[REPORT] Near x Art Q2 Report - Creatives / Creatives DAO - NEAR Forum
NearxArt LLC
1. BACKGROUND INFORMATION
NearXart is a decentralized autonomous organization that focuses on several initiatives that range from creating utility NFTs to empowering creatives and giving back to the community.
The organization started with the long-term vision of an art enthusiast and also an artist named Kareem.
He realized that there has been little coverage of local artists and their talent, and he believes with the emergence of blockchain, which has brought to life NFT, any local artist can advertise their talent out there. In a quest to solve this problem, Kareem set up NearXart as a channel to help creatives monetize their work and get the accolades they deserve.
- DAO introduction
[INTRODUCTION] NEAR x ART DAO
Explain in detail about your DAO, what purpose it solves, what will the community be like and what are you trying to build.
Recognizing the default between blockchain and local artists, NearXart decides to pool its resources in order to foster a relationship between physical arts and the blockchain. This will allow physical art to be seen just like NFTs and can be purchased separately.
The services provided by nearXart to ensure that tangible art, local artists, and stunning local environmental pictures are delivered to the outside world are listed below.
NFT creation
NearXart uses its resources to create NFT both in physical form and also in digital form, which helps in the linking of physical art to NFT. They believe blockchain can be promoted more to the physical part of the arts in the form of physical NFT, while digital NFT will also be available. Digitalizing art that has been drawn in a physical form will make it more popular in the digital world.
Promotion on Blockchain
Since its founding, NearXart has put in a lot of effort to encourage local artists to use blockchain technology. They think that by doing this, local artists will be able to sell more of their works and be exposed to a wider audience online. Since digital artists and investors have been the main users of blockchain, the influx of local artists will strengthen it because there are more NFT investors online.
Charitable contribution
The organization also sees digitalization as a way of raising money through beautiful pictures of the local environment by listing them as NFT. This will also promote local photographers and their pictures, which will be minted as NFT, and, through that, raise money to support local environmental development.
Some of NearXart’s future projections include having a gallery that will include different works of art. People with any NFT from NearXart will have automatic access to this gallery. It will also possess a section for augmented reality.
- Why team is best for the funds
Supercoolkay.near:
Founder of Near x Art Dao. He is a 2nd generation curator of wood collage art in the world. A web 3 enthusiast with so much passion in community building and aligning people with the goal of decentralization.
He has garnered a lot of experience in community management, artist management, event planning, social media moderation, content creation and community building.
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Successfully facilitated 20+ people to represent Near in a global web 3 event. He has been a major driver in onboarding about 500+ people to the ecosytem.
He has worked with several projects within and out of the Near ecosystem. Since the inception of Near x Art, Supercoolkay has helped over 40+ artist earn a living with their works. Twitter
Bimpe.near:
Based in canada with experience in auditing and quality assurance. She founded Near Woman; a community that focuses educating female creatives about web3 and how to leverage this emerging technology in their everyday live.
She will bring her skill set into the general overview of the projects, it’s lifecycle, compliance and would ensure that all aspect of the protects are carried out most especially in the Wildlife art segment. @Bimpsyy
Lekkyberry.near:
A talented musical artist with so much expertise in planning event, graphics design, project management, educating about web 3 and its possibilities. He has trained over 150+ newbies on how to interact with Near Dapps.
He is an experienced marketer who have helped accelerated the sales of some web 2 firm with is unique marketing approach. He has incorporated his skills to web 3 challenges and has successfully assisted in the scaling of Near x Art. https://twitter.com/ofberryy?s=21
Yekeen.near
A web 3 enthusiast with a background in event planning, art creation and community management. He has the passion to contribute to developement of a more sustainable web, blovkchain use cases and NFT real life application.
Yekeen has helped Near x Art in onboarding, educating and packing of our real life events. @Yekin
Bissaka.near:
He is a vocalist, student, a community builder and currently working in this space as a social media moderator in the Near x Art Dao. He has successfully hosted several Talk & Win show an AMA that helped newbies navigate their way in the ecosystem.
https://twitter.com/bissaka00?s=21
Chumchum.near
Chumchum is a professional videographer. He works with near x art in creating video content for our artist, our workshop and real life event.
His passion for a decentralized ecosystem as motivated him to receive his work payments in Near coin.https://instagram.com/chumworks?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Oliwaseu.near
He is one Near x Art prominent members. He has produced several physical Nft of arts for the dao and also introduced Near to over 10+ creatives. His passion for web 3 cut across the field of NFT creation, charitable contribution and decentralization. https://instagram.com/o.l.u.w.a_s.e.u.n?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
- Achievement information about the DAO
Built a community for creative to thrive in the web 3 space, not just the tech enthusiast.
Successfully onboarded 800+ creatives to Near
Successfully trained 500+ artists on how to navigate their way in web 3.0
Creation of very unique set of art works that ranges from wood collage, mix media and painting.
