NFTs for Identify and Community

In 2022, at the height of one of the blockchain booms and while grieving my dear cat, I explored learning about blockchain technology and offering an exclusive set of NFTs. I have since moved onto other projects related to digital credential and identity, but who knows what those few NFTs that were issued might be worth someday.

Are you tired of NFT projects selling you a vision of a social life centered around their particular collection of pixel art? Would you rather make connections in your area and the metaverse based on your interests that are open to your friends who didn’t get in on an exclusive mint too?

NFTs can be more than just something you own. They can be a sign of wealth and style, sure. But to build interoperability and diversity in our Web3 communities, we need to do more than just spinning up a discord server for people to talk about a particular set of images. Value needs to be based on more than simple scarcity and the first-party utilities offered to holders. As we appreciate art, we need to connect people to real world opportunities, and we need to build something fresher than a tiny copy of the social media silos that we’re trying to replace.

If we want to really decentralize the web and put control of identity back in the hands of the end users, rather than the platforms, we need to practice ways of forming and understanding identity that allow for individuality and expression that connect data on-chain with off-chain portable data and our experience in the physical world. What we choose to express about ourselves should infuse our communities with meaning and personality.

NFT Rarity

My NFT collections are released in tiers by rarity. Most utilities and benefits are not exclusive to holders of a specific collection but are available to any holder of any collection.

Partnership, Exploration, Benefits, and Community Support

Art should be accessible, participatory, and funding streams should support artists and communities. When you buy or sell one of these NFTs, a portion of the proceeds will return to the artist(s) and creator(s) to support us as they invest their time in future projects. A portion of initial mint proceeds of each collection supports a partner charity or cause directly.

Each collection aims to try something new for what NFTs can mean and do. Proceeds are invested in the development of prototypes, experiments, and services that explore the potential of Web3. No individual experiment is guaranteed to succeed, but the roadmap was designed to offer utilities and benefits to holders of NFTs from any collection on this page and beyond.

Explore NFTs with a lead author of the Open Badges Specification and the creator of Badgr. If you’re an artist, content creator, local business, or community platform, and you support this vision for art and community, partnership opportunities are open. Contact me.

Tender Cats (mint completed)

Tender Cat c. 2006 - 2022.

144 memories of a dear cat on the Solana blockchain. We don’t know if she was the best cat of all time, but statistical analysis has placed her firmly in the top ten. This was the first pet memorial NFT collection on Solana, celebrating a really special friend.

10% of initial mint proceeds went to support animals and their caretakers in Ukraine.

Mint details: The mint was available May 25, 2022 at 9am Pacific Daylight Time and has since concluded.