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The evolution of NFT and Blockchain Use Cases

The evolution of NFT and Blockchain Use Cases

Written by Sallyann Della Casa on Digilah (Tech Thought Leadership)

Nfts have advanced significantly since 2021, when we first learned about them. Most people now consider the functionality of NFTs in addition to the artwork when thinking about them.  

The following utility benefits provided by the still widely used Bored Apes to their customers are what has maintained their price so high:

    1. Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) membership: Each Bored Ape NFT acts as a membership card for the BAYC, a group of NFT collectors who are all enthusiastic about the project. Members of the BAYC get special access to events, products, and other benefits.

    1. Commercial licensing: The Bored Ape NFT owners have the right to monetize their digital assets, which includes using the characters’ visuals to make and sell items and to provide licenses for their use in other projects.

    1. Members of the BAYC are eligible to vote on matters of governance that will have an impact on the project’s future. This implies that Bored Ape NFT owners can influence how the neighborhood develops and expands.

    1. Royalties: The owner of a Bored Ape NFT gets paid a portion of the sale price when the NFT is sold or exchanged on a secondary market. For the owners, this offers a steady stream of income.

    1. Social standing: Among NFT collectors, Bored Ape NFTs have come to represent rank and distinction. Each NFT’s rarity and distinctiveness can raise its value and desirability among collectors, elevating its social standing in the community.

How you describe NFTs matters greatly for those of you who are still unfamiliar with the NFT notion. An NFT is just code that connects anything to blockchain, such as Javascript or C++. You could conceivably save your documents to the blockchain with a “dot NFT” just like you would when saving them in Word or Excel. 

With that reasoning, the logical question is: Why use blockchain, and what money do you hope to save? 

Definition is crucial here once more. Blockchain is the ideal notebook. Once something is printed on a page, it cannot be changed or removed. 

Blockchain is now incredibly safe, unchangeable, and verifiable thanks to this. 

Now combine the two, and let’s talk about a few recent, highly intriguing use cases of Blockchain and NFT technology: 

Transforming the legal patent filing system

 In the field of protecting intellectual property (IP), IBM has explicitly filed patents relevant to patent filing on blockchain. These patents seek to improve the speed, security, and transparency of the patent application process using blockchain technology. Details are as follows:

    1. Streamlining the application process for patents: Inventors might submit their patent applications directly to the blockchain using IBM’s blockchain-based patent filing system, without the need for the usual intermediaries like patent attorneys and patent offices. This might speed up and reduce the cost of the application procedure.

    1. Increasing transparency: When a patent application is added to the blockchain, it becomes an unalterable record that is available to the public. Due to the complete transparency and ease of verification of the application’s history and its prosecution, this could assist in preventing conflicts and issues over the validity of patents.

    1. Increasing security: IBM’s blockchain-based patent filing system may offer more defense against the infringement and theft of intellectual property. In order to avoid illegal revisions and tampering, the system would be made to ensure that only authorized parties could access and amend the records of patent applications.

    1. Automating the administrative processes involved in managing patents, such as keeping track of licenses, renewals, and ownership, could likewise be done using IBM’s technology. For patent owners and inventors, this might save time and money.

The overall goal of IBM’s blockchain-based patent filing system is to improve the efficiency, security, and transparency of the patent application and administration process. It may lessen conflicts over patent ownership, safeguard intellectual property rights, and streamline the administrative tasks involved in administering patents.

Helping us reach net zero 

Imagine your refrigerator and washing machine conversing with one another about which one is turning on and off to ensure controlled energy use. How NFTs and blockchain can assist us in reaching net zero is as follows:

    • NFTs can be utilized to create distinctive digital assets that serve as verifiable carbon offsets. These offsets can be purchased and traded on marketplaces built on the blockchain, enabling businesses and people to offset their carbon emissions and support green initiatives. Utilizing NFTs can improve the market for carbon offsets’ transparency and traceability, ensuring that offset projects are authentic and that emissions reductions are properly recorded.

