# Overcoming Challenges and Driving Innovation
Overcoming Technical Challenges. The Magic Behind NFT Platforms
06:00pm - 06:35pm
CTOs and Product Managers from a number of prominent tokenized art marketplaces will discuss their experiences in designing and building a product to maximize user experiences. From decentralized media storage and front-end design to innovative smart contracts and extensive testing, the panel shares some of the biggest challenges and most rewarding successes they witnessed throughout a long and intensive process.
### Points to note
* Improvements in **file storage**
* IPFS is great but not perfect
* Other solutions are still immature but getting better
* Data longevity
* file size limitations
* load times, generally making paletable experience for collectors and artist
* more interactive and richer media types expected/wanted
* Handling **mixed media**
* Transcoding pipelines
* Formats are not always supported in all browsers/phones
* Maintaining the original quality but making it more accesible is a challenage
* **Standards** are needed and still evolving
* Most follow the OpenSea standards on **metadata** but really different domains require different standards i.e. art vs gaming most likely need different standards
* **Secondary sale roylaty standards** are still missing
* **EIP-2981** trying to get to the bottom of this problem
* **transparency** for minting and token purchases
* being able to track token movements and prices will be benfical in the future - no agregation here
* Spotting deep **fakes**
* how to reliability do this
* **GAS** is a problem full stop
* **immutablex** and other rollup based solutions on the cards
* transaction
* **Mobile** first UX is getting more important
* WalletConnect enabling wallet less web3 access from normal browsers
* **Large attack** surface
* smart contacts and all the secuirty concerns they bring
* all web 2 era security considerations need to be though about
* key management
* artist key management
* Identity if key
* **Uploading large files** on poor connections
* dependant on internet access
* same for page load speeds
* Success
* improved artwork handling for social channels was a big win, lots fo effort went into that
* Caching layers are king
* UX and page speed still need to be quick