You can now serve someone a lawsuit via NFT in the UK
We know what you're thinking:
'Where's Ashton?'.
No, you're not getting Punk'd - this is a real thing.
UK courts have just started to allow lawsuits to be delivered via NFTs.
The ruling came after allegations were made that an unknown someone was operating fraudulent clone online brokerages, mimicking Binance, Poloniex, gate.io, OKX, and Bitkub.
So how do you serve an unknown person, when all you have is their crypto wallet address?
You send them an NFT.
It's weird, because you assume the court systems are stuffy and full of red tape - but this isn't exactly new...
UK courts already allow lawsuits to be served via Instagram DMs, Facebook messages and website contact forms.
...and they're not even the first country to serve someone via NFT.
According to CoinTelegraph:
In June, a law firm in the United States also served a defendant using an NFT in an $8M hacking case involving Liechtenstein-based cryptocurrency exchange LCX.
We'll allow it.