Yesterday Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) would be coming to social media platform Instagram.
In January the Financial Times reported that teams at Facebook and Instagram were working on features to enable users to display and mint NFTs on the social media platforms. There were also reportedly discussions over Meta launching an NFT marketplace.
“We’re working on bringing NFTs to Instagram in the near term,” said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a conversation at South by Southwest Festival, according to Engadget. “I’m not ready to kind of announce exactly what that’s going to be today. But over the next several months, the ability to bring some of your NFTs in, hopefully over time be able to mint things within that environment.”
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