Wikipedia is wrong. Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash are not the inventors of NFTs.

Wikipedia claims that there first known “NFT” was called Quantum, created by Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash in 2014. This is wrong.

A year before, Trent Mc Conaghy and Bruce Pon tokenized digital art on the Bitcoin network and subsequently founded their startup ascribe - a marketplace for tokenized art.

Here’s the transaction hash from November 2013 of a tokenized artwork created by Jonathan Monaghan:

First-ever Digital Art NFT?

Don’t believe it? Google ascribe and Trent McConaghy.

Both Trent and Bruce have moved on to tokenizing intellectual property and data assets through Ocean Protocol, a decentralized data exchange protocol that is integrated with Chainlink and built on Ethereum, Polkadot, Polygon as well as Energy Web Chain.