NFT TATTOOS
Tattoos expands into the NFT
Tattooing has been a universal phenomenon around the world for thousands of years. As it continues to evolve, this art has entered the NFT space.
Known as Bang Bang in the tattoo industry, Keith McCurdy is one of the artists hoping to merge the ethos of tattoo culture with technologies. He uses a new type of ink he has called "Magic Ink" for rewritable tattoos that appears and fades in different light conditions.
Scientists at the University of Colorado have developed a tattoo ink made of photochromic microcapsules, a technology dubbed "tech tattoos" that leaves a color-changing mark that is activated by UV light, thus changing the tattooed image when it reacts to UV light. He sees this technology as a way to reconcile tattoo culture's desire for individuality with the demonstrable uniqueness of NFTs. In June, he sold the first rewritable tattoo as a 1/1 NFT for 100 ethereum (ETH), or nearly $100,000 at the time.
McCurdy told Cointelegraph:
"Our digital identity will become very important in the future. It may already be more important than our physical identity today. Individualization in a digital world and defining one's identity is what we do best."
Another company working to connect the tattoo community to Web3 is Indelible, which allows owners to use their intellectual property rights by designing new tattoos and adding to existing NFT profile photos (PFPs).
Created eight months ago, the startup had the idea that tattoo artists should be able to expand their work beyond their studios and have access to unlimited ways to make money from their art.
"We thought this was a really fascinating application for tattoo culture, and we wanted to do it the opposite way, which was by tattooing characters on real people. We wanted to tattoo the Web3."
Mike Amoia decided to fund his own startup focused on the potential of combining tattoos and NFT. He said the project's first collection of PFP characters will be signed by tattoo artists Mike Rubendall, Matt Skinny and BJ Betts.
By 2030, Verified Market Research (VMR) predicts that the NFT market will grow to a value of $231 billion.
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