The fervor for Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) attracted countless creators, leading to a Big Bang of digital assets driven by latent or explicit forms of inspiration, as in many creative processes. This work exploits Vision Transformers and graph-based modeling to delve into visual inspiration phenomena between NFTs over the years. Our goals include unveiling the main structural traits that shape visual inspiration networks, exploring the interrelation between visual inspiration and asset performances, investigating crypto influence on inspiration processes, and explaining the inspiration relationships among NFTs. Our findings unveil how the pervasiveness of inspiration led to a temporary saturation of the visual feature space, the impact of the dichotomy between inspiring and inspired NFTs on their financial performance, and an intrinsic self-regulatory mechanism between markets and inspiration waves. Our work can serve as a starting point for gaining a broader view of the evolution of Web3.

翻译：非同质化通证（NFT）的热潮吸引了无数的创作者，引发了由潜在或明确的灵感驱动的数字资产的大爆炸，就像许多创造性过程一样。本文利用视觉变换器和基于图形的建模来深入探讨多年来NFT之间的视觉灵感现象。我们的目标包括揭示塑造视觉灵感网络的主要结构特征，探索视觉灵感与资产表现之间的相互关系，调查加密货币对灵感过程的影响，以及解释NFT之间的灵感关系。我们的研究结果揭示了灵感的普及性如何导致视觉特征空间的暂时饱和，灵感和灵感NFT之间的二分法对其财务表现的影响，以及市场和灵感波之间的内在自我调节机制。本文可以作为获得Web3演变更广阔视野的起点。