Value Creation and Capture in Decentralized Finance Markets: Non-Fungible Tokens as a Class of Digital Assets

Jan Schwiderowski; Asger Balle Pedersen; Jonas Kasper Jensen; Roman Beck

doi:10.1007/s12525-023-00658-z

Value Creation and Capture in Decentralized Finance Markets: Non-Fungible Tokens as a Class of Digital Assets

Jan Schwiderowski, Asger Balle Pedersen, Jonas Kasper Jensen, Roman Beck

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Information technology (IT) has radically changed the financial services industry, with the most recent transformation toward Fintech and decentralized finance (DeFi), driven by blockchain. Especially non-fungible token (NFT) assets within DeFi are redefining how value is created and disseminated, for instance in the art industry. However, DeFi and NFT market dynamics are not yet well understood. Using a thematic analysis based on 14 interviews with major NFT stakeholders (i.e., marketplace providers, artists, and investing collectors), we identify these NFT stakeholders’ different motivations and strategic options and explain the value creation and capture dynamics in the NFT art market resulting from their interactions. We argue for decomposing an NFT’s value into an NFT-intrinsic and an NFT-extrinsic part. Finally, we elaborate that art NFTs are not a new class of assets because many of their properties are similar to related assets such as physical art and cryptocurrencies.

Original language	English
Article number	45
Journal	Electronic Markets
Volume	33
Number of pages	16
ISSN	1019-6781
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-023-00658-z
Publication status	Published - 2023

Keywords

decentralized finance (Defi)
non-fungible tokens (NFT)
blockchain
digital assets
financial markets
value creation

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