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Moonbirds will retailer NFT artwork ‘in chain’ — Raises $50M in Sequence A funding

ETHHERO August 31, 2022 3 min read


PROOF, the personal neighborhood behind the Moonbirds nonfungible token (NFT) assortment, has introduced it’s shifting its blue-chip assortment utterly “in chain” — permitting photos to be totally contained inside the underlying sensible contract. 

In a neighborhood livestream named Future PROOF on Tuesday, Harri Thomas, director of merchandise at PROOF, defined that the brand new strategy will imply that sooner or later, the viewable picture of a Moonbird NFT will probably be “constructed from the contract itself from artwork layers, that are going to be saved on the blockchain:”

“We’ve talked about placing the birds ‘on chain’, so what I’m right here to inform you immediately is that they’re not solely going to be ON chain, they’re going to be put IN chain.”

Thomas defined that their Ethereum-based NFTs will probably be completely different from most different NFTs, that are merely tokens that time to the place the photographs are saved off-chain.

“That is an uncommon strategy. Definitely not distinctive,” defined Harris, including that one other instance of an NFT mission utilizing the identical strategy is OnChainMonkey, a 10Okay PFP NFT assortment launched in 2021.

Thomas declined to offer a date for when the NFT assortment will make this shift, however famous that it’s a “main focus” for the sensible contract crew, so “hopefully not too lengthy.”

Co-founder and chief product officer Justin Mezzell, who was one of many hosts of the stay stream, added:

“It’s cool to enter that rarefied area of a totally in-chain mission and ensuring that this mission is de facto totally decentralized and viewable for simply generations.”

The livestream additionally revealed the primary official enlargement of PROOF’s Moonbirds collection, generally known as Moonbird Mythics, is anticipated to launch in early 2023.

The gathering will span 20,000 NFTs, and is the group’s third NFT profile image (PFP) mission.

$50M in funding

PROOF has simply raised $50 million in a Sequence A funding spherical led by enterprise capital agency Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), together with participation from Seven Seven Six, True Ventures, Collab+Forex, Flamingo DAO, SV Angel and VaynerFund.

“It’s nice to have this vote of confidence from a number of the most revered buyers in Web3, in addition to capital to maintain delivering nice services as we mature this enterprise over the long run,” stated PROOF founder Kevin Rose.

In April, the Ethereum-based Moonbirds NFT mission completely sold out its collection of 10,000 computer-generated pixel owl avatars inside 48 hours of launch, netting $281 million in gross sales on the time.

Its success, regardless of the bear market, earned it a title as a blue-chip NFT.

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In response to OpenSea, Moonbirds is ranked at quantity seven by way of whole quantity traded at roughly 169,000 Ether (ETH) and is at present ranked primary within the 24-hour charts at a flooring worth of 13.eight ETH, or $21,445 at present costs.

Different bulletins made in the course of the Future PROOF livestream included an upcoming launch of a PROOF social platform, the creation of a brand new decentralized autonomous group (DAO) that can oversee licensing of the Moonbirds identify, and a brand new PROOF token that can have “actual utility” — with extra particulars anticipated in 2023.