Chinese internet giants Tencent Holdings ADR TCEHY and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd – ADR BABA have denied allegations regarding the launch of NFT trading platforms.
What Happened: On Oct. 23, Chinese journalist Colin Wu reported that regulatory authorities in China had “strengthened the supervision of NFTs” and were questioning several internet companies operating NFT platforms in the region.
Among these were Tencent, Alibaba, JD.com Inc JD, McDonald’s Corp MCD China and DHL China, part of Deutsche Post ADR DPSGY.
On Oct. 8, McDonald's China released its first NFT creative work titled “Big Mac Rubik’s Cube” in commemoration of its 31st anniversary of operating in mainland China.
Last week, DHL China partnered with VeChain VET/USD to allow users to mine customized DHL mascots as NFTs.
On Monday, representatives from Tencent and Alibaba responded to Wu stating that their business has “nothing to do with NFTs.”
Wu reported the word “NFT” on Tencent’s Phantom Core and Alibaba’s Ant Tablet had been replaced with the words “digital collections.”
“We firmly oppose all forms of digital collection hype, and resolutely resist any form of illegal activities in the name of digital collections, which are actually virtual currency-related activities; resolutely resist any form of digital collection commodity price malicious hype, use technical means to ensure that commodity prices reflect the reasonable market demand; resolutely resist any form of illegal activities such as equity transactions and standardized contract transactions in digital collections, and oppose the financial productization of digital collections,” said a spokesperson for Alibaba AntChain to Colin Wu in a statement.
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