India’s First Blockchain Wedding: Couple takes vows with NFT, cryptocurrency and digital priest

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In what appears to be India’s first, a Pune-based couple hosted a blockchain wedding. In a royal fashion, the wedding was consecrated with NFT (Non Fungible Token) that was exchanged using Ethereum, a cryptocurrency, in the presence of a digital priest. The couple, Anil Narasipuram and Shruti Nair, used an image of Shruti’s engagement ring along with the couple’s vows as NFT. This innovative wedding highlights the growing popularity of both blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies in India. Check out the details of one of the most unique wedding affairs in India.

Blockchain technology is breaking new grounds every day. The technology works on a digital ledger system and keeps record of transactions taking place in the digital ecosystem and specifically for decentralized tokens such as cryptocurrency and NFT. While it has a variety of use cases from keeping track of transactions, proof checking for any errors in financial bookkeeping and securing digital assets, using blockchain to solemnize a marriage is probably not something many had thought about. But now, India has broken new ground with this digital wedding. With the metaverse planning to take life as we know it to digital space, this news definitely adds some confidence to the technologists.

Shruti and Anil had a registered marriage or a courthouse wedding on November 15, 2021 due the Covid-19 pandemic. The couple also wanted to do something special to remember their wedding by. “We also decided to immortalize our union using blockchain technology,” wrote Anil in his LinkedIn post. And thus began the preparations for the blockchain wedding. And of course, since a marriage cannot be officiated without a priest, the couple invited Anoop Pakki to be their digital