Social media giant Meta announces expansion of NFT integration to Instagram and Facebook

Social media giant Meta says it will now allow users to share non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on both Instagram and Facebook by connecting to their crypto wallets.

In May, the tech giant allowed a small number of US users to connect their digital wallets to Instagram and share their NFTs on the photo-sharing app.

By early August, the company had rolled out the feature to 100 countries in Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and the Americas.

In its most recent update, Meta said it is further expanding the integration of NFT into its social media platforms by allowing all users to link to a crypto wallet. their own and share their digital collections.

“As we continue to roll out digital collections on Facebook and Instagram, we've begun giving people the ability to post the digital collections they own across both Facebook and Instagram. Facebook and Instagram.

This will allow anyone to connect their digital wallet once to either app to share their digital collections across both. "

Facebook and Instagram users must link their accounts to supported third-party wallets, including Rainbow, MetaMask, Trust Wallet, Coinbase Wallet, and Dapper Wallet, to share their NFTs. Supported blockchains include Ethereum (ETH), Flow (FLOW) and Polygon (MATIC).

Meta says that shared digital collections will show up on users' profiles with public details as described by the NFT. Depending on the privacy settings, the creator and collector may also be attributed to the post.


Aug 30, 2022

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