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The NFT Revolution

Rating 3.1
Word count
109K words
Chapters
88
ISBN
9787572600524

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Summary

What is an NFT?

Is it a recipe for overnight riches, or a short-lived economic bubble?

Is it yet another internet scam, or a new kind of revelry reserved for celebrities and the wealthy?

Why would someone spend tens of millions of dollars on nothing more than a digital avatar?

Why are major companies and IP holders rushing into the NFT business?

Drawing on art, music, collecting, gaming, real estate, and more, this book explains the basic definition of NFTs in detail, traces their history from inception to global sensation, and analyzes the successful, striking, and attention-grabbing NFT cases in today's market—starting from zero and explaining the concept of the NFT inside out.

Editor's review

The NFT Revolution, written by Korean scholar Sung So-ra and published in Chinese by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House, is not a simple technical manual but an attempt to systematically analyze the NFT phenomenon from multiple perspectives: sociocultural, economic-philosophical, and art-historical. Sung So-ra's background enables her to move beyond pure technology or investment hype and place NFTs in the broader context of a "digital Renaissance." The book explores in depth how NFTs reconstruct the relationship between creators and audiences, redefine ownership and value in the digital age, and embody the community culture and identity behind them. For readers, its value lies in offering a calm and profound observational framework to help us discern, amid the market noise, which are fleeting bubbles and which are structural changes that may shape the future. Reading this book is more like embarking on a journey of reflection on the nature of digital assets; it suits readers who want to understand the underlying logic of trends rather than merely chase surface-level hot spots.

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • Readers with a deep interest in blockchain, Web3.0, and the development of the digital economy who want to understand its social and cultural significance beyond an investment lens.
  • Professionals or researchers in art, culture, and media concerned with new models of digital creation, copyright, and value distribution.
  • Interdisciplinary enthusiasts in technology and the humanities who enjoy examining technological change through philosophy and sociology.
  • Thinkers seeking to build a systematic framework for understanding the possible changes in the future digital world.

Not a good fit for

  • Readers looking only for a quick-rich NFT investment guide or a step-by-step how-to manual.
  • Readers expecting extensive technical code analysis or a purely computer-science perspective.

Reading tips

  1. Read the preface and table of contents first to grasp the author's core argument, then move on to the chapters.
  2. As you read, compare the book with current NFT cases, but note that it focuses more on principles and trend analysis.
  3. Some discussions involving philosophy and economics may be demanding; don't feel you must understand everything at once—reread and reflect as needed.

About the publisher

Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House is a publisher known for its literary titles, with a catalogue spanning foreign literature, world classics, classical Chinese literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, and mystery and detective fiction. Judging from the more than 1,100 books in the database, the press publishes foreign classics such as Crime and Punishment, Snow Country, The Complete Sherlock Holmes and Letter from an Unknown Woman, as well as Chinese classical and modern literary works including Lu Xun's Wandering and A Madman's Diary and Wu Jingzi's The Scholars. In terms of translators and authors, translations by Cao Guowei and Tan Jinghua appear in its foreign literature titles, and the authors involved include Dostoevsky, Kawabata Yasunari, Conan Doyle and Zweig. Its publishing character lies in introducing Chinese and foreign literary classics side by side, balancing popular and serious works and attending to both readability and literary value. Public information is limited; the above is a brief overview based solely on the books in the database.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 序言 欢迎来到NFT的世界
  3. 第一部分 NFT时代来临
  4. 第一章 NFT是什么?
  5. NFT的定义
  6. NFT的双重概念
  7. 第二章 NFT和数字所有权
  8. 稀缺性与丰度
  9. 数字所有权的巨大变革带来艺术创作的技术革新
  10. 所有权与著作权
  11. 第三章 NFT与区块链
  12. NFT与智能合约
  13. 被储存在哪里了?
  14. 第四章 NFT与创作者经济时代的开幕
  15. 给予创作者力量!
  16. 第五章 NFT的发展史
  17. 2012—2013:NFT的胎动,彩色币
  18. 2014—2016:Counterparty,悲伤蛙,货币化的图像
  19. 2017:终于为世人所知
  20. 2018—2019:急速发展时期
  21. 2020年至今:处在话题中心的NFT
  22. 第六章 为什么现在是NFT时代?
  23. 财富效应
  24. 独特的故事
  25. 非面对面环境
  26. 顾虑与期待中的NFT的未来
  27. NFT的特征整理
  28. 专栏 直到不可替代代币变得不可替代的那天
  29. 第二部分 形成NFT新经济的各种产业
  30. 第一章 美术
  31. 跃升为新艺术类型的加密艺术
  32. NFT与艺术的结合
  33. 美术作品与观众见面的新形式
  34. 第二章 音乐
  35. 艺术家们得到合理的报酬了吗?
  36. 3LAU创新性的尝试
  37. 打破音乐人与粉丝的界限
  38. 第三章 藏品
  39. 主导市场的NFT藏品
  40. 体育领域的人气藏品
  41. 第四章 游戏道具
  42. 免费游玩游戏模式
  43. 边玩边赚游戏模式
  44. 第五章 数字不动产
  45. 具有代表性的NFT数字不动产软件Decentraland
  46. 经济崩塌的元宇宙世界与现实世界
  47. 韩国的情况如何?
  48. 专栏 元宇宙中NFT的文化融合现象
  49. 第三部分 关于NFT制作的一切
  50. 第一章 NFT市场份额比较
  51. 用户制作的NFT市场份额
  52. 非用户制作的NFT市场份额
  53. 元宇宙NFT市场
  54. 第二章 亲自铸造NFT
  55. 第三章 NFT制作成功案例
  56. 实力派平面设计师
  57. Pak:NFT×动漫艺术品
  58. 3LAU:NFT×音乐
  59. 加密朋克与Meebits:NFT×收藏品
  60. 加密猫与Axie Infinity:NFT×游戏×藏品
  61. Art Blocks,EulerBeats,Alethea AI:NFT×算法艺术
  62. Hashmasks:NFT×社群×收藏家
  63. 第四部分 通过名人采访评价NFT的价值
  64. 第一章 评价NFT价值的关键词:思维方式,故事性,稀缺性
  65. 三个关键词
  66. 收藏家的估值框架
  67. 第二章 独家访谈系列1:NFT创作者们
  68. 采访:Hackatao
  69. 采访:卡洛斯·马西亚尔
  70. 采访:不详先生
  71. 采访:夏允
  72. 第三章 独家访谈系列2:NFT收藏家们
  73. 采访:illestrater
  74. 采访:文永勋
  75. 采访:Coldie
  76. 第五部分 NFT市场的现状与未来
  77. 第一章 NFT带来的市场机遇
  78. 实际主体拥有控制权
  79. 创作者的权限将得到提升
  80. 可进行去中心化交易
  81. 第二章 NFT的薄弱点及市场风险
  82. 伴随着NFT市场的风险:环境问题与法律争议
  83. 专栏 NFT相关法律争议的问答
  84. 第三章 代币以及社群代币
  85. 社群代币
  86. 第四章 代币经济时代
  87. DAO
  88. 向着代币经济航行

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What is the background of author Cheng Sora?
Cheng Sora (성소라) is a Korean scholar and writer whose research interests span technology and society, digital culture, and futures studies. She is known for interpreting cutting-edge technological phenomena from humanities and social science perspectives and has a certain profile in Korean media and related fields.
Is this book about investing?
No. The book is not an investment guide. It primarily offers an in-depth analysis of the logic, significance, and potential transformations behind the NFT (non-fungible token) phenomenon from social, cultural, economic, and art-historical perspectives, making it a work of trend analysis and humanistic interpretation.

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