NFT Unpack

By 2028 the NFT landscape has shifted dramatically. While initial iterations of NFTs focused almost exclusively on profile pictures, art and gaming assets, the zeitgeist of NFTs is materially different in 2028. We now view them much more like containers for specific types of composable data to live – be that text, image, video, mapping, movement, l... See more

Digital art suffers from perfect reproducibility, and hence, a lack of scarcity. There is no “real” version — even in the artist’s studio, copies proliferate in backups, on shared drives, and in cache files. For decades, we have experimented with watermarks and anti-piracy tech to try and enforce a physical, world-of-atoms scarcity on digital goods... See more

That’s a 100x improvement over how most virtual goods are bought today - through centralized, siloed platforms like gaming giants where scarcity is in the eye of the gamemaker alone. Contrast that with NFTs, which 1) connect users to a universe of creators 2) for lower fees while 3) giving both parties provable ownership of their virtual assets acr... See more