{"id":84086,"date":"2023-09-06T16:24:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T13:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=84086"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:13:07","slug":"yuri-dud-explains-why-he-rejected-his-own-nft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/yuri-dud-explains-why-he-rejected-his-own-nft\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuri Dud Explains Why He Rejected His Own NFT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, journalist Yuri Dud was offered to release his own <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-are-nfts\">NFT<\/a> collection, but he reacted &#8216;very conservatively&#8217; and declined the idea. He spoke about this during an interview with Ellen Shaydlin, an artist from Saint Petersburg, as well as her husband and curator Evgeny.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ellen Shaydlin \u2013 Russian star of world art \/ vDud'\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3TEKiX9UoY4?start=5157&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>According to Dud, it seemed to him to be &#8216;shoddy&#8217; idea.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;NFT is when you simply want to take a slice of your fame and sell it to people you like for an exorbitant price. It seemed to me that this is not a very respectful idea toward the public,&#8221; the interviewer explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Evgeny Shaydlin supported Dud&#8217;s decision, arguing that an NFT should have &#8216;a real value&#8217; attached.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Once you go in there, you must continue to support the collectors, make announcements related to your own collection; you are tied to it, this is your priority. Otherwise you will simply disappoint your collectors,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An art curator recommended that Dud consider creating tokens for charity rather than for profit.<\/p>\n<p>Back in December 2022, two works by Ellen Shaydlin from the Annihilation collection were sold for a <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ton-diamonds-marketplace-sells-two-of-the-most-expensive-nfts\">record 19,860 TON<\/a> (more than $50,000 at the time of the sale) on the TON Diamonds NFT marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, journalist Yuri Dud was offered to release his own NFT collection, but he reacted &#8216;very conservatively&#8217; and declined the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1213,27],"class_list":["post-84086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84088,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84086\/revisions\/84088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}