NFT creation date

[ahdigital]

I think there should be a created_date key added to the NFT object so that anybody can see when an NFT was originally made.

This would potentially help identify real (original) assets from dupes or fakes etc.

[christophersanborn]

This will be defined implicitly, as the date the token was created, (or more particularly, the date the artistic component was embedded in the description filed), is discernible by inspecting the blockchain. Putting a creation date in there opens up opportunities for mis-match or attempts at spoofing.

However — there is an issue here. One might be interested in when the original art was created. Did the artist just draw it and tokenize it that very day? Or was it a ten year old drawing she kept in a drawer and just now decided to share with the world? In my opinion, standardizing a formalism for communicating that is difficult, as it's somewhat situational. My hope was that artists would use the narrative field to communicate whatever information they thought important to communicate, including vintage of the artwork.