12月中 2021, the CEO of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, discussed how the firm was looking into non-fungible token (NFT) technology during an ask-me-anything (AMA) session. Three months later, at the South by Southwest (SXSW) event in Texas, メタ’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained Instagram plans to introduce NFTs in the “near term.”
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Meta CEO Hints NFT Features Are Coming to Instagram
It seems NFTs are coming to Instagram soon, according to statements from Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW this week. Zuckerberg spoke with Shark Tank’s Daymond John at the event, and he explained that Instagram users will be able to mint NFTs as well.
News concerning Instagram’s venture into the NFT world originally stemmed from the company’代表取締役 ,Adam Mosseri, during an AMA. さらに, the news publication the Financial Times (FT) spoke with unnamed sources familiar with the matter at the end of January 2022.
FT’s report quotes the unnamed sources who said both Meta and Instagram are conversing about “launching a marketplace for users to buy and sell NFTs.” Zuckerberg’s details to the Shark Tank co-star indicate the launch might be sooner than most think. While the Meta CEO did not share many details, 彼は言った: “We are working on bringing NFTs to Instagram in the near term.” Zuckerberg added:
私’m not ready to announce exactly what that’s going to be today, しかし, over the next several months, the ability to bring some of your NFTs in, and hopefully over time be able to mint things within that environment.
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