It is a well known fact that some people are only interested in arts as an investment option: the well known, or established, artworks tend to only acquire more value along the years, and the emerging artists' works can end up becoming early retirement plan.
The CryptoArt movement is still very recent, but already some namely artists and artworks fetch and sell high prices: like Beeple, Pak, CryptoPunks, Nyan Cat, and many more.
If you are looking into starting collecting, and/or investing in, CryptoArts, I'd suggest You to check these ones out:
Foundation, e.g., where Nyan Cat was sold:
Foundation helps creators mint and auction their digital artworks as NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain.
Since launching in February 2021, creators have directly earned over $40M in NFT sales on Foundation overall, and over 425 artists have earned more than $12,000
Its platform is developed to Creators (Becoming a Creator), Collectors (Becoming a Collector), Developers (Experiment), and the Community (Guidelines)
Nifty Gateway, started when Gemini acquired Nifty Gateway Nov 19, 2019:
Nifty Gateway teams up with Top artists and brands to create collections of limited edition, high quality Nifties, exclusively available on our platform.
Each collection will be opened at a specific time (a drop), and will only be available for a limited time.
We will aim to do new drops about once every 3 weeks. After the initial drop for a collection closes or sells out, you will only be able to get nifties from that collection in the marketplace.
Nifty Gateway is also a centralized, USD based marketplace for buying and selling Nifties.
Nifty Gateway lets you display your Nifties, as well as withdraw them to external wallets, or deposit Nifties from external wallets into your collection.
Nifty is just another term, or branding, for an NFT. They are more established platform where Beeple's work Crossroads was sold for $6,600,000.
MakersPlace, oldest from Jule 11 2018
Dannie Chu's article, How MakersPlace is Actually Empowering Creators with Blockchain, Dec 10, 2018, details very well MakersPlace's mission.
For the interested Creators and for the Collector.
If you are interested in NFTs, CryptoArt and its markets, art in general, I'd suggest you to follow them on social media or sign up with their newsletter to be notified and not miss out a thing!
