Five New Frontiers for NFTs

Thus owning an NFT effectively makes you an investor, a member of a club, a brand shareholder, and a participant in a loyalty program all at once. At the same time, NFTs’ programmability supports new business and profit models — for example, NFTs have enabled a new type of royalty contract, whereby each time a work is resold, a share of the transac... See more

Unlike visual nfts which naturally had a surface area on which to flex ownership (Twitter & particularly the profile pic), other categories of NFTs don't naturally have a space for showcasing ownership. Music NFTs, fashion NFTs, writing NFTs all need new consumption experiences.

Since 2018, I’ve been intrigued by the concepts of curation markets and token-curated registries as a digital replacement for credentials. NFTs may prove to be the missing building blocks that finally make them work because they 1) granularize achievements, 2) have technical specifications that will make them easy to integrate across a variety of p... See more