Make way for NFTs
What entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are doing in the midst of the endemic.
What a fire start to the 2020s era. Businesses have been taking on hit after hit and remain resilient to changes in the environment. An example of a business leader in Silicon Valley changing course to weather the storm is Bolaji Ajayi. The founder of Bolaji Animations Production Studios and co-founder of SV-NED.
A Bay Area Entrepreneur and Author turned animation movie Executive producer is now the owner of BAPS animation production and publishing studio. This is reminiscent of the essence of Steve Jobs founder of Apple, who made the transition and cross-collaboration between entertainment and tech. Art and Technology are the same, and the surge of Non Fungible Tokens has proven that there is capital gain associated with this move.
Bolaji Ajayi has launched her very own animation production studio, even before the world started to see more value in digital artistry. Leading a team of thirty working remotely, BAPS studios have been able to produce a short animatic trailer and now they are working on a short film to make their formal entrance into the TV and Film industry formally. BAPS Studios is a new baby for the entrepreneur turned creator, and she is guarding her creativity with her heart closely.
Like Steve Jobs and his, the transition from Apple to Pixar made sense for Bay Area natives who are miles apart from the very steps of Hollywood. What other entrepreneurs can learn from these business leaders is to never hold yourself back from following your true calling even if it differs from everything you have been trained to do, that is the clear distinction between a gift of talent and the trained/skilled worker.
Go against the grain and take on measurable risks to allow yourself to be your true self. The world needs more color and more perspectives and one is one more. As a woman leader in this role, Bolaji Ajayi is humbled by the amount of support Hollywood legends have poured into her, in a non-conventional mentorship partnership way. Throughout her experience in Silicon Valley, she swam with the sharks and networked with people with large net-worth. She learned that wealth is hereditary and the way wealth is handed down is by sparking the flame within. People make others great. People just like you and me, everyday people who are daring and bold enough to believe that their story and life mean more to the world than what is on the surface, says Bolaji Ajayi, Founder of BAPS Studios.
In the course of a year, BAPS Studios has produced a short trailer about a Superhero from the West African Folklore, Akiti the Hunter, who is in line with all other notable superheroes. The tenacious 17-year-old will be presented to the world using 3D CGi animations. Silicon Valley is about efficiency and tangible results. The founder has created a means to reach the 1 billion people in her network through art, and in 2022 this art is called Non-Fungible Token (NFT) driven by the verification of authenticity issued through DAO and blockchain technology.
Blockchain technology has broken down financial borders allowing for frictionless, permissionless trade anywhere in the world. This decentralized technology has provided a way for communities to govern token-based projects similarly. A Decentralized Autonomous Organization or DAO is the formal name given to this borderless governance. DAO's are important because participants in a decentralized project no longer remain subject to the centralized powers of a core group that can unilaterally push an agenda. Every token holder has a say in the community and this is not halted by location, jurisdiction, or prejudice.
BLOCKS DAO began in the most challenging financial environment in the world which gives us the ability to operate almost anywhere with a limited concern over the legality of our existence. In addition to this strength, BLOCKS DAO does not operate as a blockchain project with a single product or technology at the center. BLOCKS DAO works with the community to create utility for the BLOCKS token using the community's business connections and influence to build real-life solutions for companies wanting to use blockchain technology. BLOCKS DAO has come up with solutions to NFT fraud through Verified by BLOCKS product for example and can implement this on multiple chains to save on gas fees and bring actual utility to the market. As a group BLOCKS DAO actively provides solutions in government, business, blockchain, and technology
The most important thing investors should know, or they will certainly learn the hard way, is that there is a lot of noise in the crypto world. There are a lot of projects that won't go anywhere, there are a lot of NFT projects that will go stale. The challenge is to find projects that have sustaining power—something that solves a need and has sustainability built in.
This is what makes BLOCKS special. As BLOCKS DAO pushes solutions to help companies leverage cost savings, transparency, speed, and accuracy, BLOCKS DAO has also built a sustainable economic model that continues to provide support for markets.
The non-fungible token (NFT) space has existed for around five years now. As technology moves into the mainstream, so do opportunities to exploit weaknesses. In the case of NFTs savvy, harmful actors have figured out ways to spoof the metadata behind NFTs. For example, there are many NFTs on opensea, the largest online marketplace that are fraudulent. The solution that BLOCKS provides is authenticity. At minting, the Verified by BLOCKS solution stores the necessary data on the immutable blockchain to assure that the NFT is original and valid. If a duplicate was to come along after the fact, that NFT would be checked by the Verified by BLOCKS contract and would be identified as fraudulent in a matter of seconds. This provides the confidence investors need when buying truly one-of-a-kind artwork, tickets, financial contracts, and more.