World of Women Reveals WoWverse Capacitors NFTs
The Alpha:
- Today, World of Women, the NFT brand that began as a 10,000 generative PFP project from WoW artist and co-founder Yam Karkai, announced the unveiling of its Capacitors NFT collection, according to information shared with nft now in an exclusive press release.
- The collection marks the powerhouse NFT project’s continued expansion into the metaverse.
- Starting Wednesday, WoW and WoW Galaxy holders can “transform” the Capacitor NFTs the team recently sent them by redeeming virtual apartment slots that each holder can customize.
Why it matters
From the start, WoW has aimed to create a pluralistic and positive community for everyone in Web3, with a particular emphasis on helping women onboard to space, with an increased focus on helping women express their digital identity. The condenser reveals further this mission.
“It’s really the next step in deepening World of Women’s role in helping people express their digital identity,” WoW COO Shannon Snow explained in an interview with nft now. “We are helping to build a future where WoW avatars can be used as an identity in all digital spaces. [With Capacitors]holders will have the ability to transform their NFTs into their digital home – a place where you live, a place where you can be yourself, a place where you can feel safe in the metaverse.”
To prepare for the fall, World of Women has been giving mysterious clues to its holders about capacitor NFTs in Morse Code for the past few weeks. These early mystery drops were designed to encourage community building as holders banded together to solve the quixotic messages. Proprietors decoded clues on Discord and Twitter—and even analyzed cryptic hints from a billboard in Times Square.
Once the community collaboratively worked through these clues, the WoW team sent the capacitors NFT for free to the wallets of all WoW and WoWG holders. WoW holders got 10,000 “blue” capacitors while WoWG holders got 21,738 “green” capacitors. However, until today, the meaning and significance of the NFTs remained unknown. While both sets of NFTs will provide benefits related to the personalization of their holders’ virtual space, owners of the project’s Generation Collection NFTs will receive unique benefits.
This two-tier condenser release is also part of WoW’s world-building efforts, which have become increasingly detailed. The WoW narrative now includes organizations like the Assembly of Women, planets like Nova Gaïa, time travel, and even a previously unknown villain.
“The capacitors gave us the opportunity to continue our narrative to tell more about the WoWverse in terms of developing and introducing a villain in the story,” said Diana-Luk Ye, Marketing & Partnerships Project Manager, in an interview with nft now. “WoW collection owners received their blue capacitors while World of Women Galaxy’s green capacitors were thwarted by this villain.”
WoW CEO and Chief Creative Officer Yam Karkai designed the virtual apartments, creating them in collaboration with OnCyber, a Web3 world-building platform. Holders will be able to transform capacitor NFTs (as ERC-1155 tokens) to access and display their OnCyber URL links. Anyone who owns a virtual apartment NFT can go to oncyber.io/create to select their associated space to start designing it (as long as they are logged in with the wallet containing their capacitor NFT). WoW and WoWG holders will also be able to customize the dedicated URL link associated with their virtual apartments.
There will be several “seasons” of capacitor drops, each unlocking new items to allow users to customize their apartments by bringing in different aspects of their Web3 identity. Future releases will also include collaboration with other NFT projects in the ecosystem.
After each capacitor drop, holders must choose to either transform their capacitor NFT or store it for the next season. When a holder transforms a capacitor, they cannot use it in future seasons. This transformation means that capacitors will become a deflationary supply as owners burn them for various activations. This release dynamic will force owners to decide what strategy to take to shape their WoWverse virtual space, further adding to the apartment’s distinct identity.
What will be next
WoW’s plans to expand significantly into the metaverse come as no surprise, as the company has been flirting with digital spaces for some time. Earlier this year, WoW teamed up with The Sandbox, a partnership that included a $25 million donation to the WoW Foundation to better onboard women in the space and build representation in Web3. Sandbox also began “voxelizing” all 10,000 original WoW avatars to allow the community to participate in that area.
Despite Monday’s reveal of capacitors, the WoW brand is just getting started. The project has already announced partnerships with Reese Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine, House of Harlow, Jazwares and Billboard Magazine. And since WoW signed talent manager Guy Oseary in January of this year, it’s no mystery that the company is aiming for big things.
To learn more about Capacitor’s drop and the launch of the WoWverse, tune in to #TheTimeisWoW Twitter Space today at 11:30 a.m. ET.
