Before NFTs: Surging interest in pre-CryptoPunk collectibles

Let’s step into our time machine for a moment and travel back to the year 2015. It’s September. The price of Bitcoin is $236. Ethereum’s genesis block isn’t even two months old. Smart contracts, as they’ll exist in the future, are naught but a dream. And Shaban Shaame, blockchain pioneer and CEO of software company EverdreamSoft, has just launched a token sale for the first-ever blockchain-based mobile game, Spells of Genesis.

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