In the rapidly evolving universe of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), women are emerging as forces to be reckoned with. While the initial perception might suggest a male-dominated arena, a closer look reveals a thriving community of female artists, creators,and entrepreneurs who are reshaping the NFT landscape. In this article, we'll introduce you to the inspiring stories and groundbreaking projects of women who are not only dominating the NFT market but are also challenging the status quo, proving that NFTs are for everyone.
World of Women
An absolute standout in the otherwise “crypto bro” space of NFT’s is the World of Women collection, which has grown into one of the community’s greatest success stories. The project that started out with 10.000 drawn profile pictures of women sold more than 40 million dollars in the first two weeks of 2022. A month later Acadamy Award winning actress Reese Witherspoon announced that her production company, Hello Sunshine, would team-up with WoW to expand this project into multi-media universe including feature films and a tv series. Artist Yam Karkai drew 200 visual assets that comprise the collection by hand, using her art to empower women, depicting them in eye-catching, vibrant colors. The total value of the project is worth more than a 123 million dollars.
Bored Ape Yacht Club
One of the most famous and most valuable NFT collections, the legendary Bored Ape Yacht Club that brought NFT’s to the mainstream, had its first, primary characters created and drawn by All Seeing Seneca, an Asian-American artist based in New York. She is the lead designer behind the original part and created some of the main traits of the famous collection like the body, the popping eyes and the grinning mouth. It was her art that formed the basis of this endeavor that became a project worth over 4 billion dollars and she isn’t done yet. Her latest body of work, called Portraiture of Seneca, spans three animated works that have been minted as Ethereum NFT’s.
A woman can be anything she wants
Is the motto of the Boss Beauties NFT collection consisting of 10.000 strong and independent women depicted in various professions such as surgeon, chef and pilot. Artist Lisa Mayer’s goal for the project is to inspire and empower the next generation of women and girls. She asked the Boss Beauties’ community of Gen Z change-makers to imagine this collection of digital portraits and it sold out in under and hour, reaching a combined worth of more than 46 million dollars.
Women Rise
Following the same credo as the Boss Beauties collection, this work, also consisting of 10.000 unique, hand-drawn pieces of art, presents women as scientists, activists, coders, artists and more. Maliha Z, the 27 year old behind the project, likes to focus on social justice, women’s rights, trans rights, gender equality and girls education. This NFT collection reached a worth of more than 15 million dollars.
Women and Weapons
The collection also known as WAW, created by artist Sara Baumann, AKA Sparky, is comprised of 10.000 hand-drawn pieces depicting diverse, bad-ass women, set in the mid-20th century, carrying weapons such as nunchucks, daggers and throwing stars, contrasting them in a time when women were not seen as powerful. It was immediately sold out on the day it was launched and a 100.000 dollars, 5 percent of the collection's profits, were donated to the Malala fund, founded by Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, with the important goal to ensure girls can go to school and lead, without fear of persecution.
Nyla Hayes
Proving that you’re never too young to get into the very creative world of NFT’s, this 13 year old became a multi-millionaire in a year’s time, when she decided to sell her art online. Her Long Neckie collection, featuring diverse women drawn with long necks, inspired by her favorite dinosaur the Brontosaurus, is worth 3.9 million dollars in digital currency. So impressed by Nyla’s work, TimeMagazine made her the first artist-in-residence for their NFT collection TIMEPieces.
Girlies
And Nyla is not the only young NFT artist. The 14 year old Valeria decided to make an NFT collection together with her dad, after he told her about an article he read that there are not a lot of women artists in the world of NFT’s. While he does the technical side, she makes the art, and with success, as the young artist was able to donate 30.000 dollars to the Malala fund.
Red Hong Yi
A notable name in the art scene and one of the first artists to start working with NFT’s. The artist from Malaysia uses ordinary materials such as matchsticks, eggshells and teabags to create portraits, even at one time using 7 kilos of sunflower seeds to portray Chinese artist Ai Weiwei or making the portrait of a tiger using 5 types of tea leaves. Her NFT projects include “Memebank”, where she designed banknotes as a commentary on inflation, and “Doge to the Moon”, which sold for 36,3 ETH.
Vissyarts
Also from the beautiful country of Malaysia, the artist Visithra uses a lot of eastern symbolism in her work, expressing a strong feminist message. She gained quite a following, among which she can include Reese Witherspoon, Snoop Dogg and Jimmy Fallon. Her NFT art sold for more than 103 ETH or a 167.000 dollars at the time of writing.
Alpha Girl Club
The sold-out Alpha Girl Club (also known as AGC) is an NFT art collection of 10.000 pieces depicting eye-catching Alpha Girls in vibrant colors. The philosophy of the collection is that NFT’s should also be experienced in the real world. To ensure this the project also offers IRL experiences, events and airdrops for any AGC holders. One of the coolest perks is that members of the community also gain access to a mental health app run by the Alpha Girl Club team. To emphasize the importance of women working together, they also collaborated with Women and Weapons to grow their communities, increase engagement and give members a chance to win free NFT mints.
Rebel Society
This limited edition NFT collection of 7000 hand-drawn female characters are a celebration of strong, independent and rebellious women. The main initiative of the project is to help other female artists bring their creativity to the blockchain, by helping them, among other things, to get the necessary funds to start an NFT collection.
8SIAN
Founded by Nicole Yap, who wanted to represent women and Asia in the NFT space, depicting the diverse cultures of the Asian continent, with women wearing the different heritage clothing styles. Some notable collectors of 8SIAN NFT’s include DJ Steve Aoki and businessman Matt Higgins (known from Shark Tank).
The Flower Girls
10.000 unique flower girls generated from over 950 hand-drawn traits designed by the award-winning illustrator Varvara Alay and minted on the Ethereum blockchain. The NFT’s are selling for around 1700 dollars per and 20 percent of the profits will be donated to a range of children’s charities with an additional 5 percent used to buy NFT’s created by children.
Uwucrew
Ara Ara! What weebs and otakus already know and normies are slowly starting to figure out is that anime and manga are just the best. The three ladies at Uwulabs have made an NFT collection in the kawaii (normie translation: cute)Japanese style; drawn by Uwucrew’s artist Laur, while Kiwi and Morello take care of the technical side and the community. And with success as the collection has reached a height of more than 11 million dollars. Yoshi!
Kumox World residents
Staying with the theme of kawaii… cute, this collection consisting of exactly 6.666“residents” created with more than 500 traits. Made by Nikki Wong, these NFT’s can also be obtained by playing a game where you will have to work in a team to solve challenges, and it’s worth to play it, because the collection’s known to have reached a worth of more than 8 million dollars.
Remarkable Women
Welcome to the world of Rachel Winter’s Remarkable Women NFT collection, featuring a diverse group of women and inspiring words in 15 different languages, inspired by fashion and feminism. 10 percent of the profits will go a fund for women’s equality. The collection that is completely sold out for buyers who want to be there just after the mint, has a combined trade value of around 112 ETH as of the time of this writing.
Conclusion
Thanks to these trailblazers, who are changing the world of NFT’s forever, women are setting a new standard and showing the world that it’s no longer up to cryptobro’s, as we are seeing more and more talented female artists andentrepreneurs.
