KnownOrigin joins eBay to help lead their NFT and web3 strategy bringing — Today we are excited to share the news that we have joined eBay to help lead their NFT and digital collectibles strategy with the mission to bring web 3 capabilities to the platform. When we started KO in 2018 our mission was simple, build out a platform for digital creators…

Provable, wide reaching, bot proof early access drops on KnownOrigin— reward your collectors and experiment with new drop mechanics — Many KO artists have requested features which can enable them to reward collectors for their support and help foster engagement on social media and within the wider CryptoArt space. Today we are announcing the first set of initiatives to help fulfil this need by allowing our community of artists to…

A open-source contribution aimed at helping solve the off-platform royalties problem for NFT sales — The backstory As you may or may not know, OpenSea and other aggregators do not always pay out royalties to KnownOrigin creators. …

A new pricing mechanic to help price discovery and to encourage collector commitment — As we continue the rollout of the new features at KnownOrigin, we are pleased to announce the launch of what we call step sales™ Multi-edition art has always been at the core of KnownOrigin’s platform, we believe that engaging with multiple collectors from a single edition can provide a sustainable…

New sales mechanics for buyer and sellers on KnownOrigin — KnownOrigin has now had offers and buy-now functionality for many years. However, a frequently-made request has been for more advanced auction mechanics. Well, say hello to 24hr Reserve Auctions — a method first pioneered by a popular crypto artist and subsequently formalized by SuperRare. This is the first of an…

The future of multi-collab royalties and peak into the future — EIP-2981 defines a simple and effective way to both signal and provide the correct royalties to any 3rd party marketplace. Removing the typical silo that exists around marketplace royalties and providing a new building block for the creator economy. EIP-2981 — Simple and effective royalty standards for all A maturing space requires new primitives, EIP-2981 represent one of these - one step closer to true long lasting NFT…medium.com

A maturing space requires new primitives, EIP-2981 represent one of these - one step closer to true long lasting NFT royalties — The backstory It was back in late December 2017 that I wrote my first NFT smart contract. I had recently fallen down the Ethereum rabbithole 🐇, a move that swiftly led me to becoming fully immersed in Solidity and the world of NFTs. …

Composable NFTs, timed auctions, FBX assets equates to a digital fashion moonshot 🚀 — We at BlockRocket have been building NFT platforms for ourselves and others since before ERC-721 was even a ratified standard. When Emma approached us with her vision of the future of digital fashion it was an opportunity we could not refuse. Digitalax has embarked on building a complex and innovative…

Aligned incentives, community owned and managed — Over the last few years, KnownOrigin has grown and matured, trying new things, failing at some, succeeding in others, but all in all hopefully giving us some perspective on where we are, and where all this blockchain and NFT world may be going. in 2020 the entire NFT space has…