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The Onchain Spectrum: NFT Storage on Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana

Where are your NFTs stored? To answer that, you have to understand the onchain spectrum.
The Onchain Spectrum: NFT Storage on Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana
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IPFS is a peer-to-peer network for sharing data. It's a popular choice for underpinning NFT metadata, and if used properly it offers strong redundancy and availability assurances.

But what happens when it's used improperly? In the worst case scenario, the associated art becomes unavailable, and the NFTs become mere tokens. We've seen this before with platforms like Ascribe, Digital Objects, Editional, and even FTX.

More recently, this week NFT sleuths discovered that nearly 30,000 NFTs from eBay's shuttered KnownOrigins marketplace—including iconic XCOPY works—rely on an outdated Infura link in their IPFS implementations, jeopardizing the availability of their art going forward.

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William M. Peaster

Written by William M. Peaster

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William M. Peaster, Senior Writer, has been with Bankless since January 2021. Immersed in Ethereum since 2017, he writes the Metaversal newsletter on the onchain frontier, covering everything from AI projects to crypto games, as the team’s lead NFT analyst. With a background in creative writing, he writes fiction and publishes art on Ethereum in his free time.

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