Welcome! If you’re reading this, (hopefully) it means you connected your MetaMask wallet and successfully subscribed to our blog: Nieux Thoughts. We plan to use this blog as a forum to document what we’ve done and where we’re going. Without further ado, let’s get to it:
On 5/04/22, the Nieux Society officially launched an effort to inspire a new golden age of creativity in New Orleans.
Built up of a community of entrepreneurs, artists, creators, and lovers of New Orleans, we are committed to exploring the promise of Web3 to inspire New Orleans’ creative culture to realize its full potential.
To position New Orleans at the forefront of this new frontier, we developed a roadmap outlining the necessary steps:
We kicked off our efforts by hosting a Web3 Teen Camp Gallery Showcase, the culmination of a 3-day camp designed to educate New Orleans youth about Web3 technology and give them the skills to succeed in the future.
From July 18–20, Demario Davis (New Orleans Saints) and Farrah Ross Appleman (Director of Marketing at Gilded) taught New Orleans young people the fundamentals of Web3, NFTs, and cryptocurrency during Youth Empowerment Project’s (YEP) teen summer camp. During the workshop, the students designed and minted their own NFTs, which culminated in a gallery showcase and NFT collection drop for founding Nieux Society members.
Nieux Society members showed up ready to support the new creators and sold out the collection in less than two hours!
Although the collection sold out, there are still opportunities to purchase NFTs on the secondary market. All current NFT holders have committed to selling their assets in order to continue the youth’s education around the mechanics of Web3 while also growing their assets.
Looking ahead, here’s what’s next for us:
- Finish designing the campus
- Launch community treasury and invest in 1 new project
- Launch education series
- Host at least one event that connects 504 Founders
- Launch Nieux Bienville NFT project
- Come up with things we have yet to think of!
As we continue to work through this roadmap, we will post detailed updates here on our blog.
We hope you enjoyed our first post. We’ll be back soon!
WIIW
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