Poseidon DAO, on Monday, 20 March at 7:30 PM (CET) will host a space focused on the legal topic of cryptocurrencies

Guests of this space will be Massimo Simbula, a lawyer active in FinTech and Crypto in Italy, and Swiss lawyer Lars Schlichting, Crypto Lawyer & FinTech and LegalTech Expert Leading in the digitization process of the financial industry.

The background of the two experts is of the highest level, Lars Schlichting has worked at FINMA and at KPMG while Massimo Simbula throughout his practice has assisted the International Monetary Fund, the European Bank to Reconstruction and Development and the European Commission as legal advisor.

Leading experts on cryptocurrency regulation in their respective countries, the two lawyers will discuss a number of highly topical issues with a focus on the NFT world, such as Intellectual property and copyright concerns surrounding NFTs, Tax implications of buying and selling NFTs, Anti-money laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations for NFT transactions, International legal issues and jurisdictional challenges related to NFTs and Potential regulatory frameworks for NFTs and digital assets.

Last Monday, Poseidon DAO hosted in its space the duo 1500 LABS, with whom it will officially launch its space on SupeRare on 27 February.

1500 Labs

1500 Labs is a collaboration between Debora Hirsh and Martin Gimenez Larralde, aimed at bringing their art to the NFT world. Debora, the daughter of a Brazilian entrepreneur, worked in the business field, both in the United States and Brazil, before devoting herself to art.

Martin, on the other hand, started out as an artist and from Buenos Aires, his hometown, soon moved to New York where he continued his art career and graduated with a degree in art. Both currently live and work in Milan.

The 1500 LABS project was born recently as a result of the two artists’ curiosity about the new frontier of art: NFTs.

To struck the duo was not only the technology behind the non-fungible tokens, which always provides stimuli and pushes them to explore new tools such as generative art and coding, but also the environment that came to be created around this new form of art.

A healthy, completely disintermediated and interconnected environment aimed at facilitating artists’ market entry and allowing anyone who appreciates art to become a collector.

A completely different environment from the traditional art world, where gallery owners and large institutions rule supreme.

According to 1500 Labs, the NFT world finds its strength precisely in the peculiarity of direct communication, inclusiveness and mutual support among professionals that permeate this sector.

According to the duo, a move closer to traditional art standards shows more pitfalls than benefits.

Art & Process

The art of 1500 LABS is based on transformation that produces an unexpected, harmonious, and sometimes uncomfortable aesthetic.

The creative process always begins with photos taken by the artists themselves of luxury storefronts or objects characteristic of major brands which are then post-produced, combining and deforming the images to convey a message.

Short video-loops are then created and combined with music, also produced by the duo. The combination of antique objects with modern luxury products in order to give the objects a new energy, denaturalizing them, is also not disdained.

Space SR

On 27 February, 1500 LABS will open the space on SuperRare by Poseidon DAO with 5 works that are a perfect synthesis of their artistic journey: animated and music-driven video-loops in which objects from major fashion houses are completely transformed and distorted, to convey the message of perpetual change, which permeates our world.

Poseidon DAO, on Monday, 20 February at 7 PM CET will host 1500LABS artists in its Twitter space.

1500 LABS

As can be read on the Poseidon DAO blog, “1500 LABS is co-founded by Debora Hirsh and Martin Gimenez Larralde, two distinguished visual artists, each of whom has exhibited individually in museums and art galleries internationally.

They have operated individually, as well as as a team, as editors of a magazine run by artists and performers. They have developed 1500labs specifically to operate in the digital sphere related to NFTs and the metaverse.

Their process is to monitor fashion and luxury items, select items, take photo-videos, post-produce and animate these materials to generate unique NFTs.”

During the AMA there will be an opportunity to meet the two artists who are part of the collective, who will talk about their art, the relationship between traditional art and NFTs, as well as exhibitions and performances.

Not only that, 1500 LABS will be the first artists hosted in Poseidon DAO’s SuperRare space with their piece to be launched on 27 February

.Beginning from 27 February, Poseidon DAO offers its first selection of artists exhibited in its SuperRare Space.

With Space Gallery, Poseidon DAO promotes well-known and established artists in the mainstream art sector within the NFT market. Creating enormous benefits to the entire ecosystem: new synergies and connections between two sides of art that to date are advancing in parallel. Not to mention a chance for greater visibility.

1500Labs, founded by Debora Hirsch and Martin Giménez.  The first artistic reality selected precisely for the launch of Poseidon Dao Space Gallery.

