Coachella to auction off lifetime festival passes as NFTs

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NFTs), including 10 lifetime festival passes.The Indio, California festival, which is set to return this year from April 15-17 and 22-24, has partnered with the cryptocurrency exchange FTX for the new venture, which it says will operate in an “environmentally friendly marketplace”.The new NFT set, named ‘Coachella Collectibles’, is giving collectors the “opportunity to own lifetime festival passes, unlock unique on-site experiences, physical items and digital collectibles”.Among the NFT collections that are set to go up for sale on Friday (February 4) is the ‘Coachella Keys Collection’, billed as “10 NFT keys that grant you lifetime access to Coachella”.“This includes passes to one festival weekend every April and Coachella-produced virtual experiences… forever,” a description promises.A post shared by Coachella (@coachella)The owners of these 10 NFTs will also be given “unique experiences” at Coachella 2022, including “front and centre views at the Coachella Stage, lifetime Safari camping, or a dinner prepared by a professional chef in the Rose Garden”.“We’ve all seen how NFTs enable true ownership of art and media on the internet.

We wanted to take it one step further and use NFTs to enable ownership of experiences in the real world, too,” Sam Schoonover, Innovation Lead for Coachella, said in a statement.“Only blockchain technology can give us the unique ability to offer tradable lifetime passes to Coachella for the first time ever.