Women are creating NFT projects that are sitting at the top of the charts and are forever shaping the web3 industry.
One 13-year-old girl launched an nft collection that has already generated over $4 million, and another popular woman-led NFT project sold more than $40 million in the first two weeks of 2022.
But, money isn't the only initiative for these women-led nft projects.
Many women NFT artists are using their nonfungible tokens to create a more diverse and inclusive space in the crypto, web3, blockchain, and NFT (non-fungible token) world.
There's an apparent gender gap between the number of men compared to the number of women in crypto. Male creators represent 77% of NFT art sales, while only 5% go to women creators.
However, the NFT industry is greatly expanding and diversifying as new female nft artists and creators release new NFT collections every day that showcase new use cases and utilities that shift the direction of NFTs.
Without question, this is only the beginning of NFTs and web.3 development.
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Now, let's dive into how these empowering women-led projects use their nft artwork collections and devoted communities to help shape the industry.
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This blog post will showcase these 11 women-led NFT projects:
11 Women-Led NFT Projects Shaping The Industry
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*Note: All rankings and data for the nft projects listed in this blog can change at any time. This data was acquired in February 2022.
1. World of Women (WoW)
The World of Women NFT project (also known as WoW) is a collection that features 10,000 unique, diverse, and powerful women avatars who take great pride in making a positive impact and helping people, especially women who are new to the nft space.
The WoW (World of Women) nft project was released on July 27th, 2021, and was created by the nft artist @YKarkai.
When the NFT project first launched the NFT artwork were all originally priced at 0.07 ETH or about $225 per NFT — now the NFTs are officially selling for hundreds of thousands.
The NFT collection has now generated more than $40 million in the first two weeks of 2022 according to a Rolling Stone article.
WoW's vision with their NFT collection is to use the art collection and nft community as a way to:
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Increase diversity and inclusivity in the nft and web3 space
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Build new and equal opportunities for anyone around the world to become an nft owner or nft creator
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Educate and onboard the next generation of creators, artists, and developers
The woman-led nft project became so popular and mainstream last year that @reeseW bought a World of Women (WoW) nft as her very first nft and proudly put her newly purchased NFT as her pfp (profile picture) on Twitter.
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And now, the insanely popular woman empowering NFT collection is going to create scripted and unscripted TV shows, live events, and featured films with Reese Witherspoon and Hellow Sunshine.
Here's how the inspirational NFT artist reacted when Reese Witherspoon tweeted about her nft artwork:
Since the launch of the trending nft project, the nft collection has gained 5.1 thousand owners and traded 51.5k eth (Ethereum) in secondary sales on the OpenSea marketplace alone (as of Feb. 9, 2022).
To calculate what 51.5k eth would be in U.S. dollars, with Ether (Ethereum) being $3,171.14 today, it would equate to $163,313,710 in volume traded to date.
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If you're wondering how much it costs to buy a WoW (World of Women) NFT today, currently World of Women NFTs are selling for around 12 Eth (Ethereum) or an average of $40,000+ per nft.
World of Women is one of the top women-led nft collections that has consistently continued to trend in the top non-fungible token collections.
In fact, the NFT collection has been trending for the last 24 hours and the last 30 days on the OpenSea marketplace homepage (the largest NFT marketplace).
Note: Any user can view the current and past activity for any nft collection listed on OpenSea for the last 7, 14, 30, 60, and 90 days, the last year, and the all-time history of the NFT.
The NFT collection is also listed 19th on the top nft charts at crypto.slam.io (where you can find current NFT data, nft rankings, sales volume, market cap, etc.), as you can see in the image below.
Here is some additional data from crypto.slam.io (broken down by each month) for World of Women (WoW) non-fungible token showing the amount of USD and ETH transacted, the amount of unique buyers, and the average sale of their NFTs.
**Please Note: All rankings and data for the nft projects listed in this blog can change at any time. This data was acquired in February 2022.
