Student Columns

William Serrano '23, leader of the Crypto Connect club, provides insights into NFTs and shares some of his own: NFTs, or Non-Fungible Tokens, are essentially forms of digital data stored on the blockchain (an unchangeable list of actions that has the ability to host transactions made with cryptocurrencies). They usually manifest in forms of cartoon art, but can also be photographs, videos, and even music. There are various platforms used to purchase NFTs, but Opensea is currently the largest platform to do so. When someone purchases an NFT with cryptocurrency, usually Ethereum, they are then the only person who actually…