After acquiring our Cyberpunk, we've set a focus on blue-chip culture icons. But if we want to show a solid investing track record, we eventually need to show we can spot & invest in diamonds-in-the-rough/cultural icons that'll make Crypto history.
So far we've had:
Cryptopunks = The first ERC-721 standard NFT
BAYC = The first lifestyle utility NFT
Autoglyphs = First generative on-chain art
and now...
ZIGGURATS = First generative mixtape NFT (audio & visual)
If you've listened to any Linkin Park song back during your teenage agnst years, you'll know who Mike Shinoda is.
Songwriter, rapper, producer, digital artist, man has actually done it all and also pretty damn old in the industry (can still rap though).
He actually got in early into crypto, but never acted on it until this project. Instead of doing a shitty NFT project by slapping his new album cover onto an NFT token and reselling it like most musicians, he wanted to find a way to make his NFT collection unique.
He didn't just want his NFTs to act as a ticket (backstage/VIP/merch passes), which he calls it "table stakes", in his recent interview with Kevin Rose.
So he experimented and made the first of its kind:
ZIGGURATS is the first generative NFT mixtape.
Each NFT contains two components: