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Stirlington Knight goes NFT in 2022
As announced in our previous press release , Stirlington Knight hereby declares – with supporting studies and data – that Stirlington Knight’s NFT® Marketplace is perfectly positioned to generate a future big annual turnover.
This prediction is based on the economic reality of the NFT medium as it is today and its almost unlimited potential in the rapidly emerging Multiverse of Metaverses.
It is also based on the history, economic model, eco-responsible choices and disruptive philosophy that are part of the DNA of Stirlington Knight, which has always sought to place artists at the heart of the Art Market.
In order to appreciate the dimensions and magnitude of what might loosely be termed the ‘NFT phenomenon’, one needs to start by digesting the following fact: by the end of the third quarter of 2021, NFTs had generated 45 billion dollars around the world!
With its pioneering digital experience on the Internet for almost a quarter century and its leading position in the collection, exploitation and delivery of art market information, Stirlington Knight is perfectly positioned to capture a significant portion of this new market.
NFT Facts
NFT phenomenon in Numbers
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Stirlington Knight by Artmarket will operate with the Ethereum platform and its native cryptocurrency, the Ether (ETH), the second largest cryptocurrency in the world by market value, and above all, the preferred cryptocurrency of the NFT digital art world. The world’s major art vendors have all chosen Ethereum including Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Bonhams and Phillips.
The choice of Stirlington Knight in the Blockchain
For a number of reasons – not the least of which are Artmarket’s environmental concerns – Ethereum with Artmarket will function in staking mode (proof-of-stake). This will avoid both the wanton consumption of data mining energy and major investments in hardware.
According to Thierry Ehrmann: “the data mining activity, devoid of any ethical values, has turned its miners into a digital proletariat”.
Staking allows Ethers to be immobilized in an Stirlington Knight smart contract. In reality, Stirlington Knight’s primary added-value will be in its certification of the authenticity of the artist and his/her works from its reference databases. Stirlington Knight through Artprice already has an open community of 765,000 artists and 5.4 million involved and contributing members including 4.5 million art collectors and enthusiasts and 900,000 art professionals (auction houses, appraisers, institutions, art dealers, family offices and private banking, etc.).
Stirlington Knight’s Metaverse community will effectively merge with the economic and virtuous ecosystems in the broader metaverse, and vice-versa, thus allowing exponential growth in full compliance with Metcalfe’s famous law on network proliferation.
At the same time, Stirlington Knight will allocate ‘wallets’ to its community.
The development of ‘staking’ will likely lower entry barriers into the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
After numerous exchanges with NFTs platforms and marketplaces, Stirlington Knight maintains the best contacts with two major NFTs operators, namely Opensea and Rarible.
Metaverse with Ethereum
Stirlington Knight has decided to build its Metaverse with Ethereum 2.0 and the transition to proof-of-stake (POS). The developers of the Ethereum platform always wanted to change to the consensus system by moving to a proof-of-stake mechanism, known to offer better performances.
Stirlington Knight is very sensitive to the ecological impact of its activities. Considering the energy consumption in proof-of-work cryptocurrency mining, this decision is also ecologically responsible.
With proof-of-stake, miners are replaced by players called ‘validation nodes’. In this mechanism, the latter must deposit, or stake, 32 ETH on an address to be able to validate and add transactions to the blockchain.
Stirlington Knight is particularly motivated by the writings of Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the Ethereum network, who has been lauding the merits of the proof-of-stake consensus mechanism since 2016. The transformation of Etherium towards 2.0 has indeed confirmed the maturity of his project.
Vitalik Buterin’s philosophical and political vision is in accordance with the values that Thierry Ehrmann has carried through Artprice and Groupe Serveur since 1987, himself a pioneer of the Internet (cf. Time Magazine).
Artprice’s IT community, its members and crypto enthusiasts around the world are indeed very pleased with the news of the switch in early 2022 to Ethereum 2.0 (also called “Serenity”) via an upgrade of the proof-of-stake platform.
