First-Ever WWW Blueprint NFT Auctioned for 6 Billion KRW

[Asia Economy New York=Correspondent Baek Jong-min] The blueprint of the modern internet network, the World Wide Web (WWW), was sold for $5.4 million (6 billion KRW).

Sotheby's WWW Source Code NFT Auction Results

According to auction house Sotheby's on the 30th (local time), the auction of the first WWW source code non-fungible token (NFT) designed by Tim Berners-Lee, which started on the 23rd and ended on this day, was sold for $5.4 million.

The auction, titled "This Changed Everything," started at $1,000 and soared to $5.4 million with 51 bids.

The New York Times reported that the final bid price was disclosed 10 minutes before the auction ended, which prevented the price from rising further. The identity of the winning bidder has not been confirmed.

The NFT auctioned this time included the source code written by Berners-Lee, the original WWW browser files, an animation visually representing the code, a digital poster containing the code content, and a digital letter in which Berners-Lee personally explains the code.

The proceeds from the auction will be used in social activism fields as desired by Berners-Lee.

NFTs are based on cryptocurrency technology and assign unique identification values to various digital assets, verifying their authenticity. Thanks to this technology, which recognizes a single genuine owner for digital assets that anyone can copy, there has been a recent boom in NFT auctions.

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