--- title: NFTs Explained Quick: From Zero to Hero | daily.dev description: NFTs are digital collectibles that facilitate a modern way for users to buy art, or in other words: things you can own on the internet. NFT stands for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/nfts-explained-quick-from-zero-to-hero-mbixrwt4t twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: NFTs Explained Quick: From Zero to Hero | daily.dev og:description: NFTs are digital collectibles that facilitate a modern way for users to buy art, or in other words: things you can own on the internet. NFT stands for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/nfts-explained-quick-from-zero-to-hero-mbixrwt4t og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mbIxRwT4t.png og:image:alt: NFTs Explained Quick: From Zero to Hero og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # NFTs Explained Quick: From Zero to Hero **[Mercari Engineering](https://daily.dev/sources/mercari)** · 10 min read · 14 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary NFTs are digital collectibles that facilitate a modern way for users to buy art, or in other words: things you can own on the internet. NFT stands for [N]on-[F]ungible [T]oken. An artist creates collections of NFTs that are similar to each other and distributes them. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#nft](https://daily.dev/tags/nft) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/nfts-explained-quick-from-zero-to-hero-mbixrwt4t) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"NFTs Explained Quick: From Zero to Hero","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/nfts-explained-quick-from-zero-to-hero-mbixrwt4t","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/nfts-explained-quick-from-zero-to-hero-mbixrwt4t"},"datePublished":"2022-04-18T01:11:53.187Z","dateModified":"2022-04-28T02:12:24.492Z","description":"NFTs are digital collectibles that facilitate a modern way for users to buy art, or in other words: things you can own on the internet. NFT stands for...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/f5bbae7c8fcf144a65f9fe4509990b05","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/f5bbae7c8fcf144a65f9fe4509990b05","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Mercari Engineering","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Mercari Engineering","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/cdde515cd83640748689d74c2d938fcf","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/mercari"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/nfts-explained-quick-from-zero-to-hero-mbixrwt4t","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":14},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"nft","timeRequired":"PT10M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Mercari Engineering","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/mercari"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"NFTs Explained Quick: From Zero to Hero"}]} ```