and later gronk joins us as he leans into the craze becoming the first nfl player to offer items backedts on the way we'll discuss who the winners are, maybe losers, and how it impacts you and your money. deirdre? >> not easy questions, but we will dig into it all and our first two guest this is hour were early to the nft party helping celebrities with their crypto aspirations before selling their site nifty gateway to the winklevoss twins. duncan and griffin foster. good morning thank you for joining us >> hey, guys thanks for having us >> hi. great to be here >> griffin, let me come to you first. everyone is talking about beeple, that $69 million price tag, i think, exceeded everyone's expectation we'll ask beeple if it exceeded his later. was this a mainstream moment for the nft market how big do you think it's going to grow to by, say, the end of the year >> yeah, that's a great question i think it just shows nfts are here to stay a few weeks ago on a podcast i predicted soon artwork would pass any physical artwork in terms of record sales price, and i think that will happen by the

up next, the latest game changer for gronk. we'll play is the american city over?eastern. closing bell will be right back. ♪ ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ we made usaa insurance for members like martin. an air force veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. ♪ usaa ♪ >> welcome back. quick check on gamestop and amc after hours. gamestop up 247 points, amc up 10% in after hours, adding to its 13% gain during the regular session. rob gronkowski is getting into the nft space. he's releasing five digital trading cards open sea excuse me. digital cards of the key super bowl moments here with more cnbc's jabari young. break it down on exactly what this is that he's selling. >> well, good afternoon to you bringing it d

but dan, i feel like i want him to play until every last ounce -- he and gronk both, just keep goinghumanely possible. >> you know, he has a passion for it. he is still in terrific shape. he plays a position that can allow you to play. you're not going to do this as a running back or a wide receiver or a lineman. but i hope he can make it. george blanda, one of my favorite players of all time. i actually have a signed helmet at home. >> he and gronk will be collecting their social social security and still suiting up. you just know it. >> yes, yes. >>> from the pandemic to protests, 2020 was a year that changed all of our lives. now dictionary.com is catching up with those changes with the addition of some new words. they include finna which is a variant of fixing to, and is commonly used in the south. also bipoc, an acronym for black, indigenous and people of color. as far as pandemic related words, the dictionary added zoom, hide brib learning and elbow bump. make that 7600. my eyes are going bad, you guys, they were added or updated. >> wow, 7600 dictionary entries. that's pretty

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gronk confirmed the new deal by tweeting this gif from sponge bob square pants that is a look at yourkle him less in the fox booth, he would probably make more money but have more fun wearing the eye black. we'll look at terry bradshaw's salary and analyze how much gronk should get. >> lawrence: a lot of them like tom brady want to prove it and show that they can do it. they will do it again. ainsley: it's 19 minutes after the top of the hour, too little too late the washington post blasted after issuing a massive correction to a bombshell january report that misquoted former president trump joe con shawn miskel is going to react to that, coming up, next. my psoriatic arthritis pain? i had enough! it's not getting in my way. joint pain, swelling, tenderness...much better. my psoriasis, clearer... cosentyx works on all of this. four years and counting. so watch out. i got this! watch me. real people with active psoriatic arthritis look and feel better with cosentyx. cosentyx works fast for results that can last. it treats the multiple symptoms of psoriatic arthritis, like joint pain an

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. >> and gronk was happy, and he said he wants to come back, too, but he is a free agent. >> he was driving back to tampa bay, and clearly in the car. >> clearly in the car. >> thank you, frank holland. >>> and now, the chinese is taking on its own companies and news team assembled. and goldman is going back to the office. that is all in today's "rapid fire" coming up next on "the exchange." and that is next. >>> let's catch up on a few stories that should be on the radar and time for rapid fire and we have a cnbc contributor lineup today with ed lee, the reporter for new york times and joanna stern reporter at "the wall street journal" and tim seymour at seymour asset manager and asset trader. first up, shares of apple have been under pressure for asset yields and a new report dealing with supply chain shifts and the nikkei is reporting that apple is cutting orders for all iphones around 20% compared to the plans in december. the stock is down more than 17% this year, but, morgan stanley says that the production cut news is noise, and tha creating a buying opportunity. and i find it hard t

gronk earned his fourth super bowl ring in his first season with tampa. going to have his phone ringing off the hook this week. he gave out a cellphone number on social media yesterday. >> so listen rule number one before we get into any of this, no texting on game days. sometimes it gets hard to sort through the, you suck, brady, in the comments. i know there's quite a few of those over the years, it's usually from the jet fans, but to be clear if you do text me, you suck, yes, i will' see it and i may or may not respond. >> laura, haven't texted yet but maybe he will -- >> blowing up his phone all night. >> yes, all night. >> oh, man. okay. he may come to regret that one. thanks so much, coy. appreciate it. >>> so they say heavy is the head that wears the crown, unless of course you are accused of stealing it. a florida mother and her teenage daughter were arrested for allegedly hacking into student accounts to, get this, rig the contest for high school homecoming queen. police say laura rose carol an elementary school assistant principal was able to ac

