Signature of ‘Star Trek’ creator Gene Roddenberry becomes first living NFT at Art Basel
nypost.comput the signature into the bacteria’s DNA code via an NFT, or non-fungible token, the kind of digital art form that’spopularly bought and sold using cryptocurrency.
The piece is dubbed the “first living, eco” NFT, as the art-infused bacteria was “created and stored on organic material” and “promises a net-zero” potentially “carbon negative environmental categorization,” according to a news release.The Roddenberry signature used in the NFT was originally inked on his 1965 contract with Lucille Ball’s Desilu Productions, which launched the popular sci-fi series.On top of the bacterial cell originally implanted with the signature, the bacteria is living, meaning the cell can “double at a rate that will create over a billion copies” of the NFT,.
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