I. Chinese Platform Study

A. Primary Market

1. BCA

MetaOpus
  • Chinese friendly, Chinese artist > English
  • 500+ Artists, 80k users. Start from 5.2021
  • Acution: 大悲宇宙,张知微
  • Artists development, like MCN media, cooporate with emerging artist
  • Model: 2/8, no gas fee
MetaOpus homepage
Virtual Niche Have you ever seen memes in the mirror?
  • The world’s first Cryptoart exhibition
  • Featured works include Robert Alice’s “Portraits of a mind”, the first ever NFT artwork sold by Christie’s auction house. In addition, 20 works by artist, Beeple will make their first ever debut appearance in China.
  • Aim to showcase artists using blockchain technology as a medium for creating dialogue and connection between the institutional art world and the crypto community.
Virtual Niche exhibition post
BCA Gallery
  • Online (wechat program) and in-person exhibition (pop-up)
BCA Gallery wechat program screenshot

2. NFTcn

Service
  • Mint
  • promotion
  • Trading
    • Put on SuperRare, Rarible … 
    • Characteristic service 
      • All Chinese
      • No background knowledge needed
      • No digital wallet needed
Process of submitting works
  • Application
  • Waiting for customer service contacting
  • Upload works
  • Waiting for the buyer or send it as a gift to collector
  • Sold
    • 10% commission fee
    • RMB & Cryptocurrency accepted 
Chinese only problems solving
  • Not familiar with blockchain, digital wallets, etc.
  • No need to understand blockchain, digital wallets, etc.
  • Not familiar with how to generate NFT works on overseas NFT platforms
  • Simultaneous sale of overseas NFT platforms
  • Lack of exposure and no trading volume after the works are on the chain
  • Intelligent matching of potential collectors after the work is on the chain
  •  No IP targeting
  • Collective promotion makes it easier to be discovered by overseas collectors
  • “Expensive” gas fee (around $250)
  • No casting gas fee (only ¥300 manual review fee is required for the first review. If the review fails, a full refund will be issued.)

3. Pinmujian

  • Start from March 2021, focused on digital art, but similar model as Cryoto art trading.

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