WISeKey Join forces with Polygon to
Auction NFT of Kobe Bryant Autographed Black Mamba
Package to be auctioned by GDGC
Enterprises into its WISe.Art
Platform
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Geneva – September 13th , 2021 –
WISeKey International Holding (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY) (“WISeKey”,
or “the Company”), a leading cybersecurity, AI and IoT
company, today announced that it is joining
forces with Polygon, the blockchain of choice for NFTs,
NFT marketplaces, and blockchain games and GDGC
Enterprises, 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 NFT of Kobe
Bryant Autographed Black Mamba Package to be auctioned by GDGC
Enterprises into its WISe.Art
Platform
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.
Polygon is a platform for Ethereum scaling and
infrastructure development, as well as for networking
Ethereum-compatible blockchains. The Ethereum ecosystem has
been eagerly awaiting the upcoming Ethereum 2.0 upgrade to
potentially improve the network’s scalability
issues.
Polygon has become the blockchain of choice for
NFTs, NFT marketplaces, and blockchain games. Its ultra-low
transaction fees and sustainable Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus
mechanism makes Polygon a more practical option for activities such
as minting and trading NFTs. Polygon Studios, the Gaming and
NFT arm of Polygon already works with most today’s top
blockchain-based Web 3.0 games and NFT projects, including
Decentraland, Opensea, Sandbox, Somnium Space, Decentral Games, and
has 6x more gaming and NFT Dapps than any other chains outside of
Ethereum main chain at around 300+ gaming and NFT Dapps.
The combination of Polygon and WISeKey
technologies are a perfect mix to ensure this type of high end NFT
auction that consist of a limited Edition
1/3 18K Rose Gold
Tourbillion 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 launched 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.
Sandeep Nailwal, Co-Founder of Polygon said, “We
are delighted that WISeKey has selected Polygon for the commercial
launch of their Trusted NFTs solution. Their high-value NFTs,
designed to test the appetite of the art and collectible community
requires someone like Polygon, whose ultra-low transaction fees and
sustainable Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism are essential
in meeting the demands of WISeKey’s high-volume marketplace.”
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.”
The package is valued at a minimum of $10
million, according to GDGC Enterprises. The firm will donate
$50,000 of the proceeds to the Greater Los Angeles Make-a-Wish
Foundation.
"That's going to help us probably grant an
additional five wishes this year, which is so important with
looking at the last year and how hard fundraising has been in our
current environment with the pandemic," said Make-A-Wish Greater
Los Angeles President and CEO Mike Kallhoff.
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 Polygon Studios
Polygon Studios is the Gaming and NFT arm of Polygon focused on
growing the global Blockchain Gaming and NFT Industry and bridging
the gap between Web 2 and Web 3 gaming through investment,
marketing, and developer support. The Polygon Studios ecosystem
comprises highly loved games and NFT Dapps like OpenSea, Upshot,
Aavegotchi, Zed Run, Skyweaver by Horizon Games, Decentraland,
Megacryptopolis, Neon District, Cometh, and Decentral Games.If
you’re a game developer, builder, or NFT creator looking to join
the Polygon Studios ecosystem, get
started here.Website | Twitter | Reddit | Telegram
About
PolygonPolygon is the first
well-structured, easy-to-use platform for Ethereum scaling and
infrastructure development. Its core component is Polygon
SDK, a modular, flexible framework that
supports building and connecting Secured
Chains like Optimistic Rollups, zkRollups, Validium, etc, and
Standalone Chains like Polygon POS, designed for flexibility and
independence. Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread
adoption with 500+ Dapps, ~567M+ txns, and ~6M+ daily txns.If
you’re an Ethereum Developer, you’re already a Polygon developer!
Leverage Polygon’s fast and secure txns for your Dapp, get
started here.Website | Twitter | Ecosystem
Twitter | Studios
Twitter | Reddit | Discord | Telegram | Instagram
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
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Creative Public Relationsdenise@rcourihaycpr.comT: 212.580.0835
Sarah GartnerR.Couri Hay Creative Public
RelationsSarah@rcourihaycpr.comT: 212.580.0835
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WISeKey.
WISeKey has joined forces with Polygon, to offer
Trusted NFTs solution to masses with the launch of WISe.ART NFT
platform in September 2021. Polygon is a platform for Ethereum
scaling and infrastructure development, as well as for networking
Ethereum-compatible blockchains. The Ethereum ecosystem has
been eagerly awaiting the upcoming Ethereum 2.0 upgrade to
potentially improve the network’s scalability
issues.
Polygon has become the blockchain of choice for
NFTs, NFT marketplaces, and blockchain games. Its ultra-low
transaction fees and sustainable Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus
mechanism makes Polygon a more practical option for activities such
as minting and trading NFTs. Polygon Studios, the Gaming and
NFT arm of Polygon already works with most today’s top
blockchain-based Web 3.0 games and NFT projects, including
Decentraland, Opensea, Sandbox, Somnium Space, Decentral Games, and
has 6x more gaming and NFT Dapps than any other chains outside of
Ethereum main chain at around 300+ gaming and NFT Dapps.
Carlos Moreira, Founder and CEO of WISeKey
noted, “We are thrilled to cooperate with Polygon to commercially
launch our Trusted NFTs solution. WISe.Art is a fully-fledged
marketplace with its own digital currency, has the ability to
include curators and multipliers, white-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 is secured by WISeKey’s various security technologies
enabling the authentication of physical objects as well as digital
assets, in a safe end-to-end process.”
Sandeep Nailwal, Co-Founder of Polygon said, “We
are delighted that WISeKey has selected Polygon for the commercial
launch of their Trusted NFTs solution. Their high-value NFTs,
designed to test the appetite of the art and collectible community
requires someone like Polygon, whose ultra-low transaction fees and
sustainable Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism are essential
in meeting the demands of WISeKey’s high-volume marketplace.”
The commercial launch of the WISe.Art platform
follows a series of market test auctions (started April 2021) of
high-value NFTs, designed to test the appetite of the art and
collectible community and fulfill the needs of this exclusive and
high-volume marketplace. These market tests included
the two world premiere NFT auctions of the digital twins
of a physical watch.
The WISe.Art platform allows trading of NFTs
into WISeKey’s own TrustECoin cryptocurrency, enabling market
participants to stay anonymous – if they so choose – while ensuring
the necessary KYC processes to avoid unwanted activity on the
marketplace. WISeID is a trusted identity service that enables
access to the web and mobile applications with strong
authentication techniques. WISeID supports online KYC onboarding,
OTP and digital certificate login, and an innovative “hands-free”
secure login based on QR-Codes which users can read using the
WISeID suite of mobile applications without even having to type any
passwords.
Additional security services include digital
signature services for documents. WISeID implements standards such
as OpenID Connect and OAUTH2, that can be easily integrated by
customers to enhance the security of their cloud applications.
WISeID can also be combined with Microsoft Active Directory,
facilitating integration with corporate applications.
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