Japanese motor huge, Nissan, has made important progress in its foray into the NFT and Web3 space. The company filed 4 new Web3-related logos in america defending its Infiniti, Nismo, and Nissan producers.
The filings reveal Nissan’s plans to create digital clothes, cars, headgear, shopping for and promoting taking part in playing cards, toys, tickets, and an NFT marketplace for shopping for and promoting and minting NFTs.
Nissan has moreover outlined plans for metaverse selling corporations and totally different “leisure corporations,” along with on-line video, pictures, work, tickets, audio, sounds, music, and shopping for and promoting taking part in playing cards, along with a website with particulars about its proposed NFTs and the way in which they might work.
Nissan’s Japan unit can be experimenting with auto sales throughout the metaverse through its digital retailer “Nissan Hype Lab,” which allows prospects to go to the digital storefront by means of a PC or smartphone, create customized avatars, and work along with digital product sales staff.
Shoppers could even order and finalize purchase contracts through this digital product sales office. Primarily based on Nissan’s announcement, the trial will run from March 8 to June 30. For the trial, the company will study, search the recommendation of, test drive and purchase Nissan autos whereas throughout the metaverse, analyzing the potential of recent product sales methods for cars.
Nissan Going All In on Web3
It’s not the first time Nissan has experimented with Web3 and smart contract know-how. In October 2022, the Japanese automotive huge filed 5 trademark features with america Patent and Trademark Office, revealing plans to enter the NFT, Web3, and Metaverse space.
The features cowl its excellent vehicle fashions resembling SKYLINE, Z, and GTR and have been to introduce decisions resembling NFT-backed media, on-line NFT marketplaces, digital wallets, and NFT minting, shopping for and promoting, and storing software program program.
The patent moreover launched the idea of downloadable media data for NFT authentication, an web NFT marketplace for getting and selling NFTs, and non-downloadable software program program for minting, storing, and shopping for and promoting NFTs.
And with this latest patent offering, it’s clear the Japanese motor huge goes all in on its Web3 developments.
Completely different Automotive Giants Into Web3
It’s worth noting totally different automotive giants, along with Regular Motors, Ford Motor Agency, and MG have moreover made important strikes throughout the NFT and Web3 space.
Solely ultimate month, GM Motors launched it was all for creating downloadable digital media data that embrace collectible work, textual content material, audio, and video, which could be authenticated as nonfungible tokens, in response to the company’s trademark submitting.
And ultimate fall, the Ford Motor Agency filed 19 trademark features, defending its predominant vehicle producers resembling Mustang, Bronco, Lincoln, Explorer, and F-150 Lightning, amongst others. The features embody digital cars, autos, vans, SUVs, and garments for the company’s producers, along with a proposed on-line marketplace for NFTs.
Whatever the continued crypto winter and bear market, multinational companies are nonetheless pushing forward with trademark features defending Web3, crypto, NFTs, and the metaverse.
