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Right now NFTs are mostly just JPEGs. Clearly people care about their JPEGs, but clearly there is also a huge demand for NFTs that are more than JPEGs with many projects trying to use the "metaverse" as an easy-to-understand way to provide this
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However, NFTs can be much more than this. Projects like @urbit use NFTs for IDs on their platform which drives utility
For eUTXO blockchains like @cardano and @ergoplatformorg NFTs play an even more crucial role as explained in our blog post
Blockchains are a poor choice for solving p2p messaging, identity, and generalized computation. Urbit takes a completely different approach in its design which addresses these issues from the ground up.
Urbit provides the first sensible approach to decentralized messaging by throwing out the concept of a middleman storing or relaying your messages. Every message is p2p and fully encrypted end-to-end.
Your Urbit identity isn't merely a crypto keypair, but is instead a human readable name and avatar tied to an NFT that you own. This makes your Urbit truly yours, and provides an inherent anti-spam mechanism without requiring transaction fees for every message you send.