Since the beginning of this year, NFT (Non-Fungible Token) has rapidly become popular among digital artists, game companies and ordinary investors, and has become a circle-breaking weapon in the blockchain field!

In the latest Sotheby's auction that ended on June 30, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and the father of the Internet, auctioned the source code of the World Wide Web developed 30 years ago in the form of NFT. The price was US$1,000, and the final auction amount was as high as US$5.34 million!

According to Sotheby's official website, the auction covers nearly 10,000 lines of code written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 and 1991. Bidders also get a video animation and digital poster showing the code, as well as a recent letter from Tim Berners-Lee describing the computer scientist's process of creating the World Wide Web.

Since the source code of the network is open source, what this buyer really has is an NFT art gift pack designed by Tim Berners-Lee.

For a long time, Tim Berners-Lee has been an advocate of decentralized networks. He is also very interested in NFT and has his own insights.

He said in a Sotheby's press statement: "NFTs, whether art or digital artifacts like this one, are the latest interesting creations in the field and the most appropriate form of ownership right now. This lot is the origin behind Packaging Network." ideal way."

NFT solves the "copy and paste" problem left over from the traditional Internet era, and intellectual property rights are further protected. Its key innovation is to provide a way to mark the ownership of native digital assets without preventing others from reading it, and to link the associated information and value of other assets on the chain. This may be an important reason why Tim Berners-Lee admires NFT.

It is also because NFT has non-homogeneous and indivisible characteristics that we can bind it to some commodities in the real world. From this perspective, NFT promotes the core advantages of blockchain technology. It can put digital assets on the blockchain into real scenarios and have a real relationship with the real world.

NFT can represent a variety of unique tangible and intangible items, from collectible sports cards, game props, virtual real estate, digital sneakers, to physical paintings, clothing, toys and more. Not only has it become the new darling of the art field, NFT can be used for everything.

From Alipay’s launch of Dunhuang Flying Apsaras, Nine-Colored Deer and Wuliuqi NFT skins, there was an instant rush across the country; to Twitter’s announcement that it would give away 140 NFTs for free through Rarible, which aroused praise and praise from many fans around the world. Surprisingly hot.

Yihuo.com is also carrying out its own NFT strategic operation, researching the mechanism and method of Internet asset on-chain, hoping to promote technological innovation and commercial application in the NFT field through its own "small contribution".

NFT has successfully changed the way works (products) are disseminated and circulated, and even redistributed wealth. It has become an important application scenario of the blockchain and has a good chance to lead the next wave of blockchain. In the big market of NFT, there are huge development opportunities brewing, which deserves more attention and practice.