World Wide Web source code NFT sells for $5.4 million at Sotheby's

FILE PHOTO: World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee poses for a photograph following a speech at the Mozilla Festival 2018 in London, Britain October 27, 2018. REUTERS/Simon Dawson/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - A blockchain-based token representing the original source code for the World Wide Web written by its inventor Tim Berners-Lee sold for $5.4 million at Sotheby's in an online auction on Wednesday, the auction house said.

The source code was sold in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) - a kind of crypto asset https://www.reuters.com/article/crypto-currency-nft-idCNL4N2LE3VG which records ownership of digital items.