The NFT boom promised a new frontier for artists and a once-in-a-generation investment opportunity. It delivered wash trading, celebrity pump-and-dumps, and a graveyard of overpriced monkey cartoons. A requiem for the greatest speculative mania of the internet age. Once upon a time, Paris Hilton and Jimmy Fallon sat on The Tonight Show and compared their Bored Ape NFTs like two children trading Pokémon cards. Fallon grinned. Hilton cooed. The cameras zoomed in on framed print
