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The U.Ok. Authorities was not satisfied that there would have been demand for a non-fungible token (NFT) issued by the Royal Mint, Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt stated in a Treasury Committee assembly on Wednesday.
Initially, the Royal Mint in April 2022 was tasked by then-Finance Minister, now Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to create a NFT. The federal government on Monday, nevertheless, introduced that it determined to drop the extremely anticipated venture.
“I feel it is a query of demand,” Hunt stated. “I feel we at all times need to be on the innovative within the U.Ok., when it comes to new expertise, however the world has modified considerably since then and we’re not satisfied that the demand goes to be there in the identical method.”
The NFT area, which attracted a great deal of superstar participation and endorsements alongside a lot media consideration, peaked in January 2022 with $5 billion in international gross sales on some days, in accordance with blockchain knowledge tracker CryptoSlam. The newest 24-hour gross sales knowledge is simply $44.3 million.
The U.Ok. authorities thus far has publicly been undeterred by the crypto winter, persevering with to insist its crypto hub ambitions stay.