Causes WoW (World of Women) has donated to and supported:
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Donated 17.15 ETH (44k USD) to Too Young to Wed: A foundation fighting to end child marriage.
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Donated 17.15 ETH (57k) to Strange Cintia: She's been suffering from severe ME/CFS for 20 years, preventing her to live a normal life, let alone persue her artistic path so she needs our help.
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Donated 15.7717 ETH (49k) to Rockflower Fund: a charity auction won by Gary Vee was sent to the RockflowerFund which connects catalytic funding to local initiatives in emerging economies seeking to improve and elevate the lives of women and girls.
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Donated 15 ETH (48k USD) to Code To Inspire: WoW ran a charity auction for WoW #0 and all profits were sent to support Girls in Afghanistan.
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Donated 2.62 ETH (11,500 USD) for la Maison des femmes: Through our Mother Earth Muses project, we donated to support women victims of domestic abuse.
- Donated 17.15 ETH (40k USD) to She's the first: An organization that funds and supports local solutions to educate and empower girls across 26 countries.
Would you like to learn more about the World of Women (WoW) NFT or their community? If so, check out the links below:
2. Boss Beauties
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About Boss Beauties NFT Collection:
The motto and inspiration behind this trending NFT project is,
"A woman can be anything she wants."
Boss Beauties is a woman-led NFT initiative of 10,000 unique, strong, and independent women created by Lisa Mayer (who has been helping empower women for 10 years).
The mission of this NFT project is to educate and empower the next generation of women and girls.
Currently, the NFT collection is listed number 65 on the top trending charts on cryptoslam.io for the last 24 hours, with a total of $162,182 Eth ($46,602,348,972).
Boss Beauties nft has also been one of the top trending NFT collections on OpenSea and has a total of 5,400 owners and has traded 11,000 in Eth (Ethereum).
**Please Note: All rankings and data for the nft projects listed in this blog can change at any time. This data was acquired around the 8-15th of February 2022.
One of the coolest aspects of this all-women-led NFT is its history-making.
Lisa Mayer (founder of Boss Beauties) said in a publication in October 2021 that:
"Our historic feat at the NYSE is a testament to our commitment to support female education.
We hope to remind all the innovators and disruptors, who will notice our Boss Beauties portrait as they walk the halls of the NYSE that women can be everything they want."
Would you like to learn more about the #BossBeautiesnft collection or their community? If so, check out the links below:
3. WomenRise
About WomenRise NFT:
The WomenRise NFT is a collection that consists of 10,000 unique pieces of artwork based on 453 hand-drawn traits that celebrate and present women scientists, activists, artists, coders, and more.
The NFT collection was created by the 26-year-old artist, author, and activist @Maliha_z_art who has been focusing on social justice, women's rights, gender equality, and girls' education for the last nine years.
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According to the founder and artist of WomenRise NFT collection, her collection is more than an NFT and art project, it's an entire movement for women's rights and girls' education.
Maliha (WomenRise nft artist) believes that education is a basic human right and it's not always accessible or fair to have to rely on authorities, school buildings, or physical books.
However, WomenRise's ultimate goal is to build the first school in the metaverse for the 258 million children around the world who have no access to education--129 million of them are girls.
Here's a short video from her Twitter account where you can watch her hand paint one of the powerful black trans men/women in her WomenRise NFT drop and collection.
According to OpenSea, as you can see in the image below, the popular nft collection has over 5,700 owners and has traded 5.0k Eth (Ethereum) in volume to date.
With Eth currently at the price of $3,111.19 (click to see the current price of ETH), that would equate to $15,555,950 USD made so far.
Check out the floor price for @womenriseNFT and how the nft collection grew in just seven days.
The extremely popular and successful WomenRise NFT project is also trending on the homepage of Rarible where it shows the NFT collection has topped 6 million in sales!
**Please Note: All rankings and data for the nft projects listed in this blog can change at any time. This data was acquired in the month of February 2022.
