id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt blog-dshr-org-9208 DSHR's Blog: NFTs and Web Archiving .html text/html 3529 461 84 Instead, most NFTs store the actual content as a simple URI string in their metadata, pointing to an Internet address where the digital thing actually resides. So, given the evanescent nature of Web links, the standard provides no guarantee that the metadata exists, or is unchanged from when the token was created. If the purchaser gets both the NFT's metadata and the content to which it refers via IPFS URIs, they can be assured that the data is valid. The ipfs.io URIs in the NFT metadata are actually URLs; they don't point to IPFS, but to a Web server that accesses IPFS. Pointing to the NFT's metadata and content using IPFS URIs assures their validity but does it assure their existence? To assure the existence of the NFT's metadata and content they must both be not just written to IPFS but also pinned to at least one IPFS node. ./cache/blog-dshr-org-9208.html ./txt/blog-dshr-org-9208.txt