The credit for introducing Colored Coins belongs to Yoni Assia, for his blog, titled \u201cbitcoin 2.X (aka Colored Bitcoin) \u2014 initial specs.\u201d They came into being in 2012-13 when smaller denominations of bitcoins came together as one and completely changed the way how bitcoins worked. But, one drawback of this type of cryptocurrency was that they represented certain values that were agreed upon by everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What does that mean? For instance, let\u2019s say that 500 bitcoins, were agreed upon by 5 people that they represented 500 shares of a company. It would remain valid for as long as everyone agreed on the same. If 5 million people disagreed on this thought, the entire concept is invalidated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This flawed cryptocurrency works best in a permissioned environment. It did lay a solid foundation for NFTs to gear up for potential challenges. It showed tremendous potential to put real-life assets onto distributed ledgers. The implementation of all this, however, required a flexible blockchain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2014, the trio of Robert Dermody, Adam Krellenstein, and Evan Wagner started a party (unlike the Triads) and called it Counterparty<\/strong>. It was a peer-to-peer financial platform and distributed, open-source IP (Internet Protocol) built atop the bitcoin blockchain. It majorly dealt in trading card games and memes. Counterparty predominantly allowed for asset creation and distributed exchange. It also had its own token with a ticker XCP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A year later, the actual Game began, when the game creators of Spells of Genesis pioneered issuing in-game assets onto a blockchain via Counterparty. Whoa! I wonder that\u2019s how Ralph Broke The Internet. They started the whole ICO (Initial Coin Offering) thing – a cryptocurrency equivalent to IPOs that we have in the real world. They referred ICOs as crowdfunding. Can you believe that? Their in-game cryptocurrency had a better fancy name \u2013 BitCrystals which was launched by Spells of Genesis funded development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A year later on, more trading cards on Counterparty… As if it was never going to stop them! They teamed up with Force of Will \u2013 a large & popular mainstream trading card game company with zero experience in blockchain or cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The same year, Counterparty invited \u201cRare Pepes\u201d to the party. You know? The frog that looks, kind of stoned? With its eyes wide open?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source:<\/strong> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pepe_the_Frog<\/p>\n\n\n\n The following for these memes is immense. Speak about Meme Experts, there are professionals who analyze the rareness of the Pepe memes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Quickly, these Rare Pepes were traded on yet another prominent platform \u2013 Ethereum from 2017. A decentralized marketplace for memes called \u201cPeperium\u201d was announced as a project to counter the Counterparty (pun, intended).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ethereum soon became yet another platform for NFTs to take new avatars. This time, it took the form of Cryptopunks \u2013 the brainchild of creative mavericks John Watkinson & Matt Hall. All 10,000 Cryptopunks that they uniquely designed got traded like hot cross buns. And, who doesn\u2019t love cats?<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.3dotsdesign.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pepe-the-Frog.png\")
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