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‘We'll be worth £76m next year’– meet the founders of the UK's first NFT gallery
TelegraphToday, the UK’s first NFT gallery opens its doors: a full-time space dedicated to what believers promise is the future of British art. Based in Shoreditch, in east London (where else?), Quantus Gallery’s white walls are lined with screens displaying non-fungible tokens, digital certificates of ownership that have become a £30 billion industry. In lieu of the usual authenticity documents, the deeds to this virtual art is a string of code, stored on the blockchain – a decentralised platform that powers Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies....
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I Visited Europe's First NFT Art Gallery
ViceAs you can probably tell from the title, Quantus Gallery is the first permanent NFT art gallery of its kind in the UK, opening all year-round to exhibit art that has been minted on the blockchain, with an advice service on how to create, buy and sell NFTs. Of course, traditional galleries and even Christie’s auction house have dabbled in this new arena, but no other physical spaces have strictly only focused on NFTs in this way before, with an in-house advisory board and team of experts to help wealthy newbies decipher just exactly which internet picture may make them even richer. (Side note: there have already been plenty of shoppable NFT galleries in the metaverse.)
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NFT art gallery prepares to open in heart of the City
City A.M.The decision to launch a physical art gallery for NFTs follows an explosion of interest in the space last year. At the start of 2021 NFTs were known to only a handful of crypto enthusiasts. By the start of 2022, the market had exploded into a $40bn industry, rivalling the traditional art market which saw $50bn of sales in 2020.
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