Share this article
BTC
$81,346.54
-
0.17%ETH
$1,553.04
-
2.42%USDT
$0.9994
-
0.03%XRP
$2.0077
+
0.84%BNB
$579.86
+
0.39%SOL
$116.60
+
1.84%USDC
$0.9999
+
0.00%DOGE
$0.1570
+
0.91%TRX
$0.2373
-
1.02%ADA
$0.6238
+
0.34%LEO
$9.4100
+
0.25%LINK
$12.37
+
0.16%AVAX
$18.53
+
2.45%XLM
$0.2361
+
1.03%TON
$2.9311
-
2.62%HBAR
$0.1712
+
0.97%SUI
$2.1798
+
2.03%SHIB
$0.0₄1197
-
0.63%OM
$6.4685
-
3.87%BCH
$299.32
+
0.82%Sign Up
- Back to menuPrices
- Back to menuResearch
- Back to menuConsensus
- Back to menu
- Back to menu
- Back to menu
- Back to menuWebinars & Events
Twitter Exec Shares ‘Sneak Peek’ of NFT Profile Verification
Users’ avatars would get a check mark similar to the blue check mark given to verified Twitter users.
Twitter’s head of consumer marketing, Justin Taylor, tweeted a video on Wednesday showing what the social media company is working on for its non-fungible token profile verification that it first announced last week.
- In the video, which was prepared and first tweeted out by Twitter software engineer Mada Aflak, users are able to click on their avatars to edit their profiles and select “NFT.”
- From there, they connect to their preferred wallet (in the mock-up the default wallets included Coinbase, Trust, Argent and MetaMask) and then download all their NFTs from OpenSea. After selecting one to be their avatar, it would then appear with an Ethereum check mark similar to the blue check mark given to verified Twitter users.
- Aflak emphasized in the video that this was just an experiment with a mock-up, so anything could change.
- The use of NFTs as avatars on Twitter has skyrocketed in the last six months, making a system for verifying their ownership and provenance a valuable feature for Twitter to add.
- Despite Taylor’s sharing of the video, it’s worth noting that while Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been an ardent and longtime supporter of bitcoin, he has not expressed enthusiasm for Ethereum in the past.
Here’s a sneak peek👀 on what we’re working on for NFT profile verification.
— Justin Taylor (@TheSmarmyBum) September 29, 2021
What do you think? pic.twitter.com/Z8c6tH3BBy
STORY CONTINUES BELOW
Don't miss another story.Subscribe to the Crypto Daybook Americas Newsletter today. See all newsletters
Nelson Wang
Nelson edits features and opinion stories and was previously CoinDesk’s U.S. News Editor for the East Coast. He has also been an editor at Unchained and DL News, and prior to working at CoinDesk, he was the technology stocks editor and consumer stocks editor at TheStreet. He has also held editing positions at Yahoo.com and Condé Nast Portfolio’s website, and was the content director for aMedia, an Asian American media company. Nelson grew up on Long Island, New York and went to Harvard College, earning a degree in Social Studies. He holds BTC, ETH and SOL above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.