    • Financial sustainability: Blockchain-based systems can be used to establish digital tokens that reflect sustainable assets, such as green bonds, sustainable agriculture, or renewable energy projects. Investors can promote and fund sustainable projects by trading these tokens on exchanges built on the blockchain. This might quicken the shift to a low-carbon economy.

    • Transparency in the supply chain: Blockchain technology can offer traceability and transparency in supply chains, allowing businesses to monitor and confirm the sustainability of their goods and raw materials. This can verify that items fulfill sustainability requirements and help reduce their carbon footprint.

    • Energy management: Blockchain technology can be used to establish decentralized energy markets, enabling people and companies to conduct direct exchanges of renewable energy. This can hasten the transition to a low-carbon energy system and improve the efficiency and dependability of renewable energy systems.

The application of NFTs with blockchain technology can open up new possibilities for carbon accounting, offsetting, and trading, as well as boost supply chain transparency and traceability and support sustainable finance. 

The objective of producing net zero emissions and reducing the effects of climate change may be achieved with the help of these developments.

Preserving Human Identity 

Life before and after ChatGPT vividly defines the era in which we currently live. 

If you haven’t been paying attention, new artificial intelligence capabilities are being produced every day at breakneck speeds. And if you aren’t already, you need to start questioning human identity and the purpose of humanity right away. 

In a time of automation, how do we capture and maintain human individuality and ingenuity? 

Your degree or birth certificate do not define your human identity or cleverness. We’re referring to the distinctive ways you reason and behave, frequently utilizing human abilities like imagination, discretion, and initiative. 

A psychometric, static profile or resume cannot adequately capture this dynamic reality. NFTs can capture all of this in a very simple way, allowing us to control our information and also use it to signal, like SEO, those we want to pay attention to. 

It is shaped by the interactions we have with others, the way we handle situations, the people we surround ourselves with, and the projects and ideas we take on.

This is part of the NFT technology-related work I’ve been looking forward to at my startup, Gleac with our tokenization of time on blockchain of the world’s leading experts in a project we call Lovely Humans. 

Tokenizing human time and wisdom is the process of developing one-of-a-kind digital assets that represent the labor and knowledge of certain people, such as consultants, coaches, or mentors. 

On the blockchain-based market place powered by our lovely humans, these assets can be traded, enabling people to monetise their knowledge and talents in the following ways: 

    1. Making original digital assets NFTs can be used to produce one-of-a-kind digital assets that symbolize people’s labor and knowledge. These assets can be sold in markets built on the blockchain, enabling people to monetize their knowledge and talents.

    1. Increasing transparency and trust: Blockchain technology can give transparency and traceability in the exchange of knowledge, ensuring that the knowledge being offered is reliable and authentic.

    1. Cutting out intermediaries People may be able to directly trade their expertise with others via blockchain-based markets, eliminating the need for middlemen and improving the efficiency of the transaction.

    1. presenting fresh possibilities In an era of AI and automation where traditional jobs are being disrupted, tokenizing human time and insight can offer people new chances to monetize their skills and expertise. 

By giving access to knowledge that would not have been previously available, it can also generate new chances for learning and personal development.

Tokenizing human time and wisdom is essential in an era of AI and automation because it can allow individuals to not only profit from their unique skills and knowledge but also time capsule it, which AI cannot easily replicate. 

Additionally, it can easily track the source of new inventions and intellectual property (IP) from experts, particularly as we move toward a blockchain-based patent filing system which is one of the core utilities of the lovely human NFT collections. 

Additionally, it can offer up new avenues for learning and personal growth, particularly in disciplines where knowledge availability may be limited. 

With the aid of blockchain technology and NFTs, human labor and knowledge can be tokenized efficiently and openly, assuring the validity and legality of knowledge transfer.

In conclusion, NFT and blockchain technology have the potential to transform the way we interact with digital assets and create a more transparent and decentralized world. Ultimately, these technologies have the potential to create a more equitable and inclusive world, where individuals have greater control over their digital assets and access to new forms of value creation.

I released the world’s first NFT collection tokenizing time and wisdom.

