The NFT "Everydays. The first 5000 days" by American digital artist Beeple sold for a sky-high price of US$69 million on the British auction platform Christie's; an NFT tweet by Twitter CEO Dorsey was sold for US$2.9 million; A dunk shot is worth $50,000 on NBA Top Shot...
Since the advent of Crypto Kitties represented by Crypto Kitties in early 2017, NFT has experienced several ups and downs, and gradually set off a wave that swept the world. More and more artists and celebrities have entered the game, breaking the boundaries between the real world and the encrypted field.
In this week alone, the decentralized auction platform Bounce Finance launched the NFT open platform Fangible; Viberate and Blockparty are also trying to launch NFTs for live music performances; The ancient top auction house Sotheby's announced at the Hong Kong spring auction site that it will launch a series of heavyweight cooperation with Jay Chou in June this year, which seems to be related to NFT.
NFT news appears almost every day. Is its constant popularity an outlet or a bubble? Behind the frequent transactions of NFT collections may be the emergence of speculative activities. Will this make NFT, which lacks the support of the real economy, lose the ability to continue to develop? How to make NFT more valuable has sparked discussions in the community.
Jerome Wong, co-founder of Everest Ventures Group, once stated in public that "although the participating groups of NFT are still relatively small, it will be a better way to deliver value", which is what charity lacks.
Whether at home or abroad, existing charities are almost all centralized organizations, and the disadvantages brought about by centralization have always been unavoidable problems for charities, such as possible corruption, false reports, poor immediacy, and low review efficiency. pricking the hearts of the public.
The emergence of NFT provides an appropriate solution to these problems. Based on the characteristics of immutable and traceable on the chain, complete openness and transparency, standardization, versatility, programmability and strong immediacy, it breaks the stagnant development of charity due to the existing centralized drawbacks and brings it new hope.
Based on this, many large institutions at home and abroad have already started their attempts.At the end of 2020, Binance Charity and Binance Smart Chain jointly launched the NFT for Good project to create a one-stop decentralized development digital art charity donation platform with NFT generation, display, auction and charity donation functions.
The NFT for Good project links the blockchain art community with well-known institutions such as the Ryefield Charity Foundation and the World Economic Forum (WEF), allowing the value of NFT art to be combined with social welfare, making it practical.
There are already many application scenarios on the NFT for Good platform. The artwork produced at the "Believe in the Future" event of the 3rd World Blockchain Conference was made into NFT and uploaded, and the funds were used for follow-up activities against the epidemic; Volunteers in the event will receive exclusive BCF volunteer NFT badges to provide healthcare education services to 500 children in rural China. The NFT for Good platform is dedicated to empowering everyone to transform their art and creativity into meaningful global action for society.
At the same time, in early 2021, Nick Rose Ntertsas founded the NFT charity platform Ethernity Chain
, aims to build the world's largest NFT identity verification library and create the best experience for users, while providing funds for charitable organizations.
Nick Rose is a self-confessed environmentalist and founded the environmental protection non-profit organization "Oxygen Seven" as early as 2018. Nick Rose is also the creator of the hashtag #PrayforAmazonia, raising public awareness of the 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires.
Nick hopes that Ethernity Chain will explore the encrypted art world through NFT, cooperate with celebrities in music, film, sports, encryption and other industries and sell NFT collections. He believes that "NFT is a good way to ensure the authenticity and scarcity of artworks, songs, etc. For a long time, encrypted artists have been working hard to create, and they should be paid for creating outstanding works of art, and NFT is a way to practice this. The perfect tool for a little bit."
Not long ago, the NFT charity platform Ethernity Chain issued a statement stating that it will cooperate with the famous artist BossLogic to hold an encrypted art NFT auction and maximize the fundraising for charities.
At the same time, Makoto Fujimoto, a well-known KOL in the Japanese cryptocurrency industry and founder and CEO of Gracone Inc., cooperated with the blockchain game development platform Enjin to launch an NFT charity project, selling NFT artworks of Japanese celebrities, and donating to those who need help during the epidemic. of youth support nonprofit DxP donations.
Projects combining NFT and charity have sprung up. NFT provides a new medium for charity, and charity allows NFT to reach a wider range of groups, forming a win-win and virtuous circle.In general, the current NFT charity projects can be classified into three categories.
The first category is to create an NFT charity platform to provide infrastructure for the application scenario of social welfare, so that artists, users, charities and other parties can participate in it smoothly. The characteristics of openness and transparency make it more credible than traditional public welfare organizations, reducing the friction between institutions and the public, and improving individual participation.
The second category is NFT art auctions, which donate the auction proceeds to charities through a combination of celebrity "shouting orders" and art auctions. The emergence of NFT has lowered the threshold for auctions, making it no longer a gathering of a few people. More individuals can participate while increasing the final price of artworks, raising more funds for non-profit organizations.
The third category is the NFT incentive plan, which makes meaningful moments or works of art in public welfare activities into NFTs, donates to volunteers participating in public welfare activities or conducts auctions, so that volunteers can obtain non-tamperable identity certificates, and encourage celebrities, enterprises and Individual volunteers are more actively involved in public welfare undertakings. At the same time, NFTs related to public welfare activities are auctioned, which further increases the total amount of funds that can be raised in a single event.
In addition, we believe that because the threshold for participating in NFT is not high, anyone can mint and sell their own NFT. There is no prejudice and discrimination in the world of NFT, which can further motivate disadvantaged groups to participate and obtain long-term benefits while realizing their self-worth.
As an NFT platform NFTMart (NFTMart.io) dedicated to providing more diversified NFT categories and serving users across the network, we not only hope to become a bridge between artworks and the public, but also aim to become a bridge between artists, celebrities, and enterprises , a medium for individuals and diverse institutions, philanthropy is also a key part that we never neglect.
Human civilization has progressed to the present, and global sustainable development deserves everyone's attention. We are obliged to help human beings who have been unfairly treated due to disasters, diseases, and wars, and provide services for global climate, oceans, forests, deserts and other environmental issues. Charity is actually closely related to each of us, allowing us to return to the origin of life in a rapidly developing society.
We will try a more practical method to speed up the process of NFT capitalization and become a bridge between the real world and NFT. Let NFT become a meaningful action, and explore ways to make technology warm, so that it can be truly implemented in life and contribute to the beauty of the world.
