In addition to avatars, more possibilities for NFT: text, identity, country | NFT Writing Fund Weekly Report 0815 – 0821

Since its launch on April 25th, "NFT Writing Fund" is about to enter its 16th week. In order to allow more good NFT articles to be seen, articles in #NFT Review and #NFT tags will be added to the event. At present, there are more than 1,000 articles in the two tabs, of which 491 articles have received more than 0.5 hours of reading hours within 7 days of publication, and 350 articles have been supported by readers, and a single article has the highest matching donation. Record as high as 2200 Likecoin! In addition, in order to allow more good NFT articles to have a chance to be seen, articles in the #NFT tag will also provide author rewards if they comply with the fund's reward methods and rules!

Since its introduction in 2017, although the exposure of NFTs and the daily life of the public has increased, most people know NFTs as thousands of similar but different avatars, or digital artworks sold at sky-high prices in the news. For most people involved in NFT transactions, NFTs are only assets used for stored value and transactions, not applications.

In this issue of the weekly report, we will see other possibilities and more dimensions of NFT imagination: Writing NFT may provide oppressed writers around the world with a space to openly share and preserve their works; virtual activities and crowdfunding through NFT capital, making public cultural participation more difficult to be controlled by a centralized authority; or, as Balaji Srinivasan predicted, the NFT community will continue to develop various functions of the entity country as the embryonic form of the network country; finally, the non-transferable NFT as a The idea of social identity may sound unrealistic today, but it may be a new touch between the Web3 world and real life.

In the face of these gradually expanding and expanding imaginations in all aspects of life, some people seem to have heard the gospel, while others seem to have seen a storm, but returning to the basic point of these imaginations: "words", "identity", "nation", maybe we Been in the storm, never left.

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Writing NFT: For less than 1 yuan, you can publish digital creations in the form of a book by @徐明恩

Looking back, most people's cognition of NFTs still stays in images, especially avatars. But as people become more and more familiar with NFTs, everyone will find that NFTs can also be like paper, which is another digital carrier.

Witnessing the development of cryptocurrency from "asset" to "decentralized financial application", the author proposes that NFT may be used as a new carrier for text creation, helping readers to open up another imagination for NFT. Although the process of switching from paper to digital creation reduces the printing and logistics costs of creators and expands the audience of their works, the income that ultimately flows to creators is still very limited. Writing NFT can not only complete the entire process equivalent to printing, registering ISBN numbers , and finally putting on the shelves in a short time, but also allows the works to be flexibly priced by the market, which greatly increases the creator's autonomy in the entire work publishing process. Although as mentioned at the end of the article, there are still many uncertainties and risks in this mechanism, but Writing NFT is still an incision for us to understand and imagine the future publishing industry and knowledge industry.

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01 Daily feed｜[Must Read] Will the SoulBound Token SBT (SoulBound Token) be the beginning of NFT's real world change? (top) by @myttt.eth

The invention of SBT changes records from centralization to decentralization, and the structure changes from top-down to bottom-up. Every record of yours, whether good or bad, will be witnessed by the entire blockchain, and no one can control it.

In addition to the limitations of applications, the "sellability" feature of NFT itself also makes many people worry about its future development. As @徐明恩 said in his article , "In this decentralized society where everything can be bought and sold, there is no identity, only assets. But without norms such as credit, reputation or morality, society is like a chair with one leg missing. , it is difficult to operate." By sorting out the paper "Decentralized Society: Finding the Soul of Web3" , which was jointly completed by Ethereum founder Buterin Butler, economics and sociologist E. Glen weyl, and lawyer Puja Ohlhaver, this article introduces the soul binding. SBT (Soul Bound Token), as a non-transferable NFT, may bring about social changes.

By building irreplaceable social credentials on a decentralized platform, everyone's data information will be openly and transparently recorded and witnessed on the entire blockchain. And precisely because it is on a decentralized network, it is difficult for such information to be manipulated and tampered with by centralized powers. However, @myttt.eth also mentioned in the second half of this article that there are still many ethical and practical disputes and risks in this mechanism. But as the opening of the paper proposing SBT states, "Web3 today centers around expressing transferable, financialized assets, rather than encoding social relationships of trust)", thinking and discussing about SBT can be a good start for us to rebuild social relationships in Web3.

02 The Network State: Seven Ways to Build a "State" (2) by @weitinglin66

...a group of communities that gather mainly to solve a social problem, usually with a small number of people, and then slowly gather together to form a network alliance when several such small innovative societies have some common ideas. , and has a certain economy and bargaining power.

How to build a "nation"? How does a national identity form and develop? Traditional theories of international relations generally believe that the main motivation for the formation of states is the monopoly of violence, that is, through force and war; other scholars believe that states and national identities are communities based on a common language and culture. By introducing the new book "Network State" by Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan , the author of this article presents readers with a new possibility beyond the traditional way of building a country: the network state.

The establishment of a cyber state does not depend on violence, nor does it require members of the state to have a common language and culture. The foundation of the network state is a community that aims to solve a certain social problem, and then gradually develops into a network alliance as the number of people increases. Unlike traditional interest groups and civil society, because these communities are network-based, membership can span separate physical areas. As their strength increases, these online organizations may replace some of the functions of the physical state, thus building a network state. Although from the perspective of traditional political science, the "state" of an organization based on a network society sounds counterintuitive, the development of the cryptocurrency community in recent years and the fact that cryptocurrencies have gradually replaced some national legal currencies have shown us. The Potential and Possibilities of the Cyber Nation.

03Five types of empowering NFTby @c2x3

Enabling NFTs generally refers to NFTs that not only serve as unique digital assets, but also have other use cases that grant their owners privileges, rights, or rewards.

In addition to being a collection and asset, NFT itself can also produce utility in real life, return to "people" itself, and empower "people's activities". This article sorts out five main types of empowering NFTs. In addition to NFT concert tickets and digital collections that are relatively familiar to readers, it also introduces three methods: virtual events, NFT crowdfunding, and NFT&GameFi. Although the current virtual activities and NFT crowdfunding are mainly used in music and visual arts, imagine if such activities are put into other fields, such as civic education, social movements, and group history records, and the interaction between NFT and real society. There may be unexpected effects.

04 "Borderline" New Taipei City Library Collection by @Matt Cares

All readers who paid for the book purchase (authority fee) received an e-book of Frontiers. Not only buy a genuine authorized eBook, but also get the opportunity and voucher to support the author.

Because Aito Kiyomi, a writer in exile in Japan, announced the release of the electronic version of his work "Borderline - A Journey to China's Inland Frontier", the author wrote this article to discuss the possibility of turning this book into an NFT, and The ideas mentioned in the "Writing NFT" article recommended above coincide. For authors who are censored and oppressed in real life because of their ethnic identity and political opinions, converting their works to NFT is not only a kind of "sharing", but also a kind of "existence". Through NFT, they finally become a creator who can save and sell their works publicly. At the same time, by purchasing NFT, readers not only "purchased" a product or "supported" a writer, they also "confirmed" their identity as readers: we have the freedom to read what we want to read Words, we have the right to hear what we want to hear.

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