Blue Chip NFT Project Azuki Metaverse Launches, Hirumia [Mblock Letter…
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[M-block Letter] Famous NFT project Azuki recently made headlines for its one-year anniversary when it unveiled HILUMIA, the intersection of the virtual city "The Garden," the center of the Azuki ecosystem. Azuki is an NFT published by U.S. startup Churil Labs and is a popular NFT project with a unique painting style that looks like watching Japanese animation. As of the 24th, it is still loved all over the world to the extent that it belongs to the OpenC TOP 5.
Azuki famously chose a unique minting method as well as a design to survive the pouring NFT market. A typical NFT project chooses to provide whitelists to active people such as Discord and Twitter, and Azuki used a mint list method in which the team selects community participants and selects buyers for the second sale after minting through Dutch auction in the first sale. After that, at the 3rd public sale, a total of 10,000 PFPs were sold out in a few minutes thanks to the sale of all the remaining supplies after the mint list. Within a month of its launch, the bottom price rose from 1 ETH to more than 10 ETH, emerging as blue chips such as CryptoPunk and BAYC.
Azuki NFT Holder was able to become a member of Metaverse the Garden, raising expectations for utilities as well as possessiveness due to its attractive design. However, the Azuki team made it difficult to attract new users due to the sky-high prices and the need to expand its worldview. It's a new collection called Azuki Beans that we air-drop on holders.
Last year, at an offline party for Azuki NFT holders, the holders received two boxes of airdrop per Azuki NFT. The NFT said, "I'm sprouting from the soil in the garden with the desire to help Azuki's friends." The next day, the box NFTs turned into a pile of dirt image, and in time, the round-bodied NFT collection, Azuki Beans, worthy of the name Azuki, appeared in the soil.
Azuki Beans are 12 Beans Squads that act as assistants to Azuki NFTs, and if they are held, they can become members of The Garden, just like Azuki NFT holders, lowering barriers to new users and giving holders financial benefits. Of course, it's about motivation to participate in offline meet-up. Azuki Beans, which was airdrop free of charge to holders, once hit an average bottom of 6.3992 ETH, and is still trading steadily thanks to the charm of the Azuki ecosystem.
Hirumia, part of the Azuki community The Garden, which was unveiled earlier this month by Churi Labs, is a metaverse that anyone who holds the aforementioned Azuki NFT and Azuki Beans can participate in.
Hirumia will introduce the open source token standard PBT proposed by the Azuki team. When you scan a chip on your phone, a PBT is issued and digitally transmitted to the owner's wallet, so-called 'Scan toown', for example, when the owner of the golden skateboard scans the PBT on the back of the skate, it can be stored in another area in the Azuki Universe. Azuki also predicted that these technologies would serve to link digital to the real world.
As the Azuki team officially referred to Hirumia as the "intersection of The Garden," it will still take more time for The Garden to be completed. Hirumia is home to toy shops, gyms, and spaces where you can get a glimpse of Azuki's worldview, from Love Island to Golden Skating Park. Personally, thanks to the illustration and bgm, I felt like I was peeking at a village in Maple Story that I often played in my childhood. I could predict what The Garden would look like when it was officially launched. If you're curious, please click here to experience it for yourself.
This has raised expectations for games and metaverse through Azuki's IP utilization, and we should pay attention to how the NFT project, which puts the community at its core, can build a successful business model.
