Jack Ma’s South China Morning Post Launches ‘ARTIFACT’ NFTs Minting History A...

Jack Ma’s South China Morning Post Launches ‘ARTIFACT’ NFTs Minting History A...

The South China Morning Post, which was founded in Hong Kong in 1903, has become Asia’s first news organization to support a new blockchain standard for connecting, discovering, and collecting historical and archive items. South China Morning Post Forays Into NFTs According to a press release, the newspaper will use non-fungible token (NFT) technology to […]


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