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James Morgan

James Morgan

·Apr 19

Introducing Early Access Drops on KnownOrigin

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…

Nft

4 min read

Introducing Early Access Drops on KnownOrigin
Introducing Early Access Drops on KnownOrigin

James Morgan

James Morgan

·Sep 29, 2021

🔒Triple lock royalties via a Merkle Tree Royalties Distributor

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. …

Nft

4 min read

🔒Triple lock royalties via a Merkle Tree Royalties Distributor
🔒Triple lock royalties via a Merkle Tree Royalties Distributor

James Morgan

James Morgan

·Sep 27, 2021

Introducing Step Sales™ 😃

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…

Platform Update

3 min read

Introducing Step Sales™ 😃
Introducing Step Sales™ 😃

James Morgan

James Morgan

·Sep 14, 2021

Why 24hr Reserve Auctions?

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…

Digital Art

3 min read

Why 24hr Reserve Auctions?
Why 24hr Reserve Auctions?

James Morgan

James Morgan

·Sep 7, 2021

EIP-2981 — Defining collectives for multi-collab royalties recipients

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

Royalties

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EIP-2981 — Defining collectives for multi-collab royalties recipients
EIP-2981 — Defining collectives for multi-collab royalties recipients

James Morgan

James Morgan

·Jul 27, 2021

EIP-2981 — Simple and effective royalty standard for all

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. …

Royalties

6 min read

EIP-2981 — Simple and effective royalty standards for all
EIP-2981 — Simple and effective royalty standards for all

David moore (aka Selfmadeheroes)

David moore (aka Selfmadeheroes)

·Mar 24, 2021

CryptoArt and the environmental dilemma

In this article we want to explore the impact of Cryptoart on carbon emissions and wider sustainability issues What are KnownOrigin doing about this? In recent weeks, cryptoart has come under scrutiny due to its impact on the planet and the carbon emissions emitted from the production of NFTs. In this article we want to explore…

Nft

8 min read

CryptoArt and the environmental dilemma
CryptoArt and the environmental dilemma

David moore (aka Selfmadeheroes)

David moore (aka Selfmadeheroes)

·Jan 1, 2021

Kaleidoscienza Creative Challenge Winners

We recently partnered with Kaleidoscienza for our latest Creative Challenge. The creative challenge was an open call for artists to create original artworks based on the theme of biodiversity. We had an overwhelming response and the standard of work submitted was astounding. …

Art

6 min read

Kaleidoscienza Creative Challenge Winners
Kaleidoscienza Creative Challenge Winners

David moore (aka Selfmadeheroes)

David moore (aka Selfmadeheroes)

·Sep 14, 2020

KnownOrigin — redesign, reimagined and almost rebuilt…

Sometimes you have to rip it up and start again… With the crypto art market on it’s yearly bull run and hearing some outstanding grips and grimes from the community, we felt it was critical for KnownOrigin to bring a breath of fresh air to the platform with a new…

Rebranding

7 min read

KnownOrigin —  redesign, reimagined and almost rebuilt…
KnownOrigin —  redesign, reimagined and almost rebuilt…

James Morgan

James Morgan

·Sep 1, 2020

Some thoughts on token governance and curation — a look into a possible future for KnownOrigin

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…

Ethereum

10 min read

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David moore (aka Selfmadeheroes)

David moore (aka Selfmadeheroes)

CEO-CO Founder of KnownOrigin and User Experience Consultant. #Blockchain #Ethereum #Design #UX #Ui #Type All My views are my own.

Andy Gray

Andy Gray

Builds stuff with Blockchain. Co-founder of BlockRocket.tech. Part of the KnownOrigin.io team.

James Morgan

James Morgan

Founder of @knownorigin_io @BlockRocketTech @blockchain_manc — NFT nerd, crypto enthusiast, lover of music, humanist, mostly found hacking web3

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