Blink and You’ll Miss It, ERC-404 Just Got Dethroned…

TL;DR

• ERC-404’s fractionalized NFTs impacted ETH’s community charges, so the ‘DN-404’ commonplace was constructed, and apparently touts a ~20% discount in payment impacts.

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Innovation strikes FAST in new industries. 

And that’s very true in Web3 – an trade stuffed with nerds, all creating alongside one another, constructing greater and higher initiatives. 

What’s wild is, we get to look at all of it unfold in actual time. 

For instance, on Monday, we wrote concerning the ERC-404 commonplace — however since then, a brand new rival implementation has already been developed referred to as DN-404. 

Right here’s why:

ERC-404 was constructed in order that a number of individuals may personal a fractional share of a single NFT (kinda like breaking one NFT up into a number of puzzle items and sharing them round).

The large downside was that these fractionalized NFTs impacted Ethereum’s community charges, large time. 

So in response, the rival DN-404 commonplace was constructed, and apparently touts a ~20% discount in payment impacts.

Now right here’s the unusual half…

The individuals liable for creating the DN-404 various see this entire factor as a gimmick:

“I need to be clear – whereas I had a ton of enjoyable constructing this, I nonetheless see 404 as extra of a gimmick than anything.

Nevertheless, the area has proven a want to proceed utilizing it, and so we determined it was price making an implementation that was environment friendly and protected to make use of.”

— Quit, one of many pseudonymous devs behind the mission.

(Weird).