Coincheck NFT Adds Moonbirds to Its Offerings Suite

Japanese crypto exchange, Coincheck, which is owned by the Monex Group, announced that its NFT marketplace, Coincheck NFT, will begin handling "Moonbirds" on September 21, 2022.

"Moonbirds" are NFTs issued by a project undertaken by PROOF Holdings, Inc. and feature an owl motif. These 10,000 "Moonbirds" were sold in April 2022, creating quite a buzz. They are mainly used as profile images on social media such as Twitter and Facebook.

The rarity is defined by the owl's color, background color, eyes, ornaments, facial expressions, and other characteristics, and its NFT holders are eligible for membership in the "PROOF Collective," a group of 1,000 NFT collectors and artists, and access to discord.

Coincheck NFT is the first NFT marketplace in Japan operated by a crypto asset exchange that allows users to exchange NFTs and crypto assets. Coincheck NFT continues to provide an opportunity for customers to become more familiar with NFTs, which have the potential to become a new means of value exchange, by increasing the handling of NFTs used in a wide range of fields, including blockchain games, art, sports, fashion, and the metaverse.

Earlier, Coincheck NFT has started offering the generative art NFT "Art Blocks" on May 19, 2022. Art Blocks is an NFT market-place that provides on generative art NFT that could be designed and created only by a mix of art and blockchain technology.