Team have put forward initiatives that gives back to the community (Ghetto photography, pet & wildlife)
Represented Near at a global web 3 event in Lagos.
6 in real life event
10+ Workshop training for artist
Growing community size of 1,000+ both online and real life.
Facilitated the use of Near coin for transaction amongst artists.
Sold 8 physical art.
Collaborated with various community in and outside Near ecosystem to improve the welfare of creatives in web 3.0
Supported in the creation of sub- creative-daos in the ecosystem.
We are building fanartiks.art; a market place for physical NFT of art and collectibles.
120+ signups in first day lauch of Nearxart marketplace. Fanartiks.art
- Content and Social media stats (web2/web3), on-chain activity, built dapps (if applicable only)
- 51+ membership NFT claimed
- Recently facilitated our community member on chain activity & decentralization via Astrodao voting system.
- Facilitated on chain activity on Near social by prompting our member to explore this new Dapp. Near x Art | Near Social
- Integrating new NFT tools with our community to increase our on chain interaction. Example: Near x art membership tag on App.Satori.art
- Share the content links of youtube Instagram with numbers of engagement, website etc, events done IRL
No of events IRL: 5
- Share the number of proposals created, How many councils, size of community, number of NFTs in mintbase, events done in metaverse
- DApps if built and the purpose it solves, any traction metrics etc.
- Genre - What category does your DAO fall under
1. Art
2. Music
3. Culture
4. Mixed-Media
5. Charitable contribution
What kind of impact is creating or is on the track to create (e.g. defined by social impact, tech innovation, DAO to DAO collaboration, helping in mass onboarding, growth of NEARs name etc)
Impact:
- Onboarding local artistes to web 3
- Education
- Artist support for local artistes
- Growth of the Near ecosystem.
- Charitable contribution via NFT and blockchain infrastructure.
- Roadmap
Phase 1: (1 - 6 months)
COMMUNITY GROWTH, BRANDING AND FUNDING:
- Training of artists, photographer and all creatives about web3.0 and its oppurtunies.
- Visual and IRL Art workshop.
- Request for fund from creatives dao.
- Creation of NFT, arts and documentries.
- Development of art-sales platform for our physical art.
Phase 2: ( 7 - 12 months)
- Explore financial opportunities with NFT, arts and creativity
- Develop a stategy of selling our NFTs, arts and values.
- Partnership with NFT platforms and other web 3 ecosystem.
- Events, workshop, meet-up and exhibition.
- Work & partner with veteran creatives
- Develop our NFT platform into a Dapp built on Near.
Phase 3 (13 - 18 months):
- A physical hub and workshop space.
- Train newbies on art and Nft creation
- Rebranding
- Introduce artefacts to our NFTs
- Web 3 consultancy services with the use of NFTs and infrastruces built on Near.
- Partnership with web 2 creative firms willing to integrate of migrate to web 3.0
- DAO’s Milestones for proposal
II. PROPOSAL
Project 1 (Paint & Create with Near BOS)
| Description: | We are hosting the 3rd edition of biggest web 3 art & cultural event. This time around, we are introducing the Near BOS to it. Not just the tech savvy people should understand how Near BOS works but creatives too. Creatives are the brainbox behind any platform or Decentralized application that is being utilized so therefore, they have to be aware of this emerging technology. |
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| Expected outcome: | Educate 150 - 200 creatives about the basics of Near BOS (with the support of Chloe, the plug and other BOS builders in Near) and how they can leverage this emerging technology to their craft. |
| Collaborate with Dapps over Apps; a Near tech community focused | |
| Train creatives interested in developing with BOS with existing educational resources from the BOS builders Dao. | |
| Onboard creative artists to Near x Art online platform; fanartiks.art | |
| Near wallet creation with Shard.do and interaction with Near Dapps.(Nearxart already has a custom onboarding link with shard.dog) | |
| NFT ticketing will be employed with the use of satori.art | |
| 50 -80+ attendee will create a Near social account and post their artsworks | |
| 100+ sign ups on Near x Art marketplace; FanArtiks.art which is currently on over 120+ artist sign ups. | |
| Organic growth and unique active wallet of 50+ from usage of Near.social ,Soul bound token, minting of artworks and wallet creation. | |
| Invite 2 -4 renowned artistes in web 2 & web 3 space to talk about how blockchain technology can revolutionize the art/creatives economy. | |
| Activities & timelines: | Education on the basics of Near BOS with the aid of a billboard screen for visual representation. |
| Intense training session before and after the event on BOS layouts by experts in the Near ecosystem ( @chloe, the plug, and other dev in BOS builders Dao. | |
| Easy onboarding process with Nearxart customed Shard.dog link | |
| BOS competition prior to the event and after the event | |
| NFT ticketing system to get access to drinks and snacks at the event (similar to Coffee service at NearApac) | |
| Art training session by @Adeclassic, @ Faithnime | |
| Intro and interaction with IAMHUMAN, Near horizon, Near.social, W3music, etc | |
