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the blockchain cannot be forged or altered. Park Hye-
and ‘scarcity,’ humans’ ‘desire to possess’ began to reach
jin, a professor at the Seoul School of Integrated Sciences
out to digital files, and this desire to own them enabled
& Technologies, said, “Minting is an act of ‘tokenizing’
‘value assessment’ of the digital asset.” Oh Hyun-ok, a
digitalfilessothattheycanbetradedthroughablockchain
professor in the Department of Information System at
network. At this time, in order to make the NFT exist as
HanyangUniversity,alsosaid,“WebuyaCDeventhough
the only one in the world, it goes through the process of
wedon’tlistentoitoften,becausewefeellikeweownthe
makingthetoken,whichrepresentsthedigitalfile,unique.
music. It must have been the same for NFTs,” adding that
Makingadigitalfileintoatokendoesnotmeanthatthefile
the desire for ownership based on originality influenced
itselfbecomesatoken,butthattheoriginalfileisputonthe
NFTs.
server or into the cloud and contains the path, something
ButNFTs,whichoncehadbeengrowingwithgreatspeed,
likeaUniformResourceLocator(URL),inthetoken.”
now seem to be considered in a downtrend recently. The
An NFT, which has become unique through the minting
monthly trading volume of the global NFT marketplace as
process,canbetradedandmonetizedthroughtransactions.
of the end of May 2022 was US$4 billion, down about 75
Currently, most exchanges that can freely trade NFTs
percent from January 2022. Nick Rose, founder and CEO
are overseas platforms. NFTs can be traded on OpenSea,
of NFT Platform Ethernity Chain, pointed out on Korea
LaRible,Mintable,Makersplace,andBinance.Transactions
Economy TV, “The NFT market has grown explosively
are largely made in the form of auctions and fixed price
thanks to economic stimulus measures due to COVID-19,
sales. The auction is in the form of starting bidding from
but the growth of the NFT market was too fast.” As such,
thelowestpricewhentheNFTworkisreleasedandpeople
itisarguedthatthebubbleintheNFTmarketiscollapsing
who want to buy it raise the price through competitive
as the misunderstanding of the notion of NFTs is resolved
bidding.Theownershipofthefilewillbetransferredtothe
anditsshortcomingsarerevealed.Oneofthedisadvantages
person who has paid the highest price before the deadline.
is that NFTs do not provide a copyright monopoly, but an
A fixed price sale is a little different from an auction.
ownershipacquisition.Takingrealartworksasanexample,
It proceeds with a system in which sellers set prices in
buying an artwork in real life does not mean that you will
advanceandraisethem.
acquire copyrights. But there is a difference in that digital
materialsareeasytoduplicateandowncopiesof,whilereal
artworksarehardtocopybecausetheyaretangibleobjects.
*Metadata: According to Wikipedia, access on September 25, 2022, metadata
isdefinedas“Dataaboutdata,datawithacertainpurpose.”Specificdatacan
be easily found since metadata is used to describe other data. For example,
a goal scene can be extracted from a video recording the World Cup using
ⓒkubera
metadata.
NFTBubbleBursting
ThereasonwhyNFTshavebeenabletotakeoffinthefirst
place is that they enabled digital files that were valueless
into valuation. An NFT can be seen as stamping a stamp
thatcanbecheckedbyeveryoneandthatcannotbeforged
or altered by choosing only one of the digital files and
declaring,“Thisistheoriginalfile.”ProfessorParksaid,“As
people learned that digital files can also have ‘originality’
▲NFTshaveconverteddigitalfilesthatwerevaluelessintovaluation.
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