Music NFT News: Ja Rule ♥ Club Cards • deadmau5 speaks • best NFT marketplaces • Serenade + The Kooks • e-DAO adds Hungama • Fanpage
Serial endorser Ja Rule‘s latest project Club Cards is a ongoing series of NFT trading cards and related NFT projects. characters. “So much Utility with this project it’s insane!!!” he tweeted. “LFG WAGMI [let’s fucking go we’re all gonna make it].”
Ja Rule is listed as a co-founder on the Club Cards website. Members can register for giveaways including physical merch. The project has sold nearly 700 NFTs so far.
• deadmau5 sits down with Coindesk’s “NFT All-Stars” hosts Marguerite deCourcelle, Artnome and BT to discuss the opportunities and obstacles of the crypto world, ownership and monetization potential for creatives, and the issues of centralization. Plus, how NFTs could “change the world” and define the future of the music industry. [WATCH]
• The Best Music NFT Marketplaces – If the world of music NFTs is new to you, join the club. To help, our friends at Symphonic and Attorney Debbie Egel have compiled a list of NFT marketplaces. More on Hypebot.
• Serenade, an “eco-friendly platform for music NFTs” partnered with The Kooks to release the band’s debut NFT.
Created to mark the 15th anniversary of the British indie-pop group’s acclaimed debut album Inside In / Inside Out, the NFT were priced at an affordable £30 and was released at on February 24 via serenade.co and sold out in under an hour.
Recorded in Dublin on January 27th, on the opening night of their 15th-anniversary tour, the live version of the band’s hit single ‘Ooh La’ will be minted in just 20 unique editions.
Serenade’s NFTs use 1/10th of the energy required to post a tweet, and 1/44,000th of a normal NFT, meaning they have minimal environmental impact. This is because they use the authentication method called ‘Proof of Stake’, rather than the standard Ethereum ‘Proof of Work’ method.
• India’s Hungama Digital Media has come together to create Hefty Entertainment, a metaverse platform, the first project under e-DAO.
e-DAO (Entertainment- DAO) powered by Polygon is an entertainment and creator economy focussed DAO, designed to create the world’s largest entertainment collective. It provides an ecosystem of developers, community, to build & launch NFT projects for production houses, celebrities, music labels, content creators etc.
• Fanpage, a Dallas-based tech and media co, is launching a Polygon-based NFT platform and creative services arm to help “top tier” music artists, athletes, brands and influencers create and monetize official digital memorabilia.
“Fanpage is setting a course to democratize the NFT landscape. While most marketplaces either require consumers to use cryptocurrency to purchase NFTs or force them into housing their NFTs on their own platform if purchased with a credit card, Fanpage has created an ecosystem that both opens the market to first time buyers, while also providing a way for NFT investors to trade and sell their Fanpage minted NFTs on well-established third-party marketplaces.”
