The 300-year-old auction house wants to adopt new technologies like cryptocurrencies, metaverse, NFT to stay relevant
Sotheby’s Chief Executive Officer Charles Stewart attends a keynote on FinTech and Metaverse at the MWC (Mobile World Congress) in Barcelona on March 2, 2022. - The Mobile World Congress, where smartphone and telecoms companies show off their latest products and reveal their strategic visions, is expected to welcome more than 40,000 guests over its four-day run. (Photo by Josep LAGO / AFP)
Barcelona, Spain: Sotheby's auction house is almost three centuries old but its top brass want to embrace the cutting edge of technology and all of its buzzwords — metaverse, NFT and crypto among them.