The tattoo industry is growing in the NFT space amid a digital culture shift

Non-fungible tokens can be an option to maximize monetization and exposure of a tattoo artist's work.

Tattoos have been a universal phenomenon across the world for thousands of years, transcending cultural transformations and technological changes. As the art continues to evolve, it has now taken steps into the non-fungible token (NFT) space in an effort to stay relevant in an increasingly digital world.

Known as Bang Bang in the tattoo industry, Keith McCurdy is one of the artists who hopes to fuse the ethics of tattoo culture with disruptive technologies. It uses a new type of rewritable tattoo ink that shows and fades under different lighting conditions.

Over the past five years, Bang Bang said scientists at the University of Colorado have been developing tattoo ink made from photochromic microcapsules, a technology called "tech tattooing" that leaves a color-changing mark activated by UV light, thus changing the tattooed image when it reacts to UV light. He sees the technology as a way to bridge tattoo culture's desire for individuality with the uniqueness and demonstrability of NFTs. In June, he sold the first rewritable tattoo as a 1/1 NFT for 100 ether (ETH), nearly $100,000 at the time.

McCurdy told Cointelegraph:

"Our digital identity will become very important in the future. It may already be more important than our physical identity today. Individualizing in a digital world and defining one's identity is what we do best. better, and there are endless parallels and opportunities. ."

Indelible is another company trying to connect the tattoo community to Web3. It allows owners to use their intellectual property rights by drawing new tattoos and adding i to existing profile pictures (PFPs). Mike Amoia, founder of Indelible, told Cointelegraph:

"NFT holders are always looking to monetize or do different things with their IP. And we think this is a really cool way to monetize or even have fun with your IP by putting tattoos on it. famous."

Founded eight months ago, the startup had the idea that tattoo artists should be able to expand their work beyond their studios and have access to limitless ways to make money from their art. ...