2021’s NFT Boom Pushes Collectors Toward Rare and Older Collections
In 2021, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have been extremely popular and have become a billion-dollar industry this year. There’s been a number of NFT marketplaces and collections that have seen a massive number of sales and individual digital collectibles have sold for millions. The NFT hype has also caused significant demand for some of the earliest known NFT collections like Spells of Genesis cards, Curio cards, Bitcorn, Rare Pepe trading cards, and even Fake Rares. Older Non-Fungible Token Collections See Fresh Demand Old non-fungible token (NFT) collections are seeing....
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