Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 9: AI Era (2010s)

2015

Etheria Is First Ethereum NFT

Invention

A render of the Etheria world -- the hexagonal virtual land tiles, in grass, sand, water and ice, that were sold as the first Ethereum NFTs in 2015 -- taken from the project's own website.
A render of the Etheria world -- the hexagonal virtual land tiles, in grass, sand, water and ice, that were sold as the first Ethereum NFTs in 2015 -- taken from the project's own website. Etheria, 2015. Map render from the project's own site, etheria.world.

Released shortly after Ethereum’s mainnet launch, Etheria, the first Ethereum NFTs, consisted of a plot of virtual land. While several years before NFTs became popular, Etheria was quite modestly known until the crypto bull run of 2021. While not properly art itself, these were important pre-conditions for the upcoming art on Ethereum, beginning two years later with Curio Cards and CryptoPunks in 2017.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

Movements

Blockchain Art, Ethereum Art, NFT Art

Filed under

Ideas
Blockchain Art, digital property, Ethereum Art, market, NFT Art, Proto-Metaverse
Technologies
blockchain, Ethereum, NFTs
Works
CryptoPunks, Etheria

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