03/10/2022 Facebook, Instagram Users in US Can Now Share Ethereum, Flow and Polygon NFTs

Meta is letting all U.S. users connect a crypto wallet and display owned NFTs on either social app.

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Continuing itsrecent rollout, tech giant Meta announced today that itsNFTcollectables support is nowavailable to all Facebook and Instagram userswithin the United States.

Meta first began enabling NFT support on its platformsin May with Instagram, and thenadded Facebook support in June. In both cases, the firm started with a limited number of users, but has gradually expanded the pool over time.

Now anyone in the U.S. can showcase their NFTs, joining users in some 100 other countries across Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, and Americas.

The feature currently supports collectibles from theEthereum,Flow, andPolygonblockchains, withSolanasupport also on the horizon. Facebook and Instagram support wallet connectionsMetaMask, Dapper Wallet, Coinbase Wallet,Rainbow, and TrustWallet. The feature is available from the “digital collectibles” tab in settings in both mobile apps.

In August, the company announceda cross-posting featurethat lets users show off NFT collectibles across their Facebook and Instagram accounts. According to Meta, the feature showcased the “interoperability” of NFT assets that can plug into various platforms.

An NFT is a blockchain token that represents ownership in a unique digital item. Some of the popular use cases include digital artwork and collectibles, as well as interactive video games items. The NFT market yielded some$25 billion in trading volumeover the course of 2021.

That momentum continued apace into the early months of 2022, but the NFT market has lost considerable steam since thewider crypto market crashbegan in May. Overall sales volume is down significantly, while prices for many of the top NFT collections havefallen dramatically.

Even so, that hasn’t entirely stopped significant sales—just yesterday, artist Tyler Hobbssold nearly $17 million worth of newly-minted NFTs, while a singleCryptoPunksNFTsold for almost $4.5 millionworth of ETH.

Meta’s NFT push comes amid broadermetaverseaims for the social media giant, whichrevealed its vision for the future, immersive internetlast fall. While NFTs will play a role in Meta’s metaverse, it’s still unclear just how open its future platform will be—and whether it will be interoperable with other metaverse worlds and games.

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José Delbo sent me his striking pencil sketch and powerful inked work, which I then interpreted in oil on canvas. I wanted to create a very painterly piece with obvious brush marks etc, but I was also aiming for a nostalgic feel, a kind of 1980’s superhero comic book look, the kind I grew up with. My goal with this animation was to try to recreate, in part, the creative process that both artists went through with the visual information I had. I was able to showcase my painting process more accurately as I could take photographs of my progress throughout. Consecutive images could then be layered like brush strokes over José’s drawing to create the impression that this was one continuous artwork from pencil, to ink, to completed painting. The representation of the line sketch at the beginning, then pencil/ink and lastly the paint layers being applied demonstrate both artists’ struggle for the right lines, tone, form, and colour until the work is finally completed. As the oil was still wet with each photograph the glare of my studio lights can be seen in the brush strokes. Eventually, the figure emerges and as it does, our hero comes to life, looking directly at the viewer -- but is he grimacing in approval or disgust? We will never know for sure as just before he can say anything, white paint is brushed across the canvas entirely and the process begins again. Only the bat is quick enough to escape.
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