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First
issuance
Date
Non-fungibleMulti-token
project
Finite+static
supply
SupplyDescribed
on chain*
Permanent
ownership
(non-expiring)
ChainTrading721
(or wrappable)
Fits technical
NFT definition**
Fits "collectible"
NFT definition***
NotesDiscord
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Monegraph
(incl. Quantum)
By Kevin McCoy
2014-05-02TRUETRUEFALSEUnlimitedHASHFALSENamecoinTrustingFALSETRUEMAYBEMonegraph was an art tokenization standard on NMC
Not enforced by the NMC protocol
Several pictures were "Monegraph" formatted in 2014
All expired?
None
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Spells of Genesis
By Shaban Shaame
Everdream Software
First teaser
cards in 2015

Full set and
beta game in
2016
SFT
(some
divisible)
TRUEFALSE~15kFALSETRUEBTC (XCP)XCP DEX
trustless

EV Custodial
FALSEFALSETRUEFirst blockchain collectibles project
All SoG cards are multi-unit, fungible.
Artwork assigned retroactively? Where does art live?
FDCARD and GENESISCARD both divisible
Cards teased sporadically in 2015-2016 before launch
Game in beta by Sept 2016
Full release in May 2017
https://discord.com/invite/H4UXSaJ
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Etheria
By Cyrus Adkisson
2015-10-19TRUETRUETRUE1828
(457 per
version)
TRUETRUEEthereumTrustlessTRUETRUETRUEFirst blockchain virtual world
First complete cryptocollectibles project
First Ethereum NFT project (first NFT smart contracts)
First fully on-chain NFT and artworks (L1)
First tradable blockchain user-generated content
Deployed before ETC fork, so "Etceria" exists there too
https://discord.gg/SzVmtk44Rw
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Rare Pepes
By community
2016-09-09SFTTRUEFALSE1→billionFALSETRUEBTC (XCP)XCP DEX
trustless

EV Custodial
FALSEFALSETRUEAlmost all rarepepes are of supply > 1
PEPECASH card has a supply of 1 billion
ONLYONEPEPE is the only supply=1 V1S1 card
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PixelMap
By Ken Erwin
2016-11-17TRUETRUETRUE~4kTRUETRUEEthereumTrustlessTRUETRUETRUEhttps://discord.gg/pixelmap
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Curio Cards
By Travis Uhrig, others
2017-05-09SFTTRUETRUE~20kIPFSTRUEEthereumTrustlessTRUEFALSETRUEOn-chain IPFS links to artworkhttps://discord.curio.cards
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Cryptopunks
By Matt Hall and
John Watkinson
2017-06-22TRUETRUETRUE10kHASH + IPFS
(full data added
in 2021)
TRUEEthereumTrustlessTRUETRUETRUEOn-chain hash of image + IPFS links to artworkhttps://discord.gg/tQp4pSE
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MoonCats
By Ponderware
2017-08-09TRUETRUETRUE25,440DNA
(full data added
in 2021)
TRUEEthereumTrustlessTRUETRUETRUEMD5 hash of img gen javascript stored in contract
https://discord.com/invite/XYZFrsYava
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DZIPS (IKB)
By Mitchell F. Chan
2017-08-27TRUETRUETRUE101SWARMTRUEEthereumTrustlessTRUETRUETRUEDigital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility
Wrapper deployed April 28 2021
(Ed. note: Still researching)
None?
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Cryptocats
By Nas Munawar,
Jochy Reyes,
and Gen Morales
2017-11-12TRUETRUETRUE625HASH + IPFSTRUEEthereumTrustlessTRUETRUETRUE12 cats on Nov 12, 2017
Remainder on Nov 25, 2017
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Cryptokitties
By Dapper Labs
2017-11-23TRUETRUEFALSE~35k gen0DNATRUEEthereumTrustlessTRUETRUETRUEhttps://dap.pr/ckdiscord
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EtherRocks
By ?
2017-12-26TRUETRUETRUE100FALSETRUEEthereumTrustlessTRUETRUETRUEhttps://discord.gg/cuzYmchbQx
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Notes
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*true = one could reproduce the asset or artwork solely from the data on the chain, hash = proof without reproducibility, IPFS = image exists off-chain, false = nothing on chain at all
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**Literally "non-fungible token" = A token to something that is unique and non-divisible
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***The lay, "collectible" definition of NFT is stricter in the sense of connoting a work of art or collectible and LESS strict in terms of non-fungibility.
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SFT=Semi-fungible token. Multiple but limited, non-divisible copies of each type of token.
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Monegraph was a structured text standard for putting artwork on Namecoin and not a "collection" by the creator. i.e. Anyone can submit a new Monegraph-formatted entry to Namecoin at any time.
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Purposefully excluded
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Generic NMC names2011
Expiring, infinite supply, not a tokenization, not a collectible/art
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Punycodes
Blockheads
Twitter Eggs
(i.e. NMC "collections")
2011-2015
With the exception of Monegraph, all Namecoin "collections" were created in 2021+ by re-registering and grouping similar NMC domains together and marketing them under brand names. For example, Punycoding is a long-established method of representing
Unicode (emoji, Chinese chars, etc) as ASCII and was used as a technical workaround for NMC domains which only allow ASCII. These are now grouped together retroactively as "Punycodes", though no such "collection" existed at the time.
Blockheads, Twitter Eggs and several other "collections" were the result of people signing up for OneName which saved Twitter profile pics in Namecoin records. Most of these profile pics were of random users' faces and are ignored, but some
were the default icon (a Twitter egg) and others were popular generative profile pics of the time (Blockheads, Comicons, etc). Again, these similar domains have been grouped together retroactively for marketing purposes.
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MYSOUL2014
MYSOUL was an explicit, well-documented cryptoart experiment of 100 nondivisible tokens on Counterparty. Unfortunately the coin is not yet locked (supply is de facto centralized),
disqualifying it from appearing in the table above. I've reached out to Rhea Myers to inquire about its lockability.
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Single unit CP tkns
THING, OLGA, etc
2014
Not tokenization of anything specific, not a collectible/art, low effort, not part of larger purpose/project. Retroactive art assignment in 2021, in most cases.
Also, fungibility is a comparison adjective like "tall" or "short". A single token, by itself and not within a collection, is neither fungible nor non-fungible. It's just a single token.
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Huntercoin2014
An blockchain game on its own chain that was ultimately taken over by bots and disused. Players could posses in-game items, but ownership was ephemeral. It did have a 2D game map which could be considered the first blockchain virtual world, though none of the "land" was ownable/tradable.
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Rhea Myers'
MYSOUL
2014
Explicitly "art", but more like an ERC-20 (100 units) than NFT (Counterparty and Dogeparty) since there aren't any other "cards" in the set. (This is so functionally similar to SoG that I'm not sure this won't make it into the chart above at some point.)
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Rhea Myers'
Eth Art Market
2014
An NFT crypto art market deployed to Ethereum test nets before launch. Never deployed to mainnet due to security fears: https://twitter.com/rheaplex/status/1442922823253590018
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Bitchcoin2015
Fungible and centralized, real-world fractional art-buying, standalone, ERC-20-like alt-chain
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TerraNullius2015
Not tradable. Infinite supply. Not an NFT. A 2021 composition (not a wrapper) with an artificial supply of 4k appeared on OpenSea and was promoted by several "NFT Archeologist" influencers as "First NFT!!!" in fall 2021. It isn't.
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ENS2017
Expiring, infinite supply, not a tokenization of anything, not a collectible (Love this project, though! World-changing!)
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