Click Clone Cash: How NFTs Can Be More Than Just Artwork

NFTs are one of the most interesting forms of investment in the modern world. There is so much mystery and niche surrounding the technology, and this mystery is what makes it so exciting to watch. 

Most people only know about NFTs because of the Gifs and Artworks that are selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars. But NFTs can be so much more than art. To prove my point, I asked Click Clone Cash for an interview. 

If you don’t know, Click Clone Cash is an organization of NFT experts and the source market analysis, news, and insight into new NFT projects. If anyone can explain, it’s going to be Click Clone Cash! Now, let’s get to the interview.

Can you tell us what it is about NFTs that make them so sought after? Why are NFT art, videos, and the like worth so much?

Well, the thing with NFTs is that they are all unique. So usually, if you have a file, let’s say an image file, all you have to do is copy and paste that file. 

Now you have two completely identical files, you send them out, and no one will know which is the original or who the owner of it is. With NFTs, there is only one, and you know who owns it. That’s the allure of the technology. 

How can NFTs be used beyond art? What else can be created? 

That’s another thing about the technology. It is limitless in possibilities. People can make art, make music, and make albums, and all of these things can be minted as an NFT and traded. The blockchain is absolutely phenomenal. 

There are video game developers creating NFTs for in-game items to give their players something of real value, Nike has a line of Cryptokicks, which are virtual shoes, and virtual worlds like Decentriland have so many uses for NFTs. 

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Are any other companies using NFTs other than Nike?

Oh yeah, just about any big-name company you can think of probably has at least a toe in the game. McDonald’s, Taco Bell, WWE, Nike, you name it, have likely experimented with the technology. It’s just too good to ignore, and there are so many directions to take. 

So do companies only use NFTs to advertise? Are there any other uses? 

Sure there are. You can store anything from tickets to proof of sale documents. People have even started experimenting with the technology for use in data storage. 

There’s no better place to store sensitive documents than an NFT because NFTs are not hackable. Not without significant human error, and I mean things like giving away your password. I see a future where all significant contracts are done via the blockchain. 

So do you think the future of NFTs lies beyond art?

Absolutely, we here at Click Clone Cash believe that NFTs are the future, plain and simple. Right now, art is just one of the most popular uses and easiest for people to get into. 

In the future, however, we expect to see a lot more companies using the technology how Nike is. We also expect to see a lot more practical and less artistic uses: contracts, code storage, things like that.

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NFTs and the Future of Ownership: Fintech Beat’s Conversation with Nic Carter and Amy Luo

“Any time in which a question about financial technology involves a response relating to Hegelian dialectics you just know this is going to be a truly out-of-this-world conversation,” Dr. Chris Brummer joked, finding his bearings at the start of an episode-length investigation to not only explain the concept of non-fungible tokens or “NFTs,” but to also prepare for a dive deep into the pros and cons of this new blockchain-based collectible resource. Analogies, in short, are inescapable.  What does it even mean for a blockchain-based currency to be non-fungible? What does having a permanent “serial number” on blockchains like Etherium associated with a piece of art, a video, or even a tweet mean for ownership? Brought on the podcast to take on this hot-button topic were Nic Carter, partner of Castle Island Ventures, and Amy Luo of Centre.io, a consortium of industry players designed to help the US Dollar coin (USDC). 

Nic Carter is a partner at Castle Island Ventures and the co-founder and board chairman of blockchain data aggregator Coin Metrics, which was established in 2017. On his own highly popular podcast, “On the Brink,” he and his co-host Matthew Walsh interview leading experts in the industry of cryptocurrency and fintech to explore the political, ethical, and economic impacts of public blockchains. Prior to his time at Castle Island Ventures, Carter was the first crypto asset analyst at Fidelity Investments. He earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of St. Andrews, and his master’s in finance and investment from the University of Edinburgh.

Amy Luo is the general counsel for Centre.io, which has developed the USD Coin, a stablecoin from Circle and Coinbase that is “issued by regulated and licensed financial institutions that maintain full reserves of the equivalent fiat currency.” Prior to her position as general counsel for Centre, Luo acted as senior counsel for Coinbase, where she was responsible for Institutional Sales/Coverage, Business Development, and Stablecoin legal, regulatory, and policy matters. She attended Yonsei University and the Schulich School of Business, and earned her JD from the Boston University School of Law.

