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The rush may be over, but are NFTs actually in decline?

It was described as the Mona Lisa of the digital world and it came with a connoisseur’s price tag: $2.9m for the first tweet by Twitter’s co-founder. This was March 2021 and non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, were bursting into the mainstream.

One year on, an attempt to sell on Jack Dorsey’s Twitter debut for $25m was pulled after auction bids topped out at just $14,000. Explosive growth of NFTs over the past 12

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