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NFTs: The Future of Art?

NFTs: The Future of Art?

Written by Science Centre Singapore on Digilah (Tech Thought Leadership)

Illustrations by Sung Jernin

At this point, everybody has heard of an NFT. Some have commended them to be the future of art, while others have been more conservative with their praise, believing NFTs to be a gimmick. 

Let’s take a look under the hood at how NFTs work and decide how viable they are as the artwork of the future or as digital assets.

NFT, meaning “non-fungible token”, refers to an online asset that is not interchangeable; like trading cards or precious artefacts in how they are individually irreplaceable.

NFTs seek to create the same kind of value in the digital space – digital items with their own unique identities. 

They have become a household term after exploding in popularity in 2017, with the craze being started by groups like CryptoPunks, a brand specialising in pixelated avatars. Their work has been traded for astonishing amounts – with Alien CryptoPunk #7523 infamously sold for 11.7 million USD. 

First, let’s try to understand how NFTs work and what makes them unique. NFTs utilise ‘blockchain’ – the same technology as cryptocurrencies. Think of blockchain as a digital ledger that records transactions. The term ‘block’ refers to individual stores of data, and the term ‘chain’ describes the way these different blocks are linked to form one cohesive network. 

When each data block in the network reaches its predefined storage limit, it is rendered totally immutable, and data begins to flow into the next block instead. 

This technology guarantees lasting security, because once a block is set, its contents are forever unchanged. In the case of NFTs, this technology is used to store an address on the web or another method of access. 

The blockchain itself does not store the image or video. A key that enables access to the site on the blockchain where the NFT address is stored is kept in the buyer’s digital wallet.

The appeal of NFTs is difficult to rationalise. It might be their novelty, the futuristic appeal of the blockchain itself, or their hype and celebrity. Their guarantee of uniqueness contributes to an image of absolute exclusivity. 

In addition, the security afforded by blockchain increases buyers’ impression that they have just acquired something irreplaceable, and they take pride in ownership of these digital artefacts. 

Like trading cards, some characteristics in NFTs are more sought after than others. In the CryptoPunks collection, there are some common characteristics and some which are much rarer, like alien skin; those with that characteristic are likely to go for hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions. 

These art pieces also act as status symbols. There are events and exclusive clubs/communities that only permit those who have ownership over specific NFTs. 

This desire for celebrity status is a central driving force behind the NFT rage – people seek to take part in a lifestyle they have not yet gotten to experience. 

The example of basketballer Stephen Curry, who spent 180,000 USD on Bored Ape #7990 and made a tweet showing off his new purchase and his acceptance into an exclusive discord server, highlighting the usage of NFTs as a status symbol. 

When high-profile people make these purchases, it beckons more people to enter the market and try their luck.

It seems clear to at least some degree that the explosive growth of cryptocurrency over the past few years, with Bitcoin and Ethereum becoming household names, has had a major effect on propelling NFTs to the global stage. 

The NFT market has also been boosted considerably by an irrational fear of missing out on “the next big thing”. Nowadays we all hear about prophets who made bulk purchases of Bitcoin around a decade ago when it was cheap and are now multi-millionaires; people feel they would be missing out on a trend of a similar calibre if they were to ignore the NFT market.  

Therefore, people are anxious to jump in as fast as possible, leading to questionable financial decisions. To some extent, the hype around NFTs is a self-propelling cycle, attracting more and more prospective buyers as it grows larger and more tempting.

There is also something to be said about NFTs being an inevitable offshoot of the transition from the physical to the digital that has taken place over the past two decades.

Think of the migration of the cinema experience to online streaming services, or the migration of media from discs to files on the cloud. It seems like a natural progression from tangible art to NFT.

The idea of keeping things physically and valuing the ability to touch and to feel seems antiquated.Of course, despite their inevitability with increasing focus on the digital space, NFTs have not been universally accepted.

For instance, game developers are against NFTs specifically because the focus of NFTs has become their selling price rather than the quality of the digital content. Some view NFTs as a platform ripe for illegal acts like money laundering. 

