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| Students at Built With Bitcoin Foundation (BWB) campuses across Africa create artwork for Built With NFT Collection |
The Built With NFT Collection features
artwork from students at Built With Bitcoin Foundation (BWB) campuses across
Africa. Students ranging from ages 3-12 were provided with paint supplies and
prompted with the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?”. From
this artwork, the paintings were separated into two parts, and using an
algorithm to combine the parts at random, 10,000 unique NFTs were created, with
5,000 NFTs available to mint on Bitcoin via Stacks, and the remainder on
Ethereum.
To help bring the Built With NFT Collection
to Stacks, the Built With Bitcoin Foundation and Satoshibles collaborated with
STXNFT to allow the NFTs to be minted and settled on the Bitcoin network. The
team used a service called LNswap, an atomic swap exchange that enables
trustless swaps between Bitcoin on Lightning and assets on Stacks such as STX,
to enable Bitcoin Lightning payments.
The first 13.41 ETH collected from this
project was reinvested in the communities that made this collection possible.
The Built With Bitcoin Foundation provided resources for art, music, culture,
sports, and other extra curricular activities for BWB schools in Kenya, Rwanda,
Nigeria, and El Salvador.
All remaining proceeds will fund the
Foundation’s on-going efforts to build communities that provide clean water,
access to quality education, sustainable farming, and humanitarian support
around the world with their next projects initiating in Africa, Asia, and Latin
America.
Ray Youssef, Executive Director of the
Built With Bitcoin Foundation, said, “The Built With Bitcoin Foundation not
only builds schools, but strong and sustainable communities around the world.
The students’ artwork has already begun to fund new projects and now with the
support of the Bitcoin community, we can’t wait to continue to carry out our
mission.”
Yusuf Nessary, Director of Philanthropy of
the Built With Bitcoin Foundation, said, “Making the Built With NFT collection
available on Stacks allows our work to be as inclusive as possible. We
understand the power of Bitcoin and what it has provided to countless
communities - I’ve seen this first-hand. We are thrilled to welcome the Bitcoin
community and bring even more awareness to the project.”
Brian Laughlan, Creator of Satoshibles,
said, “I am excited to see this project span across multiple blockchains. The
Built With NFT Collection would not be possible without the students from the
Built With Bitcoin Foundation schools. By extending the NFT mint not only on
Ethereum, but now to Bitcoin, we have the chance to spread the message even
further and take advantage of the amazing Bitcoin community, who at its core,
also aligns with the idea of using crypto, in this case, NFTs for social good.”
Jamil, Founder of STXNFT, said, “Since its
inception, Bitcoin has been a force for good, bringing economic freedom to
billions globally. I believe Bitcoiners, more than anyone else, are in the best
place to build on that vision with NFTs. Projects like Built With NFT showcase
that perfectly, by cutting through the hype to deliver on a meaningful cause. I
couldn’t be more proud to help bring this project to life.”
The Built With NFT Collection is available
for minting on www.builtwithnft.org.