Glad you're raising this topic. Also wrote an article about it last week (https://medium.com/treum_io/on-chain-artwork-nfts-f0556653c9f3). I agree there is a spectrum, but in multiple dimensions, where you can find varied combinations of implementation strategies. Compare, for example, the differences between Art Blocks, Neolastics and PixelChain and you'll find difficult to put them in a specific order or all in the same level. They're just different.
I think this is such an important point and really needs to be underscored. There will be NFT's that turn into empty tombstones when their metadata disappears. For the question on how do you check to see what metadata is where, I did some experiments that may be helpful https://medium.com/lexdaoism/low-key-experiment-with-nfts-stamped-with-music-license-a65b0348327e So go to the contract and get the token URI, which will point to a json. From there you can see where the data is hosted.
Thank you William for another insightful and easy to understand breakdown on NFTs n such. You mention “Find an NFT project that you’re not familiar with yet. Then do a little research and try and place its minting style along the On-Chain Spectrum!” - how would one go about doing this research for say: SuperRare, AsyncArt, and KnownOrigin? Those are my three crypto artist platforms and I always wonder where my media assets are stored. Is it as simple as asking “where are you on the On-Chain Spectrum?” or is there a master list somewhere that might have this info for all of the crypto art platforms? How do you find out? Thank you so much.
I recently encountered an older non-fungibles project "starting to mint" their existing collection onto the chain. People slowly start to wake up to full metal on-chain side of the collectibles.
Glad you're raising this topic. Also wrote an article about it last week (https://medium.com/treum_io/on-chain-artwork-nfts-f0556653c9f3). I agree there is a spectrum, but in multiple dimensions, where you can find varied combinations of implementation strategies. Compare, for example, the differences between Art Blocks, Neolastics and PixelChain and you'll find difficult to put them in a specific order or all in the same level. They're just different.
I think this is such an important point and really needs to be underscored. There will be NFT's that turn into empty tombstones when their metadata disappears. For the question on how do you check to see what metadata is where, I did some experiments that may be helpful https://medium.com/lexdaoism/low-key-experiment-with-nfts-stamped-with-music-license-a65b0348327e So go to the contract and get the token URI, which will point to a json. From there you can see where the data is hosted.
Thank you William for another insightful and easy to understand breakdown on NFTs n such. You mention “Find an NFT project that you’re not familiar with yet. Then do a little research and try and place its minting style along the On-Chain Spectrum!” - how would one go about doing this research for say: SuperRare, AsyncArt, and KnownOrigin? Those are my three crypto artist platforms and I always wonder where my media assets are stored. Is it as simple as asking “where are you on the On-Chain Spectrum?” or is there a master list somewhere that might have this info for all of the crypto art platforms? How do you find out? Thank you so much.
I recently encountered an older non-fungibles project "starting to mint" their existing collection onto the chain. People slowly start to wake up to full metal on-chain side of the collectibles.