Nike quietly sells RTFKT: The inside story of the Web3 subsidiary change of ownership

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【BitPush】Nike has quietly made a move—last month, they sold their digital product subsidiary RTFKT. The buyer and the terms of the deal were not disclosed, and it was completed quietly.

RTFKT previously announced the closure of its Web3 service operations in January this year, and now even the company itself has changed hands. This company has quite a background; it was acquired by Nike in 2021 and specializes in digital products.

This move indeed reflects a change in attitude among many traditional large companies toward Web3. They entered the market with great ambition but are now quietly divesting. Is the aftermath of the NFT boom really that bad, or have they just not found a reliable business model?

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StakeOrRegretvip
· 21h ago
Another Web3 dream dies in the hands of capital Hurry up and run away without saying a word, classic case Just knew that when traditional big companies come in, they just take a cut and leave RTFKT said it’s over just like that, hilarious In that wave of NFTs, how many actually made a profit? Most are just taking over the leftovers Big companies are like this, the cost of trial and error is too low Quietly making moves without revealing the buyer? This deal is a bit interesting Another failed Web3 story Honestly, without practical applications, everything will eventually die
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FlashLoanKingvip
· 01-07 07:35
Nike's move was brilliant, quietly offloading RTFKT... How confident we were when we bought it back then, and now, buyers don't even dare to make an official announcement. It's just a bluffing Web3 dream, big companies are like this. More and more NFT projects are being nailed into the coffin, really. When big companies come in, they hype it up; when they retreat, they say nothing. Honestly, it's just because they didn't make any money, so they're in such a rush to run away.
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BlockImpostervip
· 01-07 07:26
Nike's move is hilarious. They hyped it up so much last year and now they are ditching it even more fiercely. The biggest joke in Web3 is these big corporations.
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MevTearsvip
· 01-07 07:08
Nike's recent move is truly cold-blooded. They hyped it up loudly when entering, and now they just walk away, tsk tsk. This is the real picture of big companies playing Web3—burning money and then leaving. RTFKT's downfall was quite tragic, from shutdown to change of ownership in one go, nobody wanted it at all. NFTs, to put it plainly, are just hype bubbles. Big companies should have seen through this long ago. So, is Nike just setting a bad example for other brands? Behind the quiet liquidation, probably the books don't look good. If Web3 really has a future, big companies wouldn't all be running away.
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