Non-fungible token (NFT) trading cards featuring personal images from William Shatner’s personal life and career, from the 1930s to today have sold out in nine minutes.
According to WAX, digital collectibles featuring personal memorabilia also known as Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise have sold out in just minutes.
WOW!!!!! @WilliamShatner NFT Mega Packs SOLD OUT in 3 minutes, Standard Packs SOLD OUT in 9 minutes! BIG thanks to the WAX and William Shatner communities for your enthusiasm! Now buy, sell, and trade on secondary markets like @GPKMarket @CollectablesIo @SimpleMarketio with $WAXP pic.twitter.com/gR3K0mewPC — WAX.io (@WAX_io) July 30, 2020
The online marketplace for virtual items offered 10,000 “packs” for sale. It featured roughly 125,000 digital collectibles in total.
Collectors can now buy, sell, and trade the cards amongst themselves.
Some of the scenes includes Shatner’s headshots and characters from his early acting days.
There are also more personal moments including him hugging fellow actor Leonard Nimoy, AKA Spock, and even an X-Ray of Shatner’s teeth.
“I’m astonished at how quickly it all happened,” Shatner adds while he hoping people who purchased the NFTs would be able to find new friends in trading them.
Shatner continues:
“The cards themselves represent a beautiful past..The verification of being on the blockchains represents a great future. So we have the past and the future mixing together.”
The Star Trek actor has been a blockchain advocate for some time, promoting the technology on his Twitter account. Shatner also said once in an interview that “putting something on a blockchain is forever.”
Source: Cointelegraph | Image: Unsplash