Types of NFTs
Format | Type | Interactive | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Textual | Meta | No | Loot | Meta projects have contents that can be easily referred by other projects, allowing these meta projects to be a base layer for games, artworks and other NFT applications. |
Textual | Poem | No | Etherpoems | Literally a poem. |
Visual | Still image | No | CryptoPunks | Still image. Not a gif, not a video, not interactive, and no audio. Just your good-old traditional beautiful art. |
Visual | Animated visual | No | Curio Cards: Eclipse | Gif-style looped animation. Note that on-chain animations are generated differently due to the advantages blockchains bring, but we're still categorizing them as animated visual. |
Visual | Animated visual | Yes | Art Blocks Curated: Chromie Squiggles | The viewer can change the way the NFT output looks by clicking or pressing keys. Traditional videos don't count! |
Visual | Ever-changing image | No | Generativemasks | The viewer sees a different image every time they refresh the image. |
Visual | Silent video | No | HeavenComputer | Video in the traditional sense, but without audio. You click a play button, and it plays the visual piece. |
Audiovisual | Video with audio | No | Fluf World | Video in the traditional sense. You click a play button, and it plays. While there's an audio, the focus of the piece is the visuals. |
Audiovisual | Audio beats | No | Art Blocks Curated: Unigrids | An audio loop where there's a single beat or melody that goes on infinitely |
Audiovisual | Audio beats | Yes | - | The viewer can change the way the NFT output looks AND SOUNDS by clicking or pressing keys. Traditional videos don't count! |
Audiovisual | Music | No | Euler Beats | Focus in "music" subtype is the audio. They're also different from "audio beats" as music isn't infinite and there's a pattern change in the beat melody throughout the piece. |
Audiovisual | VR | Yes | Art Blocks Playground: Beatboxes | The viewer is infused with the artwork, can walk and/or interact with it, within it. |
Real estate | - | - | Etheria | The NFT reflects the ownership of a specific asset, but doesn’t come with any viewable/sense-able output. The value derives from "owning" it. |