artists, tracks the NFT space closely, and said that low prices are a deliberate strategy by young creators, who, in many cases, are appealing to collectors their own age. Indeed, NFT works can sell for as little as $1.īrent Lomas, who founded the Queenly NFT, a site that sells the work of L.G.B.T.Q. She views her pieces as tradable collectibles, similar to Pokémon cards, a common outlook among young creators.
These days, her art sells on Atomic Hub for as little as 125 Wax, or $21. Hipper said, one of her NFTs sold for $1,000. When the stock market was booming and Bitcoin was above $60,000 earlier this year, Ms. The fact that he was able to create a platform, for me, it’s inspiring.” Hipper and others like her, Fewo is “such a role model for Gen Z,” she said. He grew up completely immersed in this.”įor Ms. “I consider myself pretty digitally native, but I can still recall floppy disks. Understanding NFTs and their value as digital objects comes naturally to a generation raised online, Mr. Aske, who is now 20 and studying finance and entrepreneurship. It’s working with a team, seeing something through from ideation to creation and seeing a sale,” said Mr. He spent his 10 days in quarantine learning everything he could about NFTs, and came up with a project involving the antiquities collection of a foreign country (his classmate had connections within the government). Magnus Aske was a 19-year-old sophomore at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., when he got sick with Covid-19 last March, around the time of the Beeple sale. For others, it’s a perceived gateway to a career as a full-time artist or crypto entrepreneur. Such improbable success stories have inspired enterprising young people to join the NFT boom. “I got interested in the NFT space because originally I thought it was cool as an online flex,” he told the website Decrypt. The project, “ Weird Whales,” featured 3,350 pixelated whales, each with distinct traits, some rarer and thus perceived to be more valuable. Solace and jstngraphics seem like oldsters compared to Benyamin Ahmed, a 12-year-old boy from suburban London, who released an NFT collection last month. It was being seen by people and valued,” he said. “I saw how digital art was being put out there. Solace, whose real name is Carlos Gomez, began making NFTs on a borrowed iPad because he didn’t own a home computer. They promote their work not through blue-chip galleries or auction houses but on social media. The 40-year-old digital artist known as Beeple may have grabbed headlines last spring when one of his works sold at Christie’s for $69 million, but NFT markets like Atomic Hub, Nefty Blocks and OpenSea are filled with creators barely old enough to drive. “I try not to overload my feed, my collectors.” Hipper, who now goes by Miss Teen Crypto and has since turned 18.
“Right now, I’m trying to do one drop a week,” said Ms. It is bought using cryptocurrency such as Ether or Wax, and exists as a unique file unable to be duplicated, often just to be admired digitally. An NFT, or a nonfungible token, is a digital file created using blockchain computer code. Hipper comes up with the concepts and collaborates with digital artists, including a teenage boy in India who goes by Ajay Toons, offering the works for sale through the NFT marketplace Atomic Hub.
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Hipper, then a 17-year-old senior at Xaverian High School in Brooklyn, began releasing her own digital artworks - cartoonish and self-referential pieces showing her cruising in a car with a Bitcoin license plate or riding the Coney Island Wonder Wheel. Last fall, Randi Hipper decided to, as she put it recently, “go in-depth with the crypto space.” After hearing about NFTs on Twitter and other social media platforms, Ms.
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