Also, since the launch of the trending NFT collection, she has built a very tight community who can see themselves in her artwork as you can see in the tweet below.
Here are a few shares from the WomenRise community members on Twitter for one of the WomenRise challenges in their community.
Here are three examples from a popular thread on Twitter from the WomenRise Twitter community:
Example #1:
Example #2: Her NFT inspired her to finish a poem she started four years ago.
Example #3: where one strong woman is rising for victims of domestic violence
Over the course of the nft collection's journey, it became so popular and mainstream that celebrities and entrepreneurs like @reesew and @garyvee even bought in on the NFT project and minted the max amount of NFTs allowed.
You can see below how the founder and artist of WomenRise reacted on Twitter:
The creative NFT artist and founder of WomenRise NFT, Maliha has been featured in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Good Morning America, The New York Times, The Guardian, and many more.
Would you like to learn more about the #WomenRiseNFT project or their community? If so, check out the links below:
4. Women and Weapons (WAW)
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About the Women and Weapons (WAW) NFT Collection:
The Women and Weapons NFT project, also known as "WAW" is a collection of 10,000 hand-drawn art pieces of diverse, badass, and beautiful women inspired by women who lived during the mid-20th century when women were not viewed as powerful.
The artwork in the WAW nft collection includes over 200+ special attributes created by the talented artist Sara Baumann.
She is also known as "Sparky" who pursued her career as a full-time Occupational Therapist, working in the hospital system, while she selling her NFT art on the side.
The bold NFT project was launched back in October 2021 and the initial art collection of 10,000 pieces sold out on launch day!
**Check out this interview about the NFT artist on Medium.
The NFTs (non-fungible tokens) were intentionally equipped with weapons like daggers, brass knuckles, and nunchucks to help showcase and bring more power to women in an era where they were viewed as less powerful.
One of the most interesting and cool aspects of the symbolism of the weapons included in the collection is they are symbols of empathy, intelligence, kindness, and education.
Here is a video on the social media platform, Twitter showing the talented artist creating one of her NFT (non-fungible tokens).
The WAW NFT collection was also created to become a vehicle to raise money for charity and utilize platforms to make a difference in the world.
The first step of their mission is their commitment to donate 5% of the collection's profits to the Malala Fund (where all girls can learn and lead without fear).
As you can see in the tweet below, they reached their goal by donating 25 ETH (over $100,000) to the @MalalaFund!
Currently, on OpenSea (click for most recent stats) the stats for this NFT project like the current floor price, the volume traded, amount of items, and the total number of nft owners are shown in the image below.
As you can see in the image below, the trending NFT collection, WAW held pretty steady since its launch and had an increase in activity around the 16-17th of November 2021 with its largest spike in activity on January 9th and 12th of 2022.
View the all-time volume and activity for the Women and Weapons NFT collection on OpenSea.
**Please Remember: All rankings and data for the nft projects listed in this blog can change at any time. This data was acquired during the month of February 2022 at the time of writing this blog.
This is also a project that @GaryVee, @mattkalish, and @steveaoki were also behind and rooting for as you can see by their conversation on Twitter talks.
Would you like to learn more about the Women and Weapons NFT collection or community? If so, please check out any of the links below:
5. Alpha Girl Club
About the Alpha Girl Club (AGC) NFT collection
Who are the Alpha Girls?
The now sold-out Alpha Girl Club (also known as "AGC") is an NFT art collection of 10,000 hand-illustrated alphas ranging from eye-catching colors, traits, and themes.
The theme of the collection is NFT experiences should be felt in the physical world, not just online in the metaverse and online.
The NFT project also offers exclusive IRL (in real life) experiences, events, airdrops for any AGC holders, community, or NFT collectors where they will receive goodies and collectibles.
The art project is also creating custom tools like wallpapers, shirts, merch, poster export, and more.
