hottakes

Base changed people's perception of NFTs and might be the biggest cause of backsliding to using regular server URLs for NFT metadata. I just ran through all of my Base NFTs and 38% of them use centralized web2 server URLs for token metadata.

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realistically persistence is still a not fully solved problem with ipfs requiring (paying for) pinning and arweave unrealistic promise of pay once host forever. Given that both can fail you plus the additional centraized L2 point of failure probably make it not worth it for many, especially given that many are ephemeral mints

I love ipfs but I feel like it might fail at you easier than your own domain on whatever free hosting, easier to operate and likely cheaper to preserve for a decade or two (not sure how many would or could pay ipfs for 30-50-100+ years)