Bondee has plans for NFT integration after you download it

Overnight trending fashion app Bondee has plans for NFT integration, according to its own privacy policy.

While the Singapore-based app has seen popularity for its ability to customize avatars and show them off to friends, the usual red flags for an NFT game are there – especially since it acts as if it’s the first app that lets you virtually communicate with friends.

A skeptical user, Burhandug through the app’s privacy policy and found what everyone following NFT gaming had suspected all along – the app’s plans to retrofit NFTs at an unspecified date.

The document repeatedly mentions trading your NFTs with your friends, like this in regards to data collection:

You can create a blockchain-based wallet on the public blockchain within the platform, purchase B-Beans using fiat currency; and then use such B-Beans to purchase NFT products publicly available on the Platform for yourself or your friend. Your NFT products will be stored in your blockchain based wallet using the blockchain technology. We will collect data generated during said purchases, including wallet balance, B-Beans order information and NFT order information. Please note that your wallet passphrase, private key, wallet password and other private data will only be stored on your local device and we do not have access to such data.

Considering that any customization-based app is just a giant list of settings, it’s easy to see where the NFTs will fit in – certain “unique” items will likely only be available as NFTs, and the fiat-powered B- The beans will likely be used to buy cryptocurrency, just like in Ni No Kuni.

Likewise, the game’s feature that lets you send your avatar sailing will likely include some mechanism to generate cryptocurrency stand-ins, just like games like MIR4.

We’ve reached out to Bondee for comment on the NFT implementation and will update accordingly if they respond.

It should be noted that Bondee isn’t the first app to try this strategy – Netmarble infamously retrofitted NFTs to Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds, with mixed success.

NFTs have been a contentious topic in the gaming industry, as more companies continue to try to put them into games – often being met with indifference at best and pushback at worst.

The fact that so many of them go to great lengths to hide their common buzzwords is where the ethical line is drawn – you wouldn’t hide a feature in your product unless you knew people wouldn’t want it.