Sup cool cats! Fat Cat Fun is two friends (kevinhabits and stevenmeets) sharing news, notes and thots about the exploding NFT space.

NFT Spring 🌼🌸 is in full bloom.

With that, one of the top questions we’ve been hearing is “where can I learn more about NFTs?”

So here’s our semi-exhaustive list of NFT good reads, categorized for your convenience.

DM us with your recommendations - we’ll update this library periodically.

Beginner’s Guides

• Linda Xie: A beginner’s guide to NFTs (8 min read)

• Decrypt: NFT Beginner's Guide (11 min read)

• Binance Academy: A Guide to Crypto Collectibles and NFTs (7 min read)

• Defiprime: NFT Ecosystem Explained (7 min read)

• Matthew Chaim: What the F*ck are NFTs? (6 min read)

• Fat Cat Fun’s NFT Industry Map (5 min read)

• Intro to Handshake Protocol (6 min read)

Comprehensive Guides

• Devin Finzer: Non-Fungible Token Bible - Everything you need to know about NFTs (40 min read)

• L’atelier: The Virtual Economy (50 min read): “In more than one way, the NFT market resembles the days of the dot.com bubble, which ultimately shifted the Internet tech industry towards more sustainable growth models”

Reports

• NonFungible.com: NFT report 2020 (120 min read)

• Mason Nystrom: TLDR of NonFungible.com’s 2020 NFT report (6 min read): “The overall Ethereum NFT (ERC 721s only) market capitalization currently sits around $338 million and IMO will easily double if not quadruple in 2021”

• Andrew Steinwold: The History of NFTs (9 min read)

For Creators

• Peter Yang: A Step by Step Guide to NFTs for Creators (8 min read): “In the creator economy, most of the value should go to the creator and the fans, not the platforms”

• Peter Yang: A Step by Step Guide to Social Tokens for Creators (8 min read): “Social tokens let many fans co-own a community”

• WhaleShark.Pro: NFT Playbook for Influencers - 10 use cases (7 min read): “NFTs have the power to not only change the digital asset ownership game, but also the world”

• RAC: The different types of NFT drops and their pros and cons (2 min read)

• Coopahtroopa: NFT Issuance Landscape (8 min read)

• Justin Cone: The skeptics' introduction to cryptoart and NFTs for digital artists and designers (45 min read)

• Amy Madison Luo: A Legal Guide for Creators and Collectors (6 min read)

• Matty (DCLBlogger): examples of bonus add-ons (4 min read)

How To’s

• DappRadar: How to Value CryptoPunks NFTs (7 min read): “The key factors creating value for collectibles are considered to be the size of the collection, attributes, and liquidity”

• DappRadar: How to Value Hashmasks NFTs (7 min read)

Project Deep Dives / Case Studies

• Sfermion: B20 Investment Summary (4 min read): “B20 is an effective method to obtain exposure to a basket of extremely high-value NFTs”

• gmoneyNFT: Meet Art Blocks - One of the Most Unique Platforms in NFTs Right Now (5 min read)

• Bankless: Talking Ringers (generative art) with Dmitri Cherniak (7 min read): “I see the act of automation as a much more creative process than the public gives it credit for”

• Adam Chekroud: All uniqueness is not equal (10 min read): “statistical rarity will become a key attribute itself in determining the willingness to pay for a NFT."

• Pat Doyle: Hashmasks - The Art of Trading or the Trading of Art (4 min read): Which wallet had the best ROI on “Yield” Farming NCT?

• 3point0 Capital: NFTX (7 min read): “This an inherent issue with NFTs. In other words, fungibility is what allows the p2pool contracts to work. Non-fungibility is what can start to stress the p2pool model.”

Market Analysis

• Packy McCormick: The Creator Economy, NFTs, and the Rise of the Solo Corporation (18 min read): “We’re on the precipice of a creative explosion, fueled by putting power, and the ability to generate wealth, in the hands of the people”

• Matthew: Analyzing Cryptoart Marketplaces (6 min read)

• Piers Kicks: Where Crypto Meets The Metaverse (20 min read): “Studying gaming communities grants us key insights into how we might unobtrusively weave new crypto technologies into future virtual communities”

• Brenner Spear: The Metaverse is coming (3 min read): “In the Metaverse, there will only be three things that matter: Access, Status, and Entertainment”

• Jamie Burke: The Open Metaverse OS (10 min read): “Humanity’s greatest economic experiment”

• Toxsam: Metaverse Platform Comparison (8 min read)

• jboogle: What are the risks of HODL’ing an artwork for a lifetime? (7 min read)

• Check My NFT: How Cent is storing the metadata of the NFTweets minted and sold on their platform (5 min read)

• Albi: DAO models (5 min read)

🔥 Takes

• Scott Belsky: 8 Reasons Why Crypto Art > Art (10 min read): “This NFT world is likely the greatest unlock of artist opportunity in 100+ years.”

• Chris Dixon: NFTs and a Thousand True Fans (7 min read): “NFTs offer fundamentally better economics for creators”

• Jesse Walden: NFTs make the internet ownable (7 min read): “NFTs have the potential to invert the ownership model of media—offering creators, their audiences, and developers who build for them, a viable alternative to platform-driven monetization”

• Ari Paul: NFTs as signaling (5 min read)

• Tal Shachar and Jonathan Glick: How NFTs Will Power the Passion Economy (10 min read): “influencer participation will be a cornerstone in the NFT economy”

• Matthew: 2021 NFT Predictions (11 min read)

• Ricardo Stuven: On-Chain Artwork NFTs (10 min read)

• Kieran Parker-Moroney: A Bullish Case for NFTs (10 min read)

• Foundation.app: Why collect digital art NFTs? (7 min read)

• Roland Spencer: Predicting the Long Term Value of NFTs (11 min read)

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