Married on the Ethereum blockchain

Two Coinbase employees, Rebecca Rose and Peter Kacherginsky,

recently got legally married on the Ethereum blockchain, showing us another use for the network. The two got married on the blockchain on 14th March, announcing on 3rd April that they had got married on the blockchain in words both physical and virtual.

In addition to their traditional Jewish wedding ceremony., Kacherginsky wrote an Ethereum smart contract named Tabaat that issued tokenized “rings” NFTs in the form of TBT tokens to the couple’s wallets. Tabaat is the Hebrew word for ring.

The 2,218 line smart contract cost the couple 0.25 ETH to create — worth roughly $450 at the time. After the contract was completed, three more transactions were sent from Tabaat for 0.0048 ETH or $87, coin got a total of $537 to tokenise a marriage contract. This is much lower than the average cost of an American wedding, which is $25,000.

The wedding NFT was designed by Carl Johan Hasselrot and depict an animation of two circles merging to become one. Rebecca Rose tweeted: “The blockchain, unlike physical objects, is forever. It is unstoppable, impossible to censor, and does not require anyone’s permission. Just as love should be. What could possibly be more romantic than that.”

This is not the first blockchain wedding. In October 2014, David Mondrus and Joyce Bayo used DLT to wed, They formalised their union by scanning a QR code during a ceremony held during a private Bitcoin conference at Disney World in Orlando, Florida.