Interview with tennis superstar Naomi Osaka: NFT auction is just the beginning

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Original title: "Interview with tennis superstar Naomi Osaka: NFT auction is just the beginning"

Original source: Odaily Planet Daily

On April 17, women's tennis superstar and four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka announced that she and her sister, former women's tennis player Mari Osaka Auction on .Space represents his personal exclusive NFT collection "The Colors of Naomi Osaka".

Interview with tennis superstar Naomi Osaka: NFT auction is just the beginning

Familiar with tennis or Sports friends mayrightthis two "tennis sisters span>" is no stranger, Naomi OsakaOsakaMari was born in Osaka, Japan, his mother is Japanese, and his father is Haitian.

Sister Naomi Osaka It is the most dazzling star in women's tennis in recent years. Since defeating the legendary Serena Williams in the 2018 US Open final, Naomi Osaka has won the 2019 Australian Open, the 2020 US Open, and the 2021 Australian Open. At the age of only 24, she has won four Grand Slams and was named the highest-paid female athlete by Forbes last year. SisterOsaka Mari was also a professional tennis player before, but this year At the beginning of March, he officially announced his retirement. In the retirement announcement, Mari claimed that he had devoted his energy to a new and more interesting career. Looking back today, perhaps the "new career" mentioned by Mari at that time refers to It is the explosive NFT.

According to Basic. featureIntroduction to Space, This collection of "The Colors of Naomi Osaka" series was created by Mari Osaka himself. There are a total of six pieces in the collection, five of which will be sold through normal auctions, and the last one will be sold at There was a $5 raffle, and each artwork was co-signed by both sisters. The auction is now officially open and will end on April 23rd.

The first three artworks in the "The Colors of Naomi Osaka" series

Open the special auction interface, you can see that the first five collections are currently in hot bidding, and the number isNO01P00321 currently has the highest real-time bid for the second work, reaching $135,300.

The Colors of Naomi Osaka series The last three works of art, the last of which will not participate in the auction, only for lottery

As the popularity of NFT continues to rise, it is not uncommon for celebrities outside the circle to get involved in this field, but out of personal love for sports, Naomi Osaka’s NFT auction still reminds meWe are of great interest. Fortunately, with the help of some friends in the industry, Odaily Planet Daily interviewed Naomi Osaka and Mari Osaka this week. What do Naomi and Mari think about NFT and Crypto? What is the connotation of this collection? The two sisters gave the answer in the interview.

Naomi He Mari has always had a strong interest in art, which can be seen from the fact that Mari personally created this auction. When asked how came into contact with NFT Naomi and Mari said that they were affected by two things. One was Beeple’s previous high-price auction at Christie’s, and the other was that the sisters had paid attention to the popular sports NFT Game NBA Top Shot.

Personal items auction is nothing new in the sports industry, but before it appeared, the items auctioned by sports stars were often commemorative objects, such as tennis rackets, jerseys and so on.

talkto NFT auction and traditional physical auction What's the difference, say Naomi and Mari: "We think there's room for both of these formats, and we still really appreciate collectors of physical memorabilia. It forms a good complement. Digital collections are much more convenient in terms of authenticity and traceability, and we have been creating digital artworks for so many years, which we think is very interesting.”

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Mali then introduced the auction collection "The Colors The specific meaning of "of Naomi Osaka" is named because it is a collection of artworks with many different styles, but all of them represent Naomi himself, and different tones show different aspects of Naomi's personality and interests .

Worth mentioning Most importantly, All proceeds from this auction will be donated to Play Acadpy, a charity founded by Naomi Osaka, to support the development of girls' sports. Since this auction supports BTC, ETH so we asked Naomi if the donation would still be on-chain Encrypted currency directly transfers the auction proceeds, but Naomi told us that Play Acadpy is currently unable to handle encrypted currency, but they Will consider making changes.

As for Crypto Naomi and Mari gave a relatively positive evaluation: "We believe that cryptocurrencies will play an important role in the world economy."

Finally, both Naomi and Mari affirmed the personal feelings and experience gained from this auction, and expressed that they are still determined to More related projects will be done, and this auction of NFT collectibles is just the beginning.

Looking back at the specific deeds of NFT in the past period of time, it seems that The sports industry is currently slightly ahead of half a body in terms of the speed and depth of integration with NFT. American football superstar Tom Brady, NBA star Dinwiddie and many other well-known figures have made moves in this regard. A brief analysis of the reasons, the influence of the phenomenal work NBA Top Shot may be an important factor. Naomi and Mari also mentioned many times in the interview that they are super fans of the NBA, so they paid attention to NBA Top Shot Shot, and then pay attention to NFT.

In fact, Dapper Labs (Flow), the development team of NBA Top Shot, is also the technical supporter of this auction. When talking about the reason for choosing Flow as the underlying chain, Naomi, Mari and Basic.Space all mentioned an important consideration—— Deploying on Flow can significantly reduce your carbon footprint.

The outbreak of NFT It seems to be in a kind ofopportunityexcellent In the positive cycle of , the continuous fermentation of influence attracts more traffic outside the circle, and these flows converge to form new influence, which in turn attracts more traffic. Looking forward to the future, with the maturity of infrastructure such as Flow, new explosive products at the NBA Top Shot level are gradually emerging, Naomi Osaka and others The future NFT is bound to explode with greater energy.