The first official Star Trek NFT is here. Roddenberry Entertainment is turning Gene Roddenberry's signature on the show's first contract into a digital art piece, referring to it as the first "Living Eco-NFT." The NFT, which was signed in 1965, is unique in that the creators implemented the Star Trek creator's signature into a living bacteria cell. This means that as the cell makes new copies of itself, the NFT grows by a factor of around a billion a night.
How does the unique Star Trek NFTs work?
DNA is how mother nature stores data. However, it doesn't encode the data by zeroes and ones. Instead, it uses nucleotides adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine, otherwise known as A, T, G, and C, for short. How these nucleotides combine to make up the genetic instructions of a particular DNA. You can also use this code to store digital information like an NFT.
At the moment, the first Star Trek NFT, "El Primero", is still dormant. Scientists reportedly freeze-dried the cells after 10 hours so that anyone can reanimate them in the future, in order that the bacteria can start replicating on their own. Anyone interested can view the bacteria inside a vial encased inside a glass cube at the Art Basel Miami Beach art fair.