2 years ago
“We're moving connected bringing NFTs to Instagram successful the adjacent term," Meta (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg said astatine a sheet astatine Austin's South by Southwest Festival connected Tuesday, according to a tweet from Engadget elder exertion Karissa Bell. Zuckerberg added, however, that "I'm not acceptable to benignant of denote precisely what that's going to beryllium today.”
Casey Newton, writer of the Platformer newsletter, tweeted that Zuckerberg besides said that “hopefully” successful the coming months, Instagram members volition beryllium capable to mint their ain NFTs wrong the app.
In January, the Financial Times reported that Meta was moving connected plans for some Facebook and Instagram members to beryllium capable to show their NFTS connected their profiles, citing sources acquainted with the matter.
Meta did not instantly respond to a petition for much information.
In November, Facebook changed its sanction to Meta to bespeak its absorption connected the Metaverse and virtual reality.
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