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Opera said on Monday that it had enabled emoji-only based web addresses “to bring a new level of creativity to the internet.” You don’t need “www” or “.com” to access these sites—only a string of mini icons like the one above. The feature was added in partnership with Yat, a company that sells emoji-based URLs, much like Domain.com does with traditional domains.
These unique emoji strings are called Yats and their owners can tokenize them as an NFT on the Ethereum blockchain and sell or hold a short animation of the string on OpenSea. The company plans on letting users connect their Yats to electronic payments. Yats are between one and five characters and can sell from anywhere between a few dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars: The most expensive Yat was a single-character gold key that went for $425,000 in mid-2021.
everable notable celebrities—mostly musicians—have already purchased Yats for website hosting or promotions. Kesha is one example, and you can visit Steve Aoki () or Lil Wayne’s () webpages or the iTunes listing for Questlove’s “Questlove Supreme” podcast (
).
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These unique emoji strings are called Yats and their owners can tokenize them as an NFT on the Ethereum blockchain and sell or hold a short animation of the string on OpenSea. The company plans on letting users connect their Yats to electronic payments. Yats are between one and five characters and can sell from anywhere between a few dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars: The most expensive Yat was a single-character gold key that went for $425,000 in mid-2021.
everable notable celebrities—mostly musicians—have already purchased Yats for website hosting or promotions. Kesha is one example, and you can visit Steve Aoki () or Lil Wayne’s () webpages or the iTunes listing for Questlove’s “Questlove Supreme” podcast (
).Source
