Stakeholders and Value in the NFT Ecosystem: Towards a Multi-disciplinary Understanding of the NFT Phenomenon
Stakeholders and Value in the NFT Ecosystem: Towards a Multi-disciplinary Understanding of the NFT Phenomenon
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NFT 生态系统中的利益相关者和价值：对 NFT 现象的多学科理解
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2022
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Ylva Fernaeus
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Mehmet Aydın Baytaş;Amos Cappellaro;Ylva Fernaeus
不可替代代币（NFT）已成为2021年设计、技术和业务的决定性趋势。NFT的价值、合法性和效用存在争议：支持者强调开放、安全和不可变的所有权数据库的革命性经济和文化潜力，而反对者则对生态系统中的环境问题和大量不法行为感到不满。然而，这一现象与人机交互相关，并标志着未来交互产品的重要发展。为了更好地理解NFT现象，并为未来的HCI研究和设计提供信息，我们调查了NFT生态系统中的利益相关者以及他们之间的关系。基于我们从社交新闻网站Hacker News挖掘的开放数据，我们贡献了NFT生态系统中第一个数据支持的利益相关者模型。该模型揭示了创造者，所有者和技术专家的观点的细微差别，确定投资公司和拍卖行作为知识和价值的仲裁者，并提出了对未来研究的影响。
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have been a defining trend for design, technology, and business in 2021. The value, legitimacy, and utility of NFTs is disputed: proponents highlight revolutionary economic and cultural potentials of an open, secure, and immutable ownership database, while opponents are displeased by the environmental issues and abundant wrongdoing in the ecosystem. Nevertheless, the phenomenon is relevant to HCI, and signifies important developments for future interactive products. To better understand the NFT phenomenon, and to inform future HCI research and design, we investigated the stakeholders in the NFT ecosystem and relations between them. Based on open data we mined from the social news website Hacker News, we contribute the first data-backed model of stakeholders in the NFT ecosystem. The model reveals a nuanced account of the outlooks of creators, owners, and technologists; identifies investment firms and auction houses as arbiters of knowledge and value; and presents implications for future research.