Actor Tapsee Pannu Launches NFT Platform Taapseeclub
The maiden NFT drop is priced at around Rs 3,000. It offers a membership with a chance of winning gifts handpicked by Pannu
Bollywood actress Taapsee Pannu has launched a non-fungible token (NFT) platform for her fans: taapseeclub.com. It aims to create a positive space for her fans and separate genuine supporters from trolls.
According to the website, “Taapsee Club consists of exclusive NFT competitions and giveaways where members can win merchandise from her movies and tangibly support the causes she champions.” Moreover, it stated, “We intend to create a positive forum for Taapsee’s fans from around the globe that enables people to get the gist of her life and take their fandom to a new level.”
After the launch, the maiden NFT drop is priced at around Rs 3,000. It offers a membership with a chance of winning gifts handpicked by Pannu. NFT membership includes four video greetings from Pannu. The actor joined the NFT trend at a time when the excitement around blockchain-based tech beyond financial services applications has tempered significantly. NFTs are digital arts that can be sold and bought just like tangible items.
For the first time in 2021, digital artists such as Pak and Miek ‘Beeple’ Winkelman banged around millions of dollars selling their first art in the form of NFTs. For context, Beeple’s Human One witnessed an auction price of nearly USD 29 million.
However, the single most expensive NFT ever sold was Pak’s Merge, which was snagged for around USD 91.8 million.
Several Bollywood and sports personalities in India got into the NFT space around the same period. Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Suniel Shetty, Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, and Yuvraj Singh, among others, issued NFT tokens with a similar goal in mind: to build a fan network.
