Ebay Allows Sale of NFTs on Platform

The report comes less than two weeks after CEO Jamie Iannone said eBay was looking at how to get into the NFT market.

AccessTimeIconMay 11, 2021 at 4:04 p.m. UTC
Updated Sep 14, 2021 at 12:53 p.m. UTC
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Ebay is allowing the sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for digital collectibles such as trading cards, images and video clips on its platform, according to Reuters.

  • The report comes less than two weeks after CEO Jamie Iannone told CNBC that eBay was looking at how to get into NFTs.
  • “We are excited about the underlying capabilities and how blockchain-driven collectibles bring trust and authenticity, key components of a marketplace, to the digital space,” an eBay spokeswoman told CoinDesk at the time.

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