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think of item com, getting gronk heart that he only let me start over rock. made one 0.6 million dollars over the weekend. some digital rock football carts. it sets a 4. and you buy 1, one of 85. so it was a limited credit. but then the 5th card was one of one that one went $430,000 now, right. can i just take a picture of this and put it on my that put on my web page. it's got that bitcoin technology 100 back it which tracks. it's one of what i mean literally and last week the other is guiding people who sold out digital art for over 67 million dollars. christie's become the 3rd. highest income earning artist in the world and he's the first one in digital art to it. so the drop things kind of interesting because you get the ip access to 2 game to the next year. 40 tickets. it's good each party which is it sounds strange but hurt. yeah. mahomes has already said he's going to do it. the nba has already said it made 200 million dollars selling digital clips. that have a tracker on it. so it's literally one of a 100 or whatever. it's it's mind blowing. he prepar

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"gronk", rob gronkowski, is, of course, the first athlete to sell his collector card by nft, and jackld we miss elon musk. he did say no thank you to that $1.1 million for his tech know video and song, but his girlfriend grimes also selling her songs and video, $6 million for one in just 20 minutes. so anything can be sold in an nft. and the benefit is being able to track and trace. it also benefits the artist. you're able to get those 10% retail commissions wherever it goes and who buys it next so you can track. the bottom line, david, with $1.9 trillion in stimulus, record stock markets, ultra low interest rates, money has to go somewhere, and, yes, it's going into these nfts. david: count me out and the rates and i think eventually somebody's going find a way to copy these things. susan: that's blockchain technology. david: they'll figure out a way. susan, thank you very much. good stuff. >>> meanwhile, we are less than 30 minutes away from the fed's latest forecast on the economy. our own charlie gasparino reporting that investors are growing increasingly worried about a potential

. >>> welcome back football players rob gronk and patrick patrick mahomes will both begin selling digitalrt for $69 million. all three talk about what this world of digital collectibles will look at. >> it is a digital trading card. it is a new era. it is great to be that guy to kick it off, to start this new boom that's going to happen and be that first athlete to get on it. >> the i think chiefs kingdom and the fan base that we have, they are so supportive of me so we just want to do whatever we can to find another asset for them to venture off and find a way to connect to me and for me to conduct to them. >> it is such a blank slate. with covid, we are not able to see a lot of the use cases i feel like we are just scratching the surface of what this could be used for. >> joining us now, michael levy, who owns one of the top collections in top shop, a black chain method for buying and selling trading cards. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me on. >> are we still in early innings? >> i think so. i think a huge majority of people hadn't heard of nfts at all let alone top shot u

that was gronk pranking tom brady, you call someone in fact like they called you. on a contract expansion. extension i should say. texas rangers have announced 100% capacity at their stadium. they are opening up the real people in the stand in large numbers. tiki barber is here. let's see that now. >> the greatest bromance going on. fans are coming back but president biden says only in small groups outside by july 4th four months ago, away i should say. what do you make of that? >> it feels like it is time. i don't know that everyone is going to feel comfortable going to large venues or sporting events, opening full capacity, has gotten rid of the mask mandate but that doesn't necessarily mean 50,000 people in the ballpark for the texas rangers opening game against the blue jays. that is where the country is headed. so many people have been vaccinated. one in four adults have been vaccinated. there is a comfort level that is starting to pick up. not that you are being reckless, but i do feel like the on cost we felt when it was at the height of the pandemic has sta

now, "gronk" is the first athlete to sell his collect arer cards on nfts, dorsey auctioning his first-evernging and dancing to. does that make sense? stuart: do you remember we add had on the show earlier today dennis gartman and he said he wouldn't touch the nfts with a 10-foot pole, he thinks it's all part of the froth of the market. tough a 20-second response to that -- do you have a 20-second response to that? susan: i i think there is a difference maybe in generational speaking. to me, there's no difference if i have it in my computer or on my wall. to have it absolutely safe and verifiable, you can't even do that with michael ang hoes and da vincis, right? i think you have the ease of being verified, that's a whole game-changer out there for the art world. if you can judge it and say, yes, that's 100% a michelangelo, versus being fraudulent and people have been able to copy them. does that make sense? you have verification. stuart, no it does. absolutely verifiable, totally unique, one of a kind, brand new form of art. i get it. i do understand it. susan: yea. stuart: $69 million for

. >> i'm bidding against becky on the gronk collection of the nft all the super bowl moments. >> i hadonversation with glenn aftert the show. he's a digital pioneer personally i wouldn't pay for an nft. i tend to be more conservative >> remember andreson, and glen hutchins is the guy you decide to listen to on this >> look, i will hand it to all of them, it's not something i would invest in. i am more conservative, so i get it >> all right but if you're kweconservative, should worry about the fed printing all of this money, and you're back to digital maybe >>> coming up, much more, that's how they argue, it's actually less of a gamble than relying on the dollar much more on the tech rebound. we're going it talk about the household names that saw some big moves, and what comes next, and later, saturday rob portman, what happened, rob joins us to talk about the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill and a lot more "squawk box" will be right back. dana-farber cancer institute discovered the pd-l1 pathway. pd-l1. they changed how the world fights cancer. blocking the pd-l1 protein, lets the immune sy