Twitter Launches Verification Mechanism for NFT Avatars; Bybit Demonstrates Ambition on NFT Marketplace
blockchain.newsTwitter announced Thursday that it was rolling out an official verification mechanism for NFT avatars, allowing some users to set the NFTs they own as their profile picture.
The Twitter avatar of the verified NFT will be different from the normal avatar. The new NFT avatar will get a nice hexagonal border instead of a circle, thus denoting ownership on the blockchain.
Meanwhile, users can click on them to get more information about the artwork, including its creator and listed location.
With a right-click, Twitter verifies someone's ownership of an NFT by linking the person storing the NFT's digital wallet to their Twitter account.
The new feature is currently available to Twitter Blue subscribers using the iOS app for $2.99 a month in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Last year was the year when the NFT market exploded, The explosion in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) topped its sales to some $25 billion in 2021, data from market tracker DappRadar showed.
Back last year, As reported by blockchain.News on July 6, 2021, Twitter reportedly developed non-fungible tokens (NFT) feature on its app, due to In recent months, a large number of other NFT characters such as the popular «Boring Ape» character have appeared on Twitter as people's avatars.
Apart from Twitter inc, which is working hard to gain a foothold in the NFT arena, Singapore-based exchange Bybit announced Friday to launch an NFT Marketplace, a platform that aims to streamline digital ownership and support the development of blockchain gaming and the metaverse.
Source: Bybit
Per its press release, the Bybit NFT marketplace enables clients to conduct multi-chain transactions, which is «making it easy for everyone to participate in the exciting
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