MANILA – Non-fungible tokens or NFTs could provide Filipino artists with a new tool to create, store and sell art wherever they are in the country, stakeholders and enthusiasts said on Wednesday.
NFTs art allows artists to create digital copies of their masterpieces which are essentially one of a kind. NFT art can be bought and tracked through the internet using blockchain technology.
Filipinos who are into NFT art want more local artists to leverage on the technology.
Yield Guild Games country manager and NFT artist Luis Bueneventura benefitted from the new marketplace by being included in the world’s first ever NFT art collection on the Ethereum blockchain.
Bueneventura established Crypto Pop Art Guild, or the acronym is CPAG to help underprivileged Filipino artists. CPAG holds art workshops to help artists improve their craft and connects members with job opportunities to participate in the NFT landscape.
“So the idea here is we are teaching these underprivileged Filipino artists how to break in to the NFT art world,” he said.
Bueneventura said there are talented Filipinos in rural parts of the country that are earning up to $400 (P20,000) per month from NFT art.
“The idea is you can open up opportunities to them that have nothing to do with geography, or background,” he said.
The group, he said, currently has over 200 members.
Aside from the underprivileged, even kids could benefit from NFTs, Satoshi Citadel Industries co-founder and chief community officer Miguel Cuneta said.
Cuneta said 9-year olf Sevi Agregado, who was diagnosed with autism is paying for his therapy using funds he earned from NFT versions of his artworks.
“They gave it a try basically, they wanted to create NFTs out of his artwork, and see what the market thought of it, and used the…
