Mastercard's NFT Product Lead Resigns, Leaves Behind a Surprising Farewell Gift
Satvik Sethi. Source: sxtvik / Twitter Satvik Sethi, payments giant Mastercard 's now-former non-fungible token (NFT) product lead, announced that the had resigned from this role on Thursday - but in a surprising and fitting move, he minted his resignation as an NFT. "I have resigned from Mastercard," Sethi said to open his Twitter thread on the topic on February 2. He noted that, for the past year, he had served as the NFT Product Lead at the company, where he "evangelized Web3 for Mastercard leadership & regional teams, as well as all our Fortune 500 clients & partners." Sethi decided to mint his resignation letter as an open-edition NFT on Ethereum via the digital collectibles protocol Manifold . This project is called "New Beginnings". The price is ETH 0,023, and 100% of the proceeds "go to survival," he said. By the time of writing, there were 64 total minted NFTs. The letter spoke of Sethi's passion for W...