Meta now lets you post NFTs and other digital collectibles to Facebook

Quick Take

  • Social media giant Meta now lets users include digital collectibles on Facebook. 
  • Meta’s move expands digital collectibles from its initial launch point on Instagram to include Facebook, which boasts over 2.9 billion users. 

Users of Facebook can now post their digital collectibles and NFTs to their accounts on the platform. 

Meta, the parent company behind social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, announced Monday that it allowing users to add digital wallets and virtual assets to Facebook. The firm's move now brings NFTs to Facebook's 2.9 billion users, according to Statista.

This update means that users can post their NFTs across both Facebook and Instagram, Meta tweeted

Before today's move, Meta had only allowed users to post their digital collectibles on Instagram.

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Instagram's digital asset integration expanded across 100 countries and included the Ethereum, Polygon and Flow blockchains, as The Block previously reported

"As we continue rolling out digital collectibles on Facebook and Instagram, we’ve started giving people the ability to post digital collectibles that they own across both Facebook and Instagram. This will enable people to connect their digital wallets once to either app in order to share their digital collectibles across both," Meta wrote in an updated blog post


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