Dr. Chris Brummer, too, has long had an eye on the latest developments in financial technology as a professor in Washington, DC, where he lives with his wife Rachel Loko. He is the faculty director of Georgetown’s Institute of International Economic Law, where his work has centered on innovation and financial regulation.  On his podcast, Fintech Beat, Dr. Brummer expands on his research, and interviews experts and insiders in financial technology to explore the “intersection of policy, finance, and tech” for the benefit of potential investors and enthusiasts alike. He is also the founder and host of the DC Fintech Week Conference, a weekend of panels and discussions in the nation’s capital with the goal of democratizing information about the future of financial technology. His paper, “What Do the Data Reveal About (the absence of Black) Financial Regulators?” was published by Brookings last year and is a testament to his intersectional approach to financial technology and regulation, incorporating race, class, and demographics, and concerns about representation into his body of work. He has had the distinction of serving on transition team for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and has advised regulators, including ESMA on the future of innovation. He was recently added to Fannie Mae’s  in February of 2021.

NFTs are only a term of art, and difficult to pin down even among experts. But the technology defining them is straightforward.  

“It’s a serialized piece of information that exists in a public blockchain context,” Carter says after comparing them to bitcoin, the fungible currency, “It’s a way to take a serial number which uniquely addresses some item, some data, some piece of content, and insert it onto public Blockchain rails[…] so it is innately financialized and can be traded on a peer-to-peer network.” In the short term, as Nic Carter explains, that means that NFTs are currently being used as a way to ensure, if not complete exclusivity, then at least a more controlled way to claim ownership of otherwise eminently fungible digital media such as digital art, game assets, or tweets.

Amy Luo of Centre.io is focused on the long-term as she imagines the future of NFTs: “In the future, almost all data on web free will be in a form of NFTs. Not just in the form of digital goods we see today but shopping lists, medical history. In the future we aren’t going to be talking about what an NFT is or isn’t but whether you’re receiving or transmitting.” While the implications of that may seem scary, the goal, as Luo points out, is freedom of information. The ability for an individual to take ownership of the information they disseminate of social media or through patient portals is galvanizing when you consider how much data is freely given away to brokers through websites like Facebook and Twitter. 

When it comes to the ability of NFTs to create scarcity and value in digital art, Dr. Brummer is quick to observe the values of the analog version. “Ebooks are great and you can search quickly, but if you’re like me, there’s nothing like a real book: the texture, the feel, even the smell.” While Nic Carter argues that the value of a non-fungible token over a piece of physical art is the lack of degradation, he’s also quick to admit that the tokens don’t constitute the same kind of ownership. “You’re not buying the original piece. You don’t have any rights associated with that. You’re just buying a fixed vintage with some association from the artist.” This isn’t to say artists can’t make the deal more enticing by throwing in IP rights as well, but that’s a separate service not included within the promise of an NFT. Knowing all of this and knowing that these are still uncharted waters, Dr. Brummer moves on to investigate what the value of NFTs is.

Amy Luo argues that NFTs can be bought for personal enjoyment and fulfillment but also as a form of investment. Like Bitcoin, the value of the non-fungible tokens is entirely consumer driven, so the question then becomes: what can be done to ensure purchasers’ return on investment? Amy Luo gives the example of a musician creating a song and dividing it into 100 discreet NFTs. It’s entirely dependent on how the song, as a product and investment, is marketed by the artist and how much of an understanding the public has on the value of the song. Both experts in the conversation with Dr. Brummer admit that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a major effect on crypto and NFTs just because of the sheer number of people who have taken up trading, collecting, and amateur investment through websites like Coinbase. “It’s the most mainstream corner of the crypto market,” Nic Carter admits when asked about the future viability of NFTs, “I do expect it to be an enduring feature of the market.” Amy Luo brings up the bubble of both crypto and NFTs, but also believes that NFTs are not just here to stay, but haven’t even hit their stride yet. “This is the recipe printing phase of the internet. Once we get over this hump we’re going to see some crazy innovation happen.” 

