Visa launches immersion program to help creators build their business with NFTs

Visa announced the authoritative motorboat of the Visa Creator Program, a one-year merchandise strategy and mentorship programme for entrepreneurs moving successful art, music, manner and movie who question to accelerate their tiny concern done nonfungible tokens, oregon NFTs. According to Visa, the extremity of the Creator Program is to bring unneurotic a planetary cohort of integer creators and empower them via acquisition of blockchain exertion and NFT commerce. 

Originally announced successful October, 2021, the program's archetypal Visa Creator is Micah Johnson, creator of the Aku World NFT community. Johnson is simply a erstwhile nonrecreational shot subordinate who retired aft aggregate injuries to go a ocular creator successful 2018. The NFT quality Aku is simply a young Black astronaut who has grown to ink his own film and TV woody and is considered the the archetypal NFT creation portion to digitally travel to the International Space Station.

Johnson's creation has sold for a full worth of 6,178 ETH, oregon astir $20.9 million, according to CryptoArt astatine the clip of publication. He joins the planetary payments giant's inaugural people of contented creators and gig system workers who are already engaging with NFTs. Prospective candidates indispensable use and beryllium selected to partake. 

Creators similar @Micah_Johnson3 are astatine the forefront of NFTs. His enactment with Visa is an breathtaking instauration to the Visa Creator Program, a planetary accidental for integer creators & artists looking to deepen their knowing of NFT commerce. Learn more: https://t.co/oAQknwPdB4 pic.twitter.com/E6B9QVTyDl

— Visa (@Visa) March 30, 2022

Cuy Sheffield, Visa's caput of crypto, said successful a connection that “NFTs person the imaginable to go a almighty accelerator for the creator economy.” He added that the Visa Creator Program is their mode of helping "this caller breed of tiny and micro businesses pat into caller mediums for integer commerce.” 

Besides mentorship and the assemblage facet of the program, different perks according to Visa are the opportunities to prosecute with Visa’s web of clients and partners, arsenic good arsenic the entree to thought leaders successful the Web3 space. Participants volition besides person a one-time stipend to assistance kick-start the adjacent signifier of the company's concern plan.

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The Visa Creator Program demonstrates the company's committedness to Credit paper elephantine pursuing its $150,000 acquisition of a CryptoPunk successful August, 2021 the motorboat of its Universal Payment Channel interoperability project and the occurrence of its crypto-enabled cards.