NFTs, most notably the Crypto Art category … with over $20M of artworks sold. This is perhaps attributable to the clear value propositions to both collectors and creators …”
Piers Kicks, Delphi Digital
Roiland co-created the Emmy Award-winning series Rick and Morty, a show which is in heavy rotation for me and other optimistic nihilists across the globe.
Nifty Gateway is owned by Gemini (the NY-based crypto exchange helmed by the Winklevoss twins), is a massive broker of NFT art. So far in 2021, six figures worth ($ USD) of NFT art have already been sold, with one such artwork selling for over $373,000 last week.
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