Today, the first mission of Dreambound Orbital places NFTs from Magic Eden, World of Women, and other projects into orbit around the Earth.
Crypto degens frequently refer to their preferred coin or token pumping “to the moon,” but in reality, NFT assets have been shot into space. On Thursday, a collection of Solana NFTs from a variety of Web3 initiatives will be sent into orbit by the International Space Station as the latest example.
Infinity Eve, the pseudonymous founder of Infinity Labs, stated that the 1977 Voyager Mission, which included a “Golden Record” inscribed with music from around the world, including Chuck Berry, Mozart, Bach, and Louis Armstrong, was one of her inspirations for sending NFTs into space.
During the pandemic, when she was in the hospital being treatment for a severe kind of cancer, she conceived the concept for Dreambound Orbital.
(1/2) T-Minus 1 Hour until we launch some amazing art, digital artifacts, and stories around the Earth and to the stars!
— Infinity Labs@dreamboundio #DreamboundM1 with a ton of other friends including @solanafndn @metaplex @magiceden @phantom @solanaspaces @monkedao @degodsnft and MORE! pic.twitter.com/EqR6OeEGxa
IS GOING TO THE ISS (@InfinityLabsNFT) December 15, 2022
“I didn’t want to look at statistics [during treatment] because it was the worst thing I could do,” Eve told Decrypt. “And I was obsessed with this idea that if I could put art and stories onto the blockchain, I could build something really beautiful that could outlive me in some ways if anything were to happen to me.”
Dreambound Orbital, a startup that “launches blockchain experiments into orbit,” is the result. In investigating how to send NFTs to space, Eve says she wrote several people who work in the space industry and eventually connected with NASA and visited its Space Center in Houston, Texas.
And for the initial mission, DreamboundM1, she has recruited a large number of notable Web3 partners. NFT assets provided by the Solana Foundation, Metaplex, Phantom, Brave, Magic Eden, OpenSea, World of Women, MonkeDAO, Fractal, DeGods, Randi Zuckerberg, and others have joined Infinity Labs’ NFT in its trip to the International Space Station.
“I thought to myself: What is it about space that really inspires people, or just brings people together in so many ways,” she said, “and then also inspires people to think beyond themselves, or just feel like they’re a part of something bigger?”
One of the NFTs in the payload is a piece of art called “This is Solana” by pseudonymous artists TEJ and Ekko that was previously auctioned by the marketplace Magic Eden. It talks about a lot of well-known projects on the platform.
NFTS ARE GOING TO THE MOON
— Magic Eden… literally
Couple of months ago, we did an auction called "This is Solana", created by @Tejji90 @MoonEkko33 ft some top collections.
Today, the @dreamboundio x @InfinityLabsNFT crew sent it to outer space!pic.twitter.com/YAgZpfNwg7
(@MagicEden) December 15, 2022
Metaplex’s Solana NFT standard whitepaper (tokenized as an NFT), a World of Women Galaxy profile photo, and Brave’s initial Solana NFT are also on the mission. NFT holders could include their name or a loved one’s in the payload.
Dreambound isn’t the first to launch digital art to space. Micah Johnson, a former baseball player turned digital artist, transported two NFTs to the ISS via the Bishop Airlock in August 2021. Inspiration4 by SpaceX included NFTs, featuring Kings of Leon music.
Infinity Labs is a Solana NFT project, but its digital payload includes Ethereum NFTs. The NFT data were uploaded to an ISS server today, where they will “beamed into neighboring systems,” stated Eve. Dreambound’s major goal with sending NFTs to the ISS is to beam the photos into deep space like the Voyager satellite before it, and maybe someday create a digital space economy and orbiting NFT museum.
Some people might think it’s silly or pointless to send NFTs to the International Space Station. Eve told them to keep an open mind because you never know where inspiration will come from. GPS and other important technologies we use today were made possible by experiments in space.
Eve feels there could be useful business applications and research for this endeavor outside of Web3 apps, noting that life often imitates art and science fiction. Many of the technologies we use today, including cellphones, were inspired by science fiction.
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