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After six years, NFTfi is winding down.
When I was 20 I had to pick a path in life. Coder or artist? Ultimately I chose coding. When I first heard about NFTs in 2019 I realized I could combine those two paths into a single project, @NFTfi. I was all in.
In the six years since, this project has been my sole focus. In the early days I was the first lender and learnt a number of painful (and expensive) lessons on how to lend against NFTs safely. I still own Founder Kitty #72 that I got in a default for the low, low price of 30 ETH. The Meebit I use as my profile picture was minted in a hospital chair watching my sleeping wife and first born hours after his birth.
Together, we helped pave the way for the NFT lending industry. From doing the first fully trustless on-chain NFT backed loan to facilitating more than $730 million in peer-to-peer loans. Without losing a single NFT. In an industry that often struggled with trust, that's something I'm incredibly proud of.
In the end, the market that made NFTfi possible, became too small to support the company we had built.
What pulled me into this was never the promise of profit. It was the possibility that artists and collectors could truly own the things they cared about. I still believe that matters.
Looking back there are some things I would do differently. However, if I had to go back to 2019, I would do it all again. What we had as a community in that moment will stay with me.
To my co-founders, Jonathan, Mads and Charlotte and the team who built NFTfi, from the first year to the last: you gave years of your lives, your craft, and your belief to this project. You took a chance on an idea that was never guaranteed to work and built something real alongside me. NFTfi only existed because of that. Thank you, and thank you to the community and investors that kept it real alongside us.
All those years ago I chose coding as a path. Six years next to passionate artists and collectors has made me curious about the other side of that path again. Who knows, maybe next time we meet I will be sitting on the artist's side of the table.
Hope to see you in Marfa.
A great looking Fidenza by @tylerxhobbs was recently refinanced on NFTfi
Did you know that at the core of Fidenza is a flow field algorithm that Hobbs had been refining since 2016? It generates smooth organic curves that never overlap, very reminiscent of abstract paintings.
Another Gondi vault loan transferred over to NFTfi with our novel Cross Protocol Refinance feature.
Find a better rate with NFTfi, bring it over to us. No fees.
Contact our BD Lead @aventurine_eth to learn more
Did you know that its not just individual assets you can Cross Protocol ReFi to NFTfi but also entire vaults from other platforms?
One borrower recently refinanced a Gondi vault containing 20 @OthersideMeta deeds and 3 Koda's to NFTfi using our Cross Protocol ReFi feature π₯
3 Milady's were recently refinanced on NFTfi
Fun Fact: In early 2025, Ethereum co-founder @VitalikButerin bought Milady #9286 and set it as his Twitter profile picture
3 @beeple artworks from the Spring/Summer Collection from 2021 were recently refinanced on NFTfi
Did you know that Beeple ran a raffle where anyone could enter for just $1? 100 lucky winners got a free NFT from the collection!
3 borrowers. 3 @BoredApeYC Refinanced on NFTfi.
Speaking of Bored Apes, did you see the news yesterday? We express a major congrats to @mfigge for stepping up as CEO of @yugalabs.
NFTfi is the #1 platform for @OthersideMeta Koda loans. We currently have over 90% of the total loans outstanding in the entire lending market for the collection.
One borrower just refinanced 15
A borrower just refinanced 4 Gazers by @MattKaneArtist on NFTfi
Fun Fact: Each Gazer syncs algorithmically with real Moon phases. Starting from its assigned Origin Moon date, the piece's frame rate increases over time. Older Origins animate faster while newer ones start slower.
Did you know, @beeple posted a video before dropping this collection in late 2020 because NFT art was still so new to most of his audience? This very collection caught Christies eye which launched The First 5000 Days a few months later.
A borrower just refinanced one on NFTfi