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Chicago, February 17, 2022 - Accursed Share announces the auction of the Master Series, the first NFT collection by photographer-to-the-stars Frederic Auerbach, starting on February 17. To participate, you must be in possession of a Process Series NFT from the Auerbach collection. Mint here.

“For me, NFTs are about capturing motion and emotion,” says Swiss-American photographer Frederic Auerbach. “The dynamic NFTs in my collection for Accursed Share are a kind of living art, they tell the story –in pictures– of how I found my way towards each Master photo of five very different stars: Natalie Portman, Sharon Stone, Mike Tyson, Zendaya, and Benedict Cumberbatch.”

Auerbach was on a train to Paris the very day he graduated from art school in his native Switzerland. “I knew I wanted to be a fashion photographer. I was always fascinated by the exchange between the unique character of individuals and fashion as a measure of time.” It's a tension Auerbach has always sought to capture in his portraits. 

In Auerbach's view, NFTs are especially suited to show the constructive craft of the photographer, which is why this project is structured through five sets of Process photos culminating in respective Masters, each of which includes its own set of unique editions.

For the Master Series, each celebrity — Zendaya for Flaunt; Cumberbatch for GQ; Tyson for Haute Living; Stone for Madame Figaro and Portman for Dior — will have their own NFT set, including: 

i) the high-res digital photo NFT of the Master (one per star); 

ii) a dynamic NFT highlighting different aspects of the Master photo by displaying various edits of the image; 

iii) a high-res and autographed print of the Master photo (one per star), and 

iv) a 1/1 video NFT of the behind-the-scenes interview detailing Auerbach's creative approach to each shoot (one per star), from Process to Master.

Most remarkable is the dynamic NFT, powered by Accursed Share's proprietary smart contract, which highlights different aspects of the Master photo every few hours. It is but one way in which the ambitious NFT production studio and accelerator is pushing the boundaries of cryptoart. In referring to Accursed Share's platform, currently in development, CEO John Connor says: “Our purpose is to unlock the creative potential of smart contracts for millions of digital artists by allowing them to make dynamic NFTs without the need for a developer.”

Access to HeadlessDAO

Owning an NFT from Auerbach's Process Series, currently minting until the auction of the Master Series starts on February 17, imparts access and voting rights to HeadlessDAO, an art innovation engine supporting projects that explore the NFT as a new art medium. 

The Master Series Auction

Between February 17-21, Accursed Share will be hosting the Master Series Auction. Bidding will start at 0.5 ETH on the Accursed Share webpage. Five Master NFT suites, one per star, will be auctioned in parallel. 

The top buyer among the five will also win a photo session with Frederic Auerbach in Los Angeles. The Master photo of that session will also be made into an NFT. 

Award-winning mycologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake is an expert on the social networks of fungi. He is the author of “Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures”, a universally acclaimed bestseller that explores how fungi sustain life on earth via symbiotic relationships established through an underground communication network known as of the Wood Wide Web. 

“There is a fundamental affinity between fungal organisms and the emergent properties of web3,” says John Connor, CEO of Accursed Share. “Plants and fungi engage in sophisticated trading strategies, striking compromises and resolving dizzyingly complex trade-offs. This astonishing cooperation inspired this unique collection of scientifically and blockchain inspired NFT artwork showing symbiotic rootscapes as they've never been seen before”. Sheldrake used a proprietary scanning technique to obtain the unprecedented images for it.

Sheldrake's NFT project is a fourway collaboration between himself, Accursed Share, and Algorand – the carbon-negative blockchain on which the collection will be minted — and the Wilmore Academy, an NFT marketplace furthering research-based initiatives. Part of the project's proceeds will go to support Sheldrake's research into the decentralized problem-solving ability of fungal networks.

Minting

The NFT drop launching Sheldrake's unique collection will begin at 5pm CST on February 22, on Accursed Share's webpage. 

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Frederic Auerbach is a Swiss-American fashion and portrait photographer based in LA. His work has been published internationally in magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, Elle, InStyle, Numéro and GQ; working for leading fashion houses like Dior, Hermès, Cacharel, Sonja Rykiel, and Lacoste. Auerbach has specialised in producing intimate, spontaneous portraits of some of the world's most recognisable faces, including those featured in his first NFT collection. 

