A Tokenized Destiny

joechiappetta (60)in #comics • 6 years ago (edited)

Technology has advanced to a remarkable point. Any creator who makes art in a digital form can now "tokenize" it. What that means is that an artist ties their specific digital media to a programmable cryptocurrency which tracks unique ownership of that digital asset. In fact, some also call this process "blockchainizing" because the limited edition digital art piece can be verified as rare on the "blockchain" which, put simply, is a set of data organized in groups, or "blocks" in an unalterable string, or "chain" of information.

Technical jargon aside, such a digital arts asset can then be bought, sold, and traded on various crypto art marketplaces using cryptocurrency. The cool new marketplaces that I sell my tokenized artwork on include the following:

This is huge for the world of arts and it could make creative types even more relevant to economic growth in the near future. For example, this cute black and white comic image of a cub that I drew might soon be colored, reworked a bit, and perhaps added to one of these booming marketplaces and sold for Ethereum, Bitcrystals, or some other cryptocurrency. This increased market and audience exposure is what more and more artists will be doing in the years to come, opening up a tokenized destiny for the arts industry.