Lion Group Holding (NASDAQ:LGHL) launches its Lion non-fungible token market platform, as well as its NFT art project, MetaWords. MetaWords, which serves as an infrastructure to build a universal meta-language for the metaverse, was created in collaboration with Chinese calligrapher and conceptual artist Xu Bing. The first phase of MetaWords will be sold at an auction featuring 30 characters, and blind boxes will be offered to the public on Jan. 17, 2022, the company says. Shares of LGHL initially jumped 4% earlier in pre-market trading, but has since erased those gains. Previously, (Nov. 18, 2021) Lions inked a deal with New Full Rich for a digital mining project.