Tencent to cut domestic NFT marketplace team, look overseas: report

Tencent will lay off an undisclosed variety of its mainland China non-fungible token (NFT) market staff and regulate the platform’s enterprise technique, because it prepares one other NFT market serving abroad customers, sources near Tencent mentioned, Chinese language monetary media Caixin Thursday reported.

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• Huanhe is because of shut throughout the week and managers have been notified of the shutdown, whereas {the marketplace} stopped collaborating with enterprise companions since early July, Tencent insiders mentioned, based on Chinese language media Jiemian’s stories this week.

• Tencent has not issued a public response to stories of the shutdown as of press time, nor has it responded to Forkast’s inquiries about plans to develop an abroad NFT market.

• Launched final August, Huanhe has grown to be one of many largest NFT marketplaces in China inside lower than a yr.

• Nonetheless, Chinese language authorities have constantly warned about monetary hypothesis and hype surrounding NFTs, which made Chinese language marketplaces reluctant to permit NFT secondary buying and selling — Huanhe reportedly hasn’t allowed secondary transactions of NFTs.

• Consequently, Huanhe has skilled sluggish NFT gross sales since June.

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