“It looks like Arweave is making a fast transition to the de facto home for permanent NFTs, especially on Solana, and attracting projects that would traditionally rely on IPFS,” Arweave.News said, referring to InterPlanetary File System, a peer-to-peer data storage system.
Arweave.net usually sees about 700 requests per second, but the Degen Ape Academy drop over the weekend caused about as much as a million requests to the gateway in just a minute, according to Arweave.News.
Let’s dig into the causes and effects of @ArweaveTeam‘s recent surge in adoption – where did the activity come from, and how do you optimize performance to handle 1,000,000 requests per minute? https://t.co/r7Nyg5lLwe
An NFT is simply a token with metadata that points to an associated image file hosted off-chain, and many Solana projects are using Arweave for that decentralised image hosting.
5/ NFTs
Recently, a powerful use case has exploded: NFT storage. NFTs typically point to data hosted off-chain. If this data is lost or censored, then the NFT may be rendered useless. Arweave has a huge advantage over other decentralised storage networks in this respect
Have finally found some time to delve deep into the protocol + other existing projects built on top of it and it’s insane how little attention it’s getting
The AR token, which is used to pay for storage on Arweave, was up 22 per cent yesterday afternoon to a three-month high of US$25.72.
The project was founded by two PhD students at the University of Kent in the UK and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures and Coinbase Ventures.
SuperRare launches token, artists get paid
If you’ve ever bought or sold an NFT on SuperRare, you are in luck!
The curated, Mark Cuban-backed NFT marketplace has airdropped a “curation token,” to its users.
One billion $RARE tokens were created and 150 million are available to claim in the airdrop. The tokens were changing hands at US$1.26 yesterday, on US$45 million in volume.
One art buyer posted that he’d received 4,569 in $RARE tokens – US$5,756 worth, at yesterday’s prices – so the art he’d bought a few weeks ago “almost paid for itself today.”
Another NFT investor posted that SuperRare artists had just received a “life-changing” amount of tokens.
Greek artist Paulius Uza, a longtime SuperRare seller, wrote that they’d received 47,454 RARE tokens – US$59,792 worth.
RARE tokenholders will determine which artists get to sell in SuperRare’s new collection of independent marketplaces. The platform had until now been curated by the SuperRare Labs team. It has sold US$90 million in NFT art from 1,400 artists since its launch in April 2018.
I just paid off my mom’s mortgage in Puerto Rico.
Her house is an unofficial cultural center in the heart of San Juan.
She wanted to let you all know that this house will always be the home of #CryptoArt in Puerto Rico. 🇵🇷
And yeah this journey started thanks to @SuperRare.
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