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# Who are the Players?

**What’s the point of NFTs?**

That really depends on whether you’re an artist or a buyer.

**I’m an artist.**

Artists might be interested in NFTs because it gives you a way to sell work that there otherwise might not be much of a market for. If you come up with a really cool digital sticker idea, what are you going to do? Sell it on the iMessage App Store? No way.

Also, some NFT marketplaces have a feature where you can make sure you get paid a percentage every time [your NFT is sold or changes hands](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/nft-art-boom-is-the-same-concept-as-the-photography-market?sref=M8H6LjUF). That makes sure that if your work gets super popular and balloons in value, you’ll see some of that benefit.

**I’m a buyer.**

One of the obvious benefits of buying art is it lets you financially support artists you like, and that’s true with NFTs (which are way trendier than, like, Telegram stickers). Buying an NFT also usually gets you some basic usage rights, like being able to post the image online or set it as your profile picture. Plus, of course, there are bragging rights that you own the art, with a blockchain entry to back it up.

**No, I meant I’m a *****collector*****.**

Ah, okay, yes. NFTs can work [like any other speculative asset](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/nft-art-boom-is-the-same-concept-as-the-photography-market?sref=M8H6LjUF), where you buy it and hope that the value of it goes up one day, so you can sell it for a profit. 

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1\) [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/22310188/nft-explainer-what-is-blockchain-crypto-art-faq). NFTs, explained. By [Mitchell Clark](https://www.theverge.com/authors/mitchell-clark) . Updated Jun 6, 2022, 8:30am EDT

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