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NFT transactions will make crypto accessible to a global audience

To help spread cryptocurrency to the masses, Electric Capital CEO and co-founder Avichal Garg thinks nonfungible tokens (NFTs) are important. In contrast to other subgenres of cryptocurrency, NFTs are tied to more tangible, everyday activities like the creation and consumption of art, music, and games. If high inflation continues to dominate the macro picture, as Garg predicts it will, the bear market could last for another year or two.

 

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