One of the coolest features, when you purchase an Alpha Girls Club NFT, is you gain all-inclusive access to a mental health app curated by the Alpha Girl Club Team.
To show some data on how the NFT art collection is performing here are a few stats on OpenSea for the Alpha Girl Club (AGC) NFT project.
In the images below, you can see the number of owners, current floor price, the all-time average price, all-time volume, and the ups and downs of the NFT activity.
Currently, on OpenSea, the Alpha Girl NFTs are currently selling for around 0.25 ETH which is $726.60 USD per NFT.
**Please Remember: All rankings and data for the nft projects listed in this blog can change at any time. This data was acquired during the month of February 2022 at the time of writing this blog.
The power of collaboration and community.
Alpha Girl Club NFT recently teamed up with Women and Weapons (WAW) for the month of giving to collaborate and grow their communities, increase engagement, and also give their community members a chance to win one of their free nft mints.
Would you like to learn more about the Alpha Girls Club NFT or community? If so, check out any of the links below:
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Discord (Offers mental health resources)
6. Rebel Society
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About the Rebel Society NFT:
Rebel Society is a limited edition NFT collection of 7,000 female characters created from hand-drawn elements in celebration of all inspiring badass women stored on the Ethereum blockchain as ERC-721 tokens.
This is an NFT project that has a modern take on the women who rebelled against society's rules and demands, whether the women were stereotyped, sexualized, body shamed, abused, or silenced.
One main initiative of the Rebel Society project is to help other female artists bring their creativity and artwork to the blockchain and help NFT artists who stand out with their talent but can't afford to launch their own NFT collection due to the costs required.
This is a popular NFT (non-fungible token) project that is joining the "Web 2 me vs Web 3 me" social media challenge across Twitter.
Which shows how people and nft owners can actually relate and see themselves in their NFT artwork.
Another remarkable aspect about this NFT project is the community members of the Rebels Society are taking it upon themselves to create their own merch to represent and showcase their bullish NFTs.
Here's an example where one community member, @cnudde_louis had a hat custom-made to proudly represent his NFT.
Here's the NFT's current floor price, amount of volume traded in ETH, items, owners, and activity on OpenSea (the largest marketplace to buy, sell, and create NFTs).
You can also take a look at the all-time activity on OpenSea for the creative NFT collection below.
Rebel Society NFTs are currently selling for around 0.2 ETH which equates to $578.94 per token with the current prices of Ethereum.
**Please Remember: All rankings and data for the nft projects listed in this blog can change at any time. This data was acquired during the month of February 2022 at the time of writing this blog.
Would you like to learn more about the Rebel Society NFT or community? If so, check out any of the links below:
7. The Flower Girls NFT
About The Flower Girls NFT Collection:
The Flower Girls is an NFT collection that consists of 10,000 unique Flower Girls that were generated from over 950 hand-drawn traits.
The up-and-coming NFT project was created by Varvara Alay on the Ethereum blockchain.
The Flower GIrls collection is also a charitable one. The successful NFT collection donates:
⟶ 20% of Primary & Secondary profits donated to a range of Children’s charities
⟶ 5% of Primary & Secondary profits used to collect Children’s NFT Art
Currently, the activity on OpenSea shows this data for the NFT:
The Flower GIrls artwork is currently selling for 0.6 ETH on OpenSea which equates to around $1,736.81 per NFT.
OpenSea also shows the all-time volume and average price or cost for one Flower GIrls NFT (non-fungible token).
**Please Remember: All rankings and data for the nft projects listed in this blog can change at any time. This data was acquired during the month of February 2022 at the time of writing this blog.
This is also another NFT and web3 project that @reesew is minting and has even had her Flower Girls NFT as her pfp (profile picture) on Twitter.
If you'd like to hear more about what Reese thinks of The Flower Girls NFT listen to this recent podcast episode by nft Now.
Reese Witherspoon shares her story of how she got into NFTs and how she hopes to establish equitable gender representation in NFTs and web3.
