NFTs, the great revolution in digital collecting that already generates more income than traditional art

From some prototypes that Mariscal designed in the early 1980s, the Barcelona Olympic Games mascot Cobi was born, a creative process that the artist has recovered and transformed into digital format for your next NFT collection.

The objective, according to Mariscal, is “that many people with very little money can have something original“. He has been creating his designs digitally since 1983, so when people asked him for a signed original he had to tell them “it couldn’t be”, since it was inside the computer.

Now, 30 years later, he can sell his originals thanks to digital art platforms. For this, the NFTfor its acronym ‘non-fungible token’, which are the certificates that ensure ownership of a digital work.

The difficulty when buying them is that to do so “you need to have a cryptocurrency wallet“, as explained by Carlos Iglesias, CEO of ‘Runroom’, who states that this is the reason why “those who are buying NFTs are people with high technological comfort“.

Democratization of NFTs

Democratizing NFTs has been the challenge of ‘Leofy.io’, a startup from Barcelona, ​​which will launch in April the world’s first platformor where they can be bought NFT with credit card.

“Our idea is to democratize them and, in this way, it will be like buying a sweater”, assures Arnau Torné, co-founder of ‘Leofy.io’. In their catalog, they have illustrators such as Mariscal, international music artists and writers, among others, who are and to the great revolution of digital collecting.In 2021, NFTs generated more than 55,000 million dollars, 11% more than traditional art.