X eliminates assist for NFT profile images
N Tuesday, Elon Musk’s X wrote approximately a grand imaginative and prescient for the agency in 2024, which incorporates launching peer-to-peer payments and extra AI-powered gear. Amid all this, the employer silently eliminated a function for paid subscribers. They’re not capable of set an NFT as a profile picture. The feature become in the beginning launched beneath Twitter’s preceding control in January 2022.
At that time, the employer allowed Twitter Blue subscribers to set NFTs minted on Ethereum (ERC-721 or ERC-1155 tokens) as profile images, which ultimately confirmed up as hexagons. Customers could click/tap at the profile photograph to understand extra about NFTs, inclusive of info like a collection of the NFT, the agreement deal with, TokenID and the app with which it was minted. X has now removed all descriptions approximately the NFT profile picture feature from its X top rate aid page. “As a top class subscriber, you can create a customize [sic] your profile so you can show off the NFTs you very own in a hex-shaped profile picture on your account.
After a temporary connection for your crypto pockets that allows you to installation an NFT as your profile photo, your digital asset displays in a unique hexagon form that identifies you as the proprietor of that NFT,” the description approximately the characteristic examine on the web site previously (net Archive link). People who had an NFT set as a profile photo nevertheless have hexagonal avatars. It’s no longer clear if X will subsequently put off those as nicely. The removal of the function is not very surprising given other social networks have additionally wound down their NFT experiments. In 2022, Instagram and facebook both started experimenting with displaying and posting NFTs. However, Meta shut down the support for NFTs in March 2023. Even as the fee of some of the high priced tokens consisting of the Bored Ape Yacht club (BAYC) has plummeted from its height, the NFT marketplace has proven a signal of healing inside the previous few months with trade volumes exceeding $1.6 billion in step with NFT aggregator CryptoSlam.