The Ethereum transactions powering most NFT markets are environmentally detrimental – with the amount of computing power necessary to make transactions being a limitation on how time-efficient and energy-efficient these transactions can be. 

According to an article linked on Ethereum.org, Ethereum’s total annual energy consumption was around 112 tera-watthours per year, and their carbon emissions totalled 53 megatons per year. As pointed out in the article, this is equal to the total annual carbon emissions of Singapore! 

NFTs are marketed as being secure due to their decentralisation in the blockchain, but this decentralisation leads to its own complications. 

There is no real central authority or government agency in any country overlooking NFTs. The regulatory guidance on the subject is in a fledgling state and proof of ownership is not as secure as it could be. 

It has even been expressed that there is a risk of hackers making purchases or transferring assets using others’ accounts. This is because, as mentioned before, the code/key to access the NFT in the blockchain is stored on a digital wallet and not on the blockchain itself. 

Therefore, while the web address of the NFT is secure, the code to access the NFT is theoretically vulnerable to cyberattacks.

The decentralisation of cryptocurrency, and NFTs by extension, is a factor contributing to their massive monetary value: the supply is tightly restricted by the costs and high barriers to entry of mining operations, and the demand continues to rise, with neither supply nor demand subject to intervention from authorities. 

This leads to great price volatility (fluctuations in prices) creating a speculative market. It is reliant upon ‘greater fool’ theory; people only fork out their money hoping that a bigger risk-taker will be willing to pay an even larger sum. 

As opposed to other options like the stock market, NFTs come with far greater risks and are subject to greater price volatility, reflecting the cryptocurrency they parallel.

Payment can theoretically also be made in fiat currency, as was the case in the 11.7-million-dollar purchase of CryptoPunk #7523.  However, the issue of unregulated markets and price volatility is not addressed, because while the buyer may be protected from the risk of cryptocurrency investment, any investment into an NFT comes with the same risks arising from the tight supply and growing demand.

Overall, I think that in their current iteration, NFTs cannot fully replace traditional art. However, each has its advantages and disadvantages; and NFTs bring very new and innovative ideas to the table; shaking up the scene significantly. 

And, of course, we must address that while art pieces like physical paintings can technically only be expressed along two dimensions, NFTs can dip into four, as they can be 3 dimensional objects which change over time. 

For example, the supposed ‘first-ever’ NFT, Quantum, which sold at the same auction as CryptoPunk #7523, is a geometric shape that morphs and bends with time. However, their environmental effects and the security concerns limit their sustainability for now.

At the moment, it seems unlikely that NFTs are going to be phased out anytime soon; but outliers with ludicrously high valuations will become increasingly scarce; these are just symptoms of the excitement of the market and are not reflective of the way NFTs should progress. 

NFTs are fundamentally different from traditional art in many positive ways; for one, NFT trading is much more accessible in the modern day given that all one really needs is a computer and internet connection. 

NFT markets and creators should move forward with an intent to promote openness and continue to innovate.

Glossary:

Greater fool theory: It is when people disregard the actual valuation of an asset and make a purchase with the intent of selling it off to a higher bidder.

This relies on a speculative market. When the so-called “speculative bubble” dies down, the asset is left in the hands of the unfortunate highest bidder with nobody to sell it to. 

For further reading: https://www.fool.com/investing/how-to-invest/greater-fool-theory/

Fiat Currency: Acts legal tender by the decree of a government or authority without any kind of intrinsic value on its own. As such, it is backed by authorities and is subject to regulation.

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“Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity”

Law and technology produce, together, a kind of regulation of creativity

Lawrence Lessig

Written by : Sophie N. Ngouakang on Digilah (Tech Thought Leadership)

Sophie N. Ngouakang is the managing partner of Tchinsop Law Firm & founder of “Veritas Bitcoin”. My love for innovation has led me to combine interests in technology and law practicing in a tech-related area of law such as Blockchain which to me is very promising than other law specialties. (No offense to my law colleagues with different interests). That is what I decided to do and have been doing for quite some time.   

