Will digital buying and selling playing cards substitute bodily ones?

Digital-only buying and selling playing cards are being purchased and bought as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

An NFT makes use of blockchain expertise to create a novel digital certificates which states who owns it. There is no such thing as a bodily merchandise and it may possibly nonetheless be reproduced or seen by others.

The expertise has not too long ago been used to buy digital artwork, video clips, tweets and memes.

However within the final yr, Pokémon playing cards have additionally skilled a revival – with many playing cards originating from the Nineties now fetching excessive costs.

So will these buying and selling playing cards ultimately be phased out by digital ones?

BBC Click on’s Omar Mehtab finds out extra.

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