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NFT: THE NEXT FRONTIER

ou couldn’t have missed the headlines. On 11 March, an artwork by digital artist Beeple (aka Michael Joseph Winkelmann), titled went under the hammer at Christie’s for a whopping US$69.3 million (nearly S$93.million). The sale saw Christie’s become the first major auction house to offer a digital work with a unique NFT (or non-fungible token), and to do so through the cryptocurrency Ether. A little over a week later, the headlines hit closer to home when it was revealed that the buyer of the artwork was Singapore-based crypto-entrepreneur Vignesh Sundaresan, aka

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