Beeple made one piece of digital art a day for 10 years. He had never been directly paid for this work before. In one weekend, he auctioned it off for $3.5 million. How?

The direct answer is Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) on Nifty Gateway.

The general answer is that blockchains create digital scarcity. Naval explains.

Sources:

- Beeple on Unchained podcast
- Naval on Tim Ferris podcast
- Beeple on School of Motion podcast