British Museum enters world of NFTs with digital Hokusai postcards

Partnership with new platform LaCollection aims to inspire next generation of art collectors The British Museum is venturing into the emerging world of non-fungible tokens by partnering with a new platform to launch digital postcards of the work of Katsushika Hokusai. NFTs - unique digital assets stored on the blockchain - have gripped the arts sector since the digital artist Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, made history in March by selling an NFT for $69.4m.