Collection Azuki NFT is a series of 10,000 anime-inspired digital collectibles. The collection was launched in January 2022 founder Zagabond and is currently one of the most popular NFT collections.
Price starts from 15.88ETH, and the trading volume is steadily approaching 500,000 ETH. The most valuable type of Azuki is Spirit, which is 0,97% from the general collection. The current minimum price for the Azuki Spirit type is 205ETH. The next most valuable type is Azuki, which golden clothes, items and objects.
Ownership of NFT Azuki opens doors investors in private community talented artists, builders and Web3 enthusiasts who come together to build a decentralized future. These participants are united by the common goal of creating new and innovative works of art in the digital world of blockchain, and owning an NFT collection of Azuki is key to entry to this community and gaining access to unique opportunities. Azuki owners also receive exclusive access to Azuki NFT derivatives such as Beanz - collectible accessories that allow you to get unique experiences, games and use cases.
The Beanz collection was released in March 2022. At one of the Azuki events, there was a legendary moment - "Check your wallet". Azuki holders received on their wallets two mystery boxes. And at that time it was completely incomprehensible what was in them. The collection was called "Something official". Then, on April 1, the metadata was updated − in a pile of dirt.
At the time of writing, the minimum price starts from ~1.5 ETH, and the trading volume ~142,000 ETH. The most valuable are also Spirit Beanz and golden Beanz.
Nearly a third of all Beanz never sold, and most Beanz owners keep their Beanz over 180 days. It's no surprise that many Beanz owners also own Azuki, but there's also a lot of overlap with owners. Mutants, Captainz, CloneX And Otherdeed.
Today Beanz - This established community. More than just an Azuki companion. As a brand and intellectual property, Beanz is clearly moving in a "pretty" direction. IN September 2022 accounts have been created Twitter And Instagramwhere every few days you can see new animations Jay and Jelly, the two main characters of Beanz.
Interesting fact! Azuki and Beanz enter Top 10 collections by version Inspect. Azuki is in second place making way for Bored Ape Yacht Club. Beanz is confidently holding on to eighth place.
Recently Chiru Labs, the company behind Azuki & Beanz, has announced that Beanz will partner with IPX, the company behind LINE FRIENDS is a global character brand created by the Line messaging app. In the past, the company has partnered with popular brands, but this is their first collaboration with Web3. Both companies will use their strengths to their advantage: IPX will share its capabilities in IP building and retail, and Chiru Labs will share its expertise in Web3. In honor of the upcoming partnership over the Line Friends flagship store in Times Square during NFT NYC April 12-16 broadcast animation Line Characters and Beanz.
Azuki has a clear and detailed strategy on the way to building the biggest decentralized brand in a metaverse owned by the community. Azuki provides many innovative developments such as its own meta game, fractionalization of NFTs And financial integration, which will provide NFT owners with the opportunity to earn on their assets.
Now you've met Azuki, but did you know humanbehind this collection? Get to know Alex Xu, he is Zagabond.
Interesting fact! Alex named himself "Zagabond" after his favorite manga "Vagabond".
Since childhood, Alex has been in move- from China to Germany, and then to the USA. Being the only one asian child at his elementary school in New York, he underwent verbal abuse racially motivated before learned to speak in English. Despite this, he found a way adjustbecoming a high school basketball player.
After graduation business at UC San Diego, Alex completed an internship at investment banking company liquidnet. And so began his path to success ... After an internship at Liquidnet, Alex got a job at General Mills client manager. And in 2015, he got to Amazon, but after working there for only a year, he left for Google, where he became a lead partner.
In 2017, Alex's girlfriend introduced him to the crypto world. By March of that year, he bought his first ETH, just ahead of its future growth.
Just three months later, he joined 0x, one of the first DeFi protocols. And with that he debuted as a web3 builder.
Later in 2021, Alex started experimenting and launched three different NFT projects: Phunks, Tendies And Zunks. But despite their best efforts, they failed and end up left behind.
Armed with lessons learned, Alex made bold move in September 2021 retired from work to run Azuki. After 4 months hard work above Azuki took all three minutes to sell all NFTs during first phase in January 2022.
However, it soon happened scandal with Alex's past projects, which entailed price drop double for the collection. Alex transferred ownership to the Phunks community the very next day and paid them 1.4 million USDC.
Return confidence it was not easy, but Alex's team was able to achieve this, putting all his strength into creating a smart contract open source ERC721A, own token PBT (Physical Backed Token), collections Beanz, as well as own quality merchandise.
Article author: Evaneskate
