THELOGICALINDIAN - KPMG Canada chose World of Women to animate added women to access the nonfungible badge space
KPMG Canada has bought a World of Women NFT. This follows the audit, tax, and advising firm’s acquirement of Bitcoin and Ethereum for its antithesis area beforehand this month.
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One of Canada’s better administration now owns both changeable and non-fungible cryptocurrency assets.
KPMG Canada has finalized its aboriginal non-fungible badge purchase, one from the World of Women NFT collection. World of Women is a accumulating of 10,000 non-fungible tokens apery artworks of “diverse and powerful” women that focuses on “celebrating representation, inclusivity, and according opportunities for all.”
Benjie Thomas, KPMG Canada’s Managing Partner for Advisory Services, opined:
“NFTs alleviate a new approach for organizations to appoint with their customers, while additionally basement addition through the defended digitization of assets. This accretion reflects our acceptance not alone in the connected advance of NFTS, but in the amount of [World of Women] and its mission.”
Thomas went on to advance the move was additionally motivated by the admiration to “guide our audience about architecture a accumulated NFT strategy.”
The close conducted a poll of over 1,000 Canadians in which it begin that 53% “say the NFT bazaar opens the aperture for women artists to advance and monetize their assignment in means that weren’t ahead accessible to them.” 40% of the surveyed Canadians anticipation “avatars, crypto wallets, and agenda appurtenances will become the norm,” and 8% already own a non-fungible token.
Despite instances of backfire and negativity appear non-fungible tokens, abounding accept an optimistic angle for their potential, such as assorted KPMG advisers as able-bodied as abounding of those surveyed by the firm. KPMG’s Partner and National Risk Consulting Leader, Nancy Chase, sees these crypto assets’ abeyant for bringing added women into the crypto industry, which is “on the bend of alteration how we collaborate with one addition in the future.” This is at atomic in allotment why World of Women, specifically, was chosen.
KPMG Canada announced its Bitcoin and Ethereum investments beforehand this month.
While the NFT bazaar has remained rather healthy admitting above corrections in changeable crypto assets in contempo months, attic prices for some of the best acclaimed NFT collections fell aftermost week.
Other companies accept already fabricated NFT-related moves. For example, aftermost August, Visa bought a CryptoPunk NFT for 49.5 ETH. That aforementioned month, Budweiser purchased Ethereum Name Service area names. Both McDonald’s and YouTube accept fabricated above NFT and Metaverse-related announcements this year. JPMorgan, America’s better bank, afresh launched a lounge in Decentraland’s “Metaverse.”
Disclosure: At the time of writing, the columnist of this allotment endemic BTC, ETH, and several added cryptocurrencies.
