I've written the report to artifacts/report.md, along with a short artifacts/README.md describing the question and its limits. I read "early" as historically early: the pioneering NFT projects from 2014 to 2017. If you meant new projects to buy into early as an investment, the report doesn't answer that.

The earliest projects, oldest first:

Project	Chain	Date	Why it matters
Quantum (Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash)	Namecoin	2 May 2014	Widely called the first NFT; sold at Sotheby's in 2021 for about $1.4M
Spells of Genesis	Bitcoin (Counterparty)	Mar 2015	Early blockchain trading-card game
Etheria	Ethereum	Oct 2015	Strongest candidate for first NFT project on Ethereum; its 457 tiles sold in March 2021 for about $1.4M in total
Rare Pepe	Bitcoin (Counterparty)	Sep 2016	Early community art collection, 1,774 cards
Curio Cards	Ethereum	9 May 2017	First art NFT project on Ethereum; a full set sold at Christie's for 393 ETH
CryptoPunks	Ethereum	Jun 2017	10,000 characters claimed free
CryptoKitties	Ethereum	Nov 2017	Helped lead to ERC-721, the Ethereum NFT standard

Every claim in the report is marked as a fact (with a source link), my own inference, or uncertain. In particular, which project counts as "first" depends on how you define an NFT, so the report treats that as disputed.

Limits:

• Most sources are secondary: Wikipedia, news outlets, project docs and the ERC-721 standard itself.
• I didn't check any dates or supplies against the blockchains directly.
• There's no current price data, and none of this is investment advice.

Open questions for you:

• Did you mean investment picks instead?
• Do you care about a particular blockchain?
• Do you want the dates checked directly on the blockchains?

Following the task instructions, report.md is left uncommitted. I didn't commit README.md either, because no commit was requested.