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This website is focused on NFTs (Non Funglible Tokens) evolution and first uses of NFTs in relation to Art and Music. So I'm not going to mentioning crypto art pioneers like @cryptograffiti, @coin_artist and others unless linked to novel or first time NFT use. The information is evolving and there maybe mistakes.

2021

  • burn.art - Pak's project where you burn NFTs for $ASH
  • Eminem - NFT drop on Nifty Gateway
  • "The Currency Project" by Damien Hirst - on Layer 2 solution for ether
  • Russia’s State Hermitage Museum - to Host NFT Art Exhibition
  • May 2021 - digitalax.xyz - first ever MultiToken Bridge — this includes the ability to move both a Parent 721 token and its Child 1155 material NFT components between Mainnet and Polygon
  • April 2021 - Mad Dog Jones - first "replicator" NFT
  • April 2021 - Pantone - first Pantone colours on chain NFTs
  • April 2021 - Elementum - NFT platform
  • April 2021 - oncyber.io - 3d gallery NFT platform
  • April 2021 - lazy.com - NFT platform to show off NFTs
  • April 2021 - cargo.build - Cargo uses EIP2981 - a standardized way to handle royalty payments for ERC-721 tokens, including publicly viewable information and notification of payment event
  • April 2021 - Overly Attached Girlfriend (a bit of internet history) - NFT sells for 400,000 dollars on foundation.app
  • April 2021 - Blog Post - sold for 3K through Zora - explanation here Source 2
  • April 14th 2021 - Pak auction at Sotheby's - first crypto-native collaboration with a major auction house
  • April 5th 2021 - Meta_VS - biggest NFT exhibition ever
  • April 3rd 2021 - Graffiti Queens - biggest all female NFT exhibition ever
  • April 2021 - Snoop Dog makes an NFT
  • April 2021 - "Virtual Niche: Have You Ever Seen Memes in the Mirror?" - physical representations of NFTs exhibition by Block Create Art
  • April 2021 - Olta - new interactive NFT platform - details TBC
  • March 2021 - John Cleese makes NFT
  • March 2021 - kalamint.io - NFT marketplace on Tezos
  • April 2021 - Mike Tyka - first IPFS backup NFT
  • 26th March 2021 - New York Times article by Kevin Roose - first NYT NFT sells for 350 eth
  • 25th March 2021 - Blockparty v2 - NFT platform luanch
  • 24th March 2021 - TIME magazine - first TIME cover NFT - 'Is Fiat Money Dead?'
  • March 2021 - Mr Doob - first game NFT on the tezos blockchain - bug free version
  • March 2021 - Lionel Radisson - first interactive NFT on the tezos blockchain
  • March 2021 - Mario Klingemann - famous artist making original interactive NFTs on h=n
  • March 2021 - Hic et Nunc - decentralised NFT platform on Tezos blockchain - created by Rafael Lima
  • 19th March 2021 - feralfile.com - first type of NFT that hashes artwork with details of collector and artwork???
  • March ? 2021 - Async Art Music
  • March 2021 - Pak auction announced at Sotherby's
  • March 2021 - Damien Hirst says he will be making NFTs Source
  • March 2021 - Elon Musk makes an NFT that is a song about NFTs (not a first but notable)
  • March 2021 - first NFT house
  • March 2021 - 'The Greatest NFT Film Ever Made' - first NFT film about NFTs
  • March 2021 - Hackatao: first NFT to be listed on the Vastari platform for Galleries and Museums
  • March 2021 - Most expensive NFT Tweet - by Jack Dorsey
  • March 2021 - Beeple artwork resells for 6.6 million
  • March 2021 - Beeple Christies Auction - the most expensive NFT $69.3 million sold
  • February 2021 - 3Lau - first music artist albums NFT sells for 11 million
  • February 2021 - FEWOCiOUS, an 18-year old in collab with a virtual sneaker brand RTFKT Studios - sells 3 million dollars worth of sneakers in 7 mins
  • February 2021 - Kings of Leon - band album NFT - First NFT album Digital Vinyl by Francis Kneebone
  • February 2021 - Paras.id - NFTs on near blockchain
  • February 2021 - Murall - first collabrative mural NFT platform
  • Paris Hilton makes an NFT
  • Linsey Lohan and Mark Cuban mint stuff on rarible.com
  • Mark Cuban discovers NFTs
  • Lady Pheonix (Lady Phe) - introduces NFTs into clubhouse and coins phrase 'audio reactive NFTs'
  • NBA topshots - first FLOW blockchain NFTs
  • Nyan Cat - after 'the duck song' the first Youtube legends NFT - sells for alot of money
  • Charged Particles - turn your NFT into a programmable basket of tokens even other NFTs - defi meets art
  • Aaachgochi - onchain NFT defi - defi meets art
  • Eulerbeats - first generate your own music from NFTs assets linked to blockchain (not sure if thats right). Also unique pricing model
  • Hash Masks - first dynamically nameable artworks on blockchain
  • January 2021 - The first Neurofeedback NFT (instructions in locked content)
  • January 21st 2021 - Future Art - first Crypto Art Festival
  • January 2021 - Zora - new kind of NFT called a zNFT that extends allows the NFT to function as a marketplace as well - paradigm shift
  • January 2021 - Unigrids - first interactive NFT with music stored onchain

