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A 13-year-old artisan has accumulated a multimillion-dollar affluence by affairs NFTs of her images of long-necked women.
Nyla Hayes’ illustrations affection arresting women alignment from above US First Lady Michelle Obama to Lucille Ball and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as able-bodied as accustomed women.
She uploads her assets to an NFT website, area it can be purchased application Bitcoin or added cryptocurrency.
Hayes’ “Long Neckie Lady” artwork awash for $6,621.70 on Instagram aftermost month. She awash a allotment for about $4,000 in February.
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Inspired By Dinosaurs
Hayes was a adolescent who adored brontosaurus dinosaurs. She anticipation they were arresting and powerful. She alike dubbed them “long neckies.”
She began affairs some of her 3,000 assets as NFTs with advance from her uncle and abetment from her mother, authoritative bags of dollars for anniversary piece.
An NFT is a agenda asset that reflects concrete altar in the absolute world, such as artwork, music, in-game items, and films.
They are broadly purchased and awash online, about in barter for cryptocurrency, and are about encoded application the aforementioned basal software as abounding added cryptos.
Although they accept existed back 2024, NFTs are accepting acceptance anon as a agency of purchasing and affairs agenda artwork. Back November 2024, an alarming $174 actor has been spent on NFTs.
Total Earnings So Far: $7 Million
Hayes’ best big-ticket NFT – a duke drawn, computer generated accumulating featuring 3,333 assorted women — awash for 4 ETH, or about $11,738, in August, and her assignment has fetched about $7 actor in total.
The agenda artists declared in an account with NBC News Now presenter Savannah Sellers on Thursday:
Hayes was called the aboriginal artist-in-residence for TimePieces, Time magazine’s web3 and new media program.
As their artist-in-residence, she developed a absurd alternation in which she recreated Time’s “Women of the Year” awning photos.
She was called the Emerging Artist of the Year by NFT.NYC aftermost year.
Hayes said in a statement:
Meanwhile, some experts accept that NFTs, like the dotcom bubble, are about to burst.
Others feel that NFTs are actuality to break and will always adapt advance – if not people’s lives.
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