Skateboarding World Champion Bob Burnquist, athlete 10-time World Skateboarding Champion, 30-time X-Game Medalist (competition record), betting on metaverse and NFTs, and announces to be the latest partner of the first and most important NFT event in Brazil, which will find will take place from 2 to 4 June at the Pavilhão da Bienal in São Paulo.
Known for unprecedented achievements in his career, the Brazilian is not left out of the so-called Web3 revolution. Bob heard about bitcoin through a friend, invested, made money, became curious and wanted to know more.
Since then, Burnquist has studied, learned and released an NFT collection of unprecedented career moments.
Bob Burnquist believes that NFTs are versatile solutions
For Burnquist, NFTs are very versatile and can be used in a variety of fields, by companies, individuals and in an infinite number of ways.
“An example is managing communities with token-based governance. These new technologies are a road with no return. And besides being really cool, it’s all about everything I do, everything the market and everyone else does. We want to expand, bring more and more quality information to everyone.”
In 2022 alone, this market moved nearly $25 billion in trading volume on specialized platforms and marketplaces. The volume represents an increase of 10% compared to the year 2021.
The data was published by Bloomberg and comes from a study by Binance Research. Even the global crisis in the stock and crypto markets did not stop the search for new technologies, as in the case of non-fungible tokens, the NFTs, which means Non-fungible Tokens in Portuguese. In 2021, NFT was named the word of the year by the Collins dictionary.
Skateboarder will launch a collection of phygital shapes during the event in collaboration with Reserva
Connecting his artistic and technological veins, Bob, in collaboration with Reserva, is preparing a collection of hand-painted shapes. They are signed by the skater and sold through NFTs with verified originality in blockchain technology.
This means that buyers receive not only the digital collectible, but also physical art and other benefits associated with the Woodpecker brand ecosystem in this physical experience.
For this he has a collaboration with Reserva and its Pistol Birds collection, launched in September 2022.
“We are launching a project with the Pistol Birds of the Reserve and each NFT will be a unique piece of art of mine. Lots of art in form. We will have an immersive and very cool exhibition that will be launched firsthand at NFT Brazil.
Registration for the event, which will take place from June 2 to 4, 2023, has already begun and promises news for cryptocurrency, NFT and metaverse enthusiasts. Planet Hemp’s lead singer, BNegão, is also a confirmed presence at the event.
Source: Live Coins

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