In Episode 5 of Emory Innovators Shannon Clute chats with Duncan Cock Foster, a 2017 graduate of the Emory College of Arts and Sciences. With his twin brother Griffin, Duncan founded Nifty Gateway, the premiere marketplace for non-fungible tokens (aka "Nifties"). Based on the same blockchain technology as cryptocurrency, Nifties are unique digital objects you can buy, own, and sell—just like physical goods. The brothers are on a mission to create a marketplace of one billion collectors of Nifties, and also foresee a future in which these digital tokens may be pared with physical assets as proof of ownership. In 2019, their one-year-old startup Nifty Gateway was acquired by the cryptocurrency company Gemini, owned by the famous Winklevoss twins.

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