As we approach the one year anniversary since the emergence of crypto kitties and the ERC721 standard, it’s very exciting to see how this sub-sector of the digital asset marketplace has grown.
Digital Art ‘Publishers’ or Galleries have started to appear, non fungible digital art marketplaces have grown in size and new NFT functional games are appearing every month.
I can’t wait to see how this small and mostly undiscovered sector of the industry develops in the next 2-3 years and beyond.
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Market Places
https://opensea.io/ - Founded in November 2017, OpenSea is the largest general marketplace for crypto collectibles, with the broadest set of categories (50 and growing), the most items (over 1.2 million), and the best prices. Opensea partner with game developers to create customisable storefronts for users to automatically buy and sell their crypto collectibles.
https://rarebits.io/ - Rare Bits is a marketplace dedicated to the buying and selling of crypto assets.
Publishers
https://www.maecenas.co/ - Decentralised Art Gallery
https://superrare.co/ - SuperRare makes it easy to create, sell, and collect rare digital art. Their smart contract platform allows artists to release limited-edition digital artwork tracked on the blockchain, making the art rare, verified and collectible.
https://www.seditionart.com/ - Browse this constantly evolving online gallery of 2383 digital artworks by 619 artists. Buy or rent editions you love. Any purchased Edition is securely stored in your Vault along with its Certificate of Authenticity. Your Artworks can be accessed from anywhere and viewed on any screen. Stream your collection from your browser or use one of the Sedition apps.
https://makersplace.com/ - MakersPlace is a platform that empowers digital creators (artists, designers, writers and more) to create and sell their unique digital creations with the help of blockchain technology. For the first time ever, creators are able to publish signed, authentic and limited edition versions of their digital work, providing every digital creation verifiable proof of authenticity, ownership and scarcity. In doing so, creators can capture the full underlying value of their digital work.
https://digitalartchain.com/ - Digital Art is published on IPFS. InterPlanetary File System and associated to Ethereum ERC721 which enables you to own/sell/purchase published Digital Art.
Games
https://cryptocountries.io/ - Buy Countries as smart contracts and take over the world! Crypto countries is an interactive game that lets anyone buy and own countries as smart contracts on the Ethereum Blockchain. As soon as you acquire a country, you take ownership of that nation and it automatically increases in price.
https://www.cryptokitties.co/ - CryptoKitties is one of the world’s first games to be built on blockchain technology—the same breakthrough that makes things like Bitcoin and Ethereum possible. Bitcoin and ether are cryptocurrencies but CryptoKitties are crypto-collectibles. You can buy, sell, or trade your CryptoKitty like it was a traditional collectible, secure in the knowledge that blockchain will track ownership securely.
https://decentraland.org/ - an open source virtual world platform with ownership of items on it being tracked as Ethereum based collectibles, pieces of land. You can buy MANA, the native currency of the platform and pieces of land that are ERC721.
Infrastructure
Honorable Mentions
www.artstaq.com - (Not Blockchain but an amazing project for the Digital Art Community)
Thanks again for the read!
Sam Buxton - CEO @ www.dam.gi