For financial regulators, the world of crypto continues to be the wild-west of IP and ownership laws, with some early adopters of non-fungible tokens already losing access to what they have bought, tens of thousands of dollars effectively disappearing overnight. According to Dr. Brummer, regulatory questions abound, too, due to the myriad legal and theoretical questions that crypto generates.  Indeed, for Brummer, they’re worth serious thought, and even personal introspection.  The opportunities for ownership of information that Amy Luo espoused seem great, but the risk and volatility of NFTs as investments and even collectables can be considerable too, and deserve a rigorous policy conversation. 

To hear the full episode on NFTs, go to Apple Podcasts or Spotify.  To learn more about Dr. Chris Brummer’s research, click here

Top Investor Ryan Hoggan Shares Why His New Focus Is NFTs

This year, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) seemed to have burst from the ether. Are NFTs worth the money or all the attention?

In the opinion of some experts, they’re just a fad that will soon burst. Others think NFTs are here to stay, and they believe these changes will influence investment for years to come.

Ryan Hoggan, an experienced entrepreneur, business executive and venture capitalist is one of the experts that believe NFTs are here to stay. We will be speaking to him on why he is focusing on and strongly believe in NFTs.

Ryan Hoggan, can you give us an insight into what NFTs are?

Before understanding what NFTs are you need to know what “fungibility” is.  When I say an asset is an eligibility it simply means that the asset’s capacity can be traded for another item without losing value.  

A BTC (Bitcoin) is worth the same as another BTC, for example. When we concentrate on Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT), however, everything changes: a non-fungible token has a different value than another NFT of equal or equivalent value. The word “non-fungibles” comes from the fact that each NFT has distinct traits that define its oddity. 

Ryan, why did you choose to focus on NFTs?

Although non-transferable, genuine, and having protection for ownership rights, NFTs offer important benefits such as being non-tradable. “Transferable” describes anything that is fungible and traded like exchangeable tokens.

In contrast, non-fungible tokens may only be bought and sold on certain platforms. The worth of anything can only be measured by considering its uniqueness.

There are no false facsimiles since NFTs are powered by Blockchain technology, making it hard to create fake facsimiles, and as a result, you have confidence that an NFT is real and almost impossible to counterfeit. 

What can NFTs be used for?

For artists and content providers, Blockchain technology and NFTs provide a unique possibility to monetize their commodities. The significance of artists no longer having to depend on galleries or auction houses to sell their work is, for example, a recent trend that emerged in the 21st century.

In the first place, instead of selling it to the customer, the artist may sell it directly to the customer as an NFT, therefore keeping more of the revenues. Alternatively, artists may also choose a portion of their sales to get royalties, ensuring that they get paid each time their work is sold to a new owner.

This feature is appealing to artists since they never earn future compensation when their work is sold for the first time.

Why did you choose NFTs over cryptocurrency?

Physical money and cryptocurrencies are both “fungible,” which means they may be traded or swapped for each other. They’re also worth the same amount: one dollar is always worth another dollar and one Bitcoin is always worth another Bitcoin. NFTs aren’t like other materials. Each contains a digital signature that prevents NFTs from being substituted for or compared to one another (hence, non-fungible). 

NFTs can only have one owner at any one moment. The unique data on NFTs enables it to simply check who owns them and transfer tokens between them. They may also be used by the owner or author to store specialized data. Artists, for example, may sign their work by putting it in the metadata of an NFT.

How Does NFTS work?

This year, understanding more about NTF is as important as learning about the future of real estate. All indicators are leaning towards the massive explosion of NFTs.

NFTs are stored on a blockchain, which is a decentralized public ledger that keeps track of transactions. Most people are acquainted with blockchain as the underlying technology that allows cryptocurrencies to exist.

NFTs are most often kept on the Ethereum blockchain, although they may also be stored on other blockchains.

An NFT is made up of digital objects that represent both physical and intangible goods and is then “minted.” NFTs are, in essence, digital versions of tangible collectibles. As a result, the customer receives a digital file rather than a real oil painting to put on the wall.