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It's one URL in the token pointing to a JSON file with the metadata. In the JSON file there's another URL to the image itself. So you need to go through two dif
by Kiro 6y ago
It's one URL in the token pointing to a JSON file with the metadata. In the JSON file there's another URL to the image itself. So you need to go through two different centralized servers to access the image. The only permanent thing is the first URL to the JSON file but nothing prevents the hosts from changing the content.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 6y agoLast I checked it's typically hosted on ipfs
- Kiro 6y agoHm, I had a look at the 5000 days token and it's indeed an IPFS URI: ipfs://ipfs/QmPAg1mjxcEQPPtqsLoEcauVedaeMH81WXDPvPx3VC5zUz (enter 40913 at https://etherscan.io/token/0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a35bbf0756#readContract https://etherscan.io/token/0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a... in tokenURI) With that said, I went through some random NFTs the other day and I saw a lot of tokenURIs pointing to a plain metadata.json on a regular server that I could access in my browser.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 6y agoYikes. I've been meaning to do a survey & look at NFT rot, including number of pins on IPFS. Just because something is on IPFS doesn't mean it'll stick around