The two visual artists, in addition to exhibiting their works in museums and galleries around the world. Work through 1500Labs in the digital sphere related to NFTs and the metaverse.

Their artistic process is to showcase fashion and luxury objects through a personal point of view. Which can generate unique NFTs that show an almost instantaneous rarefaction process from exclusive objects to enigmatic or symbolic forms. Often emphasize the predatory nature in the world of the consumer goods industry.

Therefore, they strongly believe in Web 3.0 as a symbol of progress, as a decentralized nature of space that creates more freedom for them outside the gallery model.

Poseidon DAO

It is a reality that wants to go beyond the boundaries of the decentralized Web 3.0 as we know it now, its purpose is to help artists and collectors find their space in the metaverse, while at the same time, in collaboration with major Marketplaces and Communities, support and bring to life innovative projects related to Crypto Art, collectibles and gaming upon proposal and approval of DAO members.

This is precisely why it will be an inclusive environment for artists and collectors who will find it mutually beneficial to grow by supporting the DAO, in the same way that Poseidon has invested in Crypto Art so far.

SuperRare Space

These are showcases that curate and promote art and artists, run by different operating teams such as traditional art galleries, artist collectives, or any other organization.

Ultimately, Spaces offer artists promotion and sales coordination, serving as curated and branded primary marketplaces as sovereign Crypto Art galleries that follow the rules and policies outlined in the community guidelines and SuperRare Terms of Service.

Dates:

February 2023 7 PM (CET) – AMA 1500Labs Space Twitter @Poseidon_SF

Linktr.ee Poseidon DAO

Poseidon DAO is pleased to announce that the 5th artist to participate in the Deploy Collection is Nicola Caredda with the work Everyone at Rolling Loud.

The launch of this fifth work is part of a structured context of mutual support with emerging artists, which so far has featured Yu Cai, Niro Perrone, Orkhan Isayev, Laprisamata, and 4LeafCLover.

Nicola Caredda

Italian artist born in 1981, Nicola Caredda draws inspiration from both De Chirico’s metaphysical painting and Magic Realism to create his works that depict a state of decay typical of big city suburbs or perhaps attributable to an apocalyptic catastrophe.

Everyone at Rolling Loud

Poseidon’s blog reads:

“Everyone at Rolling Loud is a work in which the artist depicts what remains at the end of a collective ritual such as Rolling Loud – the most important Rap and Trap music festival – in which, once the music is over, echoes and sonic vibrations still reverberate in the saturated atmosphere of a desolate and dilapidated place that has become strangely intimate and familiar.”

It will be possible to mint the work on Wednesday 8 February 2023 at 8 PM (UTC) on the Monifold platform.

The minting price is 0.075 ETH per NFT and there are only 250 works available.

Again, everyone who buys the work will receive an airdrop of Poseidon DAO tokens when it is released.

Stay tuned

Furthermore, Poseidon DAO has released version 1.1 of its White Paper and announced that it will release its token by the end of February.

Poseidon DAO, this past Monday on 16 January, featured 3 established Web3 realities in its regular Twitter Space. There were various points discussed together, starting from the interoperability of NFTs in the industry, a need felt by all, to the impact that the Meta company (formerly Facebook) has had in the industry.

OverTheReality

Over is a Web3 platform which was established in 2018 in order to create a Metaverse linked to the real world, which is modified and adapted through augmented reality experiences.

To do this, they make use of a 3-layer structure: the first, also called the “ownership layer,” divides the virtual world into hexagons that cover the entire surface of the earth and are purchasable as NFTs, the second is called the “mapping layer” and allows geolocation in an extremely precise way even inside buildings while the third is the “builder layer” that allows NFTs to be loaded or even built inside the metaverse via code.

Metagate

Metagate is a very recent company; it has not developed its own metaverse but aims to study various platforms and connect metaverses with companies that want to enter the market. 

As its founder said, Metagate belongs to the second generation of companies operating in Web 3.0, and it operates precisely by creating a bridge between companies in the “traditional” sector and the metaverse, managing to offer each entity the metaverse best suited to its needs and developing on their behalf across the different platforms. 

The Nemesis

The Nemesis is a 3D metaverse in which it is possible to interact through digital avatars and aims to integrate real life with digital life. For example, by purchasing a pair of real shoes from a partner company and scanning a QR code, you would also have the same shoes in Web3, on the feet of your avatar. 

The Nemesis is a metaverse focused on the mass market approach, and this entails that decentralization is not total as the mass market is not yet ready to use blockchain on a daily basis. The aim is to act as a bridge between Web2 and Web3, as there is no need to have a wallet to use the platform but one can play by just connecting a social profile; obviously using a wallet provides more possibilities for interaction.

