X bows out of NFT profile pics – Web3 Watch
X discontinued support for NFT profile pictures this week after first launching the feature in January 2022.
Under the direction of crypto-friendly CEO Elon Musk, the profile pictures became a paid feature, though Musk has seemingly soured on the concept.
Users of the feature opened the app Wednesday to find their formerly-hexagonal profile pictures to be circular once again.
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Neither Musk nor X have publicly commented on the reasoning behind the change.
Ironically, Musk — who became a public voice in the crypto world during the last bull run — inherited the NFT project and saw it killed under his tenure. For crypto-interested X users, hopeful Musk-led crypto integrations have largely not come to pass.
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PFP NFTs, or digital art projects meant to be used as social media profile pictures, became a popular use case for collections like Bored Apes and CryptoPunks during NFTs’ 2021 ascension.
Social media companies hopped on the trend, though with the general decline in interest in NFTs, the tech giants followed suit. The end of X’s NFT road follows a similar decision from Meta last year. Elsewhere, Amazon’s reported NFT platform has been slow to develop.
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