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NFTs Are Largely a Failed Form Factor for Non-Financial Assets

Jackson Denka · We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts · May 28, 2025 · at 43:54

Jackson Denka, founder of Azura, evaluates the lasting viability of NFTs compared to prediction markets and meme coins.

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“I think it's a failed form factor. I wouldn't like totally rule it out, but you know, NFTs, meme coins, predictions markets, these all represent a similar sort of like I don't know whether like people are consciously or unconsciously participating, but it's the desire to price things otherwise cannot have prices that that's what this represents.”

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