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On one eery night in NFT land at Mysties Auction House. Following some heavily contested bidding, we are about to witness the unveiling of the never-before-seen NFT from the Web3 renowned artist simply known as “Unknown”.

Eager press from established outlets like WagMedia were camped at the venue to cover the story, there is even a special live reporting of this event from Jay Chrawanna.

Count down to the reveal: 3,2,1….. yikes… gasps… shock from the attendees. Everyone is stunned, after all the hype, excitement, with big whales and top collectors battling it out, we climax with what appears to be a blank white screen.

Seems people are in disbelief as it appears that the NFT has vanished?

	Shock as this blank white screen NFT is unveiled?

“What the…. erm have a good night everybody?” yells Jay, and then in quick reaction speed dials his contacts at Crust HQ.

Moments later coming through the police barricade who are holding back the angry people, and the ambulance service looking after the suffering people (needing treatment from the shock of the reveal, or stress from the earlier bidding), emerge Agent L and Agent Q. Both smartly dressed in the typical black suit with a white shirt, that most of these agency types wear.

Agent L gets out his super-duper laptop and starts typing away. Whilst Agent Q walks towards the podium screen with her special forensic gloves on and starts inspecting.

“The power is on and wiring to the screen is all intact L,” says Agent Q and she continues inspecting more closely.

“Thanks, Q, things looking good on the blockchain so far, am now going to look into the interaction with Crust Network” replies Agent L, and then he continues with the typing.

Suddenly smiles come from both Agent L and Agent Q.

Agent L speaks out “Aha, from the code I can see that this is indeed the correct token, and furthermore, this is also the right CID (Content Identifer). Given the CID cannot be tampered with then I can only conclude that there is nothing wrong with this NFT”

CID is Qmes25Mkot36SG3f7psL1UEXHoUftR5ugpiB2xeThuGWeq

Agent Q responds “Right L, well it does clearly state in the auction guide booklet that it is using RMRK 2, so it isn’t just an ordinary blank white screen."

	Auction guide booklet - does Lot20* ring any bells?

"Also if you look closely in the bottom corner you will see Unknown’s signature mark, used on all his works. So along with your checks on Crust Network the NFT did not vanished”

Magnified view of the signature from the artist in the bottom corner

Noice, the case is closed, we can now all truly have a good night everybody.

If you want to learn more about using Crust for NFTs then you can check out the following article from the Crust team: https://medium.com/crustnetwork/how-to-use-crust-network-to-store-nft-files-4f45e96150b1.

I used Crust to publicly host the imagines in this story in a decentralized manner. Used the same CID mentioned by Agent L for the NFT (click here and try to zoom in and see if you can see the signature that Agent Q spotted).

*Crust Shadow won the 20th Kusama parachain slot.

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