How NFT art collecting works
How NFT art collecting works
Turley has joined the ranks of high-end NFT art collectors, much as there are famous physical world art collectors—Peggy Guggenheim,
J. Paul Getty, the Broads—as non-fungible tokens became the talk of the crypto and art communities this year.
(Since its introduction in 2017, the NFT auction platform OpenSea has monitored over $10 billion in sales.)
The craze culminated last spring, with a much-hyped $69 million auction price for a one-of-a-kind Beeple piece.)
While an NFT can be anything, digital art has been the earliest and most visible use-case thus far.
This can sometimes take the form of a moving visual. Alternatively, you might use an audio-visual clip.
Alternatively, a "profile picture project" (PFP) such as CryptoPunks or Bored Ape Yacht Club, which consists of drawings
that are variants on a theme inside a certain universe. (Originally, Aku World was only a collection of Aku NFTs.)
Or a physical sculpture with an NFT ownership certificate.
More and more, it can also refer to tokens that grant access to special events or content—a benefit of Aku NFT ownership in this case.
Turley considers being a collector (as well as an investor and advisor) in this field to be both a vocation and a calling.
His personal and professional lives are inextricably linked. His days in Miami were spent visiting events like Aku World and continuing
on into near-dawn club experiences with kindred collectors and artists he'd met. "There's a component of my collection that revolves around
patronage," he explains. "I'm buying their work to just say thank you for believing in this,
thank you for taking a chance and putting your art into this ecosystem," says the artist.
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