The Biggest Crypto Story of 2021: NFT Boom
From JPEGs to sports highlights to crypto creatures, NFTs dominated the headlines this year more than anything else in crypto.
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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