Twitter Rolls Out NFT Profile Pictures—Fueling A New Rat Race With Facebook – Forbes

An NFT titled “CryptoPunk 7523” by Larva Labs is on display during a press preview of the upcoming … [+] Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale at Sotheby’s on June 4, 2021, in New York City. Getty Images Is that a real Crypto Punk—or is someone, well, punking people? Twitter hopes to provide the answer as it continues to enjoy a wellspring of interest on its platform around NFTs like Crypto Punks and other digital collectibles and cryptocurrencies. The social media company today debuted a feature that will verify a Twitter user’s ownership of a specific NFT. The function allows someone to link their ether wallet to their Twitter account. Once done, that person can display their NFTs as their Twitter profile pictures within a hexagonal frame, that hexagon serving the same function as an authentication signpost as Twitter’s blue check marks. (Without some sort of verification tool, a dozen people could use the same NFT in their profile pictures without anyone knowing who really owned it—such is the drawback of digital art.) For now, these verified NFTs are available only to iPhone users who pay for Twitter’s premium subscription service, Twitter Blue. It is a small but significant move…
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