{"id":58818,"date":"2022-03-16T11:18:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T09:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=58818"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:44:10","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-confirms-imminent-nft-rollout-on-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/mark-zuckerberg-confirms-imminent-nft-rollout-on-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg confirms imminent NFT rollout on Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founder and head of Meta (<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/facebook-rebrands-as-meta-nfts-to-feature-in-zuckerbergs-metaverse\">formerly Facebook<\/a>) Mark Zuckerberg confirmed at SXSW rumours that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) would appear on the social network Instagram.<\/p>\n<blockquote class='twitter-tweet'>\n<p lang='en' dir='ltr'>At <a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SXSW?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>#SXSW<\/a>, Mark Zuckerberg just said that \u201chopefully\u201d in the coming months you\u2019ll be able to mint NFTs within Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) <a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaseyNewton\/status\/1503822144622391298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw'>March 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async='' src='https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Zuckerberg, the NFT-creation feature could appear on Instagram in the coming months. He did not specify a precise date for the deployment of the technology.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the company also signalled the possibility of NFTs based on the clothing of users\u2019 digital avatars in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Financial Times <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ft-reports-meta-plans-nft-integration-on-facebook-and-instagram\">reported<\/a> on Meta&#8217;s plans to integrate non-fungible tokens into Instagram and Facebook, as well as the company\u2019s development of an NFT marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2021, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said the company was &#8216;actively studying NFTs&#8217;, but did not disclose details.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in January 2022, the social network Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/twitter-adds-nft-profile-picture-verification\">integrated<\/a> the ability to add NFTs as profile avatars.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href='\/\/telegram.me\/forklog' target='\u201c_blank\u201d' rel='\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener'>Telegram<\/a> \u2014 news on cryptocurrencies, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder and head of Meta Mark Zuckerberg confirmed rumours that NFTs are coming to Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1433,1508,1293,1213],"class_list":["post-58818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-instagram","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-meta","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58820,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58818\/revisions\/58820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}