Elon Musk’s X discontinues NFT profile photo feature
Tech magnate Elon Musk once called adding NFTs to X “annoying” and a waste of engineering resources. Social media platform X has removed Features and information related to non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as part of owner Elon Musk’s 2024 vision for the private firm. Due to the change, premium subscribers can no longer upload NFTs as their profile photos. The company’s support page has also been scrubbed of all content about NFT profile photos. X onboarded NFTs for account avatars in January 2022, when the platform was still called Twitter and managed by a board. At the time, Twitter Blue subscribers could use NFTs as their profile photos, which appeared hexagonal. Users could upload digital collectibles minted under the ERC-721 or ERC-1155 token standards, the defacto options for creating NFTs on Ethereum’s blockchain. You might also like: X (Twitter) obtains license to trade crypto in Rhode Island The feature also provided additional information when clicked upon, inclu...