BigTech Meta Ends Support for NFTs on Instagram and Facebook A company spokesperson said that Meta is shifting its investments away from NFTs to products such as Meta Pay, as well as other tools that allow creators to earn money directly on Meta's platforms.
BigTech Meta Now Lets Users Share Their NFTs on Both Facebook and Instagram In May, Meta announced that it would test the NFT sharing feature on a small number of users in the US. Now the company has officially introduced the option to all of its social media users from the United States.
News LG Electronics Launches an NFT Platform for Its Smart TVs LG Electronics has launched its NFT marketplace called LG Art Lab. The platform is already available in the US for those who have LG TVs with webOS 5.0 or later, and can be accessed directly from the home screen.
News Spotify Is Reportedly Testing Musician NFT Galleries Recently shared reports indicate that Spotify is currently running a test for a limited number of users of the platform's Android app in the US. These users can see previews of NFTs on artists' profiles.
News YouTube CEO Hints at NFT Features for Video Creators The use of crypto and non-fungible tokens can significantly strengthen the connection between content creators and their viewers. YouTube plans to expand its ecosystem to help video creators benefit from such technologies.
News First-Ever SMS Sold as an NFT for Over 100,000 Euros The world's first text message containing only two words was sold at the Aguttes auction house in Paris for 130,680 euros. Vodafone said it plans to donate the proceeds from the sale to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
News 12-Year-Old Boy Made Almost $400,000 Selling NFTs Based on Whale Pics 12-year-old Benyamin Ahmed from the UK made about $400,000 selling NFT tokens with pictures of whales. The boy is fond of programming and Minecraft, so he decided to create a collection of whales of the same style and encoded them in NFTs.
News Thailand SEC Banned Meme Coins and NFT Trading The regulatory action mainly targets meme coins such as Dogecoin (DOGE), which started out as a cryptocurrency joke. Exchanges have now asked to remove coins from this category along with utility tokens, NFTs, and other social tokens for 30 days.
News Web Founder Will Sell the Internet Source Code as NFT In April 2021, Tim Berners-Lee contacted Sotheby's administration with the idea of putting up a lot. The files were saved in a tar archive with their original time stamps. The lot will include HTML, HTTP, and URL.
News "Doge" Meme Sold for $4 Million as an NFT Token The "Doge" meme of a Shiba Inu dog was sold as a non-fungible token at the Zora online auction for $4 million. Thus, the image that spawned the Dogecoin cryptocurrency became the most expensive NFT meme of all time.
News Jack Dorsey's First Tweet Sold for Over $2,9 Million The first tweet of Twitter CEO, which said "just setting up my twttr," was posted in 2006 and was sold for over $2,9 million. Dorsey said he would convert the amount into bitcoins and donate them to GiveDirectly, which operates in Africa.
