{"id":4249674,"date":"2021-06-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deptagency.com\/insight\/how-nfts-and-ar-can-power-your-brand-in-the-metaverse\/"},"modified":"2021-06-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T10:00:00","slug":"how-nfts-and-ar-can-power-your-brand-in-the-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.deptagency.com\/en-nl\/insight\/how-nfts-and-ar-can-power-your-brand-in-the-metaverse\/","title":{"rendered":"How NFTs and AR can power your brand in the metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"block-article-post-header js-block-article-post-header block-article-post-header__theme--onyxGrey\">\n\t<button\tclass=\"cta-button block-article-post-header__back-button cta-button__color--white cta-button__style--back\" aria-label=\"Back\" >\n\t<svg width='41' height='41' viewBox='0 0 41 41' fill='none' xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'><circle cx='20.5' cy='20.5' r='19.5' transform='rotate(-90 20.5 20.5)' stroke='var(--dept-button-icon-outline-color)' stroke-width='1.3' stroke-miterlimit='10' fill='none'\/><circle class='icon-backplate' cx='20.5' cy='20.5' r='19.5' transform='rotate(-90 20.5 20.5)' fill='var(--dept-button-icon-backplate-color)' fill-opacity='1'\/><path class='icon-center' d='M21.174 30 11 20.674l10.174-9.326m-9.326 9.328H30.5' stroke='var(--dept-button-icon-color)' stroke-width='1.3' stroke-miterlimit='10' fill='none'\/><\/svg>\n\t\t\t<span>\n\t\t\tBack to all articles\t\t<\/span>\n\t\n<\/button><h1\t\tclass=\"typography block-article-post-header__title typography__color--white typography__size--h1 typography__align--left\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\tHow NFTs and AR can power your brand in the metaverse\t<\/h1><div\n\t\tclass=\"image-wrap block-article-post-header__image-wrap\"\n\t\tdata-align=\"center center\"\n\t\t\t>\n\n\t\t\t<picture\n\t\tclass=\"image__picture\"\n\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.deptagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Dept_Office-DUB-24.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"image block-article-post-header__image\"\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloading=\"lazy\"\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\/>\n\t\t<\/picture>\n\t\n\t<\/div><div class=\"author block-article-post-header__author\" data-animation=\"slide-fade\">\n\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\tclass=\"author__portrait\"\n\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.deptagency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Alexandra-Moorhouse-FINAL-2-150x150.jpg\"\n\t\t\talt=\"Alexandra Moorhouse\"\n\t\t\/>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"author__text\">\n\t\tAlexandra Moorhouse\t\t<br \/>\n\t\tMarketing Director, UK&amp;I\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"block-article-post-header__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-article-post-header__meta-date\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-article-post-header__date-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\tDate\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-article-post-header__published-date\">\n\t\t\t\t\t8 June 2021\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"block-title-and-content js-block-title-and-content block-title-and-content__theme--white\">\n\t<div class=\"block-title-and-content__layout\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-title-and-content__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<div class='block-title-and-content__item'><div class='block-title-and-content__item-inner'><h2\t\tclass=\"typography block-typography__typography typography__color--onyxGrey typography__size--h6 typography__align--left\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\tOn April 6th 2021, DEPT\u00ae hosted an interactive panel where brands such as Snapchat, Circle &amp; Fabricant discussed the power of virtual AR fashion, virtual goods and the digital ownership of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deptagency.com\/en-nl\/story\/whats-nft-here-to-stay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NFTs<\/a>.\u00a0 Interesting predictions were made on how NFT platforms could create opportunities for brands in the digital space. During the event, the climate controversy around NFTs and ways in which this new form of ownership can be sustainable was discussed.<br><br>Curious about this event?\u00a0Watch on demand to learn all about NFTs:\t<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t<div class=\"block-title-and-content__social-links\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.deptagency.com\/en-nl\/insight\/how-nfts-and-ar-can-power-your-brand-in-the-metaverse\/\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-share-url=\"https:\/\/www.deptagency.com\/en-nl\/insight\/how-nfts-and-ar-can-power-your-brand-in-the-metaverse\/\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-share-title=\"How NFTs and AR can power your brand in the metaverse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-share-type=\"copy\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"block-title-and-content__social-links-item js-social-link\"\n\t\t\t\taria-label=\"Copy page link\"\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-tooltip=\"true\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-tooltip-text=\"Link copied to clipboard.\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<svg fill='none' xmlns='http: 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I\u2019m the Director of Web Projects at Rocket Insights (part of Dept). So today we\u2019re going to kind of, well, first I should talk about who Rocket is. So Rocket\u2019s based out of the US, we work closely with a bunch of crypto companies in the greater Boston area. I should also talk about why I\u2019m here. So I\u2019ve been in that space for a while, but I will say that back in April of 2013, I definitely traded half of the Bitcoin for a pizza. So myself, like many others, have this whole fear of missing out, especially this time around or receiving all this popularity in the NFT space. Suddenly very popular in mainstream media from Jack Dorsey signing and selling his first tweet to people becoming the third most living valuable artist ever. That said, there is a confusing sea of lingo and barrier to entry. And so it\u2019s still very hard for your average consumer to get involved in this. So today, what we\u2019re gonna do is I\u2019m gonna pass it to Isabel shortly, she\u2019s going to walk you through some slides to really kind of explain this space and where you can tap into it. And then we\u2019ll move into a panel discussion for a little while, where we have some people from all relevant areas in this space from digital creation to actual delivering the stuff on a variety of blockchains. And then we\u2019ll move into a Q&amp;A so we can answer some questions with the time we have left. But I do think the slides are super helpful, so I won\u2019t waste any more time and I\u2019ll pass straight to Isabel.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Isabel Perry, VP Emerging Technology<\/strong><br><br>Hello, everyone, hopefully, you can all see my screen. Great. Thank you, Brendan. I am Isabel Perry and I\u2019m the VP of Emerging Technology. I think probably a lot of you are here today, because you\u2019ve been seeing headlines like this. Over the last sort of six months there has been an absolute explosion or sort of conversation around virtual fashion and NFT\u2019s. And a lot of you\u2019re probably wondering, sort of, what is all of this space about? And how can brands participate in this new area of technology.