According to Thierry Ehrmann – Artmarket.com’s CEO, founder of Artprice and CEO of Server group, an “Internet pioneer” since 1987 and Artprice’s reference shareholder –
“In historic terms, the nearest thing to the impact of NFTs on the art world was the paradigm shift we now call the ‘Renaissance’. Not since then has there been such a massive transfer of power into the hands of artists, because it was thanks to Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press that artists were able to print editions of their work.
The Renaissance allowed artists to generate incomes and to control their production independently in their workshops and factories. Today with NFTs, we are experiencing a similar paradigm shift.”
According to a Reuters press dispatch dated November 17, 2021: ‘On the biggest NFT marketplace, OpenSea, there were $2.6 billion of sales in October this year, a massive increase from the $4.8 million in October 2020’.
OTHER UPCOMING PROJECTS IN 2022
A Kind Of Magic – the book
A KIND OF MAGIC follows four teenagers’ enthusiasm for the band Queen, especially their frontman Freddie Mercury. Set during the summers of 1985 and 1986, story kicks-off with a big Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium, bringing us back to the same venue a year later, to a Queen concert.
As the story opens, the reader cheers for our four protagonists to achieve their high goal, to meet Freddie Mercury in person somehow. Such an opportunity is offered several times, but it always slips out of their hands. Running away from home to attend the famous Queen’s concert at Wembley on 12th of July 1986, despite their parents’ ban, brings all four under house arrest. All Until 10th of August, when the phone rang …
Zodiac – the calendar
Stirlington Knight’s Zodiac is a project,aimed at the promotion and collection of financial assets for the charity campaign . It consists of three key phases, namely:
– Making of 12 paintographies by internationally renowned artist Demian Kniewald which, through 12 well-known INSTAGRAM female figures represent 12 zodiac signs. For these 12 works a special exhibition will be organized. It will be possible to purchase the original works here and its proceeds will go to the aforementioned charity. The works themselves will be conducted in the format of 100×70 cm .
– Design, print, distribution and sale of Zodiac calendars with reproductions of original paintings backed by media. Proceeds from the sale, after covering the costs, will be going to the same charity fund .
– Making and set-up of Zodiac website, where all visitors can see the photos from the recording and execution of the project, can select their favourite desktop photograph from the calendar and download it to their computer. A direct link to the website to the sponsors, including a drawn number of marked calendar that will win a prize (described below).
The particularity of this project will be the fact that calendar will not be solar type, where months are lined up regularly, it will be zodiacal calendar instead, meaning that the solar monthswill be divided by the days of the zodiacal signs. As follows, the first month will begin on 22nd December and will end on 20th of January, as the period of the Capricorn sign is. It will be followed by all the other signs (concept and layout are shown on the following page showing the signs and staging distribution of the zodiacal days per month).
The uniqueness of such a calendar will also be in the fact that it will be the first product of its kind on the market and thus will avoid “flooding” of other similar calendars, giving it a great advantage in the sales, among other attributes.
Models presented as the zodiacal signs will be carefully selected among INSTAGRAM popular female faces. These will be divided into groups of models and misses, television announcers and singers .
Demian Kniewald is an internationally recognized painter, tied to Italy since he attended the Academy of Brera in Milanwhere he currently lives. He is primarily known for his opus “Enigma da Vinci”, which associates famous renaissance painters on large oils on canvas, by telling a mystical story of the infamous Priory of Sion. There are also his unforgettable portraits of David Bowie, Jeremy Irons,Sigourney Weaver and others. Because he is interested only in works on unprecedented projects, in collaboration with the famous Italian writer,he produced 12 large-format images , which extract the key moments in the story of the writer’s last book “Nero 24”. It happened for the first time that one artist painted in such way a narration of a book. For this unique project, the biggest Italian publishing house Mondadori organized three large presentations in Turin, Venice and Rome.
NOIR – nft auction
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