BlockDown returns with an NFT-enabled festival of Web3 culture on the Croatian coast

News Desk • Feb. 16, 2022 astatine 7:00 p.m. UTC • 3 min read

Following connected from the BlockDown: DeData league past December, BlockDown is returning this May 11-13 for its archetypal in-person festival successful the coastal metropolis of Sibenik successful Croatia for the world’s archetypal gamified NFT-enabled festival.

This year, the lawsuit volition absorption connected the exploding improvement of Web3 — wide seen arsenic the adjacent evolutionary signifier of the internet  — with a peculiar absorption connected the metaverse, NFT’s, Gaming and however DAO’s volition play an progressively ample relation successful our lives: however we work, play and socialize.

Bringing the Metaverse to life

NFTs volition relation arsenic tickets for the festival, and volition unlock an array of experiences among the event’s galore “realms” — areas of the festival with their ain look and feel, whether futuristic and cyberpunk-esque, oregon a mystical “fairy forest”. Dotted astir the BlockDown tract volition beryllium pop-up experiences, performances and creation installations to bring the imaginable of the metaverse into the existent world.

Erhan Kohallier, the laminitis of the lawsuit and Web3 PR Agency EAK Digital. said:

“We person been inspired to big a 3 time festival celebrating each things Web3 civilization arsenic we judge determination is simply a request for a antithetic benignant of lawsuit successful our industry.”

Korhaliller further elaborated:

“Unlike existing manufacture events, our program is to instrumentality our attendees connected a three-day travel into different universe, wherever the excitement and vigor of the, Web3, NFT and metaverse worlds collide successful a feast for the senses.”

The festival volition besides beryllium fully-interactive and gamified, with attendees unlocking points erstwhile they person taken portion successful selected activities and events. The astir prolific and progressive festival-goers volition beryllium rewarded with exclusive BlockDown NFTs, and unlock further entree to much breathtaking things to do.

With 3 antithetic summons categories disposable for the event, Ultra summons holders volition beryllium rewarded with pop-up experiences, NFT galleries, task showcases, performances, exhibitions, and informative panels and workshops by high-profile Web3 experts.

Ultimate summons holders volition besides person entree to the overmuch anticipated precocious illustration euphony performances from celebrated euphony artists, whilst Universal summons holders volition vino and dine successful the unsocial ‘Mystical Forest’ VIP Lounge whilst having a summons for the hottest summons successful town, a unrecorded performance astatine St. Michael’s Fortress, a historical medieval castle astatine the bosom of the metropolis of Šibenik with a breathtaking presumption of the Croatian coast.

“Getting progressive successful an lawsuit similar this was an evident prime owed to the legendary quality of being the archetypal ever NFT enabled Blockchain conference,” says V Ray, the originative caput down overmuch of the festival’s experiences.

“BlockDown gives maine the accidental to connection radical a sensation of the real-life metaverse, and what a satellite that integrates integer and carnal experiences could look and consciousness like. Imagine a existent beingness video crippled wherever the carnal and integer weave unneurotic seamlessly.”

“The mean Westerner spends implicit 5 hours of their time looking astatine a screen, which shows you however overmuch our lives revolve astir technology. As the metaverse evolves and we adjacent the spread betwixt the integer and carnal worlds, creating immersive experiences volition beryllium key. With BlockDown, we privation to supply a almighty notation constituent of what it could consciousness similar to beryllium successful a existent beingness video crippled but with a precise constructive connection astir the aboriginal of humanity and technology. I americium excited by the possibilities.”

BlockDown Festival started arsenic an online-only blockchain and cryptocurrency league during the tallness of the pandemic. Its astir caller incarnation, BlockDown DeData, successful December 2021, featured the inventor of integer currency, David Chaum; the laminitis of Polkadot, Gavin Wood; and famed whistleblower Edward Snowden.

With 50% of rooms already sold retired successful the exclusive Blockdown Hotel, BlockDown attendees are encouraged to publication their rooms successful Hotel Ivan aboriginal to unafraid their spot.

Limited Early Bird Tickets are disposable starting astatine €750 for the 3 time BlockDown Festival acquisition exclusively via Yellow Heart.