\u00a0 We certainly had our attention caught by the headlines, partly because we create a lot of AR for brands. And I think it really got us wondering if we could create an AR NFT as a sort of proof of concept for our clients about the way that we could bring together virtual experiences with a sort of more interesting area of ownership around those virtual experiences. But to understand what the opportunity was for our clients, we needed to spend a bit of time to really get to grips of what an NFT was because this area really has exploded in the last few months. So I\u2019m going to share a very short summary of what an NFT is before talking about the context around why this thing I think is exploding at the moment. And then going on to what we created for DEPT\u00ae as our first NFT edition. So an NFT stands for non fungible token and non fungible tokens are unique digital items with blockchain managed ownership. What\u2019s really key about the word is fungible. It\u2019s quite complex, quite a confusing word. But actually, it\u2019s a really, really simple concept, which basically says a fungible item is interchangeable. If I have $1, and you have $1, and we swapped dollars, we both still have $1. So Bitcoin is an example of a fungible digital item, because one bitcoin is the same as any other Bitcoin. A non fungible item is unique. And so just like the Mona Lisa, an NFT has been created to be one of the kind. And that means that I also might choose to swap an NFT with you because we want to own different NFT\u2019s. They have different values, and they are intrinsically sort of different objects. And the way that that actually works in the blockchain, and I\u2019m not here to talk about blockchains or cryptocurrencies, but it\u2019s really helpful to understand sort of the simplest level, why NFTs exist on blockchains and how they exist on blockchains. And when we show that ownership is managed, what does that mean? So at the simplest level, a blockchain is a method of storing data. And data is stored in these blocks which are linked to the previous block. So it or the cryptocurrency, really what you\u2019re getting is a list of transactions which might be happening on that with that cryptocurrency, and that\u2019s literally pushed to a block and stored indefinitely. And over time, you can understand the way those transactions sort of are continuously stored. An NFT exists on blockchains in a really similar way, because basically you can mint or add to blockchain. And that basically puts that unique item within a block and it\u2019s there forever. And people can check that it\u2019s there. And you can also trade it. So if I mint NFT, I can then go on to sell it, you can also check that it\u2019s there, like I said, and then what\u2019s really interesting is that some other people, if they own that NFT can then continue to resell it. At the simplest level, that is the way that NFT\u2019s exist on blockchains. So that\u2019s how it works. But really, what\u2019s so amazing with NFT\u2019s is just the sheer sort of unlimited breadth of what an NFT can actually be within that context. So NFT\u2019s include collectibles, which might be something that you want to either collect a number of or sort of trade to build out your hand a bit like Pokemon cards, and it can include game items. So within virtual worlds, you might have an NFT of a specific sword, for example, very famously. And that\u2019s a sort of real driver of a lot of the conversation that\u2019s happening at the moment around NF T\u2019s. But they can also as Brandon said, include things like tweets or even ownership records for physical assets. And this is just a little bit of a timeline that you can see actually, NFT\u2019s were first being issued and back in 2017 with crypto punks, which was a very simple image, which would continue to be traded today. And then you can see that there was basically this flurry of activity over the last sort of while in 2021, around things like albums being released as NFT\u2019s or incredibly rapidly increasing sales prices. So you might hear that these NFT\u2019s are being bought and sold, but sort of where are they? Where is this happening. And there are over 130 different marketplaces where you can mint trade and track these NFT\u2019s. And because they\u2019re all sort of built on top of blockchains, that\u2019s incredibly transparent to look into and understand how much money is actually sort of being traded on these different platforms. One example of them is a foundation app, which is one of the largest ones, it\u2019s built on top of Ethereum, which is a blockchain. And you can see here there\u2019s sort of digital art uploaded, and people can bid on that. And then they can also resell those assets. For brands. The most interesting example that sort of the most successful and huge example to date is the NBA top shot, which invites you to witness history and only NFT moments in a new era of fandom. And it started with this video here of James O\u2019Brien reenacting a Kobe Bryant slam dunk. And that was turned into a moment. And moments are really a concept that NBA Topshop created, where they essentially packaged up that footage, and then sold it as an NFT on NBA top shot for incredibly high prices. And then that asset is then treated as a sort of collectible again and again, by multiple different people. And the amazing thing for NBA top shop, because every time it\u2019s resold they can make, I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s 5%, or 2%. But they take a royalty on that resale. And it\u2019s been so successful that if you look at the top 20 NFT marketplaces, NBA top shot, which is the most branded version of NFT\u2019s has driven almost 43% of all gross value of NFT sales in all time. So there\u2019s huge amounts of money at play here as well, because 1.6 billion pounds has been spent on the top 20 NFT marketplaces. And within the art space alone, 45% of that has just been in the last four weeks. Some of these other marketplaces are sort of around virtual worlds, lots of them around art, some of them around sport, and there\u2019s real sort of breadth and lots of them around gaming, and it\u2019s real breadth in what some of these verticals are emerging around NFT marketplaces. But I think, again, I think it was unbelievable to see Justin March. So last month, when suddenly across all headlines, people were talking about the fact that people had just sold an NFT for 69 point 3 million US dollars. And that is quite astonishing. And it does beg the question, it\u2019s just a JPEG. So are we in a bubble, and Beeple himself did say that he thought that we were in a bubble shortly before his art then went on to sell for 69 million US dollars. But I think that there\u2019s a much bigger and more important context. That means that even though there\u2019s the art world might be in a bit of a bubble right now, there\u2019s something really, really interesting about the sort of need for NFT\u2019s as we spend more and more of our time online. And I\u2019ll sort of go on to explain that slightly. But I don\u2019t really need to tell you on this call that our lives are increasingly being spent online. Just in the last sort of three years, and this is actually from 2018. Now, an increase of 5% people thought they spend almost all of their time online. And you can see here that the younger you are, the more time you spend online. And this data from Q4 2020 shows that around 15% of Gen Xers are spending more than 10 hours online a day. So that\u2019s a really, really key. And that\u2019s not going to change. And as we do spend more and more time online, buying virtual goods has become more mainstream. Lots of you remember the million dollar homepage, which was a genius idea with sort of 1000 pixels by 1000 pixel website, and you could pay to own multiple pixels. And my brother who\u2019s younger than me had a friend who at 16 has become a multimillionaire from selling tepee textures on Minecraft and now lives in Bali with his own helicopter. And then I\u2019m joined here on the panel later by The Fabricant, but sort of that as you can see the transition into suddenly, in like 2019, we are buying these digital goods as NFT\u2019s. And this was the most beautiful version of sort of very, very early experimentation with digital fashion. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing today become more and more prevalent. And I think a lot of the reason why that\u2019s happening is because the gap between in real life and online has narrowed. And we\u2019re beginning to live these augmented reality lives. So back in 2014, when Asos was talking about Halloween, there was sort of taking photographs of real people wearing real clothes, and cut to six years later, he was talking about Halloween in the sort of augmented reality life way, where actually it\u2019s through the use of augmented reality effects on Tick Tock and their invite, then creating these experiences to the customer is not just the sort of creators to really own part of that brand and build out that sort of content, always with a sauce. But COVID has forced us all to behave more like Gen Z. I think we all know that we\u2019ve been spending more and more time, given we haven\u2019t been able to do anything else. We\u2019ve been spending more time online in the last 12 months. And as we live more and more lives, online, digital goods are going to become even more valuable. And so you see the likes of the sort of $200 Photoshop outfits. And Gucci sort of announced that they were creating $12 Gucci sneakers a couple of weeks ago, and RTFKT sells NFT trainers for $10,000 a pop. And this is kind of extraordinary. Because I think it\u2019s always sort of if you\u2019re not really in the space, it\u2019s almost crept up. And suddenly, you realise that there are all these sort of amazing, digital money spent on these beautiful digital goods, which you will never see in the physical world, but it doesn\u2019t matter. Consume online. And I think that really highlights the tension because the Internet has made sharing information frictionless. And this is sort of really at odds with a deeply human instinct to own