NFTs are not dead. For the past two years, people have been repeating the same lazy narrative that “NFTs are dead,” as if silence meant disappearance, as if the absence of instant pumps meant the end of an entire cultural movement. But what actually died wasn’t the technology, nor the culture, nor the vision: it was simply the old playbook: the buy → pray for a pump → flip → exit meta. That model collapsed under its own weight, and honestly, it needed to. Because NFTs were never meant to be reduced to a speculative slot machine. 🧡 They became the only asset class in the entire Web3 ecosystem capable of creating real tribes, not just user bases or investor pools, but actual tribes with codes, slang, IRL meetups, shared identity, and an emotional glue that nothing else in crypto has ever replicated. Not your favorite chain. Not your favorite token. Not your alpha Telegram group. Only NFTs created that sense of belonging. And if anyone still doubts that cultural reality, they just need to open Twitter: even in the depths of the bear market, NFT PFPs cover the timeline. They never disappeared. Floors went down, but the culture stayed exactly where it was. The most important part of NFTs didn’t move at all. What people consistently fail to understand is that NFTs are naturally hyper-sensitive to liquidity. They behave exactly like luxury watches in traditional finance: a premium, illiquid, cultural asset that gets crushed when liquidity dries up and outperforms everything else when liquidity returns. This isn’t an NFT problem, it’s macro. And macro is about to shift. 2024 and 2025 were suffocating: QT draining the system, high rates killing risk appetite, institutions waiting on the sidelines. But 2026 is a completely different setup. We’re heading into rates cut, end of QT & Powell's mandate... a liquidity wave is about to hit the market in the next 6-18months window. And when liquidity returns, it flows into culture. Into identity. Into flex assets. It flows into NFTs. We’re not witnessing a funeral. We’re living through the post 2021 bubble reconstruction phase, the same phase every transformative technology goes through: the purge, the collapse of noise, the disappearance of low-effort founders, the consolidation of true communities, and the quiet rebuilding that precedes every renaissance. ...