Indian couple celebrates blockchain wedding

The first ‘blockchain wedding’ in India was recently celebrated by Shruti Nair and Anil Narasipuram. The pair used an ‘Ethereum smart contract’ to arrange a wedding ceremony using blockchain technology shortly after their court marriage in November 2021. Because of the widespread prevalence of Covid-19 in India, the couple chose to have a courthouse wedding, which was officiated by Anoop Pakki, a “digital priest.” On Google Meet, their relatives were present for the ceremony. These vows are a part of their NFT. Nair, an alumna of Knauss School of Business in San Diego, and Narasipuram, an alumnus of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, created an NFT titled ‘Ekatvam’ (oneness), which Pakki minted on Opensea, a P2P NFT marketplace, with the money that the couple transferred to him via Metamask. The blockchain wedding took only 15 minutes to commemorate.