and to trade. So this is just sort of three minutes of screenshotting, my computer and sort of everywhere you look online, you see copy, download, forge share, and everything is about sort of distribution of information. And that is brilliant and wonderful. And one of the reasons why the internet is such an incredibly special place. But there\u2019s this human need or sort of like unstoppable need to own things. So back in 9000 BC, we were owning cattle in 12,000 BC people\u2019s sort of trading with shells. And I think it\u2019s a real interesting sort of reflection of whatever people value, they begin to create ownership around. And I think because we value being online so much, it\u2019s really important that we understand ways of building our ownership. And I think that\u2019s also reflected by the fact that sort of, there\u2019s a really disproportionate value driven by collectible NFT\u2019s versus unique NFT\u2019s because that is that thing of like I want to collect shells or I want to collect sort of land or I want to own patents. So even though only 50% of the largest of the top 20 NFT marketplaces are offered collectibles, they drive nearly 80% of the gross value of NFT\u2019s. So I think NFT is a really inevitable form of digital ownership. And although there\u2019s definitely hype and there\u2019s definitely bubbles right now, it is really interesting to think about where do you start if you accept that people are going to want to own this digital space. So digital items. And for that, you kind of have to take a step back and address the unsustainable elephant in the room. And there is a lot of talk about this. And I think, actually it was really, it was. So we released an NFT. Last week. And it was really, really brilliant actually to see that there was push back, even within DEPT\u00ae on should we be doing this, is this environmentally friendly enough, how we address this, so it\u2019s a concern, it\u2019s a really real concern. And if you are building an NFT or creating an NFT on Ethereum, for example, which is the most commonly used blockchain for NFT\u2019s is like flying for two hours. And that is, that is a problem, I think, and just sort of to help you understand, energy is used to mint to bid to cancel bids for sales, every sort of transaction that you\u2019re making on that blockchain does require some energy to enact. But technology has progressed since sort of blockchain technology was introduced 10 years ago? Well, well, no. And there is a sort of new way of building blockchains, which instead of using proof of stake, you can use proof of work to verify that transactions are accurate, and to ensure the sort of stability and validity of any given blockchain. And you can see here the difference between sort of the estimated annual energy consumption of Bitcoin compared to Ethereum, which was a sort of blockchain version two, and Tezos, which is a sort of blockchain version three, which uses proof of work. And it\u2019s estimated that actually even compared to Ethereum, is also sort of 1.5 million times less environmentally damaging. And to the point that is really like running any other website. So there are absolutely sort of ways around creating inviting less environmentally damaging lefties. And with that in mind, we sort of went through this, these five steps of actually, this is how you can create your first NFT. So the first thing is to create your NFT asset. And that\u2019s really, what do you want to turn into an NFT. The second is to select a marketplace and some steps might be required to prove eligibility of that space. The third thing is to set up your crypto wallet. So that\u2019s to sort of create your public address on the blockchain. And also to create the private keys to actually control that. The fourth is to mint the NFT. So that\u2019s when you actually sort of upload your NFT asset into the blockchain. And then you can list the NFT and allow people to sort of bid on it or buy it for a fixed price, or to resell it. And I think we only joined that back in February. And it was kind of easy to see that that already had a parallel line of this, like street wear. And we thought what if actually the next step to parallel drop, which happened really regularly was virtual, and that becomes the NFT. So you can see here the depth of our website, we designed and built this virtual jacket as a snapchat lens using the new sort of full body tracking, which was only recently released. And that sort of opens up really beautiful clothing into Snapchat. And we push that to Snapchat to actually sort of make the jacket beautifully modelled by some colleagues here. Then we needed to choose the NFT marketplace. And for that the number one requirement that we had was that it was a proof of stake blockchain. We also wanted something that was semi curated so that it had a sort of high quality of goods on it, something that supported checkout. So the NFT\u2019s could be bought via the market place because we didn\u2019t have time to build our own back end for that and unlikeable files so that once someone\u2019s bought the NFT, they can then access the design files of that AR lens. So we chose to work with NFT Showroom because it\u2019s built on the blockchain and cryptocurrency Hive. And then we need to set up the crypto wallet. So for this, you sort of create your account, and you register within the name of what you want to be so for us we actually had to pretend to be a collective of artists to qualify on an empty showroom. So we registered as DEPT\u00ae department of artists. And then we generated the necessary keys accessing all it when you hear about people that have been trying to uncover hard drives, which sort of would give them access to Bitcoin that somewhere in a dump somewhere. What they\u2019re actually referring to is the private keys which are generated when you sort of register for your crypto wallet, and that\u2019s what this process will sort of generate for you. Minting the NFT\u2019s is in some ways, one of the simpler steps when you\u2019re working with a marketplace like NFT Showroom. We decided to create one NFT of the video render of the jacket and create 20 additions, because there are 1700 Depsters. So we thought any less than 20 was not realistic, we could set the price at around $10, which was 12 Hive at the time. And people could unlock a link to the Google Drive once they had purchased the NFT jacket. And you can see here, you sort of literally upload an image, you can upload videos, and you set a number of settings around sort of, yeah, price and so on.<br>\u00a0<br>And then you list it. And I think it\u2019s slightly complex, sort of creating a crypto wallet and buying these NFT\u2019s. I think we had no idea how many people would buy these NFT\u2019s when we first went live. And they sort of essentially sold out within a couple of hours. Someone immediately relisted one at over a million pounds of over a million dollars, at its most at 750,000. And there\u2019s just been a sort of incredible sort of resale activity or flurry over the last five days or so. And I think it was a bit of a window into the NFT world at the moment because someone called Arbitrage has bought about 16 of them and keeps this sort of setting basically gaming the price. And so it\u2019s been incredibly interesting seeing how it\u2019s sort of played out in terms of the actual sort of sell and resale of the NFTs. And on NFT Showroom, if you do want to buy an NFT, the UX is still actually quite sort of challenging. So within NFT showroom, you have to click buy five times to actually confirm that you really, really, really want to buy the NFT. And I guess it was quite a complex process initially getting to grips with how to both generate and buy NFT\u2019s. And it hasn\u2019t necessarily been easy. So I think and sort of the question is, why bother? But I think that the sort of bigger question is, how can we make it easier, and I think both Brandon and Rachel from Circle, are sort of working at companies that are spending a lot of time and thought into thinking about how to create much much richer experiences, and that do make that path to purchase a lot less friction, less friction for. So I think to answer, why bother, you really need to think about why people are buying NFT\u2019s at the moment. So the first thing is there\u2019s a real sort of explosion of people that are speculating on NFTs. And I think we need to be realistic about that. And I think some people will probably lose a lot of money actually on it. But there is sort of a lot of speculation going on. But there\u2019s also a lot around sort of pride and ego and sort of it\u2019s deeply human instinct to own and to want to own something and to have that be visible. There\u2019s also huge growth in sort of sales of NFT, just around fandom, because it\u2019s about a way of always expressing your identity through what you admire. And I think that\u2019s a really, really