UN to Mark Worldwide Girls’s Day With Boss Beauties Ethereum NFTs

The ladies-focused Ethereum NFT assortment Boss Beauties is debuting a one-of-one assortment known as Boss Magnificence Function Fashions in New York Metropolis on March 8—Worldwide Girls’s Day—that can develop into the primary full NFT assortment ever proven at UN headquarters.

The unique Boss Beauties NFT assortment of 10,000 property has a present ground worth—or minimal “Purchase Now” worth—on OpenSea of two.3 Ethereum—roughly $7,000 per asset. The undertaking, launched in September, as of this writing ranks 123rd on OpenSea’s high NFT collections of all time, based mostly on secondary quantity buying and selling gross sales.

NFTs are distinctive tokens that exist on a blockchain like Ethereum or Solana and point out the token holder’s possession of a digital or bodily asset.

Final yr, the UN backed a contest known as DigitalArt4Climate, the place artists had been requested to design completely different local weather change-themed NFTs, with the successful artworks displayed on the Local weather Change Convention in Scotland.

So whereas the Function Fashions will not be the primary NFTs displayed by the UN, they will be the primary female-focused assortment to be featured—and sure create main publicity for works illustrated by a feminine artist. Based on a November report from ArtTactic, an artwork market analytics agency, from February 2020 to November 2021 solely 5% of all NFT gross sales went to feminine artists—and 16% of all NFT artists are girls.

The UN started celebrating Worldwide Girls’s Day on March 8, 1975, and has the acknowledged objective attaining world gender equality by 2030. The UN is working with the consulting agency fifth Factor Group to coordinate this yr’s occasion, the place the Function Fashions assortment shall be displayed throughout a day of talks and panel discussions.