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Most NFT content is hosted with HTTP(s). Many NFTs that reference an IPFS url point to a specific IPFS gateway run by the creator as opposed to a “standard” IP
by kkielhofner 4y ago
Most NFT content is hosted with HTTP(s).
Many NFTs that reference an IPFS url point to a specific IPFS gateway run by the creator as opposed to a “standard” IPFS url with ipfs://
I know this because I have a product that indexes various blockchains and the referenced content.
- Karunamon 4y agoWow, the situation is even more dire than I thought. So by and large, the decentralization benefit is completely off the table for most NFTs. Would you be willing to share some numbers on what you're seeing? This is valuable information.
- kkielhofner 4y agoWe'll be providing these kinds of stats in real time when we launch!
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- web41 4y agohow many of those are minted with OpenSea? and how many are high value - not spam? OpenSea engineers should be shamed for their use of HTTPS URLs in contracts, but it is not the norm outside of their minting platform.
- kkielhofner 4y agoMany are minted with OpenSea (of course). In any case across the 70 million or so NFTs I have indexed HTTP is definitely the majority.
- web41 4y agogood to know! it would be worth taking a sample of higher value tokens that are not minted by OpenSea. probably the vast majority of those tokens are spam or bots trying to capitalize on existing web content like DeviantArt database. better platforms like Manifold, Foundation and Zora are already using IPFS or Arweave