With the rapid development of the global digital economy, the concepts of encrypted assets and the metaverse are booming. NFT will usher in explosive growth in 2021, and has even gradually become the hottest investment trend in the market.
The 2021 NFT data report released by Reuters shows that NFT sales totaled US$25 billion in the past year, setting a new record. But behind the popularity, there are also many doubts and worries. Is NFT a "bubble" or a "wealth code" that can be supported for a long time?
At this juncture, Kevin Kelly, the founder of "Wired" and the founding editor of "The Global Catalog" and known as the "Great Prophet", has recently announced that he will appear as a special guest on the live interview of HistoryDAO, an NFT casting and trading platform. Activity. Can this be seen as a positive signal?
"Internet culture" observer, Internet trend "big prophet"
Regarding the future of the Internet and science and technology, Kevin Kelly always has advanced insights and accurate predictions.
While he was still editor and publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog, he launched the first Hacker Conference. At that time, "hacker" was not as popular as it is now, and the meaning was slightly derogatory.
In the 1990s, Kevin Kelly's predictions about the arrival of the Web 2.0 era, the development trend of decentralized Internet, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things have all been confirmed today.
During his founding of "Wired" magazine and his tenure as the creation editor, Kevin Kelly also became famous for his reliable predictions on the future development of "the relationship between humans and technology".
He once tried to explain this - "I am talking about an overall trend. This long-term trend can be predicted, because the inevitable trends are intertwined, interdependent, and ultimately move in the same direction. Moving forward. But the details of it are unpredictable.”
But this kind of "de-deification" self-analysis did not reduce his position in people's minds at all. As an observer of "internet culture", a "great prophet" of Internet trends, and the "spiritual godfather of Silicon Valley", the world has always expressed praise and admiration for him without hesitation.
With NFT gaining momentum, even Kevin Kelly can’t be a bystander?
Two years ago, no one would have dared to imagine that the NFT market would be as booming as it is today. There is no doubt that the endless stream of NFT projects currently continue to attract people's attention and stimulate the brain's nerves.
Even Kevin Kelly, who is used to seeing the ups and downs of the development of the Internet, can no longer sit still at this time. He will join hands with the NFT casting and trading platform HistoryDAO to hold a themed live broadcast event focusing on blockchain and NFT on March 15.
Speaking of HistoryDAO, one of the protagonists of this event, I have to say that it is an NFT star that cannot be ignored in recent years.
Unlike other NFT projects where "a hundred flowers bloom", HistoryDAO is a casting and trading platform centered on the creation of history by NFTs. "History must be recorded truthfully" is its vision.
In HistoryDAO, once the historical events created by users are stored by the "Mint" function, they will be permanently protected and cannot be tampered with. "Unforgeable", "leaving traces throughout the entire process" and "open and transparent" are the dominant features of HistoryDAO based on blockchain technology.
But the more frequent the digital cryptocurrency transactions that rely on computers to operate, the more "crowded" they become. In order to change this situation, HistoryDAO seeks to apply the unique properties of the hash algorithm to the historical recording process, thereby reducing gas costs and allowing more user activities to be carried out.
NFT is considered to be one of the best application scenarios of blockchain at present. It has strong development momentum and its future prospects cannot be underestimated. But after going through the waves, the ones that can finally stay or stick to the end may be the only ones that are "not vulgar" from beginning to end.
From this perspective, the deep meaning behind why Kevin Kelly, who has “been there before”, chose HistoryDAO alone to launch his “NFT debut” is self-evident.
Closer to home, one is a world-renowned "ideological practitioner" who dominates the Internet, and the other is HistoryDAO, which insists that "history must be recorded truthfully" and has suddenly emerged in the NFT track of "A Hundred Flowers Blooming". This pair of "the strongest contrast combination on the earth" will What kind of sparks will be erased can only be seen during the live broadcast.