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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
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
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”
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)
Amy Madison Luo: A Legal Guide for Creators and Collectors (6 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”
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”
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”
jboogle: What are the risks of HODL’ing an artwork for a lifetime? (7 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”
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”
Kieran Parker-Moroney: A Bullish Case for NFTs (10 min read)
Roland Spencer: Predicting the Long Term Value of NFTs (11 min read)
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