Trump's wife enters the NFT world

 

Melania Trump has launched a platform for selling works of art in the form of non-convertible NFT tokens.

The first work on the platform will be a graphic depicting the cobalt eyes of the former first lady entitled "Melania's Vision". NFT tokens will be built on the Solana blockchain , and the platform itself is to be powered by the controversial Parler social network. 

The artwork was made by artist Marc-Antoine Coulon and was initially priced at 1 SOL. The current price for the artwork is $ 176.35. The artwork is available for sale from today until December 31.

The NFT tokens created by Melania Trump will be created on the Solana blockchain and as the Solana Labs team admitted it was not their idea: “We wanted to inform, to avoid any confusion, that the choice to use Solana blockchain was completely organic and this project is not part of any initiative led by Solana ".

Ms Trump announced that more NFT tokens will appear on the platform in the future. The former First Lady also added that an auction will be held on Jan. 11, which will sell both digital and physical artwork.

According to a statement on twitter, the platform is "powered by Parler," a controversial social networking site popular with right-wingers and extremists. Parler has been removed from various app stores, following controversy over opposing the US government.

Controversial elections by Melania Trump

This is a somewhat puzzling choice on the part of a former First Lady of the United States. Even more spice is added by the fact that former US president and husband of Melania, Donald Trump bluntly expressed his disapproval of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Rather, it can be safely assumed that he was also not a supporter of the NFT.