The first annual NFT.NYC NFT Awards was held on November 2, 2021 in the Edison Main Ballroom, an elegant private event space in the heart of Times Square, New York City. NFT.NYC Hosted the “NFT awards” ceremony in partnership with NFT.Kred, OpenSea, ClubRare and Topps NFTs.
WABC-TV’s broadcast journalist “Sade Baderinwa” hosted the First ever Annual NFT.NYC Awards. The award nominations saw an overwhelming response with over 3K nominations received for 30+ award categories. NFT.NYC 2021 “NFT Awards” Nominations were closed by Thursday, September 30th at 5 pm ET and the results were announced on November 2, 2021.
Since the first NFT.NYC event successfully gathered creators and projects across worldwide NFT community in 2019, it is considered as one of the biggest event for non-fungible tokens. After cancellation of the 2020 event, NFT.NYC 2021 kicked off on the “Ruby Red Steps” in Times Square, NYC on November the 2nd and created a lot of buzz.
Event
NFT.NYC 2021
Date
2 November 2021
Total Venues
5
NFTNYC AwardsVenue
Edison Ballroom, 240 W 47th Street New York, NY 10036
The the first ever NFT.NYC’s NFT Awards 2021 were open to all organizations and individuals involved in producing any type of project entailing NFTs. The following 9 NFTNYC Award categories winners were determined by data provided by NFTNYC partner “OpenSea”, an online marketplace for non-fungible tokens:
NFTNYC Award Category
Winner 2021
Top Collectible
Bored Ape Yacht Club
Top Collections: Virtual Worlds
The SandBox
Top Collections: Music
EulerBeats Genesis
Top Collections: Collectibles
Bore Ape Yacht Club
Top Collections: Art
Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs
Most total volume by an artist
Tyler Hobbs
Most no. of secondary trades on an NFT (single item)
Road Less Traveled by Zed Run
Most no. of secondary trades on a collection
Parallel Alpha
Most no. of Auction Extensions on an NFT
Reddit CryptoSnoos
Community-nominated award were awarded by public voting under the umbrella of following categories of Art/Music/Fashion (11 Award Categories), MarketPlaces (4 Award Categories), Gaming & Collectibles (4 Award Categories), Identity & Social (3 Award Categories) and Fintech (1 Award).
Mike Winkelmann aka Beeple (Twitter-@beeple) won the best NFT Artist award category in the first ever NFT.NYC awards. In 2021, Beeples NFTs, namely: Everydays: the first 5000 days, Human One, Crossroad and Ocean Front, made into the list of Top 20 most expensive NFTs ever sold.
Other nominees were 19 year old artist Victor Langlois aka FEWOCiOUS (Twitter-@fewocious), Lima, Peru based Illustrator Nathaniel Rueda (Twitter-@_el_mute_) and Chicago based cryptoartist Josie Bellini (Twitter-@josiebellini).
Nominations
Community Vote (1.5K Total)
Beeple
42.7% (Winner )
FEWOCiOUS
33%
Mute
19.2%
Josie Bellini
5.1%
NFTNYC 2021 Awards- Best Emerging NFT Artist Category
This was a community-nominated award category at NFTNYC 2021, which is awarded to an NFT artist for less than a year. This year 4 emerging digital artist were nominated for this award, namely: Nyla Hayes(Twitter-@NylaCollection), Kristina(Twitter-@KrisK_NFT), Yam Karkai(Twitter-@YKarkai) and Ed Dinzole(Twitter-@EDinzole).
Nyla Hayes of “Nyla Collection” won the award with a whooping 77.4% vote. Nyla is a12 year old NFT digital artist, who made history as as the first-ever Artist-in-Residence for “TIMEPieces”, TIME magazine’s web3 community initiative. She created the “Long Neckie art” at the age of 9 and in October 2021 sold her first “Long Neckie NFT Collection” for 960 ETH. (about $3.4 million at the time of sale).
Other Nominees: Yam Karkai is a freelance digital illustrator & the Founder & Artist of @worldofwomennft, Kristina is a digital artist popular as the Creator of Bull Market Girlfriends (@bullgirlfriends) NFT collectibles and Ed Dinzole is an American animator, illustrator & lead artist on multiple successful NFT campaigns.
