The feature will solely be utilized by paid Twitter Blue users on iOS.
On Thursday afternoon, Twitter declared that it'd be rolling out iOS support for nonfungible token, or NFT, hexagonal avatars. As of now, solely paid subscribers of Twitter Blue victimisation iOS, that prices $2.99 per month, will access the feature. in line with a tutorial video, users will connect their wallet, together with Coinbase wallet, Rainbow, MetaMask, Trust wallet, Argent, or Ledger Live, and set it as their profile pic, with the method taking a couple of seconds.
Users can even learn additional concerning every other's NFT avatars, like their owners, creators, description of the series, furthermore as verification of authenticity on third-party platforms like OpenSea. in line with Twitter, the platform doesn't maintain an in progress reference to one's crypto wallet. However, the firm stores one's public wallet address to make sure that it continues to carry the NFT avatar. though one will solely set it on iOS through Twitter Blue, the NFT profile pic are visible across all platforms.
The practicality of the event continues to be within the early stages. Twitter presently supports solely static pictures, like JEPG and PNG files, minted on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, together with ERC-721 and ERC-1155 token standards. however if one sells or transfers the NFT whereas still set as profile image, it'll not show any info relating to its possession once clicked.
But any over-enthusiasm would be short-lived. according to Twitter user and blockchain enthusiast @HollanderAdam, the feature seems to figure for any NFT in one’s collection— not simply those in verified collections. In different words, an online alien will merely right-click-save any NFT from a Twitter profile, mint it, so use it as their avatar.
( Zhiyuan Sun, Cointelegraph, 2022)