WISeKey Collaborates with GDGC
Enterprises to Auction NFTs of Kobe
Bryant Autographed Black Mamba
Package into its WISe.Art
Platform
Geneva – August 24, 2021 – WISeKey
International Holding (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY) (“WISeKey”, or “the
Company”), a leading cybersecurity, AI and IoT
company, today announced that it will collaborate with
GDGC Enterprises, LLC (“GDGC”), a New York based NFT and luxury
asset advisory firm that specializes in the tokenization and sale
of select assets across the globe, to auction the late
Kobe Bryant
autographed
Black Mamba NFT package.
The exclusive package will consist of a limited
Edition 1/3 18K Rose Gold Black Mamba watch,
designed, and signed by Kobe Bryant, a sneaker
signed by Kobe Bryant and a custom curated digital artwork
designed by New York City based artist
Moshé Douglas. The auction will
go live on September 20, 2021, through the WISe.Art digital
marketplace, with a starting price of $ 1,008,240.
As previously announced, WISeKey will
commercially launch its WISe.Art NFT platform
(https://www.wise.art) for the collectible and luxury market on
September 1, 2021, following a series of market test auctions,
including the two world premiere NFT auctions of the digital twins
of a physical watch.
Carlos Moreira, WISeKey’s CEO noted, “We are
excited to have the Black Mamba NFT package auctioned through our
WISe.Art platform. Our WISe.Art NFT platform is a fully fledged
marketplace with its own digital currency, has the ability to
include curators and multipliers, while-labeling options and
special NFT designs. The NFT design of
the WISe.Art platform ensures that besides an
authenticated and signed version of the actual digital asset, it
creates an irreversible link to the physical object, provides proof
of ownership, provenance and a set of contracts describing future
use and monetization streams. The NFT platform secured
by WISeKey’s various security technologies, enables the
authentication of physical objects as well as digital assets, in a
safe end-to-end process. Furthermore, NFTs on
the WISe.Art platform are fully carbon neutral to comply
with upcoming ESG regulations and the desire of most collectors to
protect the planet.”
In 2013, Kobe Bryant signed the Black Mamba
watch which features a manual winding brushed movement, 27 jewels,
mono-metallic balance rotating in a one-minute tourbillon carriage,
18k rose gold and titanium case, ceramic bezel insert, ceramic
bezel, skeletonized brushed dial, subsidiary dials for the
chronograph and 30-minute registers, brushed serpent form around
the tourbillon and registers, sapphire crystal back secured with
Kobe Bryant signature, single pusher at 2 o'clock and dial and
movement signed by Kobe Bryant with an 18k rose gold and
titanium deployment clasp. Diamonté D. Zarba, Managing Partner
of GDGC Enterprises LLC commented, “The management team at GDGC is
honored to be partnering with globally-renowned WISeKey in our
quest to bring luxury realism to the metaverse. We believe that
with the launch of the WISe.Art marketplace, WISeKey offers by far
the strongest and most secured platform to house the upcoming
auction for our one-of-a-kind Black Mamba NFT package. We are not
only excited for this transaction but also for the future of the
luxury NFT space.”
About WISeKey:
WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN) is a leading
global cybersecurity company currently deploying large scale
digital identity ecosystems for people and objects using
Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human as the Fulcrum of the
Internet. WISeKey microprocessors secure the pervasive computing
shaping today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an install
base of over 1.5 billion microchips in virtually all IoT sectors
(connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural sensors,
anti-counterfeiting, smart lighting, servers, computers, mobile
phones, crypto tokens etc.). WISeKey is uniquely positioned to be
at the edge of IoT as our semiconductors produce a huge amount of
Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial Intelligence (AI), can
help industrial applications to predict the failure of their
equipment before it happens.
Our technology is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s
Swiss based cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) provides secure
authentication and identification, in both physical and virtual
environments, for the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial
Intelligence. The WISeKey RoT serves as a common trust anchor to
ensure the integrity of online transactions among objects and
between objects and people. For more information, visit
www.wisekey.com.
About GDGC Enterprises LLC:GDGC
Enterprises LLC, is a full service Non-Fungible Token (NFT) and
luxury asset advisory firm that specializes in the tokenization and
sale of select assets across the globe. Through its partnerships
with industry leading firms, GDGC Enterprises provides a vertically
integrated full scope process from provenance to sale for select
luxury assets throughout the world. Once, the provenance, is
certified it is then minted as an NFT (Non-Fungible Token) on the
Ethereum blockchain. Once, minted the NFT is then bundled with the
physical asset creating a package. Through the Wise.Art platform,
GDGC facilitates a digital auction for the NFT package which is
then marketed and facilitated.
Press and investor
contacts:
WISeKey International Holding LtdCarlos
MoreiraChairman & CEOTel: +41 22 594 3000info@wisekey.com
WISeKey Investor Relations (US)Lena CatiThe
Equity Group Inc.Tel: +1 212 836-9611lcati@equityny.com
FOR PRESS ENQUIRIES:Denise
FinneganR.Couri Hay Creative Public
Relationsdenise@rcourihaycpr.comT: 212.580.0835
Sarah Gartner R.Couri Hay Creative Public
RelationsSarah@rcourihaycpr.comT: 212.580.0835
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