Back to collectionCard Art Has a Pipeline; Ethereum Mainnet Issuance Does Not Yet Have a Viable Cost
Background: The card NFT review put earlier production plans to the test against the conditions of an actual release. Today: The review found Ethereum mainnet issuance costs prohibitively high, so the team shelved the plan. Impact and next steps: The art pipeline had made production more predictable, but today exposed a bottleneck beyond production: whether the work could reach players at an affordable cost.
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Background: The card NFT review put earlier production plans to the test against the conditions of an actual release. The team was considering how players might obtain cards, but first had to answer whether issuance costs could make that path unworkable from the outset.
Today: The review found Ethereum mainnet issuance costs prohibitively high, so the team shelved the plan. They did not treat cost as a minor issue to fix after launch: if minting and claiming were both expensive, players would struggle to access cards even if the art were ready.
Impact and next steps: The art pipeline had made production more predictable, but today exposed a bottleneck beyond production: whether the work could reach players at an affordable cost. The issuance route remained undecided, and the team needed to keep looking for a financially viable approach.