When it comes to law and technology, one could ask several questions among which – if laws will ultimately have to change to keep up with modern tech or tech will have to adapt to keep in line with the law, considering for instance that many terms and conditions on apps are agreed to by minors?

Minors agreeing to apps is another issue. Parents have an obligation to control what their minor children access. From time-to-time parents have gotten out of financial harm caused by their minor children spending money on apps, but it isn’t always a sure thing. There is a law about collecting information about children under the age of 13, but there isn’t much behind it since the children invariably check the boxes that say their parents have provided permission.

Laws constantly change to keep up with technology. Unfortunately, they often change too slowly. A good example of that would be the failure of the many governments to enact meaningful reforms related to privacy as technology has become more invasive. Habitually, in the law, we adjust the language of things we write or our approaches to conflict resolutions based on changes in technology. 

However, sometimes the law does not address underlying problems and without amendments to existing laws or new laws it is difficult to resolve problems, both criminal, commercial, and civil, within the legal system.

Technology is only as good as the purpose for which we use and not necessarily for which it was intended. It’s essential to state that technology therefore, can’t be considered as a neutral tool since it all depends on how it is used.

Humans abuse tools more often than the intended designer would prefer. Like screwdrivers being used as murder weapons, the technology is not neutral because human operators are not neutral.

The most spoken about technology in recent times seems to be the Blockchain technology.

Blockchain is a decentralized, peer to peer, immutable storage network which is censor free and regulator free because of the absence of one single controlling entity.

Every transaction that is written is voted upon by a majority of nodes and changing something which was written before in the chain is computationally very difficult.   

When blockchain matures to the point of being “the law”, the difference will be that “what happened when” will not take up as large a part of court hearings as today. Also, many disputes will not ever reach court because of more automatic settlements occurring before, as contracts automatically settle when parameters are breached.

You will probably see many systems of law competing for adherents, they will all have to somehow interface with the legacy system until the legacy system either innovates to compete or is abandoned in favor of better regimes.

Criminal, corporate and civil law firms will need to develop an understanding of how cryptocurrencies can be used to facilitate transfers of value worldwide, which will inevitably creep into cases of all kinds as it becomes clear that currencies like bitcoin are here to stay.

As it becomes established case law, there will also be increasing numbers of things where the incorporation of information into a blockchain becomes proof that the information existed or that something happened at that point in time.

Some countries have been much better about dealing with this technology than others as far as amending laws and/or passing new ones are concerned. El Salvador for example being the first country to legalize bitcoin as legal tender. 

I think joining the tech-space with a legal background is always a plus and the inputs one can bring are countless. The first contribution that one can do is for “Smart Contracts”. 

Smart Contracts are executable code that get executed upon the activation of an event in a contract.

I always encourage persons with an interest in law and technology to get an understanding of “Smart contracts” as I see a great demand for people in the near future. We will always rely on human cooperation to uphold the law.

As an illustration, if a person defaulted continuously on his rent payment for 3 months, a smart contract has the power to remotely lock the appartement.

Taking the comparison in the real-world contracts, the Terms & Conditions for a lease agreement would have been drafted by the Attorney of the landlord that exists on paper. In case of default in the payment of rents, although the clause gets invoked, the landlord would still have to serve the tenant a notice to quit, before confiscating the keys to the appartement.

With a “Smart Contract”, it is automated. Indeed, technology and law together produce a kind of creative regulation unprecedented in history, as Lawrence pointed out.

In the end, laws change over time. We see that constantly. For example, we didn’t always have cars. Then we didn’t have cars that went very fast. Now look at all the laws related to building, owning, and operating cars. 

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INTRODUCTION TO BLOCKCHAIN AND METAVERSE

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Written by : joel nzoda on Digilah (Tech Thought Leadership)

GOALS

    • Define blockchain
    • Characterize a blockchain
    • Usefulness of blockchains
    • Web 3.0 and the Metaverse
    • NFT or non-fungible tokens and their usefulness

BLOCKCHAIN 

Developed from 2008, blockchain is, first and foremost, a technology for storing and transmitting information. This technology offers high standards of transparency and security because it works without a central control body. More concretely, the blockchain allows its networked users to share data without an intermediary.

