Some NFTs are testing the connection between the virtual and the physical worlds Published: July 29, 2021 07:15 NYT An image provided by the NFT platform Nifty's shows one of the company's 92,000 NFTs related to the film 'Space Jam: A New Legacy,' which stars LeBron James. Image Credit: NYT British artist Damien Hirst, best known for putting a shark in a tank of formaldehyde, has gotten on the NFT bandwagon. NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, rely on blockchain technology to designate an official copy of a piece of digital media that would otherwise be cheap or free. Hirst is selling a collection of 10,000 NFTs, each of which corresponds to a physical dot painting, for $2,000 each. A year from now, the collectors of the series, called "The Currency," will have to decide whether to keep the NFT or the painting; whichever one they do not choose will be destroyed.