The new “blockchain” technology makes it possible to sell in cryptocurrency (generally via a platform) graphic creations like the example of Beeple but also musical albums or personalities' tweets, in the form of a “non-fungible token”, "NFT", or "non-fungible token".
This obscure name, born in 2017, engraves their DNA in stone, a pledge of a tracing and inviolable authenticity forever.
It is a technology for storing and transmitting information, transparent, secure and operating without a central control body.
It is shared by its various users without an intermediary, which allows everyone to check the validity of the string.
A huge simplification
In an internet world where everything is accessible and reproducible, irrefutable certification of the existence of a work and its data has become an absolute necessity.
For those who create them, market them and buy them.
Collectors like museums and foundations.
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