While Curio Cards was the first NFT project to store its art on the decentralized IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), even that is susceptible to failure if environmental disaster strikes (such as nuclear fallout or a solar storm, like the Carrington event of 1859). However, NFTs aren’t necessarily permanent if there’s a physical disruption to the blockchain systems hosting them. The art associated with NFTs is synonymous with the first expression of a blockchain-driven shift - one that’s propelling a growing Web3 space as use cases, like Curio Cards, begin to include identity, ownership, and various other functions. NFTs have become a hot new commodity, because they reflect technical ingenuity and contemporary culture wrapped into one immutable digital item. And that’s why Top Dog Studios, a team of environment-conscious creatives and experts in Web3, decided to store a collection of NFTs there. The AWA is the safest place on Earth for digital artifacts. Longyearbyen is earmarked as the ideal place of preservation for several reasons: it is remote (which means largely unaffected by humans), safe (Svalbard is a declared demilitarized zone by 42 nations), and cold enough not to be affected by changes in climate. In 2008, the Norwegian government opened the Svalbard Global Seed Vault there, a backup storage facility for seed samples from the genebanks of countries worldwide. The AWA is in Longyearbyen, the northernmost settlement in the world, at the edge of the Arctic Circle. Home to Vatican Library manuscripts and renowned artworks by Rembrandt and Munch, the AWA’s mantra is a noble, humanitarian one: protecting world memory. In the Svalbard archipelago of Norway, insulated far below icy snow and permafrost, lies the AWA, a decommissioned coal mine turned vault for valuable digital artifacts. That’s why the Arctic World Archive (AWA) exists. Without the clues and traces of where we came from, without snapshots of the zeitgeist - the measures of moments, breakthroughs, culture, and science - the human essence of history is at risk of being lost. That narrative context will always matter - whether you’re waking up a thousand years from now perhaps more machine than organism, or finding yourself in a future world where environmental factors have left modern society all but erased. Whether stored as digital data or written on stone tablets, records of what humans did and when they did it, provide the context for the evolving human story. (Image from: ) Preservation Of History Keeps Human Culture Alive
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