Is collecting and trading enough for post-NFT stamp owners?
Meet the first NFT postage stamps with lifetime benefits for eligible collectors issued by Bhutan Post in collaboration with Stampsdaq.
THIMPHU, TALLINN, 19 September 2022. The engagement of postal operators with new digital technologies provides new and exciting opportunities for collectors of the oldest postal object – stamps, but in digital format. Start on 20 Septemberth2022, collectors from around the world can become owners of the first NFT postage stamps with ownership benefits never before available to philatelists.
The traditional ‘Collect + Trade + Enjoy’ stamp collecting formula is now upgraded to include real-world experiences, global competitions and gaming opportunities, permanently available to NFT stamp collectors on https://stampsdaq.com/. Such enhancement of the collecting experience, enabled by blockchain technology and combined with over 180 years of post-philatelic heritage, makes it possible to create the most entertaining and rewarding NFT ecosystem and become one of the largest digital collectibles markets worldwide.
Experiences from real life
Philately has always been about history, culture, sport, science, social, political and economic life in the country that has issued the stamps. It is a philatelic habit to “travel the world” by studying the stories behind the stamp images and sharing them with other philatelists. Tomorrow, Bhutan Post and Stampsdaq will launch the first set of many NFT stamps to come, whose owners can win a real, exclusive travel experience – visiting the Kingdom of Bhutan up to 4 times a year. This travel program is permanent so that a qualified collector can enjoy the travel benefits for the rest of their life and even pass them on to their heirs later. Briefly, the program works as follows – every quarter, 1 travel experience to a country is drawn. For every 10 points in the collector’s land collection points, he will receive 1 raffle ticket. So the higher the country collection score – the more tickets a collector gets, and thus the higher his winning chances each quarter to win a trip to the Kingdom of Bhutan.
Travel benefits are the first, but not the last, on the list of real-life experiences that will be offered to NFT stamp collectors on Stampsdaq in the coming months and years.
Global ranking competitions
People collect stamps by country, by theme, by year or other dimensions. Although stamp collecting is an interesting and passionate hobby in analog format, it now gets an exciting and rewarding global competitive twist in digital NFT format. Transparent, traceable and cost-effective collection and trading of NFT stamps enables the running of truly global ranking competitions to highlight the best of the best in the community. And to reward them regularly!
Stampsdaq offers three ranking competitions to allow rewarding of the biggest collectors, the biggest traders and the owners of the most traded NFT stamps.
Gaming
Acquiring valuable knowledge is one of the best “side effects” of stamp collecting. Trivia or Quiz games are one of the most popular brain games today. The collectors of NFT Stamps on Stampsdaq can already enjoy the opportunity to play such a game and be rewarded for each win. Trivia games are now only offered in English with more languages coming in the coming months.
Stampsdaq is evolving as a dedicated partnership platform to facilitate the needs and create opportunities for and between postal operators and the global community of digital collectors with mainstream adoption of NFT stamps in mind. Introducing new ways of interacting with stamp heritage, Stampsdaq also contributes to the development and rejuvenation of traditional stamp collecting as the underlying philatelic values are now expanded and enriched by new opportunities offered by the digital world.
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Media Contacts:
Andrii Shapovalov
CEO
About Bhutan Post
Bhutan Postal Corporation Limited (Bhutan Post) is the national postal operator of the Kingdom of Bhutan serving a national and international postal and parcel logistics service for close to 800000 of the inhabitants. Bhutan’s stamps had been recognized by thousands of stamp collectors around the world, promoting the country’s nature, architecture, culture and social life.
About Stampsdaq
Stampsdaq is an EU-based NFT company founded in 2021 and exclusively dedicated to cooperation with postal operators worldwide. It has recently launched a marketplace for NFT tokens based on the Polygon Blockchain. The company promotes and implements the vision of creating an added utility and real experiences for owners of NFT stamps to increase interest in stamp collecting. Stampsdaq currently has several license agreements with various postal operators and is in active negotiations with over 50 postal operators worldwide. It is also an associate member of. Post Group and WADP (World Association for the Development of Philately) of the Universal Postal Union.
