👀 #004: Music, Art, Real Estate are all going "Phygital"
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👀 #004: Music, Art, Real Estate are all going "Phygital"
Galaxy Digital and TIMEPiece NFT Collection airdrop on Oct.14, NYC Office building sold as NFT, Christie's 3.0 launched, SAN Sound music ecosystem, Christina Aguilera files for NFT trademarks ...
Happy Monday everyone!
Since starting the weekly newsletter, I’ve been reached out quite a few times from people asking about Web3 educational materials, how to self-start a project, how to find reliable engineers, how to find artists and creators for collaboration….. All these are great questions that I have struggled with during the process of building BOLTBOLT’s Original Nebula Collection. Now that we are at the final development stage of the project and will be launching soon, I want to share a couple of lessons, insights, and stories behind it. For the past week, I’ve been putting together resources and self-study guides for aspiring builders from technical and non-technical backgrounds, covering topics like “what’s the full development cycle and workflow for building an NFT project from end to end”, “the alternatives of building a full-stack NFT project if you are not technical”, “development cost and timeline” …..
Look interesting? Stay tuned! The guides and stories will be out very soon.
🗽Reminder: NYC Tech Week is happening this week. Look for a selection of Web3 events towards the end of today’s newsletter.
Web3 and NFT News 🖼️
🔭 Galaxy Digital is dropping The Explorer Collection NFT this week (Oct.14). Galaxy Digital, a leading investor in digital assets, crypto, and blockchain, collaborated with TIMEPiece, the web3 community initiated by TIME, to release the first invite-only NFT drop to continue their common efforts in Web3 and Metaverse education initiative. The Collection consists of 3,210 unique Explorers derived from Galaxy’s new logo.
🏢 A real-life office building in New York City is sold as an NFT. The real estate development company Azul NYC acquired the office building located at 44 West 37th Street for 1 ETH on Opensea in addition to a “sizeable undisclosed sum” to the building developer, Integrated Projects. Being the very first building NFT, 44W37 is an interesting implementation on how blockchain utility can turn tangible property like real estate to be “phygital.”
🎨 Christie’s launched an NFT auction platform - Christie’s 3.0. The on-chain auction platform is dedicated to exceptional NFT-based art. Currently, there are only 9 artworks available for bid on the website. In addition to the 2D presentation, there is also a 3D Virtual Gallery for anyone to enter and view the artwork hanging on the walls in the VR environment.
🎹 SANSOUND - music-centric NFT ecosystem with a multi-phase reveal strategy. Combing illustration and sound together the SAN NFT was released as a free mint and the actual NFT art is hidden. On Oct 8, SANSOUND hosted a reveal party where the artwork become visible with rarity also shown on Opensea. Following the reveal, the next phase is “Soulbinding” where payment is required when the holder wishes to “Soulbind”, minting the NFT permanently with a wallet in exchange for access and utility in the SAN Sound platform and ecosystem. (SANSOUND docs)
Pre-reveal NFT:
Post-reveal:
🎵 Web3 Music - Big Moves
🎤 Christina Aguilera files for NFT and Metaverse Trademarks. Looking to create multimedia music and performance works, consisting artwork, audio, text, video for her fans, the “Voice of a Generation” and pop diva is experimenting with NFTs and intending to expand her appearance in the music Metaverse theme as well as tapping into the Web3 space. According to Moonstats, Christina worked with Three Wishes IP LLC to file the following as trade-able assets: crypto collectibles, NFTs, metaverse and virtual games, entertainment services, and downloadable virtual goods. The home-known and Grammy-awarded singer might have suggested industry trend indication by stepping into the Web3 Music sector.
If you are also curious: Artist + NFT + Exclusive Fest access = ?
🫐 Doja Cat JBL NFT and JBL Fest in Las Vegas. Ahead of the Web3 movement, Doja Cat first got into the NFT game in 2021 when she launched Planet Doja tokens offering fans and supports different tiers of benefits. Back in early September, Doja and JBL launched another NFT collection “Fresh Fruit by Doja Cat x JBL NFT” with OneOf, expanding her influence in the Web3 music sector and providing exclusive access to the NFT holders, including JBL product discount and early access, JBL Fest VR experience, JBL Fest IRL ticket… The NFT collection started dropping on Aug 25, leading the hype among fans up to the JBL Fest (Sep.27 - 29) where The Kid LAROI, Bebe Rexha, DJ Tigerlily, and platinum-selling DJ/producer Martin Garrix also performed.
👾 AR Artist Spotted - kimalban
Kim created this “Bubble AR” filter in Lens Studio for you to play around with “magic”. This AR artist who created a TikTok filter with 2+ million views is also creating AR tutorials helping people to get started with AR, filters, and more.
If you are getting started with AR filters and don’t know how, be sure to take a look at Kim’s page where she listed so many more cool AR works as well as a list of study resources and tutorials.
🍎 IRL - New York City
NEW YORK Tech Week event selection:
This week’s food recommendation - Zaytinya, is a Jose Andres restaurant featuring eastern Mediterranean food in the newly open Ritz Carlton hotel at the heart of New York City. You have to try their signature Shish Taouk, dipped in garlic toum!
See you next week! Stay tuned for Web3 and NFT resources guide. <3