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Speaker 1: I'm Stacy Marie Ishmael, Managing editor of Crypto for Bloomberg News,

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Speaker 1: and this is Bloomberg Crypto at Daily Bloomberg I Heart Podcast.

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Speaker 1: It's Thursday, August eleven. Non fungible tokens, better known as

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Speaker 1: n f t s, really burst onto the pop culture

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Speaker 1: scene in but they've been around since at least two

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Speaker 1: thousand and fourteen. Despite current market conditions, new tokens and

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Speaker 1: collections are still being launched every day, including by luxury

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Speaker 1: brands like Gucci and Prada. Tiffany's, the iconic retailer, even

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Speaker 1: announced a jewelry partnership with Crypto Punks, one of the

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Speaker 1: biggest and most popular collections. That partnership means that Tiffany

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Speaker 1: is going to sell pendants based on those Crypto Punk

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Speaker 1: and f T s for around fifty thou dollars each.

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Speaker 1: During July Bloomberg Live Cryptosummit right here in New York City,

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Speaker 1: I spoke with industry leaders about why they're confident that

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Speaker 1: n f t s will continue to be perceived as

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Speaker 1: valuable and as useful. Up next, my conversation with Avery Acnemy,

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Speaker 1: who's the president of Veyner. Three n s are something

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Speaker 1: that people can understand immediately. They understand a piece of art,

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Speaker 1: they understand a digital collectible. Helen High, Executive VP and

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Speaker 1: head of Charity at Finance. In my opinion, this is

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Speaker 1: lowering the barrier for artists entering into the world. This

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Speaker 1: is a technological render song and digital artists people pleaser

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Speaker 1: sometimes known as Emily Yatton, the wonderful youth of blockchain technology,

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Speaker 1: can be um utilized for a much more. When we

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Speaker 1: were first thinking about this panel, n FC prices were higher,

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Speaker 1: And there's one thing in here that I that I

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Speaker 1: to what we're all going to talk about, and it's this.

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Speaker 1: During this winter, I expect we'll see an explosion in

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Speaker 1: innovation and utility across n f T s. With the

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Speaker 1: hard but important changes that we meet today, we're in

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Speaker 1: an even better position to capture what will soon become

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Speaker 1: the largest market on the planet. Now is our time

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Speaker 1: to build. Winter is our time to build. I highlighted

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Speaker 1: the words you know innovation and utility, because I feel

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Speaker 1: like there's a certainly a perception, perhaps a misperception depends

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Speaker 1: on your perspective, that all n f T s are

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Speaker 1: we're hoping to achieve. This panel is more of a

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Speaker 1: discussion around the real potential possibility of what we like

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the stage, Vainer three, President avery An Any

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Speaker 1: Finance Executive, ICE resident and head of charity Helen High

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Speaker 1: and digital artists people please her with Bloomberg's stacy Marie Ishmael,

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Speaker 1: I want to start with you, Helen. One of the

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Speaker 1: perhaps stranger things to happen in the first couple of

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Speaker 1: days after Russia invaded Ukraine was this outpouring of crypto

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Speaker 1: philanthropy that ultimately resulted in several hundreds of millions of

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Speaker 1: dollars being raised to support the States of Ukraine, but

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Speaker 1: also their soldiers and also their their populous, to the

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Speaker 1: we're going to mince and sell our own and FT

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Speaker 1: and you know, the chariteable arm of finance was one

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Speaker 1: Can you talk more about what actually cryptophilanthropy is and

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Speaker 1: not just in like the sam bankment freed wait fantastic today.

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Speaker 1: If you want to donate hundred dollars to somebody, let's

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Speaker 1: say Ukraine or Africa, give me a number, how much

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Speaker 1: not even even talking about corruptions. So that's the reality.

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Speaker 1: This is white technology actually add values into this because

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Speaker 1: So this is why technology can really bringing real values

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Speaker 1: I think when we were doing the project, even in Africa.

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Speaker 1: to achieve the final free trance of values. With scriptal

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Speaker 1: everything is possible, everything is possible, Everything is not yet practical,

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Speaker 1: So people, please a You've had an interesting career. Um.

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