“As I got more educated about NFTs I realized there’s just so much opportunity for women to own their own work.....
I think it’s really important as new worlds are being built that we bring consciousness to female creators and female entrepreneurs that is an opportunity to own your work in perpetuity.”
Would you like to learn more about the Flower Girls NFT or community? If so, check out any of the links below:
8. Girlies
About the Girlies NFT collection:
The Girlies NFT collection is a sold-out generative nonfungible token collection with a purpose, created and illustrated by 14-year-old digital artist @Valeria.
Featuring 10,000 1-of-1 art pieces that celebrate beautiful, strong women.
This nft collection is a father/daughter duo, which makes it pretty special. Valeria says,
"The idea for "Girlies" came to us when my dad mentioned an article about women in the NFT space and how only a small percentage of NFTs come from women artists.
After learning more about what other women were doing in this space, I was inspired to create my own NFT.
However, we quickly found out that generative art isn't easy; I put in hundreds of hours of work to create over 300 traits, and my dad spent weeks learning about the tech stuff."
Currently, on OpenSea, the Girlies NFT collection is listed at a floor price of 0.125 ETH and has traded 4.2k volume traded in ETH.
Here's some data on the Girlies nft collection from LooksRare and Niftygateway.
The data from LooksRare shows 59.31 total volume in ETH equates to $172,182.86 in USD.
Then from Nifty:
**Please Remember: All rankings and data for the nft projects listed in this blog can change at any time. This data was acquired during the month of February 2022 at the time of writing this blog.
Here's a short message from the artist on Twitter to all of her followers and nft collectors where the artist will be donating 50% of her proceeds to @girlswhocode.
The teenage founder of the nft collection is on a mission to help fund girls and recently donated $30,009.70 (10 ETH) to the MalalaFund.
Would you like to learn more about the Girlies NFT collection or community? If so, check out any of the links below:
Make sure to check out the father and daughter duo on Twitter spaces to learn all about the Girlies NFT project:
9. uwucrew NFT
About the uwucrew NFT collection:
The uwucrew is a woman co-founded, generative NFT collection of 9,670 avatars inspired by anime and pop culture, where the collection aims to be both inclusive and expressive.
Each uwucrew nonfungible token is completely unique and features up to nine traits with 140+ assets, created by unucrew's sole artist Laur.
An interesting property of the collection is its unique asset generation which involves over 25 layers of hand-drawn art.
The uwucrew project launched on September 5th, 2021 at 5:30 PM EST at the cost of 0.06 ETH each. At the time of writing this blog, nft buyers are currently buying one NFT for around 0.2732 ETH or about $776.58 USD.
And the all-time volume on OpenSea for uwucrew is 4,184.36 Ether or around $11,894,210.67 USD.
*Please Remember: All rankings and data for the nft projects listed in this blog can change at any time. This data was acquired during the month of February 2022 at the time of writing this blog.
Would you like to learn more about the uwucrew NFT collection? If so, check out any of the links below:
10. Kumo x World Residents
The Kumo x World Residents is an interactive nonfungible token (NFT) art collection created by the female founder, @nikkisiuhaiart.
About the Kumo x World Residents NFT collection:
The Kumo x World Residents nft collection consists of 6,666 Kumo residents that include 9 different classes of residents with more than 500+ traits.
The nft collection also claims that a percentage of sales go towards children and mental health charities.
When you buy a Kumo x World NFT you can become an explorer and wander through the world of Kumo. While in Kumo's world you can wander the unexplored lands and meet other explorers waiting to be discovered.
Each Kumo resident lives in their respective habitat or area and each individual token has its own class.
Residents can enter live expeditions where you will work as a team to solve challenges in order to proceed and new classes will be revealed.
Here are a few examples of the 9 classes:
To see how the nft artist creates her NFTS, check out the nft artist creating one of the drawings of Kumo x World on her Twitter account.
