Tuesday, Elon Musk's X outlined a grand vision for the company in 2024, rolling out peer-to-peer payments and more AI-powered tools. Amid all of this, the company quietly took away one feature from paid subscribers: They're no longer able to set an NFT as their profile picture.

The feature was, earlier, introduced by Twitter's old management team in January 2022. When the feature was first introduced, the company had allowed users to use minted NFTs on Ethereum as profile pictures, which then displayed in hexagons. As usual, users would be able to tap/click on their profile picture to know more about NFTs, including details like a collection of the NFT, the contract address, TokenID and the app with which it was minted.

X has apparently removed all descriptions related to the NFT profile picture feature from its X Premium support page.

"With Premium, you can customize your profile so you can display your NFTs on a hex-shaped profile picture on your account.". After a brief link with your cryptocurrency wallet which allows you to create an NFT as your profile picture, your digital asset appears within a unique hexagon shape that marks you as the owner of that NFT, "the feature description read on the website before (Internet Archive link).

People who had an NFT set as a profile picture still have hexagonal avatars. It's unclear if X will eventually remove those as well.

Not very surprising, given the removal of the feature, as other social networks also wound down their NFT experiments. Instagram and Facebook both began experimenting with showing and posting NFTs back in 2022. Meta shut down support for NFTs in March 2023.

While some of the pricey tokens, like Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), have crashed near nothing from their price highs, the NFT market has rebounded over the past months with trade volumes reaching a record $1.6 billion, according to NFT aggregator CryptoSlam.