HEXA, an NFT marketplace with about 10,000 registered NFT creators, and Tobu Top Tours Co., Ltd., which works with Nishikawa Town on its regional revitalization projects, are giving their full cooperation to the planning of the call for officially certified NFT creators for the "Nishikawa Town Wild Mountain Vegetable Trading Card NFT," the second series in the municipality's official NFT trading card project.
Nishikawa Town, Yamagata Prefecture, has concluded a comprehensive partnership agreement on the use of NFTs with HEXA, one of Japan's largest NFT marketplaces, and is actively working to make use of NFTs, including issuing Japan's first* digital resident NFT and a park naming rights NFT.
To put even more effort into its NFT projects, Nishikawa Town will set up a new division to handle municipal NFTs, the "Kasegu-ka" (Earning Division), from the next fiscal year. The town is also looking for NFT creators willing to lend a hand with the regional revitalization and energizing of Nishikawa Town, Yamagata Prefecture. Those who are certified will receive a non-transferable certificate NFT as an NFT creator officially certified by Nishikawa Town, and 3 trading card NFTs of their adopted design. They may also call themselves an NFT creator officially certified by Nishikawa Town. And when they visit Nishikawa Town, the town mayor will present them with a letter of appreciation for their cooperation in regional revitalization.
Nishikawa Town, Yamagata Prefecture, is running the Nishikawa Town Digital Trading Card NFT Project to promote the town's appeal and create a related population — people who maintain an ongoing connection to a region without living there. As the second series, the town will issue wild mountain vegetable trading card NFTs themed on sansai (wild mountain vegetables), a Nishikawa Town specialty. We are calling for the wild mountain vegetable characters that will appear on these trading card NFTs.
Guidelines for the call for NFT creators officially certified by Nishikawa Town, Yamagata Prefecture
What we are looking for
We are calling for wild mountain vegetable characters to appear on the wild mountain vegetable trading card NFTs, the second series of the official digital trading card NFTs of Nishikawa Town, Yamagata Prefecture, which promote wild mountain vegetables, a specialty of the town.
How to enter
1) Follow @HEXANFT and @nishikawatown
2) Quote-post (quote-tweet) https://x.com/HEXANFT/status/1729067166140686792 with an image of your wild mountain vegetable character and a description (up to 50 characters)
*Any wild mountain vegetable is fine (warabi (bracken), zenmai (royal fern), kogomi (ostrich fern), fukinoto (butterbur buds), koshiabura, etc.).
*Image aspect ratio: W43 × H33; a resolution of 650 × 530 px or higher is recommended as a guide
*One person may submit multiple entries. More than one of your entries may be adopted.
Entry deadlines
First deadline: until 23:59 on December 31, 2023 (Sun)
Second deadline: until 23:59 on January 31, 2024 (Wed)
Selection method
The mayor and staff of Nishikawa Town will look at every entry and select works by several people (around 10 to 30 works) as officially certified municipal characters. The selected wild mountain vegetable characters will be used to promote Nishikawa Town's wild mountain vegetables.
How rarity is decided
The rarity of the selected wild mountain vegetable characters is planned to be decided by a DAO vote of digital residents in the community limited to holders of the Nishikawa Town digital resident NFT.
Digital resident NFT: https://nft.hexanft.com/nftmaticmulti/1
Perks for selected entrants
- A non-transferable certificate NFT as an NFT creator officially certified by Nishikawa Town
- The right to call yourself an NFT creator officially certified by Nishikawa Town
- 3 of the wild mountain vegetable trading card NFTs you designed
- When you visit Nishikawa Town, a letter of appreciation from the town mayor for your cooperation in regional revitalization
Handling of copyright
Entries will not be used for any purpose other than selection. However, the copyright in selected works belongs to the organizer (the author's moral rights remain with the author). The organizer may also use selected works for various purposes to promote Nishikawa Town, such as commercializing and selling them as wild mountain vegetable trading card NFTs.
Organization
Organizer: Nishikawa Town, Yamagata Prefecture
Secretariat: Tobu Top Tours Co., Ltd.
Cooperation: the HEXA NFT marketplace
Call-for-entries post: https://x.com/HEXANFT/status/1729067166140686792
Official X (formerly Twitter) account of Nishikawa Town, Yamagata Prefecture: https://twitter.com/nishikawatown
* An internet survey conducted by Media Equity Inc. on April 26, 2023, covering NFTs issued by all of Japan's prefectures and municipalities, confirmed that this is the first case in Japan of a digital resident NFT officially issued by an existing Japanese municipality.
DAO voting by digital residents
DAO voting by digital residents refers to voting within the holder-only community that only holders of the digital resident NFT issued by Nishikawa Town can join. Voting is carried out using HEXA's holder-only community feature. With the DAO voting function, votes can be held according to the number of NFTs held. In this way, the second trading card NFT project will move forward as a regional revitalization project that involves Nishikawa Town's digital residents.
About Nishikawa Town, Yamagata Prefecture
Nishikawa Town, in central Yamagata Prefecture, has a population of about 5,000, with Mt. Gassan, one of the Three Mountains of Dewa, to the south and Mt. Asahi of the Asahi Mountains to the north. It is a town blessed with nature, in an area of heavy snowfall, through which flows the Sagae River, ranked Japan's clearest river, and centered on Lake Gassan, a popular tourist spot. It is also a transportation hub served by National Route 112 and the Yamagata Expressway.
Nishikawa Town official website: http://www.town.nishikawa.yamagata.jp/
About HEXA, the NFT marketplace
A Japanese NFT marketplace where you can issue, buy and sell NFTs using Japanese yen alone. You can easily buy NFTs by credit card from a PC or smartphone. No crypto or wallet is needed at all, so you can buy, sell or issue NFTs right away. If you have a HEXA Residents NFT or a LAND NFT, you can also display the NFTs you buy in the HEXA Metaverse. HEXA also offers community features such as Web3-style online salons and fan clubs, and 6blog, a service with NFTs that grant the right to read the rest of an article.
How NFT issuance works: https://hexanft.com/issuermanual/
Apply to issue NFTs here: https://nft.hexanft.com/issue