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and a writer with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. He received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in the tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He is a research associate at the Vrije University Amsterdam, works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN), and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation. He is fascinated by the relationships that arise between humans and other-than-human organisms. 

John Connor is a cofounder and CEO of Accursed Share, a cryptoart innovation studio. He has worked at several high growth tech startups including leading product at Upland, one of the top blockchain games in the world. 

About Accursed Share:

Accursed Share is an artist-led production studio and accelerator pushing the boundaries of cryptoart. In addition to producing narrative-driven pieces and installations, Accursed Share is developing a no-code platform for the creation of dynamic NFTs. Instagram / Twitter / Facebook

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– Accursed Share (https://accursedshare.art/), a production studio leveraging smart contract technology to push the boundaries of cryptoart, has announced a creative partnership with Wilmore Crossing Academy and New York Times best-selling author, Merlin Sheldrake. Together they will launch an NFT collection based on his award-winning book, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. The NFTs are digitally curated from Sheldrake's personal studies of three-dimensional scans of thousands of sliced and rendered samples of plants and fungi exploring their codependent intimacy. The NFT collection, featuring his book and studies, will consist of 9,950 NFTs created with the help of screening technology and powered by Algorand's carbon-negative blockchain. The NFT drop starts February 10, 2022 at 6PM UTC. The first 1,000 unique ALGO addresses will receive a free animated NFT from the Entangled Life collection, while the top 100 referrers will receive a more exclusive NFT with dynamic features and surprises. 

“Fungi form living networks that can sprawl over tens or even hundreds of metres. These networks are decentralised, with no head or brain. And yet, fungi are able to integrate an unceasing flood of sensory information and engage in sophisticated trading relationships with plants, striking compromises and resolving dizzyingly complex trade-offs. Fungal coordination is dispersed across their networks, taking place both everywhere at once and nowhere in particular,” said Merlin Sheldrake. “I like to imagine the bewilderment of an extraterrestrial anthropologist who discovered only yesterday, after several decades of studying modern humanity, that we had something called the Internet. It's a bit like that for contemporary ecologists, grappling with the many ways that networks of symbiotic fungi change our understanding of how organisms interact.”

The NFTs in the Entangled Life collection showcase the symbiotic relationship between fungi and plants, highlighting how essential fungi are to life. More than 90 percent of plants depend on this relationship, making it a more fundamental part of planthood than flowers, fruit, leaves, wood or roots. Sheldrake explores how fungi form decentralized underground networks with plants, sometimes known as the ‘Wood Wide Web.' The NFT collection reveals an intimate view at these subterranean roots that make up the base of the food chain and sustain the future of all life on earth.

“Bridging biology with decentralized technology and NFTs is an ideal representation of how fungal networks work together to sustain life,” said John Connor, CEO of Accursed Share. “Merlin's work explores decentralized decision making and resource coordination in fungi, concepts which can help shape the way we understand and design optimal functioning DAOs and other web3 entities.”

Sheldrake explains that all organisms have a method to map and preserve their history. That is among one of the similarities that may be inferred between fungi and the blockchain as both act as decentralized entities with the ability to permanently store information. Blockchain has a similarly fashioned, immutable ledger, which helps record a timescape of inalienable history. Much like humans in the real world and in the Metaverse, fungi are able to navigate their environment, make decisions between alternative causes of action, form complicated and elaborate relationships within their intricate environments—all while achieving and sustaining their form as a decentralized entity. 

Since Accursed Share is an artist-led production studio and art accelerator focused on furthering the limits of NFT art, this collection truly breaks boundaries by bringing together art, education and science. Through its narrative-driven cryptoart pieces and installations, Accursed Share unlocks the creative realm of possibility through smart contracts and multifaceted and dynamic NFT creation. This collection fully embodies this mission, with a portion of proceeds going toward Merlin's study of decentralization in fungal networks and another in support of the Fungi Foundation. 

For more information, please visit https://accursedshare.art/ and sign up for the whitelist here. 

About Accursed Share:

Accursed Share is an artist-led production studio and art accelerator focused on pushing the limits of NFT art. In addition to producing narrative-driven cryptoart pieces and installations, Accursed Share is developing a no-code platform to unlock dynamic NFT creation for everyone, including artists who are not blockchain or smart contract developers.