interesting space for sort of creators and influences as well as for brands, but then also patronage so because all of the transaction history is visible. Actually, if you become a patron of an artist that you really admire, then your early patronage will be indelible sort of when the blockchain so how can brands make NF T\u2019s work for them? Well, I think you need to sort of tap into the drivers behind customers and think about allowing resale to create large markets, creating buzz around ownership, integrating with your existing goods and services, and leveraging sort of a really dedicated fan base. So if you help, if you have existing customers that are really dedicated, then like, lean into that. So I think just to sort of, to sort of some thought starters are just how brands can then leverage NFT\u2019s by category. So for fashion, can you provide exclusive virtual versions of owned outfits that also prove the authenticity of that outfit? Could you actually create a leaderboard at the sort of the top spenders if there is a sort of competitive element of that? And I won\u2019t read through all of these. I appreciate this sort of at time, but just within property, can you offer digital monopoly experience to trade virtual versions of homes within law? Can you fast track paperwork for property sales patents, vehicle registration or even diamonds? And within marketing strategy? Actually, what does sponsorship look like when you actually give away NFT\u2019s, all behind the scenes content to customers that it\u2019s all tradable. Or can you do sort of out of home create location specific coupons for collection and redemption as NFT\u2019s? I think there\u2019s just a huge amount of creative potential in this space. So just to sum up, I think, yes, like a lot of NFT\u2019s are just JPEGs. And yes, we probably are in a hype cycle. But we are only human. And as we increasingly value digital items, we really need a way to earn them. Thank you very much.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov, Director of Web at Rocket Insights (part of Dept)<\/strong><br><br>All right. I know when I went through that for the first time, it was like very helpful, and probably the simplest blockchain analogy I\u2019ve ever seen. And I mean that. Cool. So yeah, now we are at the panel discussion side of the talk. So I\u2019ll let everyone introduce themselves. And I\u2019ll pass it in the order here. But basically, we\u2019ve got Isabel. We just saw, we\u2019ve got Will from Snapchat. We\u2019ve got Kerry Murphy from The Fabricant, we have Damara Ingl\u00eas from well, she\u2019s a virtual fashion creator and artist, which I think brings a whole cool concept of this, this whole talk. And Rachel Mayer, who is from Circle, so I\u2019ll pass well, Isabel, we know who you are. I\u2019ll pass it onto Will to first introduce himself. And we\u2019ll go through intros and then I\u2019ll kick off with a couple questions.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Will Scougal, Snapchat<\/strong><br><br>Hey, everybody, thanks very much for that as well. And hey, Brandon, thanks for inviting us along to the panel discussion. And I\u2019m global Director of Creative Strategy at Snapchat, where I\u2019ve been for five and a half years. And I\u2019ve been working on AR since that moment, really, since the vomiting rainbow kind transcended the platform to become the most popular Halloween costume of 2015 in North America all the way through to what we\u2019re seeing today, with augmented reality really becoming a full funnel format across attention, emotion and utility and fashion being very much at the driver of the forefront of of that shift and change. Thanks very much.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov<\/strong><br><br>Alright, let\u2019s pass it to Kerry next.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br><br><strong>Kerry Murphy<\/strong><br><br>Everyone. I\u2019m Kerry, I\u2019m one of the founders of The Fabricant. We are the world\u2019s first digital only fashion house where we focus on creating the digital only fashion industry. It\u2019s highly creative. It\u2019s super technically challenging, but the biggest challenge for digital only fashion industry is to find that monetization, new revenue streams so everybody can become a digital fashion designer. So fashion brands can start their own digital only fashion labels. On the side. We are also an agency, we help fashion brands digitise, we create digital samples, we create content for that lookbooks. And we do marketing campaigns and interactive experiences. But I\u2019m super excited about the digital only fashion industry. So yeah, I\u2019ll leave it at that I\u2019m sure we go deeper into<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov<\/strong><br><br>Well, since we\u2019re on a digital fashion trend, I\u2019ll pass it to Damara.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Damara Ingl\u00eas<\/strong><br><br>Hello, everyone. My name is Damara Ingl\u00eas and I am a self proclaimed fashion tech cyborg, and designer of extended reality experiences and virtual fashion. Basically, I use technology as a lense to criticise analogue fashion in ways to make it more diverse of different cultural identities, more inclusive of our digital citizenship, and also overall more democratic and sustainable.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov<\/strong><br><br>Alright, and of course, last but not least, Rachel&#8230;<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Rachel Mayer<\/strong><br><br>Hello, everyone. Nice to meet you all. My name is Rachel Mayer, I\u2019m VP of growth and Product Marketing at Circle based in Miami, have been at Circle for nearly four years. If you don\u2019t know who Circle is, Circle is a payments and infrastructure company. For internet companies, we marry both traditional means of payments and treasury with blockchain based worlds. You also might know us as the creator of the world\u2019s leading stable coin US dollar coin USDC. And we power today a lot of companies and NFT marketplaces, like dapper labs for their NBA top shot. So excited to talk to you about some of the challenges and experiences and how Circle and other companies in this space are tackling some of those for you to build new products and services.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov<\/strong><br><br>That\u2019s great. All right. I\u2019ve got a few questions queued up that are sort of targeted at direct people. But I figured we\u2019ll start with one person who answers them and then we\u2019ll just go from there. Someone wants to jump in and add in to the answer. Feel free. So let\u2019s see how this goes. We\u2019ll start with well this first one is kind of about the NBA top shot stuff. So What can brands like the NBA, you know, that\u2019s one of the biggest ones. What can they do to involve this community of creators that are out there considering they have these proprietary marketplaces.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Will Scougal<\/strong><br><br>So I guess, in terms of the NBA example, which is a fascinating one, I did have no idea about just how much of the NFT economy was really powering and driving at this time is absolutely phenomenal to see that level of growth. From a creator perspective we\u2019re talking from, from the Snapchat perspective and point of view, what I think what we\u2019re seeing is really a democratisation, certainly of augmented reality in terms of the technology that people can use to craft these types of experiences. Certainly, since we released the Lens Studio software for free a couple of years ago, which is the software we use to build all of our augmented reality experiences, we\u2019ve seen over a million lenses built within that software and over a trillion views of those lens experiences. So we\u2019re starting to see a community build up and emerge and really drive influence. And I love this point, actually, around the idea of craft, I think that the influence that we\u2019re seeing through digital creativity and with augmented reality is one where it\u2019s influenced through beautiful craft, as opposed to just personality. And I\u2019m not saying one is better than the other. I just think that it\u2019s really interesting. We\u2019re seeing that emergence. And I think that that is, is really celebrated in what we\u2019re seeing in kind of NFTs and the growth that we\u2019re seeing across you know, whether they\u2019re JPEGs, or gifs, or whatever they might be, it\u2019s really beautifully crafted digital assets that people are celebrating, and buying into and wanting to have a sense of ownership of as the physical and digital worlds are kind of becoming closer and closer together and becoming kind of part of each other. So I do think that for brands, the opportunity is to think about the craft that you can really bring to the table. And for me, that\u2019s about contribution. I think so much of that so much of digital has previously been about interruption whereas I think we\u2019re in this beautiful phase now where we\u2019re thinking about how can we make the digital world better, more interesting, more entertaining, more useful, more beautifully crafted, and as the tools become more democratised and the accessibility becomes more democratised, the volume of content and the quality of content is going to become more democratised as well. And I think that really flipped the narrative and the question back to brands about how can you contribute with something beautiful?