French startup brings vintage vines to the NFT market

French startup brings vintage vines to the NFT market

'It's like your NFT is the wine cellar, but it's in your wallet,' says the staff from World Wide Wines. Many exciting developments are coming to the space of nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, ranging from Metaverse NFTs to fantasy soccer digital collectible cards and up to monster-battle NFT games. In fact, Cointelegraph Research predicts NFT sales will hit a record high of $17.7 billion this year.But one French startup is taking more of an ambitious approach with wine NFTs. In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Samuel Balthazard and Yacin Kharroubi, the chief executive officer and....


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