2020

2019

  • February 20th 2019 - Descontrol - presented at http://NFT.NYC.
  • March 5th 2019 - "Despidida" - presented at Art + Music.
  • March 23rd 2019 - "Sight Unseen" - was made live and auctioned at RadicalxChange.
  • @AndrewSteinwold - not the first NFT podcast but one of the most important
  • March 21st 2019 - Blockade - first large scale airdrop on ether - airdropped 6,150 NFTs to OG OpenSea user wallets on Ethereum.
  • April 2019 - Autoglyphs - first onchain generative NFT art on the blockchain by Larva Labs
  • April 2019 - Editional - first mobile app for minting NFTs
  • April 2019 - Makersplace.com - NFT marketplace
  • May 3rd 2019 - Simply Maria - presented at CADAF NY
  • May 10th 2019 - Soul In The Machine - was made live and auctioned at Ethereal Summit
  • May 18th 2019 - Animalia - presented at Rare Art Fest 2.
  • August 2019 - clovers.network - first icon NFTs
  • August 2019 - Rendar Gallery - first street art NFT gallery opening in a Metaverse
  • October 2019 - Rarible - NFT Market place
  • November 28th 2019 - DADAGAN - presented at TATE
  • November 28th 2019 - Screens: An Exploration - made live at TATE Modern
  • December 7th 2019 - first NFT report

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

  • February 20th 2014 - Rob Myers - early blockchain art pioneer - had he minted a single MYSOUL it would have been the first NFT
  • April 7th 2014 - THING - possible contender for first NFT? according to Loonardo Joe Vinci
  • May 3rd 2014 - Qauntum - first NFT according to Sotheby's
  • Trading card game and meme trading on Counterparty - founded by Robert Dermody, Adam Krellenstein, and Evan Wagner; "A peer-to-peer financial platform and distributed, open-source Internet protocol built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain"
  • First art NFT on Counterparty - mccoyspace
  • first NFT and first gif NFT - Source 2
  • Monegraph - created by Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash - Monetized Graphics (NFT could have been called this although NFT is a bigger concept as covers more than art) for a created image was assigned a blockchain key and value storable in a NameCoin wallet
  • September 2014 - NILIcoin - 'The artwork which will carry the value of the NILI coin are real objects, paintings and works on paper.'
  • bitcorns, memorychain, force of will, databits, penisium, Bitgirls, diecast

2012

2011

  • a project by Dan Kaminsky surfaces poems, ASCII art and more found in the Bitcoin blockchain
  • first art in blockchain? Source

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