Tencent to shut down NFT platform after just one year, report says

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Chinese social media giant Tencent Holdings plans to shut down its non-fungible token (NFT) platform, which launched just one year ago, as Beijing’s strict ban on secondary markets for digital collectibles has largely killed its business potential, according to a report by Chinese media outlet Jiemian on Wednesday (July 21). The report, which quoted unidentified sources from Tencent, said that...

Tencent Holdings could shut down its non-fungible token platform Huanhe as soon as this week, Chinese media reported, ending its foray into the market that started just last year amid increasing interest in the digital assets.

Technology giants including Tencent and Alibaba Group Holding, owner of the South China Morning Post, have tread carefully with their NFT platforms in mainland China. Most domestic platforms eschew the NFT label altogether, favouring “digital collectibles” because it is not associated with cryptocurrency.

“There was a spree of big companies flocking to issue digital collectibles. But the business itself is unsustainable, because the fact that they made everything an NFT and offered a huge number of copies doesn’t make the product rare any more,” said Gao Chengshi, a Web3 analyst and investor who is a founding partner of blockchain developer Shanghai Hashvalue Information Technology.New batches of digital collectibles have typically been offered in large numbers.

 

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