NFT

abbreviation

1. non-fungible token:

   1. a digital asset associated with an item of value that can be bought or sold, usually a unique piece of content on the internet, as an image, video, or audio file.

   2. such a unique piece of content on the internet.

NFT

abbreviation

1. National Film Theatre

Word History and Origins

Origin of NFT¹

First recorded in 2015–2020

Example Sentences

“I never would have done ‘The Masked Singer,’ never would have met my buddies in crypto and NFT.”

From Los Angeles Times

What’s supposed to happen after the theft is hazy to him — something NFT, something crypto — but he’s desperate.

From Los Angeles Times

The video was sold as a non-fungible token, or NFT, for £500,000 in 2021.

From BBC

A lot of people, many of them young and male, got caught up in buying and selling apes from Bored Ape Yacht Club or Pudgy Penguins, to name two popular NFT collections featuring cartoonlike, computer-generated artworks.

From New York Times

Collectors spent $230 million on NFTs of NBA video highlights; one person bid $560,000 to win an NFT of a New York Times reporter’s column about NFTs.

From New York Times