French Postal Service Launches NFT Collection on Binance

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Groupe La Poste has announced that it has chosen the Binance NFT marketplace to sell its first collection of tokens.The collection is based on photographs taken by French postmen in 2021.

The NFT collection "Faces of France through the eyes of postmen" (Visages de France par les facteurs) was born in 2021 as a collaborative art projectGroupe La Poste, the GoodPlanet Foundation and renowned environmentalist, journalist and photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand.

The creators of the collection asked all postmen in France – about 70,000 people – to take pictures of the citizens with whom they came into contactThese photographs became the basis of a digital exhibition, which resulted in the selection of the best works to participate in the vernissage of La Poste du Louvre in 2022.Of the 4,000 photos submitted, 10 have been converted into collectible tokens and put up for sale on the Binance NFT marketplace.

"The very special relationship between postmen and citizens makes these workers more important than just 'distributors' of mail and parcels.Postmen are trustworthy and very well suited to create a series of portraits and capture simple moments from life," the organizers of the project said in a joint statement.

Recently, WeChat, a popular messenger in China, published a new policy for using the service, according to which all accounts that provide access to cryptocurrencies and NFTs will beBlocked.