Popular NFT Examples

Before we get into the steps of creating an NFT, let’s take a look at some popular NFT examples to get some inspiration from.
1-Everydays: the first 5000 days

This NFT is a digital collage of 5,000 images created by Mike Winkelman, a digital artist known professionally as Beeple. It was created as a JPG file and sold for $69.3 million at a major auction house in 2021. The value of this NFT lies in Beeple’s 5,000 everyday images, created between May 1, 2007, and January 7, 2021.

• Nyan cat gif

The great thing about NFTs is that anyone can turn their work into a unique asset. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the creator of Nyan Cat decided to turn the popular GIF into an NFT and put it up for auction. The asking price for the NFT was 300 Ethereum tokens.

• Bored Ape Yacht Club

Bored Ape Yacht Club is a best-selling NFT collection of 10,000 cartoon monkeys. The work was the brainchild of four friends who decided to use the monkeys as their social media avatars. The name comes from the term “Aping in,” which is used to describe people who buy new NFTs without considering the risks involved. Little did these people know that a few years later, everyone from entrepreneurs to celebrities would be getting involved and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on their creations. For example, Eminem recently spent $462,000 on the Bored Ape NFT.

• Doge NFT

As collectors spend huge sums on rare items, the Doge NFT shows how scarcity can make symbolic creations valuable. In June 2021, a Shiba Inu meme collectible named Kabosu sold for $4 million. Interestingly, the investor group that bought the NFT is now giving away fractional ownership, meaning anyone can own a piece of it for less than $1.

• PFP NFT
PFP NFTs, or profile picture NFTs, are digital avatars that are often used as people’s profile pictures on social media platforms like Twitter. CryptoPunks is one of the first PFP NFTs, created by Larva Lab in 2017. This type of NFT consisted of 10,000 punks with different characteristics that were algorithmically generated.
Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) is another prominent PFP NFT type that was created in April 2021. Owning a Bored Ape NFT allows you to join a select group of people that includes celebrities like Jimmy Fallon, Madonna, and Paris Hilton. You can also participate in real-world events like ApeFest and others.
• GENERATIVE ART NFTS
Another type of NFT is Generative art NFTs. This type of NFT is considered a digital artwork that is created with the help of robots and artificial intelligence tools and dates back to the 1960s. These pieces share a common appearance and nature, but are unique and randomly generated by an algorithm. Art Blocks is a dedicated platform that helps generative art creators create and sell their work.
Other leaders in the field of generative art NFTs include projects like Autoglyphs from Larva Labs, Lost Poets, and Ringers, as well as artists like Tyler Hobbs, Robbie Barret, and Matt Kane.
• MUSIC NFTS
A music NFT can be used to own a file that contains a song or album. Essentially, purchasing a music NFT gives you the ability to own the file of that music instead of buying a license to listen to it. So, fans of musicians have the opportunity to invest in their favorite artist’s work and own a piece of it.
Additionally, artists can use music NFTs to engage with their fans and reward them with rewards like new music, exclusive merchandise, and concert tickets. They can also set aside time to meet and socialize with their fans. There are specific projects with certain parameters that grant NFT owners the legal rights to broadcast or own a piece of a song, called Limited Digital Assets (LDAs).
• REAL ESTATE NFTS
Real estate NFTs are another type of NFT. These types of NFTs are digital representations of real-world assets, such as virtual land or buildings. You can use these NFTs to represent ownership and trading of virtual real estate in online games or virtual worlds.
Furthermore, real estate NFTs allow people to use virtual real estate as an alternative or complementary way to invest in traditional methods.
• FASHION NFTS
Fashion NFTs are digital assets that represent virtual or physical goods specific to fashion. This type of NFT can be used to show ownership, the provenance of luxury goods, and access to fashion industry events and designer collections. Balmain launched the first virtual fashion NFT collection during Paris Fashion Week in 2020. Other prestigious brands such as Gucci and Prada soon followed suit. Tommy Hilfiger, Dolce & Gabbana, and Nike also launched collections.

They have released NFTs for digital clothing only. These digital clothes can be worn by avatars in virtual worlds like Decentraland.
In addition, platforms like The Dematerialized (DMAT) allow users to buy, sell, or virtually try on NFT clothing styles on the platform.