alwaysNFT launch and VIP Pass airdrop!

Guy Harrison
alwaysNFT
Published in
3 min readJul 11, 2022

The alwaysNFT team is delighted to announce the official launch of alwaysNFT.cloud. alwaysNFT is now fully available and ready to protect NFTs on the Ethereum, Polygon, Flow or Solana blockchains! In celebration of the launch, we're airdropping an alwaysNFT VIP token to the first 500 users who register their NFTs with us. The VIP token entitles the holder to double the standard free service NFT limits and puts the holder in the running to receive one ETH. Register your wallet with us at https://alwaysnft.app/quickstart to receive the airdrop and be in the running to win one ETH¹!

What is alwaysNFT?

alwaysNFT protects your valuable NFT investments by ensuring that NFT media and artwork never disappear.

We all know that NFT definitions are stored on a "forever" blockchain. But the artwork that the NFT represents is almost always stored elsewhere on the internet — usually on IPFS (the InterPlanetary FileSystem). If the creator of the NFT fails to take specific actions to keep the artwork on the network, it can "age out" of IPFS over time — leaving you with just a broken link where your artwork used to be.

Broken NFT artwork links can destroy your NFTs
Broken NFT artwork links can ruin your NFTs.

We've analyzed millions of NFTs and found that in too many cases, the media, artwork or metadata of the NFT is unavailable. In a survey of more than 2 million tokens, we found that 17% already had missing artwork or media. See this blog post for a discussion of how good NFTs go bad.

After scanning more than 2 million tokens, we found that 17% already had broken IPFS links

alwaysNFT prevents these NFT total existence failures by checking your NFT portfolio and storing the NFT media and artwork on our geo-redundant IPFS servers. You can then be sure that, regardless of what actions your NFT creator may or may not have taken, your NFTs will be protected.

Getting started with alwaysNFT is simple. To immediately protect your NFTs navigate to https://alwaysnft.app/quickstart, attach your wallet, and provide an email address. We'll scan your NFTs and secure your NFT artwork and media on our geo-distributed IPFS servers. You'll then be sure that your NFT artwork won't spontaneously disappear.

Getting started with alwaysNFT

Please don't take our word for it.

If you're wondering if disappearing NFT artwork is a real problem, don't take our word for it. The problem has been widely reported, for instance, in this Verge article, on Coindesk, the Nextcartel, and at Decrypt.co. Until now, there has been nothing NFT owners could do to protect their NFT artwork. But now, with alwaysNFT, protecting your NFT artwork is cheap and easy.

alwaysNFT.cloud protects NFT metadata and media by permanently pinning off-chain NFT files to the immutable IPFS platform. For the first time, NFT owners can defend themselves against rug-pulling and loss of artwork by pinning their portfolio using alwaysNFT. NFT creators can use alwaysNFT to ensure that their NFT media and metadata never "goes missing" and thereby protect their royalty revenues.

Sign up for a free alwaysNFT account today at alwaysNFT.cloud

¹ The alwaysNFT VIP Pass tokens will be airdropped commencing on 5 August. The first 500 users to register a wallet which contains valid NFTs will receive a token. Users must supply a valid ETH or Polygon address to receive the token, however, the connected wallet can be a Solana or Flow wallet. One token per user. When all 500 tokens have been airdropped, one ETH will be transferred to one of the accounts registered, randomly selected. We reserve the right to eliminate any registrations that appear to be scammy :-).

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Guy Harrison
alwaysNFT

CTO at ProvenDB.com. Author of many books on database technology. Hopeless old geek. http://guyharrison.net