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CHARACTERIZE A BLOCKCHAIN

In practice, a blockchain is a database that contains the history of all exchanges made between its users since its creation. Its main characteristics are:

    • The identification of each part is carried out by a cryptographic process

    • The transaction is sent to a network (or storage “node”) of computers located around the world.

    • Each “node” hosts a copy of the database in which the history of the transactions carried out is recorded. All stakeholders can access it simultaneously

    • The security system is based on a consensus mechanism of all the “nodes” each time information is added. Data is encrypted and authenticated by “data centers” or “miners”. The transaction thus validated is added to the database in the form of a block of encrypted data (this is the “block” in blockchain)

    • Decentralized security management prevents transaction tampering. Each new block added to the blockchain is linked to the previous one and a copy is transmitted to all the “nodes” of the network. The integration is chronological, indelible, and tamper-proof.

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USEFULNESS OF BLOCKCHAINS

The blockchain represents a major innovation that is used in particular in the banking sector. Indeed, historically, blockchain technology was developed to support transactions carried out via cryptocurrencies/crypto-assets (including bitcoins which are the most well-known form) and which have the main characteristic of not depending on an organization centralizer (like a central bank) and to be international.

But its use is not limited to cryptocurrencies. Many fields and sectors of activity, commercial or non-commercial, public or private, already use the blockchain or plan to do so in the years to come. The uses of blockchains and other technologies include:

    • In the banking sector, technology opens up the possibility of validating transactions without the intermediary of a clearing house, which should make it possible to certify transactions in much shorter timeframes. The blockchain can also promote the sharing of information between competing players in a financial centre while respecting the secrecy of their commercial data and, in doing so, facilitate the management of common structures or instruments by reducing contact costs and administration fees.

    • In the insurance sector, the contribution of the blockchain is due, for example, to the automation of reimbursement procedures and the alleviation of certain formalities at the expense of companies and their customers, provided that the assumptions and conditions of compensation and damage are clearly established.

    • In the logistics sector, the blockchain has two interests:

    • ensure product traceability, as well as the memory of the various interventions on a production and distribution chain.

    • reduce formalities and create the conditions for cooperation between actors in a sector, particularly in terms of information exchange. This use could also find an application in the agri-food sector for food traceability, particularly interesting in the event of a health crisis.

    • In the energy sector, by authorizing the exchange of services and values outside a central management body, the blockchain potentially creates the conditions for implementation on a more or less large scale depending on the technical capacities of local networks. production, exchange and resale of energy to balance supply and demand at all times, which is a major constraint for electricity networks in particular.

But many sectors are potentially affected by the use of blockchain technology: health, real estate, luxury, aeronautics, etc.

Using blockchain has many benefits, including:

    • The speed of transactions thanks to the fact that the validation of a block takes only a few seconds to a few minutes.
    • Security of the system, which is ensured by the fact that the validation is carried out by a set of different users, who do not know each other. This protects against the risk of malicious intent or hijacking, since the nodes monitor the system and check each other
    • The productivity and efficiency gains generated by the fact that the blockchain entrusts the organization of exchanges to a computer protocol. This mechanically reduces the transaction or centralization costs existing in traditional systems (financial costs, control or certification, use of intermediaries who are remunerated for their service; automation of certain services, etc.).

WEB 3.0 AND THE METAVERSE

As conversations began to shift from Bitcoin (BTC) to other larger crypto projects such as Ethereum network upgrades and central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, media coverage would suggest that widespread adoption of crypto is already well advanced. But it is clear that the majority of people do not know what it is.

The Metaverse (in English) or Métavers (in French) is a generic term for technologies that make it possible to create an entire (virtual) digital universe like our real universe. This universe can be extremely detailed and include a wide variety of different worlds, often also called virtual environments. People can join this Metaverse using different technologies and interact with each other. However, instead of being present in person, the user creates an avatar which is their representation in the Metaverse.

