Regardless of my feelings about nfts & crypto, the claim that this is the "first crypto toy" is total bs, crypto kaiju has existed for years. I've even spoken to the guy that started it. Source: almost 4 years ago

It's actually been done for a while now. I personally don't think it's that great of an idea, the vinyl toy reselling market is extremely volatile, vulnerable to exploitation, and outside of a few tend to lose value really quickly, combining that with cryptocurrencies which are also extremely volatile, vulnerable to exploitation, and outside of a few tend to lose value really quickly doesn't really help either... Source: about 4 years ago

Not the first to do it though, check http://cryptokaiju.io/. We've been doing this for 2.5 years. Source: about 4 years ago

Usually it has been a form of tokenization using physical sensors that would provide some unique id to the object that's also replicated on the blockchain to prove ownership like these things. https://cryptokaiju.io/. Source: about 4 years ago

Tokenization of real assets is possible and here is an example https://cryptokaiju.io/. Source: about 4 years ago

There are some awesome APIs that index/aggregate on-chain data across multiple chains that you can use too. I would generally recommend these over the exchange APIs.https://glacier-api.avax.network/apihttps://thegraph.com/en/https://docs.alchemy.com/reference/api-overview. Source: about 2 years ago

Forecasting GRT/USD (graph token to go up to between $0.30 and $0.55. https://thegraph.com/en/. Source: over 2 years ago

When it comes to indexing solutions, you can use The Graph; a decentralized solution, and again use Nader's resources to learn how to get started:. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

Alternatively if you do want to go the third party data route, there are a number of saas type offerings on the market - thegraph was once pretty popular (https://thegraph.com/en/) they provide a graphql interface for querying data. Source: over 2 years ago

This is by no means an exhaustive list, just a smattering of some of the bigger projects doing neat things. The graph protocol - decentralized blockchain indexing feeding a network of graphQL servers hosting the data powering dapps https://thegraph.com/en/ Chainlink - decentralized on-chain oracles for basically any piece of data from the real world - https://chain.link/ MakerDAO - creator of the first “soft... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago