NFT Metaverse Pastel World Pushing Art and Tech Boundaries Despite Bear Market

Web3 task Krew Studios has released further details astir its much-hyped NFT avatar task Pastel World, some successful a lengthy Twitter thread and freshly-updated litepaper.

The startup, which was down the smash-hit NFT postulation MASKS from actor/artist Jordi Mollà, describes Pastel World arsenic the “most ambitious task released by the Krew Universe to date,” 1 whose multi-chain exemplary volition “pave the mode for aboriginal collaborations” with emerging crypto communities.

Manga Meets Metaverse

Pastel World is the brainchild of singer-songwriter JVCKJ, formerly 1 fractional of multi-platinum popular brace Jack & Jack, and London-based illustrator Uriah Barrett-Thomas. An NFT/PFP postulation successful the mould of CryptoPunks, but with much utility, the bid features authentic manga creation and follows a fantastical storyline which ostensibly doubles arsenic the project’s roadmap.

In a nutshell, each tokenized avatar is simply a “Prophet” journeying done abstraction and clip equipped lone with a magical backpack, an enchanted point that indispensable beryllium nurtured to guarantee endurance successful Pastel World. In owed course, the metadata for each NFT volition refresh, causing a gem to look connected Prophets’ backpacks – a precious chromatic that determines which ‘zone’ each quality indispensable inhabit. Moreover, each customizable constituent of the NFTs volition play a portion successful the continued narrative.

To punctuation the aforementioned tweet thread, “The creativity that infuses the lore filters down to the planetary environment, divided into painstakingly mapped zones specified arsenic Cloud9, Fairy Kingdom, and The Grounded wherever the undead roam.”

Although Pastel World came astir arsenic a effect of the aforementioned creator collaboration, Krew Studios has been heavy progressive successful the originative and method process via its web3 motorboat studio, Krew Labs. The company’s eponymous originative bureau volition besides grip selling and assemblage absorption going forward.

“Anyone tin make 10,000 PFPs and slap a taxable connected top, but it takes accomplishment to trade an full beingness astir an NFT collection,” says Rambino, Krew Studios’ co-founder. “One of the things that impressed america astir astir Pastel World was the lore.”

In all, 8,800 Pastel World NFTs person been minted connected Ethereum and the squad intends to prosecute assorted integrations with different web3 communities, including those that person been incubated by the platform’s launchpad, Krew Universe.

With the upcoming instauration of peculiar traits and accessories concealed successful Prophets’ backpacks, and the improvement of the planet’s assorted zones, it is thought that Pastel World volition modulation into a full-blown metaverse.

Staying Bullish successful a Bear Market

Like respective different projects successful the web3 space, Krew Studios is astatine pains to accent that it’s concern arsenic accustomed contempt bearish marketplace sentiment. The caller downturn has seen a crisp diminution successful NFT level prices, with the manufacture inactive struggling to motion disconnected the reputational harm it suffered arsenic a effect of Terra’s spectacular crash.

In fairness, Krew’s optimism for the occurrence of Pastel World isn’t delusory. As good arsenic leveraging the endowment and illustration of some JVCKJ and Barrett-Thomas, the institution is banking connected its sizeable accumulation experience: anterior to switching its attraction to web3 successful 2021, Krew Studios had worked connected projects for clients specified arsenic Universal Music, Boohoo and Epic Records.

Over the past year, the workplace has expanded its squad to guarantee it possesses the indispensable acquisition to marque a people successful web3. In-house creatives see experts successful blockchain, integer creation and gaming, portion an experienced advisory squad has been brought connected committee to assistance usher promising NFT artists and brands determined to marque a splash successful the crypto world.

In the adjacent term, Krew’s extremity with Pastel World is to nurture a passionate and engaged assemblage of token-holders and traders, the amended to cement the project’s presumption successful the increasing metaverse economy. The steadfast is besides gathering infrastructure for upcoming web3 ventures and creating a backstage nine for creation collectors, Mask World, featuring curated NFTs.