[NEWS] ANA Group opens its own NFT marketplace

On the 30th of last month, All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. announced that it has launched an NFT business in collaboration with ANA NEO, a group company that operates a metaverse business.

ANA NEO will open its own NFT marketplace, "ANA GranWhare NFT MarketPlace," and will promote the business together with the virtual travel platform "ANA GranWhale."

According to ANA, this will be the first time that an airline group has launched an NFT marketplace.

In the future, ANA will sell its first ANA NFT collection.

As the first NFT product, aviation photographer Luke Ozawa's first digital photograph will be converted into an NFT, and one of the photographs will be sold with the positive film from which it was developed.

As the second product, the first Boeing 787 specially painted aircraft, which ANA introduced as a launch customer for the first time in the world, and the phantom design that was considered as a design proposal at the time will be converted into an NFT and sold as a 3D model airplane from the 7th of this month.

Credit card payments are accepted, so even those without knowledge of cryptocurrencies or NFTs can easily purchase.

A total of four companies, including ANA, will be auctioning off NFTs for the first time. The lineup is expected to continue to grow.

At the time of writing, Luke Ozawa's collection is being auctioned off at a price of 160,000 yen. The auction will run until 11:59 p.m. on June 6th.

Another collection that is gaining support is the NFT "Sky Captain," co-created by Airbits and ANA GranWhale.

The Airbits project was launched in 2021 with the aim of imagining a sustainable world. Sky Captain was initially priced at 3,000 yen, but is now priced at over 10,000 yen, with some being offered for sale for 300,000 yen.

ANA NEO is involved in the development and operation of the metaverse platform "ANA GranWhale."

The services planned to be offered through ANA GranWhale are "Sky Park," a travel theme park where you can experience virtual travel, "Sky Mall," a virtual shopping space reminiscent of shopping at an airport, and "Sky Village," a city of the future.

In addition, ANA is collaborating and partnering with Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Sompo Japan, Pasona Group, and Hokkaido Prefecture to operate the service.

Reference:Press release
Image: Quoted from ANA GranWhare NFT MarketPlace