CCC Founder Jason He: Create Metaverse Identity in Open Art Platform

Reddit Place, a smash-hit drawing board project, once appeared on Reddit, and then, on Ethereum and EOS, projects like Pixel Master attracted extremely high traffic.

Nowadays, on the Internet Computer (Note: Internet Computer, Internet Computer, referred to as IC), the drawing board type of gameplay reappears, And the NFT function was introduced to form the NFT creation of multi-person collaboration. To this end, we chatted with Jason He, the founder of CCC, to see how he views the IC and NFT markets.

Discover market pain points

Rhythm BlockBeats: How did you learn about the blockchain and NFT fields?

Jason He: I discussed Bitcoin, Ethereum, at that time, mainly focused on the understanding of the alliance chain. Later, with a deeper understanding, I became a contributor to distributed storage. In 2018, I worked on some projects such as browsers and wallets with a few friends.

I first came into contact with NFT when I was in CryptoKitties, but at that time I was only in the observation stage. Later, with the expansion of consensus, I also started to invest in some NFTs, and my entrepreneurial thinking began to change to the creation of digital artworks. At the same time, I personally have a background in art, so NFT is an area that I continue to pay attention to, and it is also the original intention of this project.

Because I often participate in some summits, I have met some like-minded friends who are interested in IC, and some of them have also become My current partners (Leven, the architect from Wanxiang, Eddy, the operation and maintenance engineer of IPFS, Doris, the game front-end, etc.).

Rhythm BlockBeats: Why do you want to enter the NFT track and want to do a project like CCC?

Jason He:In fact, this is a coincidence. At first we wanted to find some Opportunities, and after researching public chains such as IC, Solana, and Near, we chose  IC ,because  IC These features: reverse Gas mechanism, cheap storage, support for smart contracts, fast block generation, and can run some real decentralized applications.

It was decided at the end of last year  IC After this track, we started to dig deeper  IC Tech and learn Motoko. Then we also found that there are some pain points in the market: At present, NFT or artwork projects on other public chains are all created offline, or a small amount of data interaction online (because other public chains are expensive to store), it is difficult to really start from the source Traceability.

Combined  IC properties, we consider  IC It can support users to interact in real time on the chain, and record all the creation process. Artworks are stored on the chain from creation to transaction, so as to achieve complete decentralization. exist  IC With the support of smart contracts and some economic incentive mechanisms, the idea of Play to Earn can be fully realized and more people are encouraged to create artworks together.

Then, from this year onwards, we will actually make our ideas into CCC.

Rhythm BlockBeats: Can you briefly introduce C3 Protocol (Crowd Creative Collections) for us?

Jason He: C3 means Crowd Creative Collections, aiming to focus on art creation and collection . C3 Protocol is an open and autonomous organization dedicated to building a decentralized art creation organization (DACO). We aim to build the Art X Metaverse dream factory through decentralized co-creation, original creation, combination and re-creation of the art form of NFT artwork.

Among them, CCC is our first product, aiming to create a decentralized, support chain collaborative creation, independent An artwork creation platform for art forms such as creation, combination creation, and artwork re-creation.

Rhythm BlockBeats: As the founder, you would rather people see CCC (Crowd Created Canvas) as a blockchain game, Or an NFT artwork creation platform?

Jason He: There may be a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. We are a bit inclined towards games and NFT art creation platforms. Just like the vision of C3 Procotol, we hope that CCC is a blockchain art creation platform that supports decentralized collaborative creation, independent creation of artists, combination creation, artwork re-creation and other art forms. Motoko smart contract + economic incentives With the support of the mechanism, artists can realize Play to Earn in the process of artwork creation.

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On the CCC platform (https://skeh5 -daaaa-aaaai-aar4q-cai.raw.ic0.app/#/all), you can directly create artworks together or independently create artworks and trade them. In general, the essence is an art creation platform, but after combining the token economy, CCC is a blockchain game, which is the current GameFi. In this painting game, if you want to cover other people’s pixels, you need to pay a higher cost. In the painting game, you may get NFT or bonuses in the end. Therefore, the two are not contradictory.

Advantages of CCC

Rhythm BlockBeats: Many public chains , how do you think about IC, why you choose  IC this platform?

Jason He:IC It completely subverts the characteristics of some previous blockchain projects, such as: reverse Gas mechanism, supports a large amount of data storage and is very cheap, fast block generation (25 blocks per second), supports smart contracts, and low Gas fees.

It is through these  IC CCC can achieve decentralized real-time collaborative creation on the chain, and can record the entire creation process, recording the evolution process of artworks from beginning to end, just like CCC After each canvas is finished, the contract records the evolution process, form a video. And we can also introduce an economic incentive mechanism through the Motoko smart contract, so that various roles can be encouraged to participate.

These are difficult to achieve on other chains, because some chains are very fast, but they cannot carry storage and calculation, they can only Suitable for financial applications. and  IC It can carry the applications of modern life, which is why the applications on the early IC are projects such as Openchat, Origyn, and Cancan.

Rhythm BlockBeats: CCC is different from the current NFT project, combining the characteristics of the previous Pixel and NFT, and is more popular recently What do you think are the advantages of CCC compared with other NFT projects?

Jason He: The logic of other avatar-like NFT products is relatively simple, which is to store the NFT image in advance On-chain, then airdropped/minted to users. However, CCC chooses a path of creation, which lowers the threshold for artists to create NFT. All storage and calculations are in the  IC online. Overall, there are some advantages:

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·  Decentralized storage and computing. this piece is  IC Unique advantages, it is difficult for other projects to have both;

· Real creation on the chain. Many projects are biased towards off-chain creation and on-chain transactions, and it is difficult to truly realize the whole process of collaborative creation on the chain;

· Multicultural convergence. CCC's co-creation platform accommodates the culture of artists from all over the world, not only limited to the culture of a certain artist, but also requires no permission, and has richer cultural connotations;

· Low threshold. It takes hundreds of dollars for an artist to upload an artwork to the Ethereum network, but it may be completed for a few dollars on the CCC platform.

Rhythm BlockBeats: At present, there are more GameFi and Metaverse directions in chain games, and CCC also has a P2E mechanism, but how does CCC combine with Metaverse? In other words, what role does CCC play in the Metaverse in our eyes?

Jason He:First of all, our understanding of the metaverse comes from Roblox, and their platform will welcome Diverse games are based on the above.

And what we want to do is similar, providing an open art creation platform, everyone can create their own characters in the Metaverse— —that is, everyone’s identity in the Metaverse.

In the early stage, we will consider integrating some good works into game characters to realize the identity interconnection between NFT and Metaverse , and the role of CCC is to provide identity ID for metaverse.

The future of the collectibles market

Rhythm BlockBeats: You How to look at the current NFT industry, there are indeed many outside institutions and brands paying attention, but is there a bubble currently?

Jason He: No matter what industry, there will definitely be a possibility of bubbles, if there is no capital It is difficult to transform and develop new industries, so the existence of bubbles is inevitable. Now many NFTs are mostly avatars, pictures, videos, etc., which have no real value. In the end, NFTs with collection significance, popularity, and added value will really exist, and exist with the value of artwork or collectibles.

CCC upholds the principle of allowing users all over the world to create or independently create artworks, or invite well-known artists to create artworks , to endow art with real value, and through the token economy of smart contracts, platforms, buyers, and artists are closely connected to realize the concept of value co-creation, which can truly endow art collections with value.

Rhythm BlockBeats: What size market do you think NFT will be?

Jason He:In the future, the scale of NFT will definitely be larger, and NFT is still in its early stages stage, from the infrastructure of the blockchain to the acceptance of artists, it can be seen that NFT is far from being fully mature, and there is still a long way to go before fully integrating into artworks, and only some IPs are involved. We believe that the size of the NFT market for collectibles in the future will be far larger than it is now.

Rhythm BlockBeats: Does CCC have any follow-up plans?

Jason He: Yes.

First of all, it is about 1155 works of art. At the end of the canvas, according to the rules designed by the smart contract, the rights and interests are automatically assigned to All participants, guarantee that the painter of the last layer can have the ownership of the pixel.

CCC will soon launch personal artwork creation, which is currently only by invitation, because we are worried that full opening will disrupt the market, so all current Personal artwork creation is currently implemented as an invitation system, and artists are invited to the platform to create personal artwork and sell it on the trading market. If any artist is interested in CCC creation, they can contact Wanxiang or Twitter (https://twitter.com/CCCProtocol) Find us and we'll offer some free slots depending on the work.

Then we will launch zombie NFT immediately, we will give some NFT income certificates (similar to equity income), and in the future we will Negotiate cooperation with some game platforms, launch game cooperation, etc.

At the same time, we will build a platform that allows artists, graffitiers, and buyers to communicate. It's still an address, and it doesn't have social attributes. We will have a personal center later, but it can realize everyone's self-expression, interaction, etc., and realize the Social function.

Finally, thank you very much Wan To support our start-up projects, and finally hope that friends who are interested in us can try the CCC platform.