Differences and collaboration

Over and The Nemesis also discussed the differences between their metaverse projects: Over is more focused in the physical world while The Nemesis is more focused in the gaming world. However, both emphasized the importance of cross-platform collaboration, which is much more common and widespread in Web3 than it has ever been in Web2. 

Interoperability and NFTs

The discussion then focused on the need, felt by all three platforms, to try to achieve complete interoperability. Indeed, Over and The Nemesis said that if there is no interoperability, then Web3 differs little from Web2. 

All platforms should contribute in creating a standard that allows the same NFTs to be used in different metaverse projects. Metagate, in contact with companies outside the blockchain world, also shares this point: if an outside company is going to invest in NFT marketing, being able to have maximum interoperability allows them to take less risk and thus invest with fewer concerns. 

Future implementations

They then talked about what Web3 platforms should do to improve their perception in the eyes of the general public, especially given that the market to target is still vast when taking into account that the users of all Web3 platforms are just 0.5% of those of Roblox. 

The Nemesis focuses on anti-fraud merchandising and on connecting the use of the platform with real life in a 360-degree way by focusing, for example, on “improve my body, improve my avatar,” which allows users to get a better performing avatar if they exercise in real life. 

Moreover, thanks to new technologies it will be possible to achieve a totally immersive experience, allowing not only to play games but also to chat or make video calls within the same platform at the same time.

According to Over, there should instead be a greater focus on exploiting the physical locations transposed to Web3 and accompanying them with avatars that are able to guide the user inside monuments or cities, explaining and telling the story of the different places. A further step would be to make 3D reconstructions in real time by simply framing a monument with a cell phone.

Perception of Meta

All 3 players agreed that Meta has contributed a great deal in popularizing the new interactive and immersive Internet, but Meta is still a purely Web2 space while the metaverse is Web3. Finally, the discussion dwelt on the importance of educating users about the concept of ownership of NFTs populating the metaverse and trying not to create dystopias. 

2023 is off to a flying start! Yesterday, Monday 16 January, Poseidon DAO released NFT #4 of its Deploy Collection in collaboration with 4LeafClover which sold out in less than 1 minute.

Deploy Collection

The Deploy Collection, which currently featured Yu Cai, Orkhan Isayev, Laprisamata and 4LeafCLover for the first, second, third and fourth issues respectively, plus an airdrop by Niro Perrone, was created with a view to collaboration and mutual support with emerging artists, who are thus able to broaden the audience of possible buyers and gain more visibility.

Poseidon takes pride in collaborating with talented people who, in all likelihood, will have a bright future in the NFT industry.

4LeafClover

As explained in this article, 4LeafClover is a Japanese artist who has made Asian manga iconography her own, from which she draws inspiration to recreate joyful images that convey a sense of happiness to the viewer

Update

Neither the name of the 5 artist who will collaborate with Poseidon DAO nor the date of the token launch has been disclosed yet. People will be entitled to the free airdrop of the token if they purchase works from the Deploy Collection, even on the secondary market.

For the first meeting of 2023, Poseidon DAO will welcome to its space on Monday, 16 January, three important realities of Web3: the metaverse projects The Nemesis, Over and Metagate.

Set a reminder for our upcoming Twitter Space “Poseidon DAO meets Metaverse”!

Special guests: @TheNemesis_io, Metagate & @OVRtheReality https://t.co/7oSwy8lKaq

— Poseidon DAO (@Poseidon_SF) January 10, 2023

Poseidon DAO featuring major metaverse projects

Talking about NFTs today also means talking about Metaverse projects, virtual realities where non-fungible tokens express their usefulness to the fullest, starting from our own avatars, which the blockchain allows us to uniquely identify, to lands, to exploring every field of the infinite possibilities that new technologies offer us. 

In order to deepen the relationship between Web3 and blockchain, Poseidon will compare the perspectives of the personalities behind some of the most widely used metaverse projects at the moment: The Nemesis, Over, and Metagate.

Topic

Beyond the relationship between NFTs and the metaverse, several topics will be covered, ranging from the use of artificial intelligence in the metaverse to experiential possibilities within these new platforms.

In addition, all three projects will tell about their strengths and compare themselves with competitors regarding their peculiarities.

2023 starts with a bang! Poseidon DAO has announced that the fourth artist to collaborate on the Deploy Collection is FourLeafClover.

