When Henry Ford put the world on wheels with the Ford Model T in 1908, he had no clue that cars would become one of the primary causes of global warming. Likewise, when the plastic drinking straw was invented, nobody predicted that they would be ingested by marine wildlife.

When you’re in the early stages of bringing an idea to life, you have to think in terms of days, not decades — especially when you’re ushering in a massive technological breakthrough. Such is the case with the NFT boom we’...