{"id":22997,"date":"2022-06-04T22:58:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T22:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=22997"},"modified":"2022-06-04T23:06:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T23:06:30","slug":"the-early-history-of-nfts-part-3-curio-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2022\/06\/04\/the-early-history-of-nfts-part-3-curio-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"The early history of NFTs, part 3: Curio Cards\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy and I have just finished part three of the first draft of an early history chapter for our planned NFT book. This part is about Curio Cards &mdash; the first Ethereum art NFTs.<\/p>\n<p>The post is over on Amy&#8217;s blog &mdash; as we alternate collaboration posts, to turn you into avid readers of both sites. [<i><a href=https:\/\/amycastor.com\/2022\/06\/04\/the-early-history-of-nfts-curio-cards\/>Amy Castor<\/a><\/i>]<\/p>\n<p>We welcome corrections and nitpicking &mdash; so pick away!<\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Part 1: <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2022\/05\/25\/the-prehistory-of-nfts\/\">Early NFT platforms<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Part 2: <a href=\"https:\/\/amycastor.com\/2022\/05\/28\/early-history-of-nfts-monegraph-spells-of-genesis-rare-pepes\/\">Monegraph, Spells of Genesis, Rare Pepes<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">We also wrote up <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2022\/04\/17\/nba-top-shot-a-short-history-of-the-largest-mainstream-nft-project\/\">NBA Top Shot,<\/a> the only sports NFT that went anywhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget to subscribe to our Patreons. Amy\u2019s is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/amycastor\">here<\/a> and David\u2019s is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidgerard\/overview\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As an incentive, we\u2019ve put the full interview with NFT historian Adam McBride, mentioned in this section, on our Patreons for subscribers. It\u2019s a great 3,000-word historical rundown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2022\/06\/04\/the-early-history-of-nfts-part-3-curio-cards\/curio-card-23\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22998\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22998\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/curio-card-23.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/curio-card-23.png 680w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/curio-card-23-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/curio-card-23-348x215.png 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small><i>Curio Card #23. How could you pass this up?<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Castor and I write up Curio Cards, the first Ethereum art NFTs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3004,460,3003,2020],"class_list":["post-22997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-adam-mcbride","tag-amy-castor","tag-curio-cards","tag-nft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/curio-card-23.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22997"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23007,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22997\/revisions\/23007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}