彭博社:NFT正在卷土重来

Odaily星球日报Pubblicato 2024-03-01Pubblicato ultima volta 2024-03-01

Introduzione

对加密货币游戏的怀疑是当前 NFT 发展的主要障碍。

原文作者:Hannah Miller

原文编译:Luffy,Foresight News

NFT 曾经从数字浪潮的先锋跌落为加密货币泡沫破裂时期的笑话,如今它突然以一种让人意想不到的方式卷土重来。

2022 年,当加密货币泡沫在一系列丑闻事件之后破裂时,市场上没有哪个角落比 NFT 经历过更多的痛苦。CryptoSlam 数据显示,去年全球 NFT 销售额暴跌 63% 至 87 亿美元,许多资产几乎变得一文不值。

那些豪掷千金购买最热门 NFT 的人被嘲笑为傻瓜,一些投资者甚至起诉名人 NFT 推广者,声称他们被骗了。现在,随着现货 ETF 的推出,比特币出现了猛烈的反弹,NFT 行业正在寻找方法来翻开新的一页,并在数字宇宙的角落重新点燃热情之火。

初创公司正在游戏、金融和艺术领域的复兴 NFT 应用,他们声称从过去吸取了惨痛的教训,这将使他们最新的尝试更加经久不衰。他们希望这些 NFT 不仅仅被视为只属于富人和名人的昂贵的个人资料图片。

根据 CryptoSlam 的数据,去年 11 月份 NFT 销售额比上个月增长了近两倍,达到 9.18 亿美元,然后在 12 月份超过了 17 亿美元。然而,今年 1 月份的交易量下降了 33% 至 12 亿美元,这表明 NFT 复苏的情况可能很复杂。对区块链游戏的怀疑、围绕金融化 NFT 的未知领域,以及对 NFT 艺术能否重回天价销量的质疑,都给陷入困境的市场带来了挑战。

NFT 初创公司 Pudgy Penguins 的首席执行官 Luca Netz 表示:「我认为,这种对排他性的渴望是一个巨大的错误。」 「人们真正想要的是粉丝,他们想要收藏性。」

彭博社:NFT正在卷土重来

2023 年 NFT 的全球销售,来源:CryptoSlam

游戏

据 Netz 称,行业波动是 Pudgy Penguins 开发玩具系列的部分原因,其灵感来自于其流行的 NFT 系列中的胖乎乎的卡通鸟。 Pudgy Toys 在 7 个月内售出 75 万件,销售额达到 1, 000 万美元。

「我们需要创造真正的收入来源,它不受我们无法控制的变量的影响,」Netz 说。

彭博社:NFT正在卷土重来

OpenSea 上出售的 Pudgy Penguins

每个玩具都有一个二维码,可以带主人进入 Pudgy World 在线游戏,该游戏仍在推出中。 Netz 表示,他希望在未来 12 到 18 个月内发布游戏的完整版本。这些玩具将包含 NFT 特征,例如玩家企鹅头像的服装可以在 Pudgy World 内出售。

与 Pudgy Penguins 一样, Bored Ape Yacht Club 的创建者 Yuga Labs 希望利用其仍然流行的 PFP NFT 在游戏领域的取得成功。在加密货币牛市期间,Yuga 以 40 亿美元的估值筹集了大量资金,并开始了一个有争议的代币项目、与阿迪达斯 AG 的合作以及目前暂停的短片三部曲。Yuga 前首席执行官 Daniel Alegre 在辞职前接受彭博社采访时表示,公司有太多的事情要做。

Yuga 专注于开发受 BAYC 启发的 Otherside 游戏,该游戏在其同名数字元宇宙与虚拟土地相关的 NFT 销售中铩羽而归,观众对其预告片的评价褒贬不一。 Alegre 拒绝透露《Otherside》的正式发布日期,该游戏原定于去年推出。 「我们在时间上有些紧迫,」他说。

Yuga 联合创始人 Greg Solano 重新担任首席执行官时在 X 上发帖称:「Otherside 是一次巨大的转变。」 「我们还有很多工作要做。」

彭博社:NFT正在卷土重来

由 Bored Ape Yacht Club 创作的《Bored Ape #2967 》实体艺术作品(左)和由 Mutant Ape Yacht Club 创作的《Mutant Ape #1933 》实体艺术品

随着 Yuga 和 Pudgy Penguins 更努力地将 NFT 推向游戏领域,游戏领域取得了不同程度的成功。最知名的区块链游戏之一《Axie Infinity》因 2022 年黑客攻击损失 6 亿美元且游戏玩法不佳而受到批评。

Zollpa 首席执行官 Aaron Jacobson 表示,许多 NFT 项目的错误在于专注于赚钱而不是创造有趣的游戏。

「这不是一个可持续的模式,你进行首次代币发行或 NFT 铸币,并要求所有玩家在游戏发布之前预先花费大量资金,」他说。

Zollpa 于 11 月推出了一款名为 RoboSquad Revolution 的射击游戏的公开测试版。

金融与艺术

一些初创公司正在寻求在金融领域使用 NFT。 P2P 借贷平台 NFTfi 首席执行官 Stephen Young 表示,BAYC 和 Pudgy Penguins 等收藏品的受欢迎程度使它们成为良好的贷款抵押品。 「顶级蓝筹 PFP 的交易量仍然很大,」他表示。

自 2020 年推出以来,NFTfi 已达成了超过 56, 000 笔贷款,价值约 5 亿美元。Young 表示,贷款人决定他们想要贷款的金额并设定利率。

Framework Ventures 联合创始人 Michael Anderson 表示,他看到了 NFT 的其他金融用途,并指出越来越多的公司正在引入代表现实世界资产的代币,例如债券、商品或房地产。

「即使我们谈论的是国债之类的东西,它也有不同的期限、不同的收益率、不同的价格,因此定制信息需要存储在本质上不可替代的东西上,」他说。

但 NFT,包括那些与金融相关的 NFT,可能会受到监管审查。

彭博社:NFT正在卷土重来


Beeple 的《Everydays: The First 5000 Days》于 2021 年 2 月 16 日铸造。 来源:佳士得

艺术 NFT 在 2021 年的销售额,比如艺术家 Beeple 价值 6900 万美元的数字作品,目前是 Nansen 创建的一组 NFT 指数中表现最好的类别。这些指数跟踪不同类型 NFT 的市场表现,其中社交类别包括 PFP NFT。

彭博社:NFT正在卷土重来

按类别划分的 NFT 指数表现,该数据基于以太坊区块链的 NFT。来源:Nansen

苏富比拍卖行数字艺术主管 Michael Bouhanna 表示,该拍卖行自 2021 年以来一直在销售 NFT,并持续看到人们对这些代币的兴趣。

「有些艺术家有更多的技术背景,对他们来说,在创作过程中使用区块链技术或一些生成艺术程序是非常自然的,」他说。

苏富比去年的 NFT 和数字艺术品销售额超过 3000 万美元,较 2022 年增长 50% ,但仍不及 2021 年 Beeple NFT 销售额的一半。一月份,苏富比拍卖行 Ordinals 的销售额为 160 万美元,Ordinals 是一种比特币区块链上类似 NFT 的东西。而破产的加密对冲基金 Three Arrows Capital 收藏的数字艺术品的销售额也超过 100 万美元。

人们担心加密货币与丑闻、犯罪的联系可能会阻碍其进一步增长,这一点打破了围绕 NFT 的乐观情绪。

Zollpa 的 Jacobson 表示:「他们听到 Web3 或 NFT 这个词,就会立即避开这款游戏,并认为这是一个骗局。」

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