NFT Explained in 100 words
Types of tokens
- Fungible tokens — Its replace by another identical token
- Non-Fungible tokens — Non-replaceable token like you 😉
Let’s understand in brief
Example 1
“Peer1” want to exchange token with “Peer2” both have $10 for exchange, this is called fungible or replaceable.
Example 2
“Peer1” have $100 and “Peer2” have 1ETH which is not same as $100,because both have different currency value so that they can’t exchange each other. This is called Non-Fungible token.
Now Let’s understand NFT
NFT means is just a ownership of digital item(digital item can be anything which can be created digitally).
How To create/sell NFT
- Build a Smart contract
- Creating a metadata of digital items(Meta data is a information of digital items like image location, description, attributes ,size of image etc.).
- Listing your NFT on a popular marketplace.
- Show your NFT or Sell it by doing marketing of the digital art.
- Onchain is store in smart contract — Its centralized servers like AWS(Mutable information).
- Offchain is store in servers — Its decentralized servers like IPFS(Immutable information).
What is Minting ?
Transfer of digital item into crypto collectibles is called minting.
What is Collectible ?
Its a value/price of any digital items which can fluctuate.
What is Asset ?
Its a digital collectible called asset.