THELOGICALINDIAN - The accepted Tezosbased NFT exchange has been discontinued
The Hic et Nunc website went bottomward on the aforementioned day a adversary launched NFT minting.
Hic et Nunc Frontend Goes Down
Hic et Nunc is down.
The frontend for the NFT marketplace, which uses the area name “hicetnunc.xyz,” went offline yesterday. At columnist time, the website is still down, while the marketplace’s official Twitter annual bio reads “discontinued.” Admitting affidavit for the brusque avenue are unclear, association associates accept speculated that it may be affiliated to a adversary exchange alleged objkt.com, which launched NFT minting yesterday. Moreover, rumors advance that centralized disagreements amid developers may accept acted as a agitator for the abrupt shutdown, admitting capacity abide unconfirmed. While users accept aggregate apropos that their NFTs may accept disappeared, as the acute affairs are immutable, they can still be accessed through objkt.com and added platforms. Since the shutdown, several new websites including one application the area name “hicetnunc.art” accept additionally surfaced. Following the shutdown, Hic et Nunc acquaint a cheep pointing to what appeared to be a articulation to the acute arrangement for Hic et Nunc NFTs on objkt.com.
https://twitter.com/hicetnunc2000/status/1458891213344591878?s=20
Hic et Nunc is congenital on the Tezos blockchain. Throughout this year, it bound accustomed itself as one of the arch NFT marketplaces amidst ascent absorption in the technology. It became accepted for hosting agenda art minted on Tezos, alms decidedly lower fees than agnate Ethereum-based alternatives like OpenSea. Abounding arising artists acclimated it as a way to advertise and advertise their assignment on the blockchain after accepting to pay base gas fees. Alongside Solana, Tezos has become a accepted hub for NFTs as the costs of application Ethereum amount out abounding collectors and creators. Tezos NFTs will affection at Art Basel’s accessible Miami Beach event, while the brand of Doja Cat accept afresh minted their own art on the platform.
As the Hic et Nunc ball began to unfold, the Ethereum-based NFT exchange ZORA tweeted a bulletin that appeared to advertence the incident. It read:
“If the Zora aggregation or website anytime disappeared, the exchange and your NFTs would still assignment and abide as advised for as continued as Ethereum. Being permissionless isn’t a nice to have. It’s a analytical feature.”
Disclosure: At the time of writing, the columnist of this affection endemic ETH and several added cryptocurrencies.
