The German intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) has released an NFT collection for recruit talent through a gamified blockchain treasure hunt. It is for the participants to find a character string hidden by the agency.
“Dogs of BND”, the NFT collection of German intelligence
The BND released “Dogs of BND” earlier this month, its own NFT collection of 999 dog-themed generative profile pictures (PFP). Is the sees wearing cyber security themed items. The only way to acquire one of these NFTs is by completing a webquest and locating a hidden string of characters in order to hit in the collection.
On the BND website, we can read that German citizens who choose to participate in this hunt to win an NFT Dogs of BND must locate a sequence of characters representing a wallet addressa transaction hash, block or token number hidden by the federal agency as a clue. The data then grants access to the collection to mint their NFT.
Hitting the NFT costs less than 1 cent, if you don’t factor in the gas fee. On OpenSea, the minimum collection price is 0.045 ETH, or about $82. The collection has 999 NFTs, but only 987 are available for players. When they have all been hit, the treasure hunt will end.
An original recruitment method
According to BTC Echoa German cryptocurrency-oriented news site, the goal of the treasure hunt is to look for young talents who are fully proficient in blockchain technology to help mitigate the cybercriminality. On Instagram too, followers were invited to join the hunt.
” We are also looking for cybersecurity talent in the future. the agency told BTC Echo. ” So, an NFT collection was an obvious new offering for our Instagram community. »
European governments seem ahead of the United States in adopting Blockhain and Web3 technologies. Lately, the United Kingdom announced its intention to create NFTs, even if the project was abandoned. Is America’s distrust of digital assets justified?
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