Like the volatile, hype-prone digital art market it briefly celebrated, the Seattle NFT Museum sometimes struggled to be taken seriously.

Billed as the world’s first museum for NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, it opened in Seattle in 2022, when the NFT market was on fire and celebrities were paying fortunes for art that lived on cryptocurrency blockchains.

When the Belltown museum quietly closed its doors last December, on the heels of the global NFT market crash, some saw a fitting bit of real-world symbolism.

“Shocking,” a typical online commenter quipped. “Literally no one saw this coming.”

The snarky obituaries may be premature.

The NFT market is down but not out. Artists, including some in Seattle, say the technology is still bringing new audiences — and revenues.

The NFT Museum it

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