Turkish-German football player Mesut Özil enters the world of cryptocurrencies with NFTs (non-fungible tokens).
According to a tweet on February 11, 2021, the NFT of famous football player Mesut Özil will meet with users soon. In the post he shared on his Twitter account, Özil uses the following terms:
“A new chapter has begun ?????????????????? I am publishing my first Genies NFT piece to embrace the future and greet the past.”
A new chapter has begun 🤲🏼💛💙 To embrace the future & salute the past, I’m launching my first @genies NFT drop on Monday at 7pm ET / 1am CET on @niftygateway
S/o @Bosslogic for the artistic collab – with proceeds going to @BigShoe_11 pic.twitter.com/2feQb263Qf
— Mesut Özil (@M10) February 11, 2021
Mesut Özil’s new NFT, via Nifty Gateway Monday available on the day. Nifty Gateway is a digital art platform owned by Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins. BossLogic, the artist and art manager, designed Mesut Özil’s NFT.
What is NFT?
A unique token (NFT), an indivisible and unique cryptocurrency token. An NFT cannot be exchanged for another NFT, and the whole cannot be divided into smaller segments. Creating digital assets such as NFTs original artworks and blockchain-integrated collectibles like CryptoKitties; It offers numerous options to exchange. NFTs are useful for proving the scarcity and resource of rare asset in both the digital and real world.
Unique tokens are built on Ethereum (ETH) using the ERC-721 token standard.
NFTs are flocking to in the crypto world
As we have previously reported as Cryptokoin.com , Non-fungible token (unique token/ unchangeable token) ) artwork has been attracting a lot of attention lately. NFT-based artwork was sold for $8.9 million in December 2020. According to nonfugible, a website that tracks NFT market history, this number represents a significant jump from the total sales price of $2.6 million the previous month.