Andreas Park PRO
Professor of Finance at UofT
Instructors: Andreas Park and Zissis Poulos
What is property?
History of Property
Recording of Property is a Social Convention
\(\to\) an entry in the property register
What is an NFT?
sale price: $69,000,000
Recall: token standards
What is an NFT?
Source: Christophe Spaenjers (Hec Paris) NFTs: Modern Masterpieces—Or Money For Nothing?
Some data
Latest Trend: Wash trading = Tax Loss Harvesting?
recommended reading: "Tax-Loss Harvesting with Cryptocurrencies" Will Cong et al 2022 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4033617
Why bother with NFTs?
History of Property
Why bother with an NFT?
Metaverse application
What are you buying with an NFT?
What you don't have
Here's where it's complicated
Why people were excited
Artists like:
further reading: Amy Whitaker (New York University), Fractional Equity In Art: Applications Of Blockchain
Folks in finance like
Metaverse enthusiasts like
The Future is already happening
Developments: NFTs bring in entirely new ideas to blockchain
Opportunity
Further reading: How NFTs Create Value
by Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers
https://hbr.org/2021/11/how-nfts-create-value, Nov 10, 2021
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By Andreas Park