FourLeafClover

FourLeafClover, a self-taught artist, launched the first series of NFTs in August 2021 with the Go BaBy Go !! series, and then also launched editions with derivatives of well-known projects such as the Bored Apes and Pepe The Frog.

The style, as is explained in the Poseidon blog:

“is deliberately inspired by the world of Manga, and the works, populated by childlike characters, are aimed at conveying a sense of joy and happiness to the viewer.[…] The influence of manga and anime, evident in FourLeafClover’s works, translates into an adherence to the so-called Kawaii aesthetic, which in contemporary Japan indicates a type of beauty associated with typically childlike feelings of shyness and vulnerability.”

Poseidon DAO: Deploy Collection No. 4

The work chosen by the artist for the collaboration with Poseidon DAO is called A World of Hope, a work that reflects the artist’s narrative line to the fullest. 

It will be possible to mint the work next Monday, 16 January 2023 at 9 PM (CET) on the Monifold platform

The minting price is 0.075 ETH per NFT and there are only 250 works available. 

Once again, everyone who buys the work will receive an airdrop of Poseidon DAO tokens when they are issued. 

Poseidon DAO, following the success of the works presented in the past few months in collaboration with Yu Cai ( sold out in 28 minutes) and Orkhan Isayev (sold out in less than a minute), has chosen, for the launch of the third issue of the Deploy collection to rely on the work of Laprisamata, an artist of high caliber.

Laprisamata for the third deployment of Poseidon DAO

Laprisamata, the nickname of artist Luis Toledo, has won several awards throughout his artistic and design career including the Wacom Award, the Pantone Award and the Behance National Design Awards. However, his art, easily defined as pop-surrealist, also undergoes Roman-Byzantine and Asian influences, with a particular focus on ancient mosaic techniques and Hindu temple ornamentation.

For the collaboration with Poseidon, the Spanish artist created the work Saint in the Blue Desert, which, as Poseidon itself well specified in its blog: 

“It belongs to the Rituals series which, together with the Sacred Animals and Titans series, is part of a long-term project, which includes the future realization of an exhibition, the construction of a Virtual Reality universe, and the production of graphic novels and animated shorts dedicated to the world of the Blue Man Desert. The work depicts the colossal portrait of one of the Titans, a face, at once hypnotic and hieratic, resembling arcane cartography, studded with spiritual symbols that, like dimensional portals, open wide on the vision of further worlds. Worlds that are metaphors for the human condition, haunted by time, ravaged by violence, a prisoner of the eternal struggle between life and death.”

It will be possible to mint the work next Monday, December 12, 2022 at 9 PM CET on the Manifold platform.

The minting price is 0.075 ETH per NFT and there are only 250 works available. 

Again, everyone who buys the work will get Poseidon DAO tokens in airdrop when it is released. 

On the evening of 28 November at 9 PM (CET) Poseidon DAO launched the second work in the Deploy Collection series in collaboration with artist Orkhan Isayev.

The work, VICTORY Aeromobile – Artemis Classic Y5, follows the one in collaboration with Yu Cai launched last month.

As for the artist’s peculiarities, an in-depth article was published in the Poseidon blog; a part of it reads:

“In Orkhan Isayev‘s art, retrofuturism and cyberpunk come together in the construction of a visual imaginary poised between nostalgia for the past and inevitable dystopian drift. A world that, at least initially, is conceived as a kind of golden age, the so-called Great Utopia, a time of social order and decorum, in which the urban structure of cities is the result of the combination of the preservation of ancient monuments and the development of advanced technology, just as someone who lived between the Roaring Twenties and the 1940s would have imagined it.”

In fact, the artist himself states that: 

“I was interested in Futurism from an early age, but I also always liked 20th-century nostalgia because it was very intense, and I was always looking for ways to show it together.”

Similar to the first edition, all those who purchased VICTORY Aeromobile – Artemis Classic Y5, will be entitled to a free airdrop of PDN tokens, both when the purchase was made in the primary market and when an additional snapshot will be taken before the token launch for those who purchased in the secondary market.

Details of the third edition of the Deploy Collection have not yet been officially announced, but will be unveiled soon through Poseidon DAO‘s official social channels.

Following the success of the first work in the Deploy Collection, in collaboration with Chinese artist Yu Cai, for the second edition Poseidon DAO is joined by the talented Orkhan Isayev.

The artist Orkhan Isayev

Having recently approached the NFT world, Orkhan Isayev has been an immediate success with collectors. When creating his works, as can be read more in-depth in Poseidon’s blog, he references futurism and the Deco style that influenced not only the three arts, but also fashion and design between the 1920s and 1940s. 

