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RTFKT, the abandoned digital brand of Nike, pronounced as ‘Artefact’, lost his Clonex art at night.
The art for all 19,500 Ethereum NFTs in the collection was replaced by a black background with white text that reads: “This content is limited. The use of Cloudflare’s basic service In this way is a violation of the service conditions. Go to CFL.RE/TOS for more.”
That URL leads to a page Cloudflare conditions that states that a more simple CloudFlare plan does not allow customers to stream videos. “We have limited your power to use our services to deliver video bits from our network to your visitors. This is because every second of a typical video requires as much bandwidth as loading a complete webpage,” the page is.
“Unfortunately, although most people respect these limitations and understand that they exist to guarantee a high quality of the services for all CloudFlare customers, some users try to configure our service incorrectly to stream video in breaking our service conditions,” the mail continues.
The problem therefore seems to be due to the fact that the Clonex NFT data was not hosted on an adequate CloudFlare plan. Others, such as Yuga Labs Blockchain Lead 0xquit, speculated that RTFKT may have forgotten to pay their CloudFlare invoice and have canceled their service (RTFKT -Lead Samuel Cardillo told me that it has “nothing to do” with an unpaid bill).
Other RTFKT collections – just like his NFTs with artist Weightocious, his Animus Eggs and his Nike Dunk Cryptokicks – still visible video art live from Thursday at 10:30 am Et White The Clonex art had disappeared.
The Clonex Shakeup seems to have happened at night, when several X users noticed the problem and marked it on social media.
“And some of you thought this was the next @Cryptopunksnfts, because it was abandoned,” wrote the founder of Ape Ventures Xer early on Thursday morning. Unlike most NFT collections, cryptopunks art is stored completely onchain on Ethereum.
Because NFT’s art or visual data can be used by a centralized company – such as Cloudflare or AWS – they are inherently more changeable and censorable than decentralized data storage options. The tokens will still exist- but the corresponding art can disappear or be changed.
Around 11:15 am, however, on Thursday, part of the Clonex NFT art had appeared again, which suggests that the problem with Cloudflare had been resolved (the art had appeared again by 12:30 pm).
So what happened? RTFKT -Head of Tech Samuel Cardillo said that the Clonex and Animus NFTs are switching to decentralized blockchain storage platform Arweave. Cardillo added that their Cloudflare plan will end at the end of April. The team has been trying to change their storage infrastructure since December, but the switch lasted longer “because of the internal corpo [sic] process. “
“Somehow, Cloudflare decided to move to the free plan this morning [a] A few days before the end of the contract that also activated that bug in which Cloudflare refuses to stream images and videos, “said Cardillo.
RTFKT closed the activities in December and put a whole series of more than 3,300 clonex sales on one day, while traders give up the hope of the future of the collection.
RTFKT’s post about the closure of at the time did not offer much explanation. Instead, it claimed that the closure was “a new chapter” for the company.
“RTFKT does not end. It will be what it was always intended – an artifact of cultural revolution,” the after read.
It is a bitter end for those who have lost money at the NFTs, as well as those who had a long-term hope at the December 2021 collection. The Clonex floor price reached a low point earlier this month, in which NFTs sell for around $ 230 in ETH, per nftpricefloor facts.
In April 2022, RTFKT Clonex NFTS had a floor price of more than $ 60,000 per NFT. Rarer clonex nften sold For prices up to $ 1.25 million.
Blockworks has contacted Cloudflare for comment.