About Merlin Sheldrake: 

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures (2020). He received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

Entangled Life, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, has been translated into twenty-two languages and has met with widespread critical acclaim. It was described by The Wall Street Journal as ‘food for the soul'; by The Guardian as ‘brilliant' and ‘entrancing'; by The Observer as ‘wondrous'; by The Mail on Sunday as ‘dazzling'; by The Spectator as ‘truly astounding'; by The Telegraph as ‘mind-boggling. Entangled Life won the Wainwright Prize 2021 and the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021. It has been nominated for a host of other accolades, including the British Book Awards Book of the Year 2021 and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2021, and been selected as a Book of the Year by The Times, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, New Statesman and Time, among others.

Merlin's work has been endorsed by numerous scientific, literary, and public figures, including: Margaret Atwood, Russell Brand, David Byrne, Tyler Cowen, Elizabeth Kolbert, Jaron Lanier, Helen Macdonald, Robert Macfarlane, Michael Pollan, Paul Stamets and Ed Yong. His writing has inspired a couture collection by Iris van Herpen (‘Roots of Rebirth', 2021).

Merlin is a research associate at the Vrije University, Amsterdam, and works with the Fungi Foundation and the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks.

About Wilmore Academy

Wilmore Academy is an NFT marketplace committed to freeing the spirit of enquiry by supporting academic and educational research through the sale of NFTs to individual sponsors. It enables academics, foundations and brands to launch NFTs to support research, typically through donations to universities and foundations. Sponsors of each project join research-focused communities through exclusive discussion channels, progress updates and participation in real-life experiences.

Media contact: [email protected]

"In a gold rush, sell the shovel" - that is precisely what this Singapore- based blockchain startup is doing to catch the attention of investors around the world.

SUBX FINANCE LAB ($SFX) is a blockchain-as-a-service provider for businesses to integrate web3 technologies into their products and services. The firm provides businesses with the tools to innovate with blockchain, metaverse and decentralised finance technology.The global blockchain market size is expected to grow from USD 3 billion in 2020 to USD 39 billion by 2025. 60% of CIOs across sectors are on the verge of integrating blockchain into their infrastructure.

Founded by tech consultants Adam Ihsan and Joe Kawai, the firm has the vision to drive the effective adoption of blockchain technology in a fast and cost-effective manner. Their products are easy-to-deploy and can be integrated into existing products and processes, allowing businesses of all sectors to leverage this new technology.

Last November, the firm listed an initial exchange offering and was over- subscribed - filling their hard cap of USD 1.2 million in mere minutes. They have put together a 15-person team within a month, hiring the brightest minds from management consulting and big tech.

Blockchain development is capital intensive, and not all businesses have the resources and means to explore this  powerful   technology.  The  firm remedies this painful problem by offering products that businesses can obtain at significantly lower costs. This business model has been termed "blockchain-as-a-service" by industry professionals.

The firm has launched two products and is on schedule to release ten more in the coming months. Their products include a no-code NFT minting solution and a no-code platform for businesses to create their custom blockchain token. More information about their products can be found on their whitepaper at https://subx.finance/wp.

These products are also compatible with the most popular blockchain networks. This includes the Ethereum network, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon Network, and the new Cronos Chain operated by Crypto.com. The firm is also releasing a white-label platform where businesses and individuals can resell products under their own brand.

The firm has its native token, $SFX, which businesses can purchase to access its products. Individuals can also purchase and stake the tokens, receiving 80% APY in rewards. $SFX can be purchased on Pancakeswap and the Probit Global Exchange - and soon with VISA and MASTERCARD.

According to an interview conducted with the CEO, he mentioned that the firm would focus on forming high-profile partnerships with enterprises around the globe. They will also tighten the integration of their products, ensuring that $SFX plays a central role in their ecosystem - with the intention to super-scale the price action of $SFX.

If you are interested in innovating with blockchain technology or are an investor/advisor looking to reach out to the team, please get in touch with Adam (CEO) or ZeMin (CMO) in the emails provided below.

Follow their Telegram, Discord, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and their official website and whitepaper for more updates.

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Company: SUBX PTE LTD

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Website: https://subx.finance