Twitter is giving NFT lovers a brand new purpose to pay for a Twitter Blue subscription. The firm is testing a brand new characteristic that permits NFT house owners to authenticate NFTs displayed of their profile pictures.
The characteristic, which is being provided as an early stage “Labs” characteristic for Twitter Blue subscribers, permits NFT house owners to attach their crypto pockets to their Twitter account and show an NFT as their profile photograph. While many NFT house owners already use the artwork of their profile pictures, the Twitter Blue characteristic may also add an icon indicating that the NFT has been authenticated and that individual behind the account is the official proprietor of the piece.
Though solely Twitter Blue subscribers can entry the characteristic, the authentication image can be seen to everybody on Twitter. And different customers will be capable of faucet on the hexagon image with the intention to study extra concerning the NFT within the picture.
While Twitter has beforehand indicated that it was engaged on an NFT authentication service, it’s notable that it might select to supply the characteristic to Twitter Blue subscribers first, The firm debuted the $3/month subscription service in November, in a bid to enchantment to energy customers who may pay for specialised options. The NFT characteristic is “still under active development,” in keeping with the corporate, and it’s not clear if it plans to launch it extra extensively. Twitter has beforehand mentioned that early-stage “labs” options are experiments that would turn out to be accessible exterior of Twitter Blue, stored round for subscribers, or killed off solely.