German intelligence service launches dog-themed NFTs to bring in cyber talent

Germany’s foreign intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) has launched a dog-themed non-fungible token (NFT) collection in conjunction with an on-chain treasure hunt aimed at recruiting cyber talent.

Earlier in June, the Federal Intelligence Service launched its “Dogs of BND”. Collection – 999 dog NFTs are inspired by BND’s guard and security dogs as well as “various intelligence roles”.

according to BND WebsiteNFTs are collectable just by finding a character string – which is this Posted on instagram that points to an ethereum Address, Cyber ​​genius will need to use that information to be able to find the collection and create the NFT.

BND on 19th June spoke For German crypto outlet BTC-echo, the agency said it created the archive and challenge to try to find cybersecurity talent.

Twelve NFTs are not yet available for inclusion in the collection. BND said that it is planning more difficult challenges in the future with these tokens as prizes.

BTC-echo reported that the BND was considering a Smart Contacts hacking challenge.

As more attention has been paid to collectibles, NFT floor prices and trading volumes have skyrocketed.

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Between June 21 and June 22, the minimum price increased from 0.000001 Ether (ETH) to 0.052 ETH, which was worth about $100.

Despite the significant jump in value, the liquidity on the collection is still quite low. The collection on June 21st saw a total volume of around 1 ETH, which suggests that only around 20 or so NFTs were sold by the collectors.

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