<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Kerry Murphy<\/strong><br><br>I would like to ask a question on that straightaway. Are you going to tie your lens filters into NFT\u2019s? I think that\u2019s probably the biggest question that we get from all the brands and every single brand is trying to monetize on this.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Will Scougal<\/strong><br><br>Well, so I think that with AR and with AR that\u2019s built within the Lens Studio, when a brand builds within the studio, that\u2019s something that they\u2019re building for themselves. What they do with the assets that they create is really, really up to the brand itself. There\u2019s not anything that is currently immediately on the radar in that respect. But I would say that it\u2019s up to brands to realise the opportunity and work to you know, make the most of the asset that they\u2019re creating. Within the studio itself.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Kerry Murphy<\/strong><br><br>Gucci just dropped some sneakers for $12 which you get to release as NFT\u2019s as a AR shoe wearing experience. Yeah, I<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Will Scougal<\/strong><br><br>I think so, I think one of the things that actually we\u2019re seeing with the AR studio and with Snapchat in particular is 75% of our 265 million users are using augmented reality every day. There\u2019s millions, hundreds of millions of people using AR on the platform that makes an NFT meet that gives you an immediately scalable audience. So when someone like you know if we look at new the question of is this a fad or is it something that\u2019s becoming mainstream? You know, I think art follows fashion brands follow people if you if you know i mean and what we\u2019ve seen in AR and certainly with product trial and fashion trial is Dior, Gucci, Lacoste, Balenciaga, Nike, Adidas, all building digital fashion assets, augmented reality, fashion assets in order to raise awareness and provide accessibility to those assets to people huge scale. So I think in Gucci what they\u2019re doing and actually also with DEPT\u00ae what you did with the, with your first NFT puffer was provide interest and awareness and scale through Snapchat and AR trial through body tracking, then obviously released the NFT through different platform.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov<\/strong><br><br>Alright, well, this is a good segway then because, well, this one\u2019s actually gonna be targeted at Rachel. So it comes as no surprise that there\u2019s a whole bunch of interest from brands and a flurry of interest about having their own NFT based storefronts, since many of those brands are just getting started right now. What\u2019s one or two key considerations that you think they should keep in mind when they\u2019re sitting in meetings planning these things?<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Rachel Mayer<\/strong><br><br>Yeah, absolutely, I think Isabel\u2019s presentation did a great job of explaining the pain points of a brand, going through creating a digital NFT good, but also how to put that good out into the world and have your existing audience interact with that and perhaps purchase with it. So marrying those two worlds of how you monetize today and how you interact with the technology today is something that you should consider, and how to have sort of that seamless user experience that your consumers today expect when they\u2019re shopping on something like Amazon, you know, what she just went through? That\u2019s not currently the experience with blockchain technology, it\u2019s entirely new, right? Even the nomenclature, the usage, wallets and fees and gas and acquiring cryptocurrency for your consumers, that is entirely new and scary sometimes. So you need to choose very well how to interact with this technology and partner with a company and an infrastructure provider that abstracts some of those challenges to your audience, but also brings in the crypto ecosystem and crypto natives, who you know, this is their bread and butter and eat live and breathe Ethereum and Bitcoin on a daily basis. So let\u2019s talk about Circle and how we can help you and brands and companies, you know, craft that experience. One of the reasons why NBA top shop and dapper labs has been so successful, in addition to you know, sports being cool is that they created that user experience that really mirrors you know, web today on how to shop through the internet. So they let you put in your debit and your credit card very seamlessly, just with the shopping cart experience, as you would expect. But they also let you pay with traditional crypto currencies like usdc or aetherium, or Bitcoin. So\u00a0 they\u2019re catering to both audiences, both mainstream and crypto, creating a user experience where it abstracts the blockchain that is behind the scenes but gives that digital ownership. And so when you\u2019re choosing a provider, you really need to think about the provider, where do they fit in that spectrum? Can they cater towards you know, why different users and give you the ability to create the user experience that you want for your brand, and not interfere with the user experience that your brand wants to create? So that\u2019s what Circle does, and excited to work with all of you all on how you\u2019re thinking about building new web 3.0 experiences using blockchain technology.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Will Scougal<\/strong><br><br>And just on that point, Rachel, I thought one of the things which I found so interesting about the NBA top shop site is that they don\u2019t think that you have to dig really hard to find any mention of NF t ethylone. any mention of sort of all of the language around blockchains. And I feel like it\u2019s not just a UX job. It\u2019s also been a sort of linguistic marketing, incredible linguistic job. And I guess, I guess it\u2019s just interesting to know, how do you find it? How do you position it with your audience that they, like, understand what the ownership means without getting too scientific is going to be a challenge that we\u2019re all going to have to, like, tackle.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Rachel Mayer<\/strong><br><br>Exactly. Like in their checkout flows, there\u2019s, you know, no mention of providers, no mention of how the funds settled behind the scenes or how they\u2019re, you know, bearing blockchain worlds. And it\u2019s just in the fine print where it\u2019s like, hey, this NFT, go to the block explorer and see how you own it. And right now, you know, it\u2019s a closed loop marketplace, but pretty soon, like similar other marketplaces that you show, you\u2019ll be able to trade and and and, you know, send each other these NFT\u2019s publicly transparently on the blockchain. So that\u2019s another consideration for a brand is, do you want to start out in a closed loop fashion, and sort of limit that ownership to just your ecosystem? Or do you want to start with the entire world and there\u2019s different trade offs and benefits to both of those. But the success of dapper is sort of, you know, introducing to their consumers little by little with bite sized pieces of information to get their feet wet with NFT\u2019s.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov<\/strong><br><br>That\u2019s a great answer. I\u2019m gonna take a little shift on this one and talk about more of the artist community. So Damara I\u2019m going to use for this one to start with, although Kerry expect you probably jump in here too. There\u2019s like a pretty large community of 3D artists out there, I\u2019ve seen some really weird stuff, I\u2019ve seen some pretty great stuff they could be tapping into this and probably already are. But if you think about it right now, we already have kind of basic formats like JPEGs, and videos. If you think about where the technology is headed, what\u2019s the advice you would give to those creators so that they can stay relevant and profitable as the market gets flooded with more and more creators.