Whaleshark, mysterious collector of 400,000 NFTs, sees Hong Kong as a hub for the digital tokens that are gaining fans

  • 2021 NFT boom came ‘faster and harder than anybody could have imagined’, says collector WhaleShark, who started investing in NFTs in 2019
  • He expects Hong Kong to become a major hub for NFTs, with big potential beyond digital avatars and portraits

Collector Whaleshark says Hong Kong can become a hub for NFTs. Photo: Reuters

WhaleShark, one of the most mysterious and active non-fungible token (NFT) collectors in the world with a portfolio of more than 400,000 items, sees Hong Kong as a hub for the blockchain-enabled digital asset when it comes to both money and art.

In an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post, WhaleShark, a British-born Chinese man who uses the pseudonym to maintain anonymity, said Hong Kong “is going to become a hub for NFTs, not only given their financial use case, but also for digital art as a whole” and that the future application of NFTs will go beyond portraits.

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