X Removes Support For NFT Profile Pics

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Elon Musk's company X has outlined a grand vision for 2024, including plans for peer-to-peer payments and additional AI-powered tools.

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Despite this vision, X has quietly removed a feature for its paid subscribers, preventing them from setting NFTs as profile pictures.

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Descriptions of the NFT profile picture feature have been removed from X Premium support pages, signaling the discontinuation of the service.

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Premium subscribers were able to showcase NFTs they owned through hexagon-shaped profile pictures after a temporary connection to their crypto wallets.

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Users who had NFTs as profile pictures still retain hexagonal avatars, but it's unclear if X will remove these in the future.

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The removal of the NFT feature aligns with the trend of other social networks winding down their NFT experiments, 

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with Instagram and Facebook both experimenting in 2022, but Meta shutting down NFT support in March 2023.

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Some high-priced NFT tokens, like Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), have seen a decline in value, 

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but the overall NFT market has shown signs of recovery, with trade volumes exceeding $1.6 billion according to NFT aggregator CryptoSlam.