{"id":59385,"date":"2022-03-30T12:47:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T09:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=59385"},"modified":"2025-09-04T21:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:33:48","slug":"visa-launches-educational-programme-to-build-nft-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/visa-launches-educational-programme-to-build-nft-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa launches educational programme to build NFT business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The payments giant Visa has launched an educational programme to develop a business around non-fungible tokens (NFTs). About this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblockcrypto.com\/post\/139824\/visa-creator-program-nfts\">\u043f\u0438\u0448\u0435\u0442<\/a> The Block.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is planned to run for a year and targets artists, musicians, fashion designers and filmmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Visa&#8217;s head of cryptography, Kyu Sheffield, said the company hopes to understand the prospects and challenges creators face and to study the role that NFTs could play in monetising their work.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the programme will help Visa develop its own commercial NFT products.<\/p>\n<p>Visa has not yet decided how many authors it intends to train under the programme. However Sheffield expects the group to be small to foster a community and provide technical mentoring.<\/p>\n<p>Interested authors will have to fill out a questionnaire and undergo a personal interview.<\/p>\n<p>Visa will also provide the authors with a one-off stipend; the amount is not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in October 2021, Visa, in collaboration with artist Mika Joneson, announced plans to create <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/visa-and-artist-micah-johnson-launch-initiative-to-popularise-nfts\">educational project<\/a>, which would help digital-art creators learn about the potential of NFTs.<\/p>\n<p>In December, the company announced the launch of a new <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/visa-to-drive-mass-adoption-of-bitcoin\">consulting division<\/a> on cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>The firm is also developing products aimed at <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/visa-to-enable-settlements-in-usdc-stablecoin\">stablecoins<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/visa-unveils-solution-for-cbdc-interoperability-in-the-payments-system\"><span data-descr=\"central bank digital currencies\" class=\"old_tooltip\">CBDC<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 crypto news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The payments giant Visa has launched an educational programme to develop a business around non-fungible tokens (NFTs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1213,157],"class_list":["post-59385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft","tag-visa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59387,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59385\/revisions\/59387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}