Not only that: the monumental relics of the past are surrounded by hyper-technological, movie-inspired buildings ranging from Star Wars to Blade Runner

The resulting images are thus those of futuristic cities, dominated by a sense of calm and peace due to the use of uniform, flat colors and clean design.

Poseidon DAO: Deploy Collection No. 2

The work chosen by the artist for the collaboration with Poseidon is “VICTORY Aircraft – Artemis Classic Y5” and is a perfect synthesis of the artistic journey so far.

It will be possible to mint the work next on Monday, 28 November 2022 at 9 PM (CET) on the Monifold platform

The minting price is 0.075 ETH per NFT and there are only 250 works available. 

Again, everyone who buys the work will get Poseidon DAO tokens in airdrop when it is released. 

Poseidon DAO Deploy Collection #02

“VICTORY AEROMOBILE – ARTEMIS CLASSIC Y5”

Date | 28.11.2022 – 20:00 UTC
Creator | @isayev_art
Supply | 250 NFTs
Price | 0.075 ETH
Time | 24 Hours
Benefit | PDN Airdrop

Link: https://t.co/Jx2u1AaHtc pic.twitter.com/8JDFB8p12V

— Poseidon DAO (@Poseidon_SF) November 23, 2022

This week Poseidon hosted the Monuverse project, which will launch its Arch Of Peace series of collectibles today, on Friday 11 November.

Monuverse aims to take the world of Cultural Heritage to another level by preserving the physical monument while making it available to anyone at any time. 

The idea of Monuverse, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Culture, came about as a result of the event held from 31 December 2021 to 2 January 2022, in which a digital artwork, a 360-degree sculpture designed by the Ouchhh studio of creative coders and artificial intelligence, was projected onto the Arch of Peace, Milan’s iconic monument.

The result was an immersive experience that combined physical and virtual reality while giving new life to the historic monument.

The Drop

The 7777 NFT series, Arch Of Peace, is divided into 9 categories, following the data cluster from last year’s event. It is possible to mint the work:

• Via White List at a price of 0.07 ETH
• Via PreMint at a price of 0.09 ETH
• Via Public Mint at a price of 0.11 ETH

Moreover, alongside the NFT, you will also get an avatar of the relevant historical period, in this case the Napoleonic era. NFT holders will also get several benefits for upcoming editions, which will be related to different monuments, chosen by the community each time.

Monuverse: a glimpse into the future

During the Space, where Web3, the future of NFTs and the main Metaverse projects were also discussed, there was also an explanation of the purpose of the Monuverse project in the area of education and learning experience. The project could develop in the direction of creating its own metaverse or partner with an existing metaverse. The project is also open to the possibility of creating a DAO in the future.

As for Web3, there has been a long discussion about its limitations and potential. The biggest problem, according to Monuverse, is the complexity currently present in existing metaverses: the user experience is still not simple enough – unlike that of social networks for example. 

In order to achieve mass adoption, according to Monuverse, it will not only be necessary to streamline the experience, but also to completely revolutionize the graphics and make the metaverses interoperable. Furthermore, thanks to AI, it will also be possible to enjoy the virtual product of the highest quality on smartphones or through next-generation eyewear that would allow reality to be combined with 3D models

Taking as reference the world of social networks, it is difficult to think of a single metaverse, but rather, several platforms, well-targeted, with different functions and graphics.

There was also discussion about the use of user data and privacy: at present, it is almost impossible to measure how users use the metaverse, but in the future, this could be much easier. In order to avoid the resale of data to third parties by platforms, as already happens with social networks, according to Monuverse, it would be interesting to think of spaces in which users are the owners of their data, the eventual sale of which is their own choice that would allow them to receive royalties.

For this week only, Poseidon DAO is doubling its appointments: tomorrow at 7 PM (CET), it will host Monuverse, an NFT project that will launch its first series of collectibles on Friday, 11 November. 

Monuverse: the NFT project

As stated on their website, Monuverse is:

“a Crypto Art project that pushes cultural heritage to the next level […] to enhance the world’s most iconic monuments with the help of art and technology, connecting communities to local institutions around the world to create a new way of experiencing and supporting our heritage.”

Following their success on 31 December, when they transformed Milan’s historic Arch of Peace into an innovative digital artwork, creating an immersive experience that merged physical and virtual realities while giving the Arch of Peace a new life, Monuverse on Friday, November 11 at 6 PM UTC will launch the first set of 7777 NFTs that can be minted here.

You can join the premint by using our reserved link premint.xyz/monuverse-poseidon by entering the password PDN11