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In late November 2024, TokenFrame digital display frames went dark. Suddenly, instead of showing playlists of the owners’ NFTs, the screens would only show white lines waving on a spacey background. The company was cagey about the issue. Complaints piled up in its Discord and on social media. Three weeks later, TokenFrame’s CEO admitted that…
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DEFINITION To shill means to advertise one’s creations or items available for sale. NFT creators and NFT sellers may both shill their works to find potential buyers. CONTEXT The NFT market is a crowded space, which means creators often have to do a certain amount of self-promotion to stand out and make sales. Shilling is…
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DEFINITION Lazy minting is a way of minting an NFT without having to pay upfront gas fees. In other words, this method allows someone to create an NFT for “free”. CONTEXT Any transaction on the Ethereum network requires payment of a fee known as gas. Creating an NFT counts as posting a transaction to the…
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Niftyist is a blog and network covering NFTs! At the beginning of 2021, I found myself falling down the NFT rabbit hole, beginning to collect art on Nifty Gateway as I learned about the blockchain technology at the heart of this innovative technology. Several months later, I was deep down the rabbit hole, spending several…
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