In the previous article, we talked about what they are NFT, why they are popular among collectors and celebrities and which of them have become the most expensive. Today we continue to reveal the topic and talk about the sale of game characters, the owners of these “assets” arrived, as well as about how world -famous companies reacted to a new type of digital objects and not only. And what is Achilles's heel of all this idyll.

In addition to simple trade in tokens, users come up with various types of their interactions, which are also monetized.

As an example, you can cite games on the NFT Arena Faces Arena, which took place at the beginning of 2022. Participants sent their fighters to the arena, in the role of which NFT-Smails acted. Every 15 minutes, the random part of them died irretrievably. On surviving emoticons, combat scars appeared, which made them more unique and valuable. As a result, there was one winner who received 160 thousand dollars.

Another option for the activity of tokens is the Axie Infinity online game. Its goal is to grow monsters, cross them with others, receive new unique species, pump their skills and send to fights with other tokens monsters. These game characters are the subject of trading. The most expensive of them was sold for 131 thousand dollars.

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Huge amounts are involved in the NFT market, so it is not surprising that it has become the subject of financial analysis of many agencies and the media. Thanks to them, you can evaluate the sales of non -replaceable tokens in numbers.

According to the analytical platform Nonfungible.com, over the year the number of cryptocurns participating in transactions with NFT increased by 28 times from 89 thousand to 2.5 million. The number of buyers increased 30 times - from 75 thousand to 2.3 million.

More than 470 wallets earned over $ 1 million, and the total amount of arrived amounted to $ 5.4 billion. The most popular category was collecting objects. Their turnover amounted to $ 8.4 billion. In second place are game tokens: characters, land plots, equipment and other gameplay elements. They were expelled by 5.2 billion.

The DAPPRADAR report confirms the information about the general turnover of NFT last year. It grew from $ 100 million in 2020 to 22 billion in 2021. At the same time, the minimum market capitalization of the hundred most expensive specimens is estimated at 16.7 billion dollars.

With an increase in the number of transactions, the blockchain platforms are also growing on which these transactions are carried out. The largest of them is Opensea. In 2020, only 5 people worked in this company. By the end of 2021, the state increased 10 times, and the monthly volume of transactions conducted on the platform reached $ 3.4 billion.

Seeing the popularity of new virtual goods, various organizations began to plan the launch of their own blockchain platforms. At the beginning of 2022, the Associated Press news agency announced a fast start-up of its own site to obtain rights in the photo.

Nike has acquired the RTFKT studio, which creates collectible items for metavselnaya. And Ferrari signed a contract with Velas Network to create digital content for her fans. Many football clubs, for example, Manchester City and Juventus, also release their own exclusive fan-Tokenes.

According to BBC, more than $ 350 million was spent on the purchase of such digital objects in 2021. Clubs, like other manufacturers of tokens, earn a lot of money on the sale of content. But buyers in this environment differ from collectors and gamers.

The comment on this was given by Max Rabinovich from the Socios company - platforms, which are placed on tokens most football clubs. According to him, fans are more striving not to speculate at the expense of sale, but to preserve objects for themselves or to acquire tokens-services. Lots such as a constant discount on tickets are popular here, the opportunity to win these tickets or the right to vote when choosing a song for the release of players on the field.

Token, the popularity of conservatism washed away even with such an venerable organization as Sotheby’s auction house. At first he simply set digital objects at his auction and earned $ 100 million on this. At the same time, representatives of Sotheby’s noted that 78% of tokens buyers were newcomers at auctions. That is, they took part only for NFT. Once in this wave, the auction house decided not to stop and announced the launch of his own platform called Sotheby’s Metaverse.

As for Russia, the USTech Unique Network has successfully operates here, which has a large set of users. It offers users independence from training and updates on the entire network. The main goal of the USTECH Unique Network is a solution to economic problems and storage problems that are currently limited by the creators of virtual art and games.

In 2021, some Russian companies were also marked with their own collection of tokens. For example, the manufacturer of May tea released a series of digital objects on the Rarible platform.

At the same time, in China, they set to work at the state level. In January 2022, it became known about the creation of infrastructure to support non-replaceable tokens. It is built on the basis of the state blockchain network Blockchain Services Network.

Where big money appears, soon those who want to get it fraudulently appear. The NFT market was no exception. The simplest and most popular type of cybercrime in this area is the fake of other people's objects. At the same time, this activity can be called the most harmless. The largest number of falsifications is traded through the Opensea marketplace.

This is due to the fact that the service does not take a fee for placing tokens, and also does not check them before publication. Although in January 2022 the service changed the rules. Now the user can create only 5 collections of 50 tokens in each. According to the site, previously up to 80% of the content was plagiarized. Now this number has decreased.

Read about other violations in the NFT market in the next article.

And if it seemed to you that this madness was exalted into the rank of technological progress, then it seemed not only to you.

Objectively, this can be created when not just an excess of resources, but a tremendous excess of resources. However, we know that this is not observed in the world, but rather, even the opposite.

As a result, such phenomena once again demonstrate the extreme uneven distribution of available resources. Literally, all, nothing to the other! How do you think?

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