The concept of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) has been around for over two decades, but it wasn’t until 2017 when the first NFTs were created and used for digital art and collectibles. While the exact origin of NFTs is up for debate, it is widely credited that a group of programmers and artists, including Matt Hall and Joel Dietz, created the first NFT project called “CryptoPunks.” This project was a collection of 10,000 unique digital characters that were each assigned a unique NFT, allowing for ownership and transfer of the digital assets on the blockchain. Since then, NFTs have continued to evolve and expand, revolutionizing the way that digital assets are bought, sold, and traded.
Who invented NFT?
Written by Antoine Durand
Antoine Durand is a senior editor for eDieta in the NFT section and is based in New York.
Antoine is a creative and inquisitive person. His parents named him after the famous French writer and poet. Not surprisingly, it has become his pen name on the Internet since childhood.
Since Antoine is creative, he is very interested in digital art. He is an artist. And over time, he has retrained as a digital artist.
When the NFTs came along, he was very much attracted to this subject and his interest is still there today.
Antoine is an author in the NFT section.