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Irene Zhao Builds an Empire with Her NFTs
Irene Zhao had a message for her followers this week. Zhao, who was born in China and moved to Singapore as a teenager, is an Instagram model and defi expert and she made over $5 million last month selling her photos as NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. Zhao has been working in the finance industry since graduation, the South China Morning Post reported, first as a commodity broker, and most recently as chief marketing officer of a decentralized finance company, Konomi Network.