Currently, on OpenSea (the largest and most popular marketplace to buy and sell NFTs) the nonfungible token has a floor price of 0.26 Eth, 3.800 owners, and has traded more than 3.3k ETH to date.
With Ethereum currently listed at $2,632.47 that would equate to $8,687,151 million in volume traded on OpenSea alone.
Recently, one of the Kumo X World NFTs sold for over 48.69 Eth in February 2022.
At the time of the nft sale, that would have cost the nft buyer $150,897.13.
*Please Remember: All rankings and data for the nft projects listed in this blog can change at any time. This data was acquired during the month of February 2022 at the time of writing this blog.
The popular nft collection also has a roadmap that includes childrens' storybooks, Kumochis (like pets), and KxW coins for game development.
As you can see on Twitter, one of the tokens fans is extremely excited to be able to read and interact with her new @Kumoxworld coloring book.
Would you like to learn more about the Kumo x World Residents NFT Collection? If so, check out any of the links below:
11. Long Neckie Ladies (LNL)
"The first female-led ALL WOMEN generative art project."
About the Long Neckie Ladies (LNL) nft collection:
The founder, leader, and artist of this NFT project is an inspirational 13-year-old girl named Nyla Hayes, who started drawing at age four and created her first NFT at the age of nine.
The Long Neckie Ladies (LNL) is an NFT collection "created for dreamers" that consists of 3,333 pieces of fine art, hand-drawn, computer-generated elegant females of all races that feature an elongated neck.
The inspiration for the Long Neckie Ladies collection came from Nyla's favorite childhood TV show, Dino Dan. Where she fell in love with the gentle, yet brave Brontosaurs who she referred to as "long neckie."
How much money has the nft collection made?
Let's say in November of 2021, the Long Neckie Ladies NFT collection had already profited $4 million dollars.
And currently on OpenSea, you can see how many items are for sale, the number of owners, the current floor price, and the total amount of volume traded for the Long Neckie Ladies NFT collection.
Any user can also view the current and past activity for any nft collection listed on OpenSea for the last 7, 14, 30, 60, and 90 days, the last year, and the all-time history of the NFT.
Take a look at the all-time activity (at the time of writing this blog) for the Long Neckie Ladies NFT collection on OpenSea in the image below.
Nyla's NFT collection quickly made history and gained mass mainstream attention where a variety of news outlets started talking and writing stories about her nft project and celebrities like Eva Longoria, Logan Paul, Reese Witherspoon, and many others purchased her nft artwork.
You can see in this quick video where Eva Longoria displays her Long Neckie Ladies NFTs, plus other NFTs in her personal metaverse space.
Here's another image from Nyla's Instagram account where she highlights one celebrity from her NFTs Holders Club.
Nyla displays the nine Long Neckie Ladies Logan Paul purchased from her nft collection for around $37,000 or at the time 12.3 ETH.
The inspirational teen NFT artist has been seen on CNN, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, Investing.com, Black Enterprise, AfroTech, plus many more.
Nyla Hayes has also won awards like the NFT.NYC 2021 Emerging Artist of the Year and the Future 50’s most influential people in tech in 2021.
Nyla has also created a few other NFT collections like:
Would you like to learn more about the Long Neckie Ladies NFT art collection or community? If so, check out the links below:
Final Thoughts + Resources
There's no doubt why each one of these inspiring women-led NFT collections was highlighted.
These empowering and motivational women, girls, and the examples in this blog highlight the many benefits of learning about NFTs, web 3.0, the blockchain, and crypto.
This is just the beginning of what is to come in the NFT industry.
Additional Resources:
- NFT Educational Hub
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10 tips for avoiding scams and staying safe on the decentralized web
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crypto.slam.io (find current NFT data, nft rankings, sales volume, market cap, etc.)
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https://etherscan.io/ (the Ethereum blockchain explorer)
- Listen in on NFT Twitter spaces to learn about recent nft projects