Nominations
Community Vote (20K Total)
Nyla Collection
77.4% (Winner )
KrisK
11.2%
Yam Karkai
6.3%
Ed Dinzole
5.1%
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best Non Digital NFT Artist Category
Nominations
Community Vote (1.1K Total)
thr33som3s
51.8% (Winner)
Sanjay Sicko
21.6%
Josie Bellini
15%
Marguerite DeCourcelle
11.6%
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best Digital NFT Artist Category
Nominations
Community Vote (68.4K Total)
Micha Klein
55.9% (Winner)
FVCKRENDER
43.3%
Yam Karkai
0.4%
Kevin Abosch
0.3%
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best Traditional Artist turned NFT Artist Category
Nominations
Community Vote (1.8K Total)
Dario De Siena
40.9% (Winner)
Felix Schlater
23.7%
Kenny Schachter
23%
J.J. Weinberg
12.3%
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best NFT Project for Creators Category
Nominations
Community Vote (1.1K Total)
Art Blocks
54.1% (Winner )
Async Art
22.2%
VerticalCryptoArt
22.2%
Valuables by Cent
1.5%
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best use of NFTs for the Music Industry Category
Nominations
Community Vote (3K Total)
Spottie Wifi
52.9% (Winner )
RCRDSHP
36.2%
Yellow Heart
5.7%
Lil’ Boomies
5.1%
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best Fashion NFT Project Category
Nominations
Community Vote (4.3K Total)
RTFKT Studios
76.2% (Winner )
Gucci
10.7%
Rare Shoe
8.3%
DIGITALAX
4.9%
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best Written Coverage of NFTs Category
Nominations
Community Vote (5K Total)
Andrew Wang
46.2% (Winner)
NFT Now
44.2%
Micah Ray Skidrowcrypto
5.9%
NFTs.tips
3.7%
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best use of AI for Digital art Category
Nominations
Community Vote (12.5K Total)
Botto
48.8% (Winner)
Obvious
27.7%
Alethea AI
21.3%
Pinder Van Arman
2.3%
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best use of emerging Tech for Digital art Category
Nominations
Community Vote (5.3K Total)
Pastel Network
50.8% (Winner)
Alethea AI
34.8%
Art Blocks
13.2%
iLLust Space
1.1%
Marketplaces
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best NFT Marketplace Category
Nominations
Community Vote (42.4K Total)
Hic Et Nunc
44.7% (Winner)
OpenSea
36.1%
Nifty Gateway
17.8%
Rarible
1.4%
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best NFT Display Category
Nominations
Community Vote (1.2K Total)
Infinite Objects
41.7% (Winner)
Lago
36.6%
TokenFrame
14.6%
BlackDove
7.2%
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best Blockchain for NFTs Category
Nominations
Community Vote (50K Total)
Polygon
47.9% (Winner )
Tezos
43.7%
Ethereum
7.1%
Solana
1.3%
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best Whitelabel marketplace creation platform Category
Origin Protocol (Twitter-@OriginProtocol) won the 2021 NFTNYC award in the “Best Whitelabel marketplace creation platform” category. Co-founded by Josh Fraser and Matthew Liu, Origin Protocol is an Ethereum-powered platform that aims to bring NFTs and DeFi to the masses.
Nominations
Community Vote (3.5K Total)
Origin Protocol
56.9% (Winner )
Unique Network
39.4%
Bitski
2.6%
NFT.Kred
1.1%
Gaming & Collectibles
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best Gaming Community Category
Nominations
Community Vote (9.6K Total)
Axie Infinity
62.7% (Winner )
Zed Run
20%
Splinterlands
9.9%
Gods Unchained
6.8%
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best Blockchain Gaming Company Category
Nominations
Community Vote (26K Total)
Sky Mavis
51.4% (Winner )
Xaya
25.8%
Animoca Brands
12.5%
Zed Run
10.3%
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best Play to earn Mechanics Category
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best Use of NFTs by a Consumer Brand Category
Nominations
Community Vote (5.2K Total)
NBA Top Shot
67.2% (Winner )
Budweiser
25.3%
Coca-Cola
4.4%
EDC Las Vegas
3.1%
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Most Innovative NFT Project Category
Nominations
Community Vote (9.9K Total)
VeeFriends
39% (Winner)
Bored Ape Yacht Club
32.1%
World of Women
16.8%
On1 Force
12.1%
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Best Use of NFTs for Digital Identity Category
Nominations
Community Vote (4.4K Total)
ENS Domains
59.3% (Winner)
Unstoppable Domains
32.8%
FIO Protocol
5.8%
3Box
2.1%
Fintech
NFTNYC 2021 Awards – Most expert handling of the law & NFTs Category
Nominations
Community Vote (1.5K Total)
Dave Rodman
77.8% (Winner)
Ian Daily
10%
Bull Blockchain Law
6.8%
Murphy & McGonigle
5.4%
Hope you like the coverage of the first ever NFTNYC NFT awards of 2021. Please visit us back for the 2022 edition of NFT.NYC, scheduled for June 20-23, 2022. Early registration for the event is already open and Nominations for the 2022 NFT Awards will open soon.
