Yeah, that's what one redditor noticed:

>Hey [OP], from your comment history it looks like you’ve been working on NFT and blockchain stuff for the last year. Does that mean these award changes are likely to be related to that in some way?

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/14ytp7s/reworking_a...

Reddit Notes 2.0?

https://www.engadget.com/2014-12-19-reddit-notes.html

It's not a hard thing to imagine. Reddit already uses a blockchain for it's NFT avatars.