“Spring Back” Season @ NFT NYC 2024

Hope everyone had a great Easter weekend, and first quarter of the year!

“Spring back is a stress-driven phenomenon that occurs when a part is released from the forces of the forming tool at the end of the forming process.”

It’s 9AM in Miami. And I’m writing this on the plane. It’s “Spring Back” season - in many more ways than one.

Against all odds, our company NPC Labs is winning 🏆

We did it bootstrapped and with limited funding. That’s our badge of honor🥇

We’ve earned our stripes. Like bitcoin, our proof of work is publicly accessible. It belongs to the people now.

[Scroll down to read the full story + access our NFT NYC 2024 events and a list of side events in the EVENTS FOR NFT NYC 2024 section at the bottom👇]

Catch our AMA on X today at 3pmEST with HotCoin Global for more! Live from NFT NYC 2024!

NPC Labs is a one-stop platform to build, monetize, and scale consumer products connected to your digital assets.

We’re driven to bring Web3 frameworks mainstream - seriously.

We’re bridging the gap between the digital and physical divide, leveraging Web3 tools & phygital product manufacturing to enhance your intellectual property and support creators & brands on their journey to building global franchises.

We have a curated network of white-label suppliers, which have worked with some of the top brands in the world, including Amazon, Puma, Footlocker, Urban Outfitters, Tesla, and Lululemon.

We built this network to democratize access to the infrastructure leveraged by the top, most exclusive brands, fashion houses, and retail giants worldwide.

Each product from our platform comes with a digital collectible via an NFC chip, which creators can leverage as a ticket to their next event, membership passes for their community members, Web3 loyalty rewards, access to exclusive content, and so much more. We work with many providers, including Uniqly.io, KeySpace, TokenX, and most recently, IYK. 

Watch our product overview for a deeper understanding of what we’re building: 

Our platform was born out of my journey as an art collector, content creator, investor, and creative entrepreneur. I spent my early career building a VC fund investing in tech companies coming out of Princeton University’s tech ecosystem. My first research project for my firm was a deep dive into the crypto & blockchain sector.

I read Satoshi Nakamoto’s whitepaper in the summer of 2017, and was inspired to start investing in initial coin offerings with my roommate that following semester. Next, I started supporting and evaluating Web3 startups, investing in a handful - including MIRA Imaging, Golden.xyz, Layerr.xyz, and EdgeIn.io. In 2021, I started collecting NFTs and built a portfolio of 300 NFTs in 6 months, which sparked my interest in collecting both digital and physical art. 

By NFT NYC 2022, I decided that it was time to build something unique and transformative for the space, something that could help the Web3 brands I love take off to the next level. We decided early-on that we also wanted to build a platform that could support Web2 content creators and help artists monetize & escape a soul-sucking 9-to-5 cycle. All in all, we wanted to develop the tools to support this community as we crossed the chasm together into mainstream impact & adoption. 

NPC Labs was born💡

Fast forward to today. We’ve built a partnership network of 1,000 community leaders and over 400,000 community members in Web2 & Web3.

We’ve successfully showcased our products at 3 world-class events, including Miami Art Basel 2023, ETH Denver 2024 (recap), and most recently, Democratize24 in San Francisco. We’ve had the opportunity to test our products with artists such as our good friend ARTZ (founder of Reject Dreams), Ye (formerly known as Kanye West), Trinidad James, Shyheim Tha Rugged, and the WuTang family. And we documented everything. 

We just launched our first digital collectibles with AMLOK (a Web3 crowdfunding solution and Arbitrum grant recipient) on Arbitrum. I was early to Arbitrum and built a 5-figure collection on their platform in my early days as a collector; their ecosystem has been great to me, so it felt right to launch there first. We believe in practicing goodwill and we receive it in return.

April 15th is our next funding deadline for anyone who wants to participate. It’s the last chance for contributors and investors to support us before this train leaves the station. 

Everyone who joins in will be automatically entered to win exclusive giveaways and raffle prizes from our ongoing & upcoming drops as well as free access to all of our events this year (covered by NPC & yours truly). 

We’re as excited as you are. Probably more-so. I hope for your sake, if you’re reading this, it’s not too late. 

Watch our new interview with the CEO and Founder of AMLOK, Abdallah Kanaan for more info here.

Learn how to support us here and here.

Data room + tutorial videos for the crowdfunding portal here.

Please feel free to reach out or reply to this email if you have any questions!

All of our work so far has culminated in sustainable momentum! We’re excited for you to join us on this journey of a lifetime! 🚀

EVENTS FOR NFT NYC 2024

This upcoming week during NFT NYC 2024, we’re going bigger than we’ve ever gone before. We’re delivering hundreds of phygital products this week and participating in 4 key events.  RSVP below and follow us for more:

April 5th: https://linktr.ee/metanin

April 4th:

April 3rd: (Message me to get on our exclusive VIP guest list)

Watch our latest interview with the founder of ZTalent and the mind behind Zaopalooza on April 3rd here.

As a bonus, here’s a list of all the side events at NFT NYC 2024 this year here.

Excited to see you all there!

We haven’t even announced everything we have in store yet. But the clues are all there if you’re willing to look. Catch our AMA below with Hotcoin for more!

This is where our journey and the insights we gather along the way will live from now on. 

The first 18 editions featured over 50 Web3 companies making a difference. We reached over 12,500 subscribers in 12 months (many thanks to the incredible support from Daniel Vataj & the TokenTag community). Soon all of the first 18 editions will be mint-able on Mirror, available as a historic marker & documentation of Web3 in 2023. These capsule pieces commemorate the final year of the toughest bear market in crypto history. As always, we came out stronger.

Clap for yourselves. We’re all going to make it. We just have to stick together this time and encourage one other!

-- Bayo

Chief Creator | NPC Labs

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