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Damara Ingl\u00eas<\/strong><br><br>And I think that my first advice would definitely be to cultivate your own artistic perspective and your own identity before just trying to follow the mainstream, because what happens in both the fashion industry and the digital art industry is that when there is a sort of meta narrative, then everyone, including the consumers, and the clients think that everything should look exactly like that. And then that aesthetic is consumed, is thrown away, and you are thrown away with it as well. So my advice would definitely be to explore your digital identity within this space. That\u2019s the best way of remaining relevant. Also understanding what is unique to you, to your experience, and to your voice in ways that instead of just remaining relevant in this field, you\u2019re also a valuable contributor. And you\u2019ll also become a mirror to the industry so that more and more people can feel that they are represented to your own particular perspective, and voice. And also, it\u2019s very important to keep track of all the new templates and technologies that are coming up that you can definitely take advantage of. So that you can also sort of ride the wave of hype that these templates come with. For example, Lens Studio just released the 3D body tracking technology that is like a revolution, as someone that has been experimenting with augmented reality for a few years, this is really the first tool that I can see that will truly elevate my work and make it look more realistic, make it look more in the moment. And I was lucky enough to be collaborating with Spectacles and Snapchat, and had early access to the 3D body tracking feature. But as this feature is being more and more talked about, obviously, the Lens Studio in the Snapchat community is looking for this particular type of filter. So if you make it first, you\u2019ll also be one of the first people to define the aesthetic of a new template, or of a new product. And it\u2019s definitely very exciting. I was trying on the DEPT\u00ae bomber jacket online on Snapchat, sorry, earlier today. And you know, you move your arms and it moves with you it\u2019s just completely unthinkable a year ago, I would never think that this would be happening today or that there would even be a need for it today. So I think that the best way to remain relevant is definitely to remain authentic to yourself and to your identity. And to keep track of all of these amazing, amazing creative opportunities and features that are coming out.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Kerry Murphy<\/strong><br><br>I would like to add to that it\u2019s also very important to really get people following you. And that really an authentic connection to the blockchain industry is necessary because there\u2019s a lot of people jumping on, they\u2019re just trying to make a quick buck right now because it\u2019s a hype. So for any 3D artists who\u2019s coming there should come with concept, should come with the attitude that they\u2019re there to stay, and not just to like throw something onto a marketplace and trying to monetize on it. Because that\u2019s what that\u2019s what the buyers want. That\u2019s what the users want. When you ask the people who are doing the big investments in the blockchain space. You know what, why would they invest in our piece, they really just need to have an authentic connection to the artist and know that they are there for their artistic and creative reasons for their storytelling reasons. For something that has to do with their digital identity. As Damara says, something that really connects to the space and what I love about it is that it creates a space. A whole new generation of artists like this artist called Ferocious who just did a drop with the RTFKT guys, digital sneakers for 3.1 million. He\u2019s done multiple different drops on his own as well. And he\u2019s making a lot of money. This kid is 18 years old. And he really came into the community with the storytelling aspect of an 18 year old artist, my parents hated my art several years ago. And here I am with my community and they are investing hundreds of 1000s investing millions in my art, people see him as the new key herring of the digital art generation, that story really resonates with that community. And with that space, it really provides kind of like this idea of the new world. We don\u2019t have to be tied to the Sothebys and Christies in the traditional art world, all of a sudden, we have this whole new medium of a whole new generation of people coming in there from a very, you know, genuine perspective. And if anything, no from the blockchain community, they know that they despise data. They\u2019re not all about status quo. They\u2019re not all about, you know, big organisations, they\u2019re all about decentralisation. So, you know, independent people, and, you know, just trying to do things differently than they exist, let\u2019s say in, you know, the old world versus the new world. So for me, it\u2019s the exciting space. And, you know, like, we\u2019ve been in it for over two years right now. And there\u2019s been a lot of people jumping into the space over and over again. And the question always is, do they stand the test of time? Are they here just kind of like dropping in? Are they here to stay? Because these cycles, they come and go, we\u2019re in this hype cycle right now, it will die out at some point, who are going to be the people that are going to stay in the blockchain community when the money\u2019s not flowing anywhere? And who are the people that are going to be stepping out again? Because you know, it\u2019s not a trend. It\u2019s not a hype. But uh, yeah, it\u2019s definitely gotten so much better. And I recently read a letter by somebody who\u2019s knee deep in the blockchain space. And he talked about cycles from 2011, 2013, 2017. And now 2021. And he really says that vision is going to be the one main differentiator between all the players in this hype.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov<\/strong><br><br>I\u2019m going to agree with that as well. I think that you\u2019ll find that people will rise to the top of that pile, I\u2019m personally wondering if they\u2019re gonna end up getting hired by these luxury brands, or be their own luxury brands like create the supreme that is the digital version or something like that?\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Kerry Murphy<\/strong><br><br>I think that\u2019s the latter. Absolutely.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov<\/strong><br><br>I hope so. Right?\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Damara Ingl\u00eas<\/strong><br><br>Yes, I just wanted to add up that I definitely think that they will become their own future and present culture, digital fashion brands, like The Fabricant for example, there\u2019s no comparison between the experience of The Fabricant and the experience of a physical luxury brand.That these are two completely different niches. And our challenge right now is to respect both of them. And if luxury analogue fashion brands really want to be part of this niche, and really want to be relevant and create an impact on these needs, the best thing that they can do is to collaborate with artists and designers that already have a voice in this space that are already followed. Because like in any niche out there, this is very important. And if there is no authenticity, people just run away from a concept. So I think that right now it\u2019s really about building up the energy. So that it\u2019s not just a fad. As many people I see, I really do believe in the power of NFT and digital artists, for it to be a new era of interaction and consumption of art overall.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov<\/strong><br><br>I don\u2019t think you could have made a better segway to the next question, which also ties into a few Q&amp;A questions, which is about authenticity. Rachel, you\u2019re probably gonna weigh in here too. Like there\u2019s any artist who can sell their goods directly to consumers on blockchains multiple, right? But verifying that authenticity can be hard because what\u2019s to stop someone from making multiple copies? What\u2019s to stop someone from selling in multiple marketplaces or multiple times? So even though it\u2019s not in the spirit of blockchain, it seems like we still defer to brands or clearing houses or whatever to be the trusted authority in the matter, the Sothebys and Christies of the digital world. What is the future of verifying ownership when those records exist on multiple blockchains in multiple wallets? Do we look to some one solution to rule them all? I don\u2019t know how we end up dealing with this. How we prevent forgeries.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Rachel Mayer<\/strong><br><br>Right. I can chime in.