Cameron Hejazi is cofounder of Cent.
Cameron Hejazi is cofounder of Cent.
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Cent raises $3M to build NFTs for creators

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Cent has raised $3 million for its platform that provides tools for creators to make an income using nonfungible tokens, or NFTs.

You may be familiar with Cent’s work, as it enabled Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to sell the first-ever tweet on Twitter in an auction for $2.9 million back in March. That was one of the triggers of the latest craze around NFTs.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.