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However, the Metaverse doesn’t just want to be a massively multiplayer open-world gaming platform (RPG MMO). It is already beginning to be a virtual space where people work, earn money (by spending it), meet people, and invest in real estate. In short, where you can live another life.

Technologies like Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are important levers for the Metaverse, as they will help create an incredible sense of immersion in another’s skin and in another universe. However, there is one project that may well facilitate mainstream adoption of crypto: Web3.

To better understand the evolution of these two technologies, an illustration between Web2 and Web3 as support for the Metaverse.

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NFTs (NON FUNGIBLE TOKENS ) AND THEIR USES 

NFT are the three initials of Non-Fungible Token, which translates to non-fungible token. That doesn’t necessarily make things any clearer. Therefore we must detail the notion of “non-fungible”.

For example, bitcoins or €100 bills are fungible. Even though each note is unique, it will have exactly the same value as another €100 note. The first mined bitcoin, no matter what platform it is on or who owns it, is the same value as a recently mined bitcoin stored in another wallet.

Conversely, works of art or concert tickets are non-fungible. Something that is not fungible cannot be replaced or divided. It’s unique. They are objects of the same nature, but which have their own characteristics and their own usefulness.

We talk about “tokens” when they are digital units, which are exchanged with blockchain technology: 3D visuals, objects in a video game, or even a piece of land in a fictional universe.

The NFT can therefore be defined as follows: it is the digital title of ownership of a non-fungible token. NFTs can be classified into different categories according to their nature and usefulness:

    • collectibles: a collection of digital objects, or a work of art for example.
    • metaverses: virtual worlds.
    • online gaming tokens.
    • utilities: they provide a service to their owner.

Some NTFs may belong to more than one category. They are traded on online marketplaces dedicated to NFTs, connected to the blockchain.

                                                                                                           The value criteria of an NFT: This young technology has a future ahead of it, but it could lead to some abuses. Many investors seek to speculate on this trend which, although it is a resounding success, is still very volatile and full of scams. The vast majority of sold works and NFT projects will never have value, simply because no one wants them.

Some NFTs have artistic value: They are works valued independently of the fact that they are digital, in the same way as a painting in a museum. The blockchain does not have a preponderant role in the evaluation of their price, it is simply the art market. Overall, price is defined by what an artist’s fan is willing to invest.

The value of an NFT can also depend on its usefulness: Becoming a member of a club, meeting other holders or the artist himself, being more powerful in a video game, acquiring and showing a certain social status, etc. .

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Metaverse “The Dream Catcher”

Written by Anuradha Lal on Digilah (Tech Thought Leadership)

Can the meta verse catch our imagination and make it so immersive as a real dream?

I am not a psychologist or a physicist….

Everyone is talking about “The METAVERSE”. Is this really a new concept?

…..I am not a psychologist or a physicist (thank God for that! my brain would explode with the heavy formulas!), though I wish I was one! to be able to connect the emerging new reality of the metaverse to both these fundamental sciences of psychology and quantum physics. However, I will be the end user of the metaverse and I understand a decent amount of technology that goes into creating this new universe called metaverse.

Here is how I understand the need of having a metaverse and envision a future with the metaverse impacting the 7 Bn humans on this planet.

The human mind always wanders to things beyond their physical location and space. So, we have dreams. Nature supported this concept as homo sapiens evolved. Imagination in our sub conscious mind or our wakeful state is what makes us humans different from other species.

We have always tried to capture this need of imagination and transporting ourselves into another world.

The 2 basic needs of the human mind being:

  • To conquer time
  • To transport ourselves into another time and location = gather experiences

So how I see the meta verse is an evolution of the human imagination with the innovation of 3D, 4D, 4D…. technology. Some call it Web 3.0

The first new verse had started with a camera and a picture taken when we wanted to capture time. But then as the then technology evolved to video cameras, we created 2 hours of immersing ourselves, our emotions in another world which led to the making of films.

