LimeWire relaunches as NFT market with Travis Barker, Aitch and extra
Travis Barker and Aitch are amongst a number of artists set to launch new NFTs with LimeWire because the file sharing website relaunches as a crypto market.
Over the approaching weeks, they’ll launch new collectibles on {the marketplace} alongside the likes of Brandy, Nicky Jam and extra.
“I’ve at all times been excited by Web3 and NFTs so I’m fairly stoked to launch my first NFT assortment and to do it on LimeWire,” Barker mentioned in an announcement.
“I hope that my NFT assortment will encourage aspiring artists and followers who need to find out about my artistic journey and the way I make music. LimeWire has created a platform that makes thrilling content material like this accessible to all of my followers – even ones who’re unfamiliar with Web3.”
The Blink-182 drummer’s assortment, his first ever NFTs, will function “behind-the-scenes footage of himself working within the studio, permitting the NFT collectors to have a first-hand have a look at his artistic course of. Proudly owning this assortment unlocks an unique tune.
“Barker may even launch a one-of-one NFT that could be a 3D mannequin of his drum set and the bodily drum set he used at live shows/throughout rehearsals/in his residence.”
Aitch’s assortment, in the meantime, relies round upcoming debut album ‘Shut To Dwelling’ and the NFT paintings “will symbolize every monitor in his album starring some delicate hints of music options.”
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“We see an enormous demand within the leisure house for platforms that recognise and admire artists for his or her expertise and put them within the driver’s seat,” Limewire co-CEOs Paul and Julian Zehetmayr mentioned in an announcement.
“LimeWire presents a brand new industrial alternative for artists of all sizes and genres to interact with their followers, acquire extra publicity in a singular means and retain extra of their earnings.”
The favored peer-to-peer file sharing service was ordered to be shut down in 2010 following a courtroom injunction that was issued by US federal courtroom choose Kimba Wooden.
LimeWire is now set to return in its new guise as “a one-stop market for artists and followers alike to create, purchase and commerce digital collectibles with out the technical crypto necessities of the present NFT panorama”.
Initially specializing in music, the corporate is aiming “to deliver digital collectibles into the mainstream” and entice a million customers in its first 12 months “by means of partnerships with main artists within the music business”.
LimeWire say that music followers will be capable to purchase and commerce quite a lot of “music-related belongings” on their market, together with restricted version releases, pre-release music, unreleased demos, graphical paintings, unique dwell variations, digital merchandise and backstage content material.