| Person to Person NFT sales at the event will take place. | |
| Lagos Nigeria | |
| Budget: | Venue - $350 |
| Art Materials - $350 | |
| Shard.dog Near - $150: ($1.5 * 100) : For wallet activation, minting and gas fee. | |
| Manual Book - $100: This pamphlet will feature the QR code guide on how to mint & interact with Dapps on Near, list of different guild/community in the ecosystem with their role, mission and vision. | |
| Logistics & welfare package for educators - $300 | |
| Refreshment - $400:** This is limited to firs 80-100 attendees. An estimate of $5 per head ($5 * 100= $400) | |
| Physical & Online promotion for the event - $150 | |
| Event mc & music service - $150 | |
| Video & photography - $300 : | |
| Total: | 2,250 |
Some of the associated wallet:
- abdulkareem.near
- Uncleshakila.near
- temi_k.near
- bimpe.near
- Yekeen.near
- chumchum.near
- Marveolise.near
- lekkyberry.near
II. PROPOSAL 2
Project 2 (NearxArt BOS bounty in collaboration with Dapps over Apps community)
Dapps over Apps have hosted series of technical workshop for builder, some of which are highlighted below:
a. intro to building a Dapp
b. Workshop on building a voting Dapp
| Description: | This bounty is for creators, creative builders and developers interested in building native solution that will aggregate our NFTs, members portfolio and in real life activities on Near BOS. |
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| Expected outcome: | Establish Nearxart widget on Near BOS |
| Educate developers and creators from Dapps over Apps community about Near BOS | |
| Create opportunities for developers to explore and fork with BOS components. | |
| Open bounty to create a solution that aggregates NearxArt events and real-life solutions | |
| Custom page for NearxArt NFTs | |
| Activities & timelines: | Collaborate with Dapps over Apps in the BOS bounty |
| Onboard creative builders from other communities to work on this bounty | |
| Budget: | 1st winner : $350 |
| 2nd winner: $200 | |
| 3rd winner: $100 | |
| Promotion, visual representation, graphics & social media campaign: $100 | |
| Total: | $750 |
Some of the ascertained Target wallet:
- Yekeen.near
- Oceancrypt.near
II. PROPOSAL 3
Project 3 (Creation of Wearables & Collectibles )
| Description: | Near x art dao is a community that focuses onboarding local artist to web 3 through the creation and integration of NFTs to physical artworks. Fanartiks.art is a platform for the sales of physical NFTs and collectibles, we have decided to support creators of wearable and collectibles. |
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| Expected outcome: | Creation of wearables and collectables that will be minted as an NFT and also be minted in Near x Art platform Fanartiks.art |
| BOS education for creators to continually use BOS for optimizing their works/collectibles/NFTs/. | |
| Creation of Near wallet and Near.social profile | |
| Educate newbies on how to mint, importance of joining a community in the Near ecosystem, opportunities as a creative in web 3. | |
| Onboard 5 - 10 creators | |
| Video creation of the process of these arts | |
| Promotion of this art on their platforms to potential buyers. | |
| Activities & timelines: | Education and training |
| Regular post on Near.social highlighting the progress of their projectsn | |
| Physical meetings | |
| BOS training | |
| Videos | |
| Material purchase | |
| Budget: | $100 - $150 for 4 - 5 established artistes = $500 |
Who are the artists?
(Prospective receivers)
- https://instagram.com/hamyls_crochet?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
- MAGIC FINGERS
(@jazzupcustoms) • Instagram photos and videos - https://www.instagram.com/de_crowncrafts__ng/
- https://instagram.com/art_by_sam_1?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
- https://instagram.com/maqic_finqer?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Wallets:
- Faithnime.near
- Uncleshakila.near
- Oliwaseu.near
- maqicfinqer.near
| Remuneartion | Cost Breakdown | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| $1,500 | Supervision of project | October, November |
| Reviewing Nearxart BOS bounty | October, November | |
| Brainstorming of proposal | October, November | |
| Community building | October, November | |
| Education | October, November | |
| Event planning | October,November | |
| Graphics designing | October,November | |
| NFT quality assurance for Phydigital art | October, November | |
| Community call/AMA | October, November |
- What is the goal of the DAO’s objective?
Our goal is to onboard creatives to web 3 via the Near ecosystem thereby making a livelihood for them. - Roadmap to reach the goal
- Organize visual and in real life event to connect with art lovers and creatives.
- Onboard creatives from other fields.
- How is the longer term goal divided into milestones making the DAO reach
there? - Milestone 1 focuses on community growth and branding
- Milestone 2 Focuses on Dao revenue making scheme and sustainability
- Milestone 3 Expansion and long term vision.
- What will the community or the team members’ role be?
- Educators, researcher, creators, artists, video director, event coordinator.
Total request number: $5,000 Usdc
**DAO on-chain address (target wallet): nearxart.sputnik-dao.near