PFP (profile photo) projects are now the standard for the NFT world after they shot up at the height of their popularity around 2021. They're the foundation of many of the community's most well-known projects, such as Bored Ape Yacht Club, Doodles, Cool Cats, and CryptoPunks, the project that was the catalyst for the PFP revolution.
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The name itself suggests that PFPs are digital works of art intended to be used as profile photos in social networks. They've become a symbol of the way people identify themselves within the realm of Web3 and sometimes, they represent the sole known identity of well-known Web3 people.
They're located at the crossroads of the two, generative art and collectibles. generally in large amounts (10,000 or more). Most often, each NFT included in the PFP collection will have various levels of rareness. The more rare an attribute is, the more desirable and valuable it's thought to be. This is part of their appeal as people are drawn to buying the most rare of the collections to exhibit or sell.
Concerning their generative art component PFPs are developed with a plug-and-play technique using which NFT designers load in a wide range of attributes in an app that will randomly combine huge amounts of images. These traits could be related to the body hairstyle, body colour, or a variety of other variables based on the particular project.
The traits they exhibit are found in an artist who develops the initial designs that the PFPs are compiled. For instance the PFPs used for the well-known World of Women project were drawn from over 200 hand-drawn assets created by creator and cofounder Yam Karkai.
When the designs are completed and the desired traits have been selected Once the traits are decided on, after that, PFPs are then released initially to the communities who are following the development after which they are released to the general public. This process will vary depending on whether or not the NFTs are generated during the minting process (when members authenticate their NFT on the blockchain) or are pre-generated and put into a kind of first-come-first-serve grab bag at random.
PFP projects are available in a variety of styles, and each one has their own distinct group of people who own these projects. The range of projects is from undiscovered and filled with potential to the popular and well-established, but prohibitively expensive. In addition, they are enjoyable to possess and to show off and as such they're (at least for the moment) an ideal emblem for this NFT universe.
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