The U.K. High Court has permitted a claimant to serve court proceedings via an NFT on the blockchain in a ruling with potentially far-reaching implications.
The order, which was granted on June 24 but only made public this week, allowed an Italian businessman to serve proceedings on ‘persons unknown’ by way of a non-fungible token drop to two wallets into which he had initially deposited cryptocurrency.
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