Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, January 20, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Meta is working on NFTs for Instagram and Facebook, while Google is starting a blockchain team.

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Sources are telling the Financial Times that Meta is working on plans to let users create and sell NFTs on Facebook and Instagram,

also show NFTs on user profiles,

and also may be an NFT marketplace.

Because, of course they're doing all this,

by which I mean, yeah, with all the hype around this stuff,

the big platforms aren't gonna dabble in it?

Of course they are.

Would you be surprised if at W.W.C. Apple announced some sort of NFT integration for iPhones.

I maybe would be, but maybe not surprise, surprise, you know.

Anyway, quoting FTE.

Teams at Facebook and Instagram are rating a feature that will allow users to display their

NFTs on their social media profiles, as well as working on a prototype to help users create

or mint the collectible tokens, according to several people familiar with the matter.

Two of the people said that Meta has also discussed launching a marketplace for users to buy and sell

NFTs, essentially a digital asset representing art or imagery that cannot be replicated.

The move comes after Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg last year said,

NFTs could one day be wielded to support a market for digital goods in its planned Metaverse, an avatar-filled world that the company is investing

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