NFT Mania Is Real — Here’s How You Can Get Involved Today

A guide to how you could, not whether you should

Toby Hazlewood
Level Up Coding
Published in
11 min readSep 3, 2021

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It’s not often that you can claim to have beaten Gary Vaynerchuk in recognizing the potential of a marketplace — but in the case of NFTs I like to think I got here first.

He’s making up for lost time now. Through his VeeFriends NFT project Gary Vee has added his own inimitable endorsement that it’s a space that we should be taking notice of.

His endorsement is the latest in a long list of events during 2021 that suggest that the market for NFTs is in the midst of a mania, with enormous potential for artists, creators and investors alike.

Reuters reported that NFT sales surged to $2.5 Billion in the first half of 2021. Throughout this year the media has been filled with stories of high profile, high value sales of NFTs, and reports of celebrities, media figures and high profile investors who’ve jumped onto the NFT bandwagon.

Most recently NBA star Steph Curry joined the ranks of celebrities who have invested in NFTs in late August, spending around $180k on a Bored Ape NFT:

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