IPFS: The Last Puzzle of the NFT Empire
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NFTs that are not stored on IPFS are not NFTs that really belong to you.
This March undoubtedly belongs to NFT. Anyway, as long as the concept currency related to NFT has ushered in a skyrocketing price, in addition to tokens, it has also brought a huge wealth effect at the real level.For example, an NFT work by the artist Beeple sold for 69 million US dollars, and a tweet by the Twitter boss sold for 2.5 million US dollars, all of which made the NFT market become impetuous.Of course, there are also many projects that have begun to pave the way for NFT. Matic is actively connecting with NFT and providing convenience for the production and circulation of NFT through layer2.The imagination space of NFT is very large. What we have seen so far is only the tip of the iceberg. However, as NFT becomes more and more popular, the storage problem will be the last piece of the puzzle that NFT needs to complete.A few days ago, Juan, the founder of IPFS, sent a tweet, which translated into Chinese means "NFTs that are not stored on IPFS are not NFTs that really belong to you."This is a repost. The original article is about an artist who created his own work on opensea, and then questioned whether the ownership certificate of the artwork can really ensure that the work belongs to him. Then there was Juan's reply.Now most NFTs are created based on Ethereum, so storage on Ethereum will become a problem. If a piece of work is to be completely chained, it is difficult to achieve with the current Ethereum network, so most of the NFTs used It is offline storage, that is, storing documents with hash values offline, and casting NFT in this way.That is to say, what you buy is just a certificate, and the NFT artwork itself is still stored on a server. If the buyer wants the source file, it still needs to be downloaded through an http address.VIV3 was attacked a few days ago, and the official directly closed the login channel, so buyers have no way to withdraw their own NFT.
So there is still a lack of a section in the current NFT empire, that is IPFS, only relying on the IPFS network, then NFT will always belong to you. Instead of being like now, all you have is a bunch of keys, and you have to use this bunch of keys to get your NFT from a public safe, so you have no way to control whether the safe is safe.That's why Juan said that if your NFT is not on the IPFS network, it cannot be regarded as your NFT, because it can still be stolen or destroyed.NFT and IPFS have a natural match. Just like traditional artworks, how to store them is very important, but traditional storage also needs to consider factors such as humidity and temperature in addition to security, while NFT is authentic and safe. Change is crucial, and currently only distributed storage IPFS can guarantee the permanent ownership of NFT.In fact, the IPFS team has always thought about entering the NFT field. After all, although the computing power on IPFS has reached 3.37 EB, if converted into GB, there are already 3.37 billion GB. This is a very large number, but real high-quality data does not many.NFT will inevitably generate massive data storage needs. At the beginning of February, Why, a member of the official core team of filecoin, proposed the idea of adding NFT to the filecoin network, but it will take some time at the technical level.What we see is just such a demand. Technical matters are left to the technical team, but NFT+IPFS is a direction in the future. To solve the problem of NFT storage, the future can only rely on IPFS, otherwise NFT is likely to become a pseudo-concept.After all, what you really own is not the NFT itself, but a token that symbolically proves that you own the work. This is a bit like the coins you put on the exchange. In fact, you do not own these coins. What you have is just a series of numbers. This number means that you have the right to withdraw these coins from the exchange.So if one day the exchange goes bankrupt, the string of numbers that represent you owning these coins will also be invalid. The same is true for NFT. If one day the network where you store NFT is attacked, then the key in your hand will become invalid.Recently, the currency price of FIL has ushered in a sharp rise. In fact, this is all expected. Grayscale has also added fil to the investment list. In addition, the demand for storage in the entire ecology is getting stronger and stronger, and there will be a lot in the future. Expansion capacity.In the past few days, there has also been an oolong double-spend attack problem, but this time the protocol laboratory moved quickly and quickly came out to refute the rumors. Compared with the previous few days, the currency price has rebounded. This is a good thing, after all, FIL needs to be pledged Coins, so the miners are given a chance to buy chips at a low price.But I still believe that this is just the beginning of FIL, and it will take at least several years for FIL to really explode. The people who are laying out the layout now are the really smart people, just like the people who deployed Ethereum last year, they only sell second-hand mining machines You can earn several times, not to mention that the coins they produce have already paid back several times.A practical financial writer who went from nothing to a real "get"
A practical financial writer who went from nothing to a real "get" 
