How NFTs work
Traditional art is valuable because they are unique. But digital files can be duplicated.
With NFTs, artwork can be "tokenised" - a digital certificate of ownership that can be bought and sold. A record of who owns what is stored on a shared ledger known as a blockchain.
NFTs are unique digital tokens cryptographically sealed on a blockchain, and valuable within its ecosystem.
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