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Lil Uzi Vert allegedly jumped into the NFT wave when he started promotion Eternal Beings, a project with over 11,111 alien avatars that look like the rapper.

Cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokensare becoming the wave in Hip Hop culture with the endless creative possibilities these platforms can provide to people. Lil Uzi Vertjumped into the mix with Eternal Being NFTs, but it looks like he may have sabotaged the whole thing. On Wednesday (September 29), Cointelegraphreported prices for the Eternal Beings non-fungible tokens plummeted after Lil Uzi Vert took down various social media promotional posts for the project. According to the report, Uzi deleted the posts after Eternal Beings launched on Tuesday (September 28). The NFT collection based in Solana a blockchain platform has over 11,111 computer-generated alien avatars styled to look like Lil Uzi Vert with his hair, tattoos, and eclectic fashion sense. The NFTs were listed with a price of 2.5 SOL ($335), which sold out, and after Uzi wiped the posts, the price dropped to 1.67 SOL ($225). Theres no information on Baby Pluto being on the actual team at Eternal Beings or if he was paid for promotion, and that caused a problem for many after the price drop. Some who were a part of the Eternal Beings community feared the NFT drop was a scam. It didnt help that the projects Discord channel issued a statement full of expletives that requested its members, who were called a bunch of pussies, not to panic. This is what was just posted as an official announcement in the Lil Uzi NFT discord Read more