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Binance users have until July 3 to withdraw their NFTs or lose access permanently. Nifty Gateway already shut down in February. Kraken NFT, X2Y2, and the NFT Paris conference all closed this year. Annual NFT trading volume has fallen 95% from its 2022 peak. The platforms that positioned themselves as homes for digital art are disappearing. But there is a distinction worth drawing between what is dying and what is being built. What is dying is centralized marketplace infrastructure. Exchanges, conferences, speculative trading platforms. The commercial layer built on top of blockchain art was always the least durable part of the stack, and the market cycle is stripping it away. What is being built is institutional infrastructure. Canyon is opening a dedicated media art conservation center in New York this autumn. Art Blocks announced that 90% of projects across its ecosystem can now be rendered entirely from the blockchain. The first formal conservation risk assessment of an on-chain artwork was published last week. MoMA, Centre Pompidou, the Whitney, and the Toledo Museum have all acquired NFTs into permanent collections. An NFT stored on Binance is subject to a company product decision. An NFT in a museum conservation plan is subject to a century-long institutional commitment. Both tokens live on the same chain. The difference is who controls access, and for how long. The market cycle is washing out the intermediaries. What remains is the art and the institutions willing to hold it.

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