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Tarantino’s ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs Need a Full Syringe of Adrenaline

The company behind the screenplay tokens trumpeted a $1.1 million sale then abruptly shelved more, but a mysterious new push could be a pivot to populism or just smoke and mirrors.

Pulp Fiction cast
Photo by Eric Robert/Sygma via Getty
Matthew Belloni
February 22, 2022

For more than a week now, I’ve been trying to track down Guy Zyskind, the Israeli founder and C.E.O. of SCRT Labs. That’s the developer of the Secret Network, the NFT exchange behind the much-discussed Pulp Fiction screenplay tokens that Quentin Tarantino planned to sell for millions of dollars. I’ve got lots of questions for Zyskind now that the whole endeavor seems to be as dead as Vincent Vega in the black suit.