A brand new digital buying and selling card sequence on the WAX blockchain — Blockchain Heroes — will characteristic 50 distinctive superheroes imp
A brand new digital buying and selling card sequence on the WAX blockchain — Blockchain Heroes — will characteristic 50 distinctive superheroes impressed by prime influencers, inventors and content material creators all through the blockchain neighborhood.
The sequence, developed by co-hosts of The Unhealthy Crypto Podcast, Joel Comm and Travis Wright, is a comedic parody of crypto-world personalities offered as superheroes.
The cardboard designs, hero names and personalities featured can be revealed nearer to the launch date, leaving us all to invest on the true life identities of the few names which have been dropped to this point, together with ‘Woman Lightning’, ‘Captain Forex’, and ‘Knowledge Avenger’.
Wyldwrangler, The Prophet and Litespeed from Blockchain Heroes. Supply: BCHeroes
Comm and Wright have been “dabbling with non-fungible tokens for [their] podcast listeners for a number of months,” stated Comm, earlier than they teamed up with Topps buying and selling card firm and WAX to launch their product
“After we noticed what Topps and WAX had been in a position to create collectively, we found the perfect conduit to launch a brand new product which we consider can be embraced by the blockchain neighborhood. These playing cards are going to be enjoyable to gather and commerce!”
The challenge is funded by a WAX Labs grant and can launch on the WAX blockchain on August 4, 2020. Chosen amid a large number of proposals, WAX Director of BD Evan Vandenberg defined that combining the NFT idea with a crypto theme stood out to him:
“Joel and Travis have put collectively some extremely inventive gathering ideas and artwork work. Mix that with crypto-centric themes and characters and I believe you will have an extremely attention-grabbing challenge for the house.”
The cardboard set will characteristic the superheroes ranging in rarity from frequent to legendary and saved on the blockchain within the type of non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) setting them aside from conventional collectible buying and selling playing cards. Every card can be assigned a novel minting identification quantity, offering clear gross sales and buying and selling historical past, immutable possession data, and provable shortage.
Identify reveal
Litespeed is card no. 1. Supply: CoinTelegraph
Of their dwell Podcast on June 11, Comm & Wright shared Litespeed as card #1 likening him to the Flash. One other character is The Prophet, who’s holding up a Bitcoin Money pill with a damaged Bitcoin pill on the bottom. (Who does that remind you of?)
NBA, Italian soccer & Rubbish Pail Youngsters
NFTs have been seeing widespread adoption in a wide range of platforms with the workforce behind CryptoKitties partnered with the NBA to provide collectible tokens utilizing NBA branding and participant images.
Italian soccer workforce Juventus gives collectible playing cards that includes gamers like Cristiano Ronaldo on the Ethereum blockchain.