October 21, 2021, 9:29PM EDT
• 9 min read

Quick Take
- Many NFT launches are fixed-price and first-come-first-served that result in gas auctions, and they provide a sub-optimal user experience
- Many NFT metadata is hosted on IPFS or centralized servers, with an increasing number of them getting hosted on Arweave recently
- NFT launches can be gamed if the associated metadata is predetermined