What is Azuki? Azuki is a PFP NFT project consisting of 10,000 anime-inspired avatars. Azuki is one of the rare Blue-chip NFT sets that is hard to find in the crypto market, so why is Azuki so successful? Everyone, let’s find out in this article.
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What is Azuki?
Overview of the Azuki collection
Azuki is a project PFP NFT Includes 10,000 anime-inspired avatars. With unique drawings, the image of each NFT makes a difference when combined with a 3D role-playing action game The World Ends with You and the skateboarding magazine Thrasher.
Azuki’s goal is to build a popular brand inside and outside the Crypto market. Besides, Azuki also wants to build a community of Collectors, Artists,… with deep connections to each other.
What is Azuki?
The name Azuki is derived from the red bean plant called Azuki Bean – a type mainly grown in Asia and this name also originates from Azuki’s next collection, Beanz. This also shows that the vision and strategy of the project is to target customers in the Asian market. Not only that, the way the development team draws NFTs is also very suitable for Asian people.
Azuki was launched on January 12, 2022, NFTs in the collection are sold in a Dutch auction style with a starting price of 1 ETH and gradually decreasing by 0.05 ETH every 20 minutes until reaching 0.15 ETH. However, all NFTs were sold out in just 3 minutes, showing Azuki’s great appeal to the community.
Features of NFT Azuki
Each NFT is made up of 12 different properties including:
- Background has 8 different types including: Off white D, Red, Dark Blue,…
- Clothing has 98 different types including: Light Kimono, Black Yukata, …
- Ear has 32 different types including: Corded Earbuds, Ear Cuffs, Chill, …
- Eyes has 27 different types including: Closed, Determined, Daydreaming,…
- Face has 19 different types including: Red Stripes Face Paint, Round Blue Sunglasses, …
- Hair has 123 different types including: Maroon Bun, Brown Spiky, Maroon Disheveled,…
- Headgear has 36 different types including: IKZ Baseball Cap, Full Bandana, Yellow Kanzashi,…
- Mouth has 30 different types including: Relaxed, Closed, Smirk,…
- Neck has 15 different types including: Chill Headphones, Koi Tattoo, Towel,…
- Offhand has 53 different types including: Katana, Banner, Bean Juice, ….
- Special has 9 different types including: Fireflies, Butterfly, Fox fire,…
- Type has 4 different types including: Human, Blue, Red,..
Each attribute has a different quantity and rarity, of which the Golden Cat Kigurumi set is the rarest.
Ultility of NFT Azuki
Azuki NFT holders have the following benefits:
- Accessing The Garden – dubbed the Metaverse version of Azuki – users access collaborations with other NFT projects, Azuki toys, clothing, live events,…
- Participate in some events organized by Azuki such as: Azuki Garden Party,…
- Set as avatar on social networking sites such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook,…
- Used as collateral on NFT Lending platforms such as: BendDAO, JPEGD’d,…
Development roadmap
Azuki’s development roadmap revolves around the community. Currently, the project is conducting testing to segment Azuki #40, Bobu. Essentially, this NFT will be locked in a vault and parts of it will be owned by different people.
Additionally, Azuki is exploring the idea of an RPG or Anime using the community’s NFTs. They are also considering establishing a DAO and even a $bean cryptocurrency in the future.
Specifications of the Azuki NFT collection
- NFT collection name: Azuki
- Classification: PFPs
- Total number of NFTs: 10,000 NFTs
- Blockchain: Ethereum
- Number of features: 12
- NFT contract: 0xED5AF388653567Af2F388E6224dC7C4b3241C54
Project Community
Azuki has a large and diverse community around the world. Azuki is also used by artists, celebrities, etc. In addition, Azuki was also praised by Forbes as the best-selling NFT collection in the world through the following article.
Core Team
Azuki Team
The founder of the project is named Zagabond – who has worked with many industry-leading companies such as Google and various decentralized projects. There are also some other members such as: Hoshiboy, Steamboy, 2pm.flow,…
Investor
September 23, 2022: Chiru Labs – the company behind Azuki successfully raised $30M in Series A round.
Exchanges
Azuki is traded on many popular NFT Marketplaces such as: OpenSea, Blur, LookRare,…
Azuki’s Information Channel
- Website: https://www.azuki.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/azukiofficial
- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/azuki
- Instagram:
summary
Azuki is quite smart when learning the development direction of the previous very successful collection, BAYC. However, instead of just trying to imitate the image of monkeys or other animals, Azuki carefully researched the market and chose his own direction when focusing on the Asian market. This has created a huge success for the project.
