Non-Fungible Tokens: Might Learning About Them Be Necessary?

Abstract

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), as a variant of tokens making up the blockchain, are recently gaining attention with different opportunities for the real and virtual assets and with potential use cases in decentralized markets, arts, gaming and education. This paper gives an overview of the NFT concept and its uses and presents the results of the survey conducted in Croatia in 2021 with the goal of gaining insight into familiarity of respondents with the concepts of the blockchain and NFTs. The results of the survey, especially when compared to publicly available results of an international survey from 2020, indicate that educative efforts might be needed in Croatia towards increasing knowledge about NFTs taking into account their wide potential areas of application.