Syed Saddiq, Tony Fernandes and the UKM join the movement – Wired PR Lifestyle Story

With non-fungible tokens (NFT) movement in Malaysia certainly growing from day to day, we decided to start a series to follow what kind of local NFT news or activity is happening in a week.

There, we’ll take a look back at what was the biggest NFT of the week (and perhaps last week), the new NFT platforms that have caught our eye, as well as what the Malaysian NFT community is doing. , and more.

While this week may seem a bit slower for exciting NFT content, compared to previous weeks, here’s what’s been happening on the scene lately.

In the news

A group of graduate students from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) are doing a solidarity project. Crypto-Nate. It takes the form of a virtual campaign on infertility and is called the Art for Art (Assisted Reproductive Technology) campaign.

The Master of Business Administration (MBA) students brought together 12 local artists, presented their art as NFT, to raise social awareness and raise funds for the Tunku Azizah Fertility Foundation (TAFF).

Using these NFT arts, they aim to clear up the common and still taboo subject of infertility, while reaping the financial benefits of protecting fertility treatments for B40 couples.

The campaign aims to raise around 100K RM out of 12 paintings, each of which expects a minimum bid of RM12K.

All 12 NFTs will be auctioned on January 29 from 1pm to 5pm via Crypto-Nate’s social media platforms, but pre-bidding will start on January 23rd.

Artists like Sue Anna Joe, Arif Rafhan and Vivian Ng are some of the names that contribute to the cause of pieces with the right theme.

The Queen of Malaysia, Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah, created and directs TAFF He was introduced to Arts for ART By the UKM team.

We don’t know yet what he really thinks about NFTs in general, but it’s interesting to see that the movement has come to the king’s attention and has been embedded in educational institutions (no less in a public university).

It’s too early to say that the Queen’s and UKM’s acceptance of NFT’s charitable use indicates that the broad Malaysian community is broadly accepting NFT, but if more public bodies start to jump into the trend … remember that we anticipated the opportunity here first.

Before…

As I said, it’s been a rather slow week, so ICYMI (if you missed it), here’s a look back at some of the more exciting NFT events that have taken place this month.

Lately, AirAsia’s Tony Fernandez was given an NFT From Jay Chou’s collection, Phanta Bear. It cost 1 ETH, which was about RM14K at the time of writing, but today it is around RM12.6K.

At the same time, Tony announced in a cryptic way: in an Instagram post about the gift of “See the air on the Internet 3.0”. From there, we’re assuming that AirAsia’s latest move is teasing in cryptography, NFT, metaverse, or something in that area.

If so, what will the Malaysian airline get out of its sleeve? We are ready.

Another senior person who clearly announced the pro-NFT claim was Syed Saddiq, a few days earlier.

It’s the same Selling NFTs as a work of art on his face to raise funds for charity, and in the long run he is working to secure another fundraising strategy for the Muar district.

According to him, federal aid is not only lacking, but it can take a long time to get there, so welfare funding issues are being addressed through NFTs.

Next

Since our end, here’s what you can expect to see next week.

We are talking to people at Pentas.io, a local NFT market started by the locals, and we are interviewing a Malaysian living in Singapore to pay tribute to their mutual love for someone who is using NFT. copy food.

In the meantime, we hope to cover more NFT projects and events, and who knows, maybe another well-known figure will make an impact on the scene.

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Featured Image Credit: Tony Fernandes / Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) / Syed Saddiq