Visa buys a CryptoPunk as it takes foray into ‘NFT commerce’
Visa, a payments technology business, said on Monday that it had purchased a CryptoPunk, a non-fungible token (NFT) exchange. Last week, Visa paid roughly $150,000 for CryptoPunk 7610, one of 3,840 female punks. CryptoPunks are the first NFTs, having been released by Larva Labs in 2017. There are 10,000 pixel art images of misfits and…