Of course, films were not customised to each one of us. Yes, the gaming industry evolved to more customised simulations for example war games, which should have led to less wars!, as more boys and men imagined and satiated their imagination of shooting others and planes!! But this unfortunately could not stop wars even in the 21st century. However a teenage boy with no legs can play an immersive football game and score goals and feel the rush of adrenaline through him and make him a winner!

So now with the metaverse every individual can realise their own head space. The question is “Can we still beat nature’s 30 sec film called “DREAM”?” Maybe.

The meta verse is just the start, where we want to imagine not only while sleeping but also when awake!

The Metaverse consists of a 3D virtual world where users interact with various spaces and virtual reality components using digital avatars. We all know large IT companies, such as Facebook and Microsoft are busy exploiting its potential. We will soon see notions of 3D virtual reality in metaverse projects embodied in a range of spheres — from a virtual land market to an office space. Some of the short term use cases of this are gaming, remote work environment in virtual spaces, tourism, education, fashion, medicine, shopping, real estate etc.

The marketers are the first customers of this extended reality. There are big brands, big social media platforms who want to own this imagination of the human mind and sell more, easily giving their customers a real experience of what their products, services look like. Tickling the human imagination with more customised rooms, products, and services.

Yes, Metaverse has made it to the top contenders of the most trending key words of 2021. Metaverse is here to offer a parallel virtual universe to all of us. The Metaverse opens a whole new world of economic prospects, from virtual music events to NFT-based products, to name a few. 

So, will “METAVERSE” just stop with being another commercial success for big brands and companies or will we be able to really change human lives with this immersive and imaginative technology.

Before I start dreaming future use cases of this new reality, a question that comes to my mind is how will the metaverse look in a non IOT world. Can it function in a non IOT world bringing back the 2 fundamental sciences of psychology and quantum physics together? along with our human desire to conquer time and transport ourselves into a different or unknown arena.

Will we be able to capture the Theory of quantum physics in which an infinite number of ever-growing alternate realities are created by our choices. In any alternate reality any choice that is made creates universes where each choice is explored.

Will we be able to catch “THE DREAM” as best as nature has been doing it for us? in 30 sec sleep mode, without the help of IOT!

Here I want to explore a life changing use case of the meta verse which can change the world 100 years from now. Will the Metaverse help me be in 2 places at the same time? Can I experience an alternate life experience? Can the meta verse quench my thirst sitting in a desert without having water around me?

The Big Tech billionaires are all headed to search another verse, away from our current universe – called Earth. This new verse can be exploring another universe or another planet, or creating an imaginary verse where all our dreams, needs, desires, and wants are fulfilled at the click of a button or a count down as the space shuttle takes off!

The future of this new verse whether “meta” or “mars” is linked to our need to transport ourselves to different experiences and the need is indeed important as our life span has increased over the last century. On average we accomplish our physical responsibity of pro creation, wealth creation, productivity by age 50 and then are living upto 100 and imagining immortality! So, what do we do with our imagination from 50 to infinite life expectancy.. Let it rust!

We need to create experiences to truly enjoy life.

As I envision the new verses, meta or mars will in the future have new experiences circulate within the 7 Bn people with science and technology providing them not only imaginary but real experiences like quenching thirst sitting in a desert to the need for humans to not be born again and again to experience different life situations. It will create the power to have the same 7 Bn experience different combinations of life in the real verse and the meta verse. Guess the need to explore space may cease then!

This exploration of the new verse and the future reality comes with a great amount of responsibility on our current generation and the big tech giants. The creation of a virtual universe can pose several challenges in the coming 50 years. The metaverse will still not be a replacement for the real world but it should represent an improvement on it in every possible way. Even looking at our 30 sec dreams, the psychologists are still deciphering them. So, as we create the new universes there will be many unanswered questions passed on to the next generation. These unanswered gaps towards creating a perfect new verse must be passed on carefully, articulately, and responsibly to the future generation to not only catch but to CONTROL THE DREAM.