A server misconfiguration led to over 19,000 NFT images from the Clone X NFT collection to go missing temporarily last week. The Clone X collection includes 20,000 extraterrestrial avatar clones, a partnership between RTFKT and Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. The mishap was due to an unexpected early transition to a...
From FTX to the world of NFTs, we’ve seen that centralized systems are inherently dangerous. So without a shred of warning, all of the images associated with RTFKT’s Ethereum-based NFT collections disappeared from view. This disruption severely affected major collections such as CloneX and Animus. Users were suddenly faced with...
On April 24th, the NFT community was rocked by a sudden tidal wave, as RTFKT’s CloneX NFTs appeared to have disappeared. Users quickly found themselves unable to view the images connected to their precious digital goods. The culprit? A Cloudflare account downgrade that revealed just how bad the centralized NFT...
We all saw it: the dreaded black screen. Your prized CloneX NFT may have been a status symbol of your digital life. Now, it’s being overshadowed by a pretty shocking warning about Cloudflare’s Terms of Service. It wasn’t a hack or a rug pull or even an especially glamorous crypto...
Or, I think back with great enthusiasm to last year, when we interviewed a young, amazingly talented digital artist from Malaysia. So imagine that she had been super excited about NFTs. Finally, she discovered a means of escaping the art world gatekeepers and reaching right past them, directly to collectors....
The NFT space soon learned that relying on decentralized storage solutions must come with caveats. Last week, pictures associated with the widely held CloneX NFT hoard and other Ethereum NFTs from RTFKT simply disappeared. Instead of the digital art they assumed they would receive, they were greeted with an all-black...
