Top 10 NFTs

In year 2021, pandemic happened and so it was a good opportunity for NFTs to shine. The interest in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) increased dramatically, with many celebrities and artists releasing their own series of virtual work.

The influx of interest has caused the cost of NFTs to skyrockets, with 2021 becoming a record-setting year in terms of sale prices.

The unique selling point of NFTs is that it tokenizes digital art, giving the owner a sellable certificate, which confirms the asset as original.

Memes have gone a long way from jokes to an actual piece of art selling over half a million dollars. Some internet classics – “such as ‘Disaster Girl’, sold for $473,000 and ‘Nyan Cat’, sold for $590,000

1. Bored Ape Yacht Club

With 10,000 algorithmically generated NFTs launched in April. Its fame arise for the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection, one of the owners’ is Jimmy Fallon from The Tonight Show host.  The striped T-shirt Ape was sold for $145,000 on November 8, where he has 50 million followers. This increased the hype and sales that creates awareness to his followers. The pride of the purchase has made Jimmy change his Twitter’s profile picture to match his ‘upgraded status’ in the NFTs industry.

The recent set of 101 Bored Ape NFTs were auctioned off at Sotheby’s for $24.4 million

2. Louis Vuitton Video Game

Luxury brands are coming up with their exclusivity and brand recognition to enter into the NFT world as a natural fit for the industry. So Louis Vuitton made a grand opening into the unique NFTs world. They developed an entire video game, called Louis: The Game, where players can complete challenges to find hidden NFTs. Some of the hidden NFTs include 10 artworks by Beeple, who purchased $69million artwork.

3. Axie Infinity

The Blockchain-based play-to-earn (P2E) models has created a big waves to make gamers dream come true by making gamers real money. This concept increased in popularity over the past year especially in developing countries such as the Philippines. To play money and earn game at the same time is a win-win situation that attracted many gamers to explore the platform. The game is simple, it is based on buying, breeding and training Axies to send into battle. The Axies themselves are NFTs, and through battles players can earn SLP (a cryptocurrency) to be sold on a secondary market for real money. The game traded over $1B on the Axie platform, one of the most successful NFT projects in the world

4. Vee Friends

One of the new NFT avatar series that have taken hold in the NFT conversation, it has been shooting up in value on the secondary market. This collection of NFTs are inspired by the traits in humans that Vaynerchuk (owner) admires most. These include: the Insightful Irish Terrier, the Sensible Sommerlies, and the Prudent Polar Bear. Owning a NFT piece from the collection represents membership to a community of like-minded individuals. The collection was sold for $1.2m at Christie’s auction.

5. Paris Hilton’s Planet Paris

Paris Hilton is well known as an American media personality, socialite, businesswoman, model and more. The all-rounded Paris created an advocated for the NFT movement and created her own NFT series. Planet Paris was made in partnership with Blake Kathryn and includes a series of short videos which earned over $1m in sales.

6. $200k LeBron dunk

LeBron is well known as a professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers. He has come up with cards and autographed merchandises that created a positive vibe to the fans. They are rare, tradeable and collectible. We believe in the future sports memorabilia industry will get involved in the NFT market. This NBA Top Shot sold and NFT video clip of LeBron James dunking for $210,000

7. AI NFT you can talk to

This NFT is an artificial intelligent NFT (iNFT) that lives on the Ethereum blockchain. Her name is Alice, and she learns and build her personality as you talk to her. The company which helped build the iNFT, Alethea AI, successfully raised $16m in funding to continue to develop the project and build the infrastructure for the future of artificially intelligent NFTs.

8. Charlies Bit My Finger

A famous meme that has turned into a NFT. With over 880 million views on YouTube, it is one of the most iconic viral videos of all time. Now 14 years later the creators took the video off and put it on blockchain. This video was sold for $760,000 at an auction which the parents says will go to funding the two young boy’s university costs.

9. Bad Luck Brian

Here’s another meme that surfaced into the NFT space that reflects to internet culture. Bad Luck Brain (real name Kyle Craven) has been made fun online since 2012. With all the bad luck and trauma he had in the past, he sold his iconic yearbook photo for a massive $36,000 in March 2021.

10. Pet Rocks

This is by far the biggest surprise on NFT platform, the EtherRocks. They are just JPEGs of cartoon rocks, which are beight bought and sold as NFTs for million of dollars! Currently the cheapest of the 100 EtherRocks released is valued around $1.5m. The unbelievable normal looking pet rocks was sold for $2.2m in September 2021.