ipfs

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Girly out in space exploring every damn thing.

yeah, i think Nouns using that to store the nft
Nouns are stored directly on Ethereum and do not utilize pointers to other networks such as IPFS. This is possible because Noun parts are compressed and stored on-chain using a custom run-length encoding (RLE), which is a form of lossless compression.

The compressed parts are efficiently converted into a single base64 encoded SVG image on-chain. To accomplish this, each part is decoded into an intermediate format before being converted into a series of SVG rects using batched, on-chain string concatenation. Once the entire SVG has been generated, it is base64 encoded.

Oh. Heard it's better to encode NFTs and host them onchain directly. 

Thanks for the explanation.