Early blockchain collectibles
Note that each timeline contains an assets/ folder; I strive to only use the original onchain/hash-matching file for each asset, but there may be the odd exception (it will be mentioned in the “notes” column).
~99% of early Bitcoin NFTs lacked cryptographic proof linking them to the data/art they represented. This table is about the ~1%.
Before the first Ordinals inscription (14th December 2022) there was already a small batch of entirely onchain Bitcoin NFTs. Here they are.
Very few NFTs used decentralized image storage in the early days. Here are the Bitcoin NFTs that did.
Only 83 0xmons had their full GAN animations onchain before Nahiko released XOR (first neural net onchain) on the 9th August 2021, making them the earliest known onchain AI artworks.