Official Email Teases Digital Tokens and Platform Gallery

The e-commerce big Amazon has formally jumped on the NFT bandwagon, an electronic mail despatched out to not less than one buyer suggests.

In keeping with the e-mail, Amazon has already launched some sort of “digital token” that may be saved in a “gallery.” The digital tokens additionally seem like one thing that may be purchased and bought on the platform, with Amazon being able to lock and unlock the tokens to make them out there for buying and selling.

The e-mail added that customers might want to “register as a reseller” earlier than NFTs might be listed on the market.

The information was first reported by CoinDesk after considered one of their staff acquired the e-mail.

Amazon has not but commented on the information, however the firm’s CEO, Andy Jassey, in an interview final yr hinted that Amazon has discovered NFTs to be attention-grabbing.

“I believe NFTs have actually began to take off […] I anticipate that NFTs will proceed to develop very considerably,” Jassey stated on the time. He added that “it’s doable” that Amazon will begin promoting NFTs sooner or later “down the highway.”

The e-mail that seems to verify Amazon’s NFT plan follows months of rumors about Amazon’s crypto plans.

A number of unconfirmed media stories have instructed that Amazon is engaged on an NFT mission, with one report suggesting it might be a Web3 gaming initiative the place gamers can declare free NFTs.

One other report have stated Amazon is engaged on an NFT market. Citing nameless sources, the report claimed {the marketplace} can be launched April 24 and that it will be known as “Amazon Digital Market.”

Amazon itself has by no means confirmed any of the stories.