10 weirdest things ever tokenized... including farts

Written by Christina Combenstaff writerReviewed by Andrew Fentonstaff editorWritten by Christina Combenstaff writerReviewed by Andrew Fentonstaff editor10 weirdest things ever tokenized... including farts MagazinePublishedAug 6, 2026Tokenized cows may have gone viral, but they’re just the latest in a long line of strange things to find a home onchain, from farts, to human skin and destroyed artworksBrazil’s B3 stock exchange made headlines last month when its tokenized cows went viral.A farmer in southern Brazil was able to use 10 cows as collateral for a 100,000 Brazilian real ($19,600) loan by virtually herding them into a blockchain based holding pen, demonstrating how farmers can literally milk their assets to access credit.And it raises an obvious question: if cows can be tokenized, what can’t be?From dairy cows to a year’s worth of farts, here are 10 of the strangest things to be tokenized onchain.1. A year’s worth of fartsWhen BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink said every asset will eventually be tokenized, he probably wasn’t thinking about flatulence. Yet, that’s exactly what happened here.Every bit as appealing as, well, a year’s worth of farts, it has to be a contender for the strangest thingever to make it onchain.It was during the pandemic, when most people were baking bread or leveling up on Duolingo, that filmmaker Alex Ramírez-Mallis recorded his own farts and minted each one as a nonfungible token (NFT).They say farts are like children, and you only love your own. But the novelty factor meant that Ramírez-Mallis was able to sell his for 0.05 ETH each (about $85 at the time), proving that every asset has its price.2. CowsBetter known as a prime source of protein in Bitcoin circles, the idea of turning 10 Brazilian cows into tokenized cattle... er, tokenized collateral, is not the most obvious use case. The deal was structured by Brazilian investment fund Target FIDC, giving each cow a unique digital token linked to an encrypted digital identity.L…

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