The Reddit NFTs Thesis - by Boffin - Page One

The reddit-pill: a text-based metaverse, customizable drip monsters, & ...

Update (As of 28th August, 2025) The Reddit team has announced that they’re sunsetting the Avatar project. This stings quite a bit, not because I invested (and I guess subsequently lost) a fair chunk of change on this bet, but rather that I believed that Reddit (out of all companies) had a real shot of actually pulling this off and being a widely accepted way of creating, advertising & selling these Collectable Avatars. This also marks the only instance where I’m making an edit to a published post. You can still read the entry below, the ideas, rationale and logic followed almost 3 years…

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