Protect Protocol: the fight against art theft in web3
Billions of dollars are lost to scams and hacks in web3. One of the most underappreciated is the simple theft of art online and claiming it as your own on an NFT marketplace. Everyone else suffers: artists, who do not get compensated for their work, and collectors, who thought they were joining a community that shared their values. Ekin Genç explores DeviantArt's Protect Protocol, and how it has scanned over half a billion NFTs to alert artists to thieves profiting from stolen work.
Ekin Genç
September 7, 2022