Adobe is taking another step into NFTs
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Adobe's social network Behance is adding support for the Polygon cryptocurrency platform, letting users more easily showcase Polygon-based non-fungible tokens or NFTs. The company is touting Polygon integration as a more environmentally conscious way for artists to create NFTs, which Behance began supporting late last year. While that eco-friendliness is debatable, it's part of Adobe's ongoing expansion into crypto - as well as an attempt to placate artists that are worried about its potential negative effects.
Polygon works on top of the popular Ethereum blockchain, and it's got a smaller energy footprint for individual crypto transactions; it also avoids the massive transaction costs associated with Ethereum. (On the other hand,...