Fractional NFTs and what they mean for investing in real-world assets
Fractional NFTs enable users to divide an NFT into multiple fractions, reducing the barrier to entry for investing in real-world assets. While nonfungible tokens (NFTs) are currently suffering in the bowels of a bear market, some are using this time to build and develop new concepts with the technology.Once such new concept is fractional NFTs — an iteration of NFTs that enable multiple investors to own a piece of a single token. These NFTs differ from regular NFTs in that they employ smart contracts to fractionalize the token into a number of parts predetermined by the owner or issuing....
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