Meta is testing a way to mint and sell NFTs on Instagram
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#65DAT)
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Meta has announced that it's testing minting and selling NFTs on Instagram, like you can with many traditional NFT marketplaces, with a small group of creators in the US" getting access to the feature first. The company's also expanding Instagram's NFT showcase feature, which it recently made available to users in over 100 countries. The announcement comes among news of several new ways for creators to make money on its platforms.
Meta says its digital collectibles toolkit will let people create NFTs on the Polygon blockchain (as always, no relation to Polygon the video game news outlet) and then sell them either on Instagram or off the platform. When it comes to displaying NFTs that you've purchased elsewhere, the company says you can...