Dannie Chu hopes to create the world's most trusted marketplace for premium digital art. At the time, MakersPlace was a barely three-year-old company, the brainchild of Pinterest employee number one Yash Nelapati, fellow Pinterest employee Dannie Chu, and Ito. Digital artist Beeple's NFT collage Everydays: The First 5000 Days, sold at Christie's for over $69 ... [+] million in March, 2021. “Our theory is that by providing the technical infrastructure to prove originality will allow humans to start embracing the digital art side.”Humans may already have. According to a report by L’Atelier BNP Paribas and Nonfungible.com, the global NFT market grew by 299% in 2020, exceeding $250 million in trade volume.

Source: Forbes August 04, 2021 11:50 UTC