<br>I mean, there\u2019s different blockchains that you can issue NFT\u2019s on. And so the proof of ownership can exist amongst those different blockchains. Obviously, the question is how do we enable the creative economy and sort of marry that proof of ownership in the real world and how your brand and identity interacts with the real world today with those blockchains? Today, at the end of the day, proof of ownership relies on who actually carries the private keys across any blockchain, right? So you as a brand and as a creator, you need to choose if you want that ownership yourself, and it\u2019s pretty scary to be your own bank, and custody, you know, 24 words long see phrases and whatnot? Or do you want to delegate that to, you know, such a custody provider? Maybe someone like Circle who can custom NFT\u2019s and, you know, as, especially as NFT\u2019s rise in value, like do you really want to be the owner of an NFT that\u2019s worth, you know, millions of dollars. So that\u2019s one aspect is the real ownership lies and who custody, the NFT\u2019s. But then how do you represent that ownership to your audience? I think it\u2019s going to be a combination of your existing social and community channels, to marry those two worlds. So they, your audience will be able to see sort of your, you know, public wallet address where you\u2019ve minted the NFT. And when you tweet it out, or when you post it on, you know, social and Instagram, and Snapchat, you as the existing sort of brand and creator ownership, you know, voicing that you\u2019ve mentioned this in a tweet married with that proof of ownership with your keys, through the public wallet address is going to be sort of the nuance of how digital ownership represents going forward. And then you can choose where to distribute that across any any, you know, any one of the horizontal or vertical marketplaces that is about one through going forward.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov<\/strong><br><br>Now Will,l do you see like, kind of stuff happening at Snapchat, where let\u2019s use the Gucci sneakers example? What if I had the skills to make my own Gucci sneakers? And I made them and I\u2019m like, yeah, and there\u2019s my filter, and there you go. And then Gucci can like send you a takedown notice or whatever? Have you had to deal with any of that stuff yet?<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Will Scougal<\/strong><br><br>So in that respect, that would be between you and Gucci. And with a platform that you\u2019ve used to a certain degree. I think I\u2019ve talked about authenticity, just from another aspect, it\u2019s from the brand point of view. And I think that\u2019s in terms of, I think, for me, just to take a step back from the NFT space and just look at it from a marketing perspective, one of the things that I think brands look for, or have always looked for is authenticity and marketing. And with NFT\u2019s with augmented reality, what you have is a an experience where people are welcoming the brand into their world, certainly when you look at say Gucci sneakers or Adidas sneakers, or any kind of product trial AR experience that may lead on to a purchase of the actual product or of an NFT, what you\u2019re finding is that people are spending the time to choose to pay attention to that experience, right and attention, supposedly, a diminishing commodity within marketing is really not people are just choosing to spend their time paying attention differently, is diversified as opposed to diminished. And I think that with augmented reality, what you\u2019ve suddenly got is this amazing, well crafted high attention experienced lead space where people are choosing to spend time with brands, but they\u2019re doing it totally on their own terms, you have to choose to open up the platform to scan the world to launch augmented reality and to spend time with it and then share with your friends before you go and make a purchase. Really the intent and the attention is all in the hands of the consumer at that point. And then I think that if you build on that again, and look at emotion, which supposedly is also something that\u2019s very hard to build at the moment, well, TV ads are getting shorter, and ad people have ad blockers on again, with augmented reality. And with NFT, you have this opportunity to create an emotional connection through the craft and through the moment that the person is spending with the brand, before they go on to kind of grow and take that action. So for me kind of authentic, the way we think about authenticity is how brands can use this emerging technology. And actually, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a fad. I think it\u2019s something that\u2019s just going to grow. As we\u2019ve already said, we\u2019re seeing more and more time with our digital lives being just our lives, right? Our augmented reality, virtual reality, extended reality is just the new reality. And I think that people are going to be spending increasing amounts of time and giving increasing amounts of attention and actually building bigger, more emotional connections with these experiences as they become richer and more developed. So I think for me in that respect, authenticity is something that is going to grow in time alongside values of attention and emotion. As people become more familiar with this as an experience that just is a part of the new reality.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov<\/strong><br><br>Yeah. Well said. So, we\u2019ve been getting a bunch of questions in the chat. And I\u2019d like to take a couple of them and wrap this up pretty quick. But it\u2019s a bunch of stuff around sustainability and environment, which I was surprised about. Maybe that\u2019s just because I\u2019m American. But it\u2019s, you know, it\u2019s definitely top of mind for a lot of people. There\u2019s one particular question that I thought was interesting, which is to say, you know, we\u2019re going back and forth on, you know, is it green energy? Is it okay? Could you use green energy somewhere else? And then we kind of got down this rabbit hole of why do we even need NFT\u2019s in the first place? Do all brands need them? Could they make them without doing it on the blockchain? Or there? Should we look at the breakdown like that? Should we look at it like, hey, there\u2019s a sustainable thing we\u2019ve been doing for a while, there\u2019s this newer thing that uses a lot of energy and everyone\u2019s jumping on that bandwagon? Do we? How do we fix that problem? Do we? Is it a marketing thing? Is it just switching? Do we just all get off of Ethereum? I don\u2019t know. There\u2019s a big question there.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Rachel Mayer<\/strong><br><br>I think there are a lot of misconceptions in this place. And it\u2019s, you know, similar like, Is it just the JPEG, there\u2019s a lot of headlines going on, particularly when it comes to carbon emissions. So there\u2019s a tonne of nuance. So let\u2019s start with a theory. Obviously, it\u2019s one of the chains that has the most adoption when it comes to NFT\u2019s. But there are other chains that Isabel put forth, in her presentation around, you know, proof of stake. And Ethereum in itself is actually migrating to proof of stake. And it\u2019s real, and it\u2019s coming pretty soon. I won\u2019t go into sort of, you know, the trade offs or differences between proof of work and proof of stake. But long story short proof of stake is less energy intensive, because it combines verschil aspects of mining. Similarly, there are layer two solutions that are helping Ethereum communities go faster and minimising some of these work, as they migrate to proof of stake. So this is something that will be solved within the next, you know, year, 18 months. And if it\u2019s really important for your brand, then you can choose to adopt an NFT standard on a third generation blockchain that already supports proof of stake to address the question on, you know, miners, you know, minting fees in latent capacity, it is true, there is excess capacity right now, in places like Iceland, or you know, that use geothermal energy. And these miners are simply solving for a latent demand that exists there and where renewables are actually under utilised and under discussed. So there\u2019s a tonne of nuance, and it\u2019s all relative, as you said, right, relative to specific emissions from a specific artist that might be travelling to Art Basel in a year. And now you know, because everything is virtual and if NFT\u2019s let you take advantage of digital ownership, they won\u2019t take that private jet to basketball anymore. So there\u2019s a trade off between the physical and digital worlds. And in the digital as you said, the trade off is proof of ownership versus not. So it\u2019s a nuanced topic. It\u2019s headline grabby, but the crypto and blockchain community is definitely working on solving some of these proof of work versus proof of stake issues. And if you are as a brand new, you can choose to make a stake, no pun intended, in your marketing, by choosing a specific blockchain and being really conscious about it.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov<\/strong><br><br>That\u2019s great. Will, did you have something to say?\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Will Scougal<\/strong><br><br>Yeah, so, I was just going to jump in and say, I think there are other elements to the environmental point as well. I mean, you know, what you\u2019re finding with product trial is kind of trial without travel, right, we can open a shop wherever we want to, we can put, you know trainers on people\u2019s feet wherever they are, they don\u2019t have to actually travel into town or travel to a shop to go and make make the purchase. So there\u2019s a kind of small environmental impact that increases with scale, when you look at it in that respect, and I think that\u2019s possibly also kind of tied to manual manufacturing, too. And lots of other areas of industry where augmented reality is being applied to remove the need for physical presence and physical state. So I think that as Rachel said, there are many nuances to it. But I do think that we\u2019re in a period of positive change and the responsibility sits with all of us, right like to make kind of considered and thoughtful decisions about The way that we, you know, interact with the world with the work that we do.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Isabel Perry<\/strong><br><br>And possibly just to add to that, I think also, if you think about people flying around the world to look at art and buy art, and then compare that to being able to buy digital art, there\u2019s trade offs in that as well. But I think you are sort of with all of these environmental issues. Why? Why would it be worth doing this? And I think that it\u2019s also interesting thinking about NFT\u2019s as that contract. So beyond the digital art and digital fashion, actually, if you\u2019re using NFT\u2019s to represent a contract, which might previously have had a lot of middleman in the middle. It\u2019s more verifiable, it\u2019s instant. It\u2019s and it\u2019s sort of decentralised and permanent. And there are obviously huge benefits to that. That\u2019s great.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov<\/strong><br><br>Well, we\u2019ll just do one little layup question for everyone as we wrap this thing up. So we\u2019ll go around. We\u2019ll start with Isabel. And then I\u2019ll go from there. But basically, can you give me like one or two lines about what\u2019s making you excited in this space and where it\u2019s headed? Which is, that\u2019s a loaded question. So let\u2019s try to do one or two lines. I realise. So Isabel I\u2019m putting on the spot first.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Isabel Perry<\/strong><br><br>All\u00a0 good. Um, maybe often, Art and Design comes first in new technologies. And I think that the next five years will be a sort of sweet shop of interesting thoughts around how you could actually apply NFT technology and even just thinking about NFT\u2019s for the last two weeks has just made me, I was fairly new to this until two or three weeks ago, and I\u2019ve just been totally seen the light on their potential. Damara?<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Damara Ingl\u00eas<\/strong><br><br>Oh, um, I think that the, what\u2026 Okay, let me reformulate this, the most exciting thing about digital art in general, and NFT\u2019s for me right now, is the concept of ethno digitization, which is the idea of making sense of technology to your own cultural identity, and livelihood and background. And I see it as a great tool of being able to construct a more global aesthetic or virtual goal of global culture. There is more inclusion of different backgrounds, because as of right now, specifically talking about fashion, we have the ethnical fashion or the Oriental fashion, and then the mainstream standard, Western fashion. But with digital fashion, I see a lot of inclusion of different cultures. And I hope and expect these different cultures when they actually impose themselves on the mainstream analogue fashion industry as well.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov<\/strong><br><br>Rachel\u2026<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Rachel Mayer<\/strong><br><br>So I\u2019ve been in the crypto industry a long time, and I definitely feel like NFT\u2019s and what we\u2019ve seen in the last two months, you know, people say that crypto is going mainstream. And this is a mainstream moment. But I actually like to think of it as now mainstream is going crypto the other way around where you feel that push towards the industry. And, you know, it\u2019s been many different use cases for the last 10 years. It\u2019s been primarily sort of trading and speculation and you know, store of value and NFT\u2019s are really just enabling the creator economy, for moving rent seeking intermediaries, letting them have control over their demand, and how they get to monetize and making their fans, owners of their work and using a new technology. And so it\u2019s just turning users into fans and fans into users and having a technology power that is really powerful and really powerful to see actually happening at scale, which is pretty cool.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov<\/strong><br><br>I like that the mainstream is going crypto stealing that. We\u2019ll do Will. And then do Kerry, so Will your next.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Will Scougal<\/strong><br><br>Great, thanks very much, so I totally echo all of those. I\u2019m very excited about everything that everyone\u2019s mentioned so far. And I think that I\u2019ll go back to something I said at the beginning which is around craft really quite simply. I just love the idea that a lot of what we\u2019re seeing now is kind of a focus on digital craft and the accessibility and ownership of that not just being democratised as well as the accessibility to being creative itself. I think that\u2019s all wonderful to see. And then just to kind of bring it back to them to improve from a marketing perspective. I think that is relevant to brands as well in that they\u2019re able to create something that\u2019s just a quality with which people choose to spend time with an idea of people being able to choose to spend time with a brand and as opposed to being interrupted with it, I think is unique. I think that AR in itself is probably the most interesting format to come along since film for me personally. And I love to think we\u2019re really at the end, not necessarily at the beginning, but we\u2019re really starting to see a mass tipping point, as we\u2019ve mentioned a couple of times. So I think all of that\u2019s very exciting.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov<\/strong><br><br>That\u2019s a great segway to Kerry.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Kerry Murphy<\/strong><br><br>Well, we call it the NFT hype right now, non fungible token hype, and NFT is an acronym and I would love to just throw in another acronym that\u2019s been around for a long time to that, I think will be the next hype within blockchain. Now it\u2019s DAO, decentralised, autonomous organisations, I think that\u2019s what I\u2019m the most excited about in this space. And I think within eight to ten months that we\u2019re going to have a DAO hype. We are going to be super excited about that as we are about NFT\u2019s. And that, to me, is the most exciting space because it is really talking about the blockchain economies, it\u2019s really talking about community. It\u2019s really talking about the decentralisation of multiple different aspects. And it\u2019s really asking for participation from people to start taking part rather than just be passive observers. Now you have to be an active participant. And that\u2019s what\u2019s going to be necessary moving forward not only in blockchain, but in you know, general society. So yeah, I think there\u2019s going to be a lot of interesting DAO\u2019s coming up in the next few months, especially this year.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>Brandon Aaskov<\/strong><br><br>Man, I could not have ended this talk better than that was, that\u2019s great. If you\u2019re excited by this talk, go Google that and you can learn more, you can crawl down the rabbit hole a little deeper. Thank you, everyone so much for joining today and taking the time out of your day to join this panel and educate the masses and talk about this stuff with like minded people. Thank you as well for putting together a presentation and I had a great time. I hope everyone else did. If you need to reach out to me for any questions, my name is Brandon Aaskov.\u00a0Brandon@rocketinsights.com, that\u2019s probably the fastest way to reach me. And yeah, I\u2019d love to talk about this more soon. I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll hit another bubble soon. 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