Written by Youssef Haidar, Co-director of Research — Twitter @YoussefHaidar_WTF is an NFT?The revolution will be tokenized. NFTs, also known as Non-Fungible Tokens, are a tokenized claim of ownership to a digital asset — nothing more or less. To explain what this means and its profound significance, let us walk through the current state of affairs with JPEGs and other forms of digital media. For starters, you cannot verify that the media is authentic, reliably tracing its ownership history is...

Written by Youssef Haidar, Co-director of Research — Twitter @YoussefHaidar_WTF is an NFT?The revolution will be tokenized. NFTs, also known as Non-Fungible Tokens, are a tokenized claim of ownership to a digital asset — nothing more or less. To explain what this means and its profound significance, let us walk through the current state of affairs with JPEGs and other forms of digital media. For starters, you cannot verify that the media is authentic, reliably tracing its ownership history is...