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Benzinga
Benzinga
World
Navdeep Yadav

People In Shanghai Use NFTs To Skirt Censorship And Record Harsh COVID-19 Lockdown Experiences

Shanghai's residents are preserving memories of their strict COVID-19 lockdown by minting videos, photos, and artworks as NFTs (non fungible tokens) while skirting Chinese censors, according to a Reuters report. 

What Happened: The global financial hub’s 25 million residents, who have not been able to leave their homes for weeks, chose to unleash their frustration online by venting about hostile lockdown curbs, food shortages, and no medical treatment. 

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