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Visa joins the NFT craze with first $150,000 purchase

By Gaia Lamperti

August 25, 2021

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The hyped world of digital assets has a new joiner, as payment giant Visa acquired its first non-fungible token (NFT) for the equivalent of $150,000 in Ether, taking a first step in the fast-growing ecosystem. The deal involved CryptoPunk 7610, one of the 10,000 unique digital collectible characters with proof of ownership stored on the Ethereum […]

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