This Vanilla Blitnoun NiftyPin NFT is the digital token counterpart for the physical hard enamel pin! This physical pin was given away at the NFT NYC Summer 2022 Blitmap x Chainrunners party to 32 different collectors and is available for purchase online at http://blitstore.com. The person receiving the physical pin had the ability to redeem this digital NFT for free + gas by emailing me a code! I rebooted the NiftyPins ERC-1155 token with this pin where any physical NiftyPin from here on can be redeemed for a digital NFT at only the cost of gas (please note: the Genesis Mask pin currently available on the website came before this change and carries a cost of 0.1 ETH to redeem).

Individuals may choose whether to sell the NFT in tandem with the physical pin or separately—that is up to them with how they want to proceed. Admittedly, we are early in the concept of “phygital” goods, and while I feel that the digital token can be used to authenticate the physical item, others may not care. That is why I rebooted this collection, to get a fresh start with how I approach the NFT/IRL pins. To balance the economics and level of effort of issuing a 721 token without the benefit of the contract, I have chosen to release this pin as a multiple 1155 collection. This means that while each physical pin has a unique serial number, the digital token is simply “one of 100.”

I created this Vanilla Blitnoun NiftyPin as a physical token to the Blitnoun project, one of the early derivative projects of both the Nouns project and Blitmap that I created. Big thanks to doctorj.eth who purchased this Blitnoun back in the day and to both Blitmap and Nouns for putting their project in the public domain with the CC0 license! Find the entire Blitnoun collection here: https://opensea.io/collection/blitnoun