Ecomi sees digital collectibles as a new asset class which offers intellectual property owners the opportunity for new revenue streams in the digital landscape.'ĭarwyn Cooke, Gary Frank, Jae Lee, and Jim Lee have all drawn signature Batmans. Ecomi's website describes the company as the proprietors of 'a one-stop-shop for digital collectibles through the VeVe app bringing pop culture and entertainment into the 21st century. Neither VeVenor Ecomi could be reached for comment. VeVe (opens in new tab) is a subsidiary of Singapore-based crypto company Ecomi (opens in new tab). This has led to widespread criticism of the idea of creating NFT art, which drastically increases the environmental impact of individual digital artists.Īs of publication, DC has not responded to Newsarama's request for comment on the matter. Like mining bitcoin, producing NFTs requires significant electricity consumption in order to power the computers which create the NFT. While an NFT does not prevent the reproduction of digital work, it does denote one version of the digital art as the 'original,' owned by the holder of the NFT. NFTs are essentially unreproducible digital certificates of ownership that denote the holder of the NFT as the 'owner' of a piece of digital art by linking it to Bitcoin-style blockchains which provide verifiable encryption for the digital art tied to the NFT. VeVe has also produced a line of four Harley Quinn digital NFT statues based on the art of Guillem March, Babs Tarr, Terry Dodson, and Steve Pugh.

This is the crypto art curator's fourth wave of Batman Black and White NFT statues, but the first to gain notoriety, due to the recent controversy surrounding the environmental cost of NFTs and the inflating prices paid by fine art collectors (opens in new tab) for crypto art pieces. The line of four statues (with the remaining two based on the art of DC publisher/chief creative officer Jim Lee and artist Jae Lee) is not the first line of NFT crypto art digital Batman Black and White statues VeVe has released. I have no interest - financial or actual - in NFTs beyond bewilderment at what people can be persuaded to pay for.' 'I'll echo what Marsha said,' Frank tells Newsarama when reached for comment. (Image credit: DC/Veve) (opens in new tab)

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