Japanese motor big, Nissan, has made vital progress in its foray into the NFT and Web3 area. The corporate filed 4 new Web3-related logos in america overlaying its Infiniti, Nismo, and Nissan manufacturers.
The filings reveal Nissan’s plans to create digital garments, automobiles, headgear, buying and selling playing cards, toys, tickets, and an NFT market for buying and selling and minting NFTs.
Nissan has additionally outlined plans for metaverse promoting companies and different “leisure companies,” together with on-line video, pictures, paintings, tickets, audio, sounds, music, and buying and selling playing cards, in addition to a web site with details about its proposed NFTs and the way they’ll work.
Nissan’s Japan unit can also be experimenting with auto sales within the metaverse by means of its digital retailer “Nissan Hype Lab,” which permits clients to go to the digital storefront by way of a PC or smartphone, create custom-made avatars, and work together with digital gross sales employees.
Prospects may even order and finalize buy contracts by means of this digital gross sales workplace. In keeping with Nissan’s announcement, the trial will run from March 8 to June 30. For the trial, the corporate will examine, seek the advice of, take a look at drive and buy Nissan automobiles whereas within the metaverse, analyzing the potential of new gross sales strategies for automobiles.
Nissan Going All In on Web3
It’s not the primary time Nissan has experimented with Web3 and sensible contract expertise. In October 2022, the Japanese automotive big filed 5 trademark purposes with america Patent and Trademark Workplace, revealing plans to enter the NFT, Web3, and Metaverse area.
The purposes cowl its outstanding automotive fashions reminiscent of SKYLINE, Z, and GTR and have been to introduce choices reminiscent of NFT-backed media, on-line NFT marketplaces, digital wallets, and NFT minting, buying and selling, and storing software program.
The patent additionally launched the thought of downloadable media recordsdata for NFT authentication, a web based NFT market for getting and promoting NFTs, and non-downloadable software program for minting, storing, and buying and selling NFTs.
And with this newest patent providing, it’s clear the Japanese motor big goes all in on its Web3 developments.
Different Automotive Giants Into Web3
It’s price noting different automotive giants, together with Common Motors, Ford Motor Firm, and MG have additionally made vital strikes within the NFT and Web3 area.
Solely final month, GM Motors introduced it was thinking about creating downloadable digital media recordsdata that include collectible paintings, textual content, audio, and video, which might be authenticated as nonfungible tokens, based on the corporate’s trademark submitting.
And final fall, the Ford Motor Firm filed 19 trademark purposes, overlaying its main automotive manufacturers reminiscent of Mustang, Bronco, Lincoln, Explorer, and F-150 Lightning, amongst others. The purposes embody digital automobiles, vans, vans, SUVs, and clothes for the corporate’s manufacturers, in addition to a proposed on-line market for NFTs.
Regardless of the continuing crypto winter and bear market, multinational firms are nonetheless pushing ahead with trademark purposes overlaying Web3, crypto, NFTs, and the metaverse.
