On Thursday afternoon, Twitter announced that it would be rolling out iOS support for the non-fungible token, or NFT, hexagonal avatar. As of now, only paid subscribers of Twitter Blue using iOS, which costs $2.99 per month, can use the feature. According to a tutorial video, users can connect their wallets including Coinbase Wallet, Rainbow, Metamask, Trust Wallet, Argentina or Ledger Live and set it as their profile picture, a process that takes a few seconds.
Users can learn more about each other’s NFT avatars, such as their owners, creators, chain details, as well as verification of authenticity on third-party platforms such as OpenC. According to Twitter, the platform does not maintain an ongoing connection with anyone’s crypto wallet. However, to ensure that it continues to hold the NFT avatar, the firm stores one’s public wallet address. Although one can set it up via Twitter Blue only on iOS, the NFT profile picture will be visible on all platforms.
The development functionality is still in the early stages. Twitter currently only supports static images, such as JEPG and PNG files, molded on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, which includes the ERC-721 and ERC-1155 token standards. But if someone sells or transfers the NFT even when it is set as a profile picture, it will not display any information about its ownership when clicked.
Gram!
You asked (a lot), so we made it. Now Rolling Out in Labs: NFT Profile Pictures on iOS pic.twitter.com/HFyspS4cQW
— Twitter Blue (@TwitterBlue) 20 January 2022
But any over-enthusiasm will be short-lived. according To Twitter user and blockchain enthusiast @HollanderAdam, this feature appears to work for any NFTs in one’s archives – not just verified ones. In other words, an internet stranger can simply right-click-save any NFT from a Twitter profile, mint it, and then use it as their avatar.
