OpenSea Blog | Overview

OpenSea have published their extensive guide to NFTs, taking a look at everything from standardization, interoperability and provable scarcity, to the myths surrounding NFTs, their history, and the market size.

OpenSea Blog | Protocol Standards

Within their NFT Bible, OpenSea have also included a explainer on NFT protocol standards, explaining how developers guarantee that the asset will behave a certain way.

William Entriken | Protocol Standards

William Entriken provides a quick, accessible explainer on ERC-721 and its applications

Bryan Flynn | Social Tokens

Bryan Flynn explains the social value of NFTs, how fractionalization enables more contributors to creative works, and its relationship to social tokens.

Jesse Walden | Ownership

An explainer on how NFTs allow creatives to take ownership of the content they share online, and the impact this will have on the relationship between creators and platforms or network providers.

The Defiant | Ownership

“Ownership” is discussed a lot with regards to digital assets, but in the digital age, “ownership” can be a malleable term. This article explores the degrees of ownership, degrees of centralisation, data storage questions, and off chain solutions surrounding NFTs.

The Defiant | Overview

From the numbers to platforms and artists, the Defiant set themselves the goal of creating the most comprehensive guide to the world of NFTs - in a film.

Andreessen Horowitz | Further Resources

Another set of resources bringing together the world of NFTs, from blogs to podcasts, covering news, market data, and standards.

The Block | Market Data

Dashboard overview of weekly trade volumes of NFTs, separated into two categories, Art & Collectibles and Gaming.

dappRadar | Market Data

Overview of non-fungible token trading volumes, number of traders per NFT marketplace and more key metrics.

University of Nicosia & the Institute for the Future (IFF) | Valuations

The University of Nicosia’s NFT Valuation tool sets out not only to establish a robust and defensible methodology for calculating Non-Fungible Token (NFT) market capitalizations on an ecosystem basis, but also to establish a robust and automated methodology for valuing individual NFTs with relevant confidence intervals.

Nonfungible.com | Market Data

A dashboard overview of NFT markets by collectibles, metaverse, utility tokens,  art, sports, games, and DeFi.

Amanah Advisors | Ownership

In NFTs, royalties can be built into the code by way of smart contracts, a method of pushing a portion of the resale proceeds back to the original creator. Amanah Advisors breaks down royalties, intellectual property and intangible rights in Shariah, and how this fits in with NFTs.

Amanah Advisors | Ownership

Read Amanah Advisors' overview of possession, ownership, and NFTs from the perspective of Shariah.

Amanah Advisors | Legal perspective

"Being digital does not disregard it from being an asset in Shariah, as the driving factor in being Māl (property) – and therefore a valid asset – is the ability to benefit from the asset in a reasonable manner." Read Amanah Advisor's overview of NFTs and Shariah.

DLA Piper | Legal perspective

Our Patron Member, DLA Piper, covers everything from buying an NFT to rights, ownership, responsibilities, the application of licensing rules, intellectual property rights, tax treatments, and the fractionalization of assets in this comprehensive Q&A.

Clifford Chance | Legal and Regulatory perspective

As well as covering ownership and rights, Clifford Chance’s report looks at how jurisdictions across Europe, America, and Asia are developing approaches to NFTs

White & Case | Legal perspective

White & Case's article discusses the opportunities and legal challenges that follow the emergence of NFTs, with a particular focus on data hosting, storage, royalties, data protection laws & IP rights.

Kluwer Copyright Blog | Legal perspective

Part ii of this chapter on NFTs covers where copyright meets blockchain, looking at how the technical characteristics of NFTs mean that NFTs so not easily match existing conceptions of ownership as they relate to digital objects, and the implications of this with regards to the transfer of copyright ownership.

CMS Law-Now | Legal perspective

CMS Law-Now’s article looks to establish a legal framework for NFTs as a new asset class taking into account licensing obligations and copyright issues with respect to the digital original piece.

CoinTelegraph | Legal perspective

Tatiana Roberdo’s article takes a look at how to determine the jurisdiction and the respective rights of NFT creators and their buyers.

TechnoLlama - Andres Guadamuz | Legal and technical perspective

Andres Guadamuz does his best to cover the many questions that emerge surrounding copyright and NFTs as the industry evolved. This blog looks “under the hood” of minting NFTs and what happens when copyfraud happens in NFTs.

GitHub | Protocol Standards

Explains how to create an ERC-721 contract & provides general understanding resources.

OpenZepellin | Protocol Standards

Explains how to create an ERC-721 contract.

Ethereum Improvement Proposals | Protocol Standards

A standard interface for non-fungible tokens, also known as deeds.

Kevin Chou | Gaming

Realigning the economic relationships between game developers and their player base.

Metaversed | Gaming

The role of crypto in the emergence of a new Open Metaverse, in which individuals are able to “participate in an extensive virtual economy with profound societal impact.”

Hyperallergic | Art

A look at the Christie's auction of Beeple's digital art piece and the doubts that arise from introducing a new art form in a legacy art institution.

Cooper Turley | Music

Musicians leveraging audio NFTs to create new revenue streams.

TechCrunch | Gaming

How gaming is providing a new platform for community economics.

The New Consumer | Art

How crypto’s pop culture moment during the pandemic is pushing Gen-Z to use NFTs to create the 'modern Marvel'.