The Puerto Rican urban artist Ozuna will launch his first exclusive collaboration of “infungible tokens” (NFT) for the new ArtGrails platform with the New York street artist Alec Monopoly on Saturday, his birthday.

“Collaborating with Alec Monopoly on our first grail was an inspiring endeavor. It is a celebration of life, art and music. I know ArtGrails collectors will love it!” Ozuna said in a press release released this Friday.

ArtGrails is developed by well-known art dealer, Avery Andon, in association with his brother, Alec Monopoly, and veteran web developer Seth Lowell. “ArtGrails aims to offer NFT collectors unique long-term investments.” Avery Andon said in the statement.

“We are honored to start our platform with this iconic collaboration between street art legend Alec Monopoly and reggaeton superstar Ozuna!” he added.

The new NFT collection will be called “Uncle Richie Ozuna”, which represents one of Alec’s iconic characters interacting with the teddy bear from Ozuna’s emblem. The official launch of this collection will be at 01.00 in the afternoon -local time- exclusively on the artgrails.com page.

The collection will have three types of NFT for sale. The first edition will cost $ 750 and will only be available for the first 10 minutes. The second edition, considered the “gold edition,” will include 250 NFTs at $ 1,500 each. Meanwhile, the “grail” edition will be just 25 NFT at $ 8,500 each.

In addition to the exclusive NFT offered, ArtGrails will automatically enter buyers in a drawing for 50 limited edition silkscreens, signed and listed by Ozuna and Alec Monopoly.

ArtGrails, in turn, will select and present exclusive NFT “grails” from the biggest names in art, music and entertainment.

“ArtGrails will provide art seekers the opportunity to obtain exclusive and curated NFTs from the world’s most famous artists and celebrities.” Andon said. “This is an opportunity to own an original Alec Monopoly, Ozuna and many more,” he added.

Each ArtGrails NFT release will also be accompanied by a raffle, and winners will receive additional experiences and prizes, ranging from virtual meetups and greetings to backstage passes to Ozuna’s shows, original paintings, unreleased music, and sculptures.

Ozuna announced on February 27 to enter this new industry. That day, the artist released “Bears”, a collection of five digital versions of NFT. In this way, Ozuna became the first Latin artist to exhibit and sell a series of articles of this type on the web.

Ozuna’s five NFTs exhibit the same number of small bears, an animal that the urban artist has included for the covers of two of his albums, “Odisea” (2017) and “ENOC” (2020). Ozuna’s collection is divided into “Bears 1”, “Bears 2”, “Bears 3”, “Bears 4” and “Bears 5”. The cost of these NFTs ranged from $ 1,555 to $ 2,000.

NFTs are “crypto tokens” that function as unique pieces of information, unlike cryptocurrencies in which one bitcoin is the same as any other bitcoin, the best-known cryptocurrency on the market.

Instead, an NFT represents a unique work of art. In this way, digital artists can sell their original works and can establish value